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Student Management Suite

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  1. Medication Inventory Autoemail

    The problem with the Medication Inventory dose email is if you have an epipen that is only one dose. If we set up that autoemail that parent will receive an autoemail daily if we set it up that parents receive an email once the dose is down to 5. The expiration date autoemail works great for the epipen but not the other. Any suggestions?

    26 votes

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  2. Medication Inventory in Quick Entry

    When in Quick Entry for Medication our health aides just check that the student received their medication for that day. The only problem is it doesn't show them on that screen what the current inventory is so they are able to keep reducing the inventory without realizing it is already at a negative. So ideally they should not be able to give a medication that is in negative inventory or it should be highlighted red. Unfortunately we are finding our medication inventory and the medication in the bottle are not matching.

    26 votes

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  3. Medication Inventory Report

    We are having issues with medication inventory and the inventory being off. We know that we can see the current inventory and we can see how it is administered each day but we would like to run a report to see what Skyward showed the inventory was on a daily basis. Example: We had a student whose inventory was spot on on 12/15/16 but now today 1/9/17 it is off. We want to run a report back to 12/15/16 to today to see what Skyward showed the inventory was on a daily basis along with the administers.

    25 votes

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  4. Add Near & Far vision screening fields to Letters

    Merge fields in the letter only have Corrected and Uncorrected Right and Left eyes and is pulling the Far vision results. For the state of PA we need to specify the Near vision and Far vision fields for each eye corrected and uncorrectd and label and report them all. Need the Near vision fields added to the letter.

    Expected outcome is to have merge fields for PA districts for both Near Corrected Right and Left eye and Near Uncorrected Right and Left eye as well as the existing Far Corrected Right and Left eye and Far Uncorrected Right and Left…

    33 votes

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  5. Add NEW Address and Phone Field to Check Out Form

    We would like to see a section on the Check Out Form to add the student's NEW Address and Phone once they leave our district. The report currently being used is in the E/W Tab - Quick Print. Please see attached. The first page is the Skyward form and the second page is our old ProSoft SIS form which worked very well. The secretary is now handwriting the new info which is negative. And honestly our old form was a much cleaner form.

    52 votes

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  6. Utility to inactivate staff

    Managing staff and security accounts manually is a major task. I would like to request a utility that would inactivate users in Staff and set the Active Secured User field in Security to 'No' if they have not logged in within xx number of days. We would be able to select the number of days since last log in to inactivate.

    Inactivating accounts for staff who've been out for a lengthy period of time. But the resolution would be easy since accounts are only being inactivated. We would turn those accounts back on manually.

    44 votes

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  7. Changes to the Endorsement Area

    I have noticed when I go in to delete or add an endorsement (make any type of change) it wipes out the parent and student signature name and dates. Is there any way possible that endorsements can be added or deleted but the other information does not delete and can stay there unless we choose to change it? Some students have several endorsements on their 4 year plans and then maybe choose not to complete one of them. It would be easier to just delete that one or add one when we see they will have an extra endorsement without…

    24 votes

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  8. NSOE in Family Access - entity specific

    Would like a option to be able to disable New Student Online enrollment in Family access for each entity. Making it entity specific.
    Could this me accomplished by adding it to Family Access > Setting > Configuration > Entity Setup like the others we can enable and disable.

    35 votes

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  9. Utility to mass change "Date Due"

    Need the ability to mass change "Date Due" on items within the textbook tracker. Specific to devices and not textbooks for students and staff who keep their iPad or Laptop over the summer and through the next school year.
    This feature will be a time saver to admin/campus staff when updating inventory and due date information to be able to run a utility to change a due date for a specific date criteria to reflect a new date a year in the future will save having to adjust records one by one.

    15 votes

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  10. Educational milestones connected to Test Scores

    Goal: entry of a Test Score that meets a specific criteria automatically triggers a 'complete' date on an Educational Milestone.
    Wisconsin Civics Exam requires students to earn a minimum score as a requirement for graduation starting in 2017. We are entering it as a Test Score so it appears on transcripts along with ACT and other test scores but are also trying to include the status as an Educational Milestone so students and parents are aware that this is required. Right now when students complete the test I have to double enter.
    Expected outcome: Test Scores include a test administration…

    21 votes

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  11. Add processing lists to Test Score module

    Wis. Stat. sec. 118.33(1m)(a)1 Section 3266R requires high school students to pass a civics test before graduating from high school beginning with the class of 2017. How and when the exam is given and recorded is up to individual districts - no vendor no mandatory recording procedure. But it is a requirement so my district is using Skyward to track student completion and include that information on transcripts. We have a need to identify students who have not yet taken or not yet passed the exam. I can use data mining ranges to find students who have a test record…

    25 votes

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  12. Student Browse Test Scores

    Add Keystone Test Scores under Test Scores in the Student Browse view like the Student Profile for easier view of the Keystone Scores.

    23 votes

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  13. field access in Skybuild

    Make the 504 data housed in the Special Programs area available to Skybuild.

    29 votes

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  14. Quick Print for Parent Web ID Letter

    I'd like to see a Quick Print button on the web access tab so that we could set up or use a letter (either a Skyward configured one (like the basic/enhanced report card) or a custom letter like we have) and be able to generate a letter with the parents web access username and password. If there would be a better location to put the Quick Print button that's fine. But something is needed because the only option is to go into Data Mining and try to create all of the letters then find the one that needs to be…

    24 votes

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  15. NEED TO ADD A REGISTERED TRADEMARK SYMBOL

    Our district offers many AP courses and we are required to have the trademark symbol after the letters AP on any of our course descriptions in the catalog transcript report card or any report. Skyward does not allow us to enter the symbol and converts it to (R). I just want to make sure that we document that we have tried to comply with the request made and that if any legal actions are taken that it is not held against the district because of the inability to accomplish this in Skyward. I have spoke to a customer representative from…

    15 votes

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  16. Staff State ID

    Please make Staff State ID available in Skybuild.
    This is needed in Skybuild so they can import or export items to link staff information. They need another field to link to. Skybuild does have the ability to use the Student ID.

    92 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  rebeccag responded

    Looking