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Student Management Suite

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  1. Move the Population Served to the Class Meet

    I would like to request moving the population served from the class section to the class meet. When reporting Fall PEIMS districts have to go into the "Maintain" area and edit those fields for SPED teachers to match their budget code. If that field was on the meet we would not need to spend so much time in maintaining and editing.
    This would be a benefit to all Texas users and would make Submission 1 easier. We would no longer spend so much valuable time going through the Maintain area and editing each teacher.

    24 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  2. Custom Forms Tab Needs Quick Print & Utility

    I've submitted this before and it continues to be an issue at our district. If you access Students\Student Profile and select the Custom Forms tab the only way to print is to click Edit. This then requires a 'SAVE & PRINT' option which updates the Modified Date of the form. We really need a Quick Print button added here that looks at the Custom Forms Report - issue solved! Additionally I would like to see an option added to Mass Delete Custom Forms. We have a number of parents who complete registration for the wrong year. This only happens during…

    40 votes

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  3. update all areas to use the Gender Identity

    The gradebook area is still hard coded based on the traditional gender field in Skyward. The gender identity is shown when viewing the student information but the main screen is still based on the traditional field. Please update all areas in the software to use the Gender Identity (if present) instead of the Gender field. It is very confusing to see different genders depending on where you are in the software.
    All areas of the software will use the Gender Identity if the field is filled in.

    37 votes

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  4. student access/student infor shows both families

    A student can see information on both family 1 and family two on student access/student info. this is a problem! If a parent uses the student's login they will be able to see both family 1 and family 2's address phone and email. this is a major problem due to data privacy. we have turned ours off. we would like to move the family information to another tab so we can leave access to the student information and what is located there and turn off access to family information.

    80 votes

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  5. Skybuild - Special Education Information

    I'd like to request the addition of the Special Ed information to the Skybuild Import area.

    73 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Skybuild  ·  Admin →
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  6. Add Attachment Feature

    Is it possible to add a feature that will allow for parents to submit attachments such as JPG PNG PDF when requesting attendance requests (excuses)?
    This feature will give parents the ability to upload any additional excuse documentation for the student (medical excuse personal excuse etc.). It will also provide the district with documentation provided by the parent that can be used in audit situations.

    26 votes

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  7. Student Health Report

    Student Health Report and the report in the Quick Print area needs to include results for Convex lens Stereo depth perception Color blindness as required by PDE. Currently there is no ability to add these results to this report for an overall printout of all vision screenings. Nurses currently would have to create/print a separate Data Mining report for all students whose records need sent to other PA districts and for any all health printing of records.

    21 votes

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  8. Student Indicators for Attendance

    This is a joint rfe from Amarillo and Birdville. We would like to be able to have the option to set student indicator(s) based on student attendance. Our districts are having to watch our student's attendance and it would be extremely helpful if we were able to have a student indicator that each district would be able to customize. Our idea is have a nightly job that runs as a scheduled tasks that would set a flag for all students who met the criteria set in the nightly job. Inside the job you could set what attendance type codes/what period(s)/Date…

    74 votes

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  9. Programs to Disallow Withdrawal/Re-entry

    We would like to request the Title I Participation be listed as a program in the "Programs to Disallow Withdrawal/Re-entry" area of Entry/Withdrawal settings. Other programs that are already included in this area are At-Risk Busing Special Ed LEP Homeless and several others.

    61 votes

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  10. Add street name to Enrollment Application Processi

    Add street name to Enrollment Application Processing table so registrars can see if the student is enrolling in the correct campus without having to open the application.

    28 votes

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    The views within this browse have the Family 1 Address column on it. You may have to scroll to the right to see it initially, however the view could be updated to make the column display more prominently.

