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Student Management Suite

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  1. "Administered By" - restriction option

    The goal of this enhancement is to give the districts the option to restrict the data that can be entered into the "Administered By" field when administering student medications.

    Our school nurses indicate that standard accepted medical practice is for the person who is administering the medication to be the same person who is also entering the data into the student's medication administration record. By allowing the Skyward user to enter someone else (other than the person logged into Skyward) in the "Administered By" field of a student record without actually seeing that person administer the medication that has the…

    23 votes

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  2. Teachers knowing/printing IHPs for their students

    The goal of this enhancement is for teachers to be able to run a report that identifies students in their classes (My Students) who have an active IHP for the current school year and prints those IHPs. This would also be equally beneficial for Activity Advisors via Advisor Access in EA+. A similar report is available in Student Management but when a teacher runs this report there is no good way to get just their own students - It would probably have to reside in EA+ for it to filter to just the students they have in classes.

    The negative…

    27 votes

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  3. Create Option to Not Create Letters If Emailed

    Attendance Letters are currently generated for all students who meet the criteria. Parents of those students may have email addresses and can receive attendance emails. At this time there is no way to not generate letters for students whose parents will already get attendance emails and those letters must be manually pulled from the batch that was generated. It would be nice to be able to flag a student whose parents will receive emails to not generate an attendance letter.

    Ultimately the system would not generate an attendance letter for students whose parents will receive an email. This could be…

    53 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  4. Increase field length for Key Concentps

    While other areas in the Curriculum map can be set to have a short and long description the key concept area is limited to 100 characters per entry. This is not long enough for out needs and some items are getting cut off. The reason why our entries are so long is that we are using a UBD curriculum map format which requires us to type in what a student is expected to understand not just a simple topic name.
    We would like to either increase the length of the "Key Concept Area" or change the area to work more…

    22 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Curriculum  ·  Admin →
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  5. Standards Coverage report

    When using curriculum mapping we are having a hard time confirming that all standards associated to a curriculum master record was linked to a curriculum map. For example we know all the specific standards that should be covered in 3rd grade math which are linked to the curriculum record. We will then want to confirm that the curriculum map appropriately addresses all the standards to ensure complete coverage of standards.
    A report which lists which standards were covered how many times and highlighting the standards which were not covered would be helpful.

    21 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Curriculum  ·  Admin →
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  6. Add Utility to Mass Add Entry Withdrawal Records

    Students change grade levels throughout the school year at many at-risk campuses. Currently the process for entering a status change must be done on an individual student level. Adding a utility to withdraw as a status change and create a new entry from a processing list (or selecting individual students) would streamline this process.

    The ability to complete a status change withdrawal and new entry record for all grade level advancements during the school year.

    27 votes

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  7. Mass add health note

    Would love the option to add a health note but be able to have it chart in several children's files at once. So like a mass add medication but a mass add health note

    Ex. Scoliosis screening letter sent home via mail for parental response.

    Little Falls school in agreement as well.

    34 votes

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  8. Allow date range for missing assignment display

    Family/Student Access - gradebook display - missing assignment list
    Please don't display assignments as missing if the student is not enrolled in the class. That covers classes that have ended (from 1st semester) and classes that have been dropped. I can't imagine a time when that list could be helpful and the list loses its impact and usefulness when students learn to ignore it because "that's all old stuff I can't make up anymore anyway".
    This list currently displays missing assignments for classes the students are no longer enrolled in. I have changed temporarily changed the configuration to limit the…

    25 votes

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  9. Dual Enrollment Warning for Inactive Record

    If Dual Enrollment settings only apply to Active student enrollment records then we need another popup that will warn customer that the student about to be enrolled has an existing enrollment in the future.

    54 votes

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  10. Automated Email Notification

    Would be helpful if there was a trigger to generate an email when the student's grade/grad year is changed. We have various students whether immigrant international or just incorrectly placed when they first enroll and then are later updated to what their grade level should be. When this is done the office does not necessarily contact any other users that this change would impact - for example - students that would need to be tested for MSTEP or ACT.
    If programming could be done to include the grad year field within the Enrollment Changes for the automated email notifications that…

    104 votes

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  11. Custom Report Card Colors

    Currently there are no options for changing the colors used for shading in the custom report cards. Report cards could be improved if shading is allowed in more than one color. I would like to see at least one additional color added to the shading options in custom report cards.

    31 votes

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  12. Sort Events by Category

    Currently events in the standards gradebook cannot be sorted by category (only by due date). Based on how elementary teachers are using categories to track competencies in different areas it would be ideal to be able to sort by event category. I would like to see this option added to the Event Display options in the standard gradebook.

    22 votes

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  13. IEP Writer Import

    The IEP Writer Import process is unable to be scheduled as a scheduled task. It would be ideal if the process could be scheduled to load a file from a location on the server. Per Skyward Customer Support several districts have inquired on this topic but no one has ever submitted it as an RFE.

    32 votes

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  14. Curriculum selection in Student Access

    When selecting curriculum keys in student access career plan you have to select the keys one by one. Would be useful to have the ability to select multiple keys.

    30 votes

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  15. Promotion Status- add placed

    We use Secondary report cards and transcript labels have been ask year after year to have a choice other that promoted pending or retained to "PLACED"
    The administrators feel like when they see "Placed" on a report card and transcript label that this would raise questions and to dig deeper into why the student was PLACED. The choice could be just like we do the other choices under the entity tab.
    Also add to the mass add promotion/retention utility. Add processing list as a option to mass add.
    On the transcript label (not TX transcript label) print option under additional…

    25 votes

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  16. Allow additional grade ranges on Course Master

    The course master only allows a range of -02 - 12 when entering grade ranges for a course. Update it so that it accepts more values.

    36 votes

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  17. Hearing/Vision Referral Letters

    We need a way to generate a report on who we generated referral letters to and when.

    33 votes

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  18. Attachments

    Because there are a variety of areas in which to attach it would be extremely beneficial to have ALL attachments populate under the attachment tab regardless of what category/area they were attached under. if we can get the ability to attach things in a more specific manner that would greatly enhance the ability to appropriately document/scan/file things (and subsequently find them again quickly when needed). For example: the ability to attach to a specific injury or the ability to attach to the vaccine entry area (for maintaining Conscientious Objector forms) and the ability to attach a referral response in hearing/vision/scoliosis.

    71 votes

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  19. Schedule Tracker to update real time/more often

    It would be helpful if the tracker would update real time or could be set to update periodically throughout the day - since it only updates once a day as they are updating and correcting things they are not seeing a true picture of the status of students via the Widgets/Tracker.

    23 votes

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  20. CTE Reports for Student's Vocational record

    Would like to see more reports available to print or customize for student's CTE records. For example I would like to be able to print a report for each senior student in our CTC that list the industry credentials they received for their whole CTC education - they may have received credentials during each year of their enrollment here. Need a way to show all their credentials to keep as part of a permanent file for the student who may request it for SOAR credits.

    50 votes

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