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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add Address Labels

    Our district uses multiple Avery labels that are not listed in Skyward. In particular we use the Avery 5162. Because Skyward only allows whole numbers when setting up a custom label we cannot set up the dimensions for this template. Please load more label templates that are commonly used including the Avery 5162 and allow the custom label dimensions to be built using dimensions other than whole numbers.
    By allowing the custom labels to be added this will greatly improve the district's ability to create labels in Skyward. The secretaries in the offices do not all know how to pull…

    32 votes

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  2. PGF Survey Field

    Would like to have the PGF Survey field available in custom fields so we do not have to export information we collect on a custom form and import it into this field.
    This field is located in the KS/NCLB fields.
    Allow the access of this field in custom forms

    25 votes

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  3. Mass Add Process List to Activity

    Please consider adding Mass Add Student's to Activity by Process List. We use custom forms to sign our students up for sports/clubs and are able to run these student's to a process list from there. Some sports/clubs have hundreds of student's sign up. This would enable our staff to mass add them to the activity instead of manually selecting each student which is very time consuming.
    This would streamline the process of updating activities. We believe if you added the Process List capabilities most districts would take advantage of it ending in saving hours of staff time.

    32 votes

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  4. Allow Parents to fill out Payment Plans during enr

    Allow Parents to fill out Payment Plans during the enrollment process. It would be step #7 to make a payment or fill out a Promise to Pay Payment Plan. We presently have a URL to go out to Efunds to make payments but we would also like to have this information connected to Fee Management where it would set up the plan for payments when it is updated from online enrollment. This would keep it from having to enter information twice.
    To allow Parents to request a payment plan during online enrollment and import or update to the Fee Management…

    31 votes

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  5. Sales Tax per School

    Schools span multiple municipalities which means each school has different sales tax rate. However Skyward only allows one tax for all the campuses.
    Skyward should offer this setting to be campus level when district decided to use the fee management modules as campus level. Otherwise big district like us will not utilize this feature at all.

    24 votes

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  6. Delete default attachment type of "Attachment"

    We have created several attachment types however none of them are being used. When the registrar or whoever opens the window the first type they see is "Attachments" so they select it without reading/selecting the correct attachment type.
    Currently there is a default attachment type of "Attachment". When deleted from the table it will automatically recreate itself.

    37 votes

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  7. Custom Forms - cloning to the other system

    We would like to be able to clone a Custom Form from Student to Entity.

    73 votes

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  8. Custom Tabs in Family & Student Access

    We would like the ability to create custom tabs in Family & Student access. We have other content pages that would be awesome if we could integrate them into FA to make it a one stop shop.
    Would like to have the option to name the tab. For the content would like to have the option to insert formatted text and HTML including iFrames with the student ID appended to the end of the URL. Would also like it to be LTI compliant.

    30 votes

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  9. NOSE Capture Digital Signature from Parent

    We would like to add an additional step to NSOE that would allow the parent to digitally sign the application. Would also like for it to convert the application to a .PDF and add it under the Portfolio > Enrollment Attachments. This will give us a signed snapshot of the application of what it was when the parent submitted it.
    We would like to add an additional step to NSOE that would allow the parent to digitally sign the application. Would also like for it to convert the application to a .PDF and add it under the Portfolio > Enrollment…

    42 votes

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  10. Change the 'Add a Fee' text

    We would like to change the 'Add a Fee' tab to something like 'Optional Fees' or 'Manage Optional Fees' for parents to know where they have to go to add optional fee.

    'Add a Fee' does not identify clearly enough that parents need to click to add/remove fees. Specially does not say anything 'Delete' the fees. This is very confusing so we are having a hard time to guide parents to pay fees. This small change will make huge difference to all districts with fees management modules because parents will fine the tab to add/delete easily to manage any type…

    27 votes

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  11. Do not show "end online form" date in Family Acces

    We are using the Online Form Configuration (Family Accesss) in connection with NSOE. When students enroll for the current school year - there are additional custom forms we want them to complete. We are adding their names to a processing list so they can view them in Family Access. What we do not like is that the End Online Form date shows in the Family Access canned message and cannot be removed.

    Please either remove this from the canned message or give us the option to show the End Online Form date or not.

    This is what the parent sees…

    48 votes

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  12. Creating Processing List using School emal

    It would be very helpful if School Email was added to the options for importing Students to a processing list. Currently the only options are Name Key Other ID and State ID.

    22 votes

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  13. Mail Merge Data Mining

    I need the option to set up mail merge in landscape layout versus the only current option of portrait.

    20 votes

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  14. Deselect all in the individual course selections

    Instead of having to go back in and uncheck all boxes it would be beneficial when setting up certain course items to be able to deselect all courses and start over. Working in CTEERS right now and I am going in multiple times as I set up the state area. I won't have to going forward in CTEERS but I would think there are other times that this would be beneficial.

    22 votes

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  15. Post Daily Attendance/OFSDP minutes

    Teachers with multiple courses assigned to one period prefer to view attendance by period in order to take attendance in the same screen. The OFSDP campuses can only submit attendance in the "view attendance by class." Most OFSDP teachers teach multiple classes in one period so they would like to enter their minutes by period just like the regular attendance side.
    The OFSDP teachers always teach multiple courses in a period so this change would allow the attendance taking process more streamlined.

    25 votes

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  16. Default Assignment Display Options from District

    When creating a new assignment the display option for "Show Score As:" defaults to "Score". We need a way to make this default to "Variable Scale Point Value"? Preferably from the campus or district level.

    When creating a new assignment the display option for "Show Score As:" defaults to "Score". We need a way to make this default to "Variable Scale Point Value"? Preferably from the campus or district level.

    11 votes

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  17. Option to Clone Variable Scales

    We need an option to clone variables scales in the secondary gradebook from entity to entity and include it as part of the year end utilities to clone from year to year.
    We have 20 campuses and we have to define the percent high and low values from 1 to 100! That's 2000 we will have to enter annually when we should be able to clone them after the first 100.
    WS\EA\GB\SE\PS\CF\VS

    6 votes

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  18. Activity Lists from Processing Lists

    We should be able to use a processing list to load students into activities. Currently the most efficient way to load students in mass into an activity is to create a fake class (and section) use the mass request utility to load the students into the fake class use the fake class to add students to the activity then remove the students from the fake class and delete the fake class and section. It would be way easier if we could use processing lists to load students into activities.

    38 votes

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  19. Mass update grading periods

    Please see the 2 attachments. I am trying to clone grading periods using WS\OF\AT\PS\UT\SC. I have updated the grading periods for campus 001. I am selecting to mass update "all entities" using 001. The entities all carry the same # of grading periods (same calendar terms YR & S1 & S2... all same throughout the district). It is not updating as requested. I have submitted this on SC#3297632 and they referred this to the ME. The ME said "It will set the Term start to the first grading period with that start term. It will set the Term stop to…

    29 votes

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  20. Grad Type Code

    I would like to request that the Graduation Type Code have a way to track all changes by whom date and time. The reason this has come up is because our Grad Type codes were mass changed somehow and reported incorrectly and also incorrectly printed on our transcripts for 2016 graduates. The change history function for the Grad Type Code would be a great benefit!

    10 votes

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