  11. Absence/Tardy Thresholds for PASS+ Devices

    There are a few critical items needed in the Positive Attendance features to work more effectively and efficiently. PASS+ devices already read the Skyward bell schedule. Add the functionality of being able to set thresholds to count entries as tardy X number of minutes after the period begins and count entries as absent after X number of minutes into the period. Currently it only marks students present and when students arrive in class after using the Tardy Kiosk in the office it removes their tardy and marks them Being able to mark students present tardy and absent (significantly late) with…

    40 votes

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  12. PASS+ Room Allowed Based on Schedule

    Students can use PASS+ to mark themselves present in any room. Please develop ability to identify if a student is in their expected/assigned room location and allow/deny student attendance based on whether student is in proper room/location. The PASS+ device currently denies attendance entry based on schedule (can't scan in during times that are not on the bell schedule). Having the PASS+ compare the device's room code to the student's schedule would prevent students from using PASS+ to sign in where they shouldn't be. We can use a Crystal Report to identify students at the end of the day who…

    25 votes

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  13. Auto Email Notification Filter Option

    When a students enrolls either through the NSOE module or with paper for NY when we are still in CY most of the auto emails should not be triggered to run. This could be accomplished by choosing Inactive/Active however if a student is enrolling in the CY but not for a week or two they may be put into the system as Inactive but we still want the auto emails to trigger. In addition to informational emails we send auto emails to our helpdesk system to automatically create tickets to setup student accounts prepare devices etc. If not starting until…

    30 votes

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  14. Add- Sort by Counselor to transcripts and RC

    Since we can now designate the student's counselor and can print for a range of counselors for transcripts and report cards it would also be helpful if we could print all the transcripts sorted by counselor. Currently we have to print each counselors group of transcripts by range with means we run the print multiple times.

    12 votes

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  15. Rewrite Test Scores on Custom Transcripts

    The Test Scores object on Custom Transcripts is a bit of a train wreck. Essentially you get a combination of a hand-made layout combined with the bulky poorly laid out Test Scores Report onto a single document...the snapshot of the attached transcript layout and then generated PDF was actually 9 pages long. There simply has to be a cleaner more professional way to pull Test Scores data. If it means redoing the report too we're all for it. There has to be a better way to design the test details and results so they cleanly lay across a page. Is…

    27 votes

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  16. Custom Forms Tab Still Needs Quick Print Option

    I believe I've submitted a request for this already but I'm unable to locate any details on it. Would still really like to see an option for Quick Print on the Custom Forms tab. This would be exactly the same as Quick Print in Enrollment Application Processing or simply an option to run the Custom Forms Report from this tab. Currently the only option users have is to EDIT and then Save & Print as there is no Print only option available. The alternative would be to have a Print button available on this screen underneath Edit. When users Edit…

    20 votes

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  17. Display Year Specific Forms

    When customers have NSOE open for CY and NY they are attaching custom forms specific to that school year. To help the staff be able to easily identify the forms that student filled out would like the Enrollment Application Processing Screen to only display the list of forms attached to the school year the student is applying to.

    31 votes

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  18. Add Placed to Promotion Status

    Promotion Status has Retained Promotedand Pending. Can we get Placed added to the list. When a student does not earn the promotion but is placed in the next grade we need to be able to document that the student was placed and not promoted.
    This enhancement will allow us to properly document how a student got to the next grade.

    25 votes

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  19. Medical Grade Override Hassle

    We have noticed that when the Medical override is used for a quarter that the FINAL calculation does not take the override into consideration for final average.

    If there are 30 assignments before a Medical is given then the teacher needs to go through and set all 30 assignments to NO COUNT.

    It would seem that applying a Medical override should do just that...Override. Override the assignments so they do not count for or against the student who now is receiving a grade override.

    Either offer a utility that allows teachers to mark all assignments in term as no count…

    36 votes

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  20. Add the OTHER ID field to the Standard Report Card

    We would like the field of OTHER ID added to the options in the header/footer area of the Standard report cards. As we work towards an electronic cum folder it is a requirement to have the Student's OTHER ID number on the report card so we can use that to rename the files for mass uploads to the electronic cum folder process.

    25 votes

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