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  1. Exporting Duplicates

    When creating exports for online curriculum it has become a problem in some cases where I am unable to automate exports due to duplicate student data being pulled. I am aware there are systems that my export can filter through to remove duplicates from my student exports to then be automatically imported into online curriculum. I am asking for Skyward to have this capability to do this.
    I am asking for the capabilities to remove duplicate student data within the Skyward export itself.
    xample: HMH data exports attached from HMH

    57 votes

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  2. Add Withdrawal date to Customize area on Stu Prof

    Currently in the Customize area of the Student Profile you can opt to show the student's current enrollment date which displays only if the student is active. If the student is inactive the field shows as blank. It would be helpful if this field would switch to show the most recent withdrawal date if the student is inactive. This would be helpful to view when working in other screens to see when the student became inactive for the campus/district especially in regard to PEIMS coding. Currently you would have to open a new window to view the E/W screen or…

    15 votes

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  3. increase character count for assignment comments

    Increase the numbers of characters permitted in the comments area when using the Score Entry in a teacher grade book.

    25 votes

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  4. Add In/Out Times to Entry by Date Screen

    Recently our staff have started to use the In/Out Minutes option for Attendance. They would love to be able to see that information on the Entry By Date screen without having to completely open up the student record. Is this something that can be added to that view?

    31 votes

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  5. additional hearing merge fields

    Texas state hearing screening laws require that students who fail their first hearing screening are rescreened. Please add additional hearing merge fields so that the hearing letters accurately print all of the screening results.
    See Texas hearing screening form M-40 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Additional hearing letter merge fields:

    --Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Rescreening entry Threshhold table

    --Rescreening entry Combined Results

    34 votes

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  6. vision letter merge field additions

    Need Vision Letter Merge Fields for:

    --automated screening device

    --Need Merge Field for Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Need Merge Fields for Corrected Right and Corrected Left on Rescreening entry

    --Need Merge Fields for Uncorrected Right and Uncorrected Left on Rescreening Entry

    See state's vision screening form M-60 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Texas passed law in 2015 and expanded it in 2017 allowing students to be screened with an automated screening device. There is no Merge Field for a Vision Letter to indicate that the child was screened with an Automated Screening Device. The state requires that referral letters…

    34 votes

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  7. Email teachers/staff about notifications

    We have teachers/staff who don't notice the little yellow (!) notification/alert icon. We do know that they check their email on a regular basis.
    Is there a way that emails can be sent notifying them of notifications/alert and inform them what the notification contains?
    It doesn't have to be an immediate email but at most twice a day. Or set for customizable times of the day multiple times a day.
    Just would like to get teachers and other staff to notice that they have a notification/alert.

    38 votes

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  8. Simplify the process of combining gradebooks

    Simplify the process of combining gradebooks when the course has both a primary and alternate teachers.
    Currently we have to remove all of the alternate teachers merge the gradebook then add the alternates back then delete the primary teacher and add them back since the last teacher added is automatically set as the primary.

    40 votes

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  9. Additional Bus Stops Needed

    Currently the Bus Stop area in Busing can only hold 4 routes. We have some students with up to 6 routes. Our parents view busing in Family Access and aren't always getting all the information they need.
    Please consider adding the capability to add up to 8 bus stops per student in the busing area.

    55 votes

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  10. Office Visit By date report for the nurse

    Can we add disposition added to this report? Office Visit By Date report

    24 votes

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  11. hall pass - include signature image and email

    We would like to be able to email the Hall Pass from the Attendance tab in Student Profile directly to the student's current teacher. This would immediately let the teacher know that the student should be returning to class.
    We would also like to be able to insert an image of a signature on the pass so that it is signed when emailed or printed.
    The student's current teacher is displayed on the Hall Pass screen. If we could email it to the teacher either in addition to printing or in place of printing then the teacher would know exactly…

    28 votes

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  12. Add an Option to Select Grades Courses Only

    Add an option to the report to select grades courses only. Currently that option is not available and our Withdrawal Form prints out on 4 pages. The negative impact is that we cannot utilize this Skyward Report with its current options.
    Add a Course Selection field to select by either Range or Individual (just like the Student Selection option). Within the Ranges we would need the option to select graded courses only.
    Our expected outcome is that we would not have to create a custom form document for student withdrawals. We would be able to utilize the Skyward Canned Report.

    33 votes

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  13. online registration and parent order

    At this time only the 1st parent in the 1st family can do all of the updates. We normally put the dad in first and the mom in second but then mom who does all of the registration does not have access to all of the updates. I guarantee if we flip it to always mom we will have a dad that does all of the updates. because of this we spend a lot of time in the summer popping in to a family and changing the order if they bother to call us. I would prefer that both parents…

    92 votes

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  14. Two Level Authentication

    Subject - Two Level Authentication

    We would like Skyward to incorporate two level user authentication in each of the following areas (Employee Access/Student Access/Secured Access/NSOE/Skyward Finance/Skyward HR/Skyward Student). We need this authentication to be set up for internal and external users with a configuration for each district to select from the following three options "Internal Only" "External Only" "Both Internal and External" for each area listed above. This is important to school districts since most district's have single sign on (Active Directory Login) and if a user's login is compromised it would allow the person gaining this information to have…

    78 votes

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  15. Able to submit multiple random records for export

    There are many times when multiple students need PIMS corrections. Currenlty there is only the option to submit 1 individual or the whole entity.
    Be able to select students from a pick list in order to extract/maintain/export they PIMS data to the state.

    23 votes

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  16. case load factoring using DPI number

    Currently the report looked at the Disability Code and Primary Disability (Y/N) - as the fields that should be included in a Case Load Factoring report. At this time the students disability and environmental code are not a factor. I am submitting this as an RFE as it would be beneficial to have this report in skyward to manage caseloads of staff. Currently we manually have to run a report like this then add all of the caseload factoring numbers to the students based on environmental code and grade. This is time consuming for all involved. This report could help…

    34 votes

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  17. Attaching Document to Teacher Email

    Testing Coordinator among others is needing a quick easy way to send documents to all of a student's teachers. An email to all teachers can be sent through the current schedule tab but there is no way to attach a document.

    40 votes

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  18. Use Stu Discipline Officer in Tardy Discipline

    When using attendance letters to auto generate an offense for tardies (TAR) the setup will not allow the student's assigned discipline officer to be selected. It either has to be left blank or a specific name selected. This does not allow the offense to be easily viewed by the student's discipline officer. A filter could be created for blank offenses or an auto emails for this specific offense could be created but the discipline officers/assistant principals are already inundated with emails and don't want to have to frequently change their discipline filters.
    Allowing "Discipline Officer" to default to student's assigned…

    26 votes

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  19. PIMS: Extract a list of multiple students

    Often I have multiple students that I need to extract PIMS data for. Currently the PIMS extract templates only all for ranges of students or 1 student at at time. Literally hours of time will be saved by PIMS administrators if a list of students could be extracted at a time. This is common functionality in other SIS systems.
    Add a "By Individual" range option and then an "Individual" button" that allows the user to build a list of students. This setup/functionality is already found throughout Skyward. i.e. The Student Information report (WS\ST\RE\SI)

    33 votes

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    Thank you for submitting and voting this Product Idea. I have attached a Skyward Help Doc to assist. Please let me know if you still require additional assistance. Thanks.

  20. Auto Calculate Performance Acknowledgements

    Automatically Calculate Performance Acknowledgements.
    Create a program to automatically calculate performance acknowledgements. This was done by another district to use as an example. Please see attached handout from their TSUG session as well as the SSIS packages they are using.

    35 votes

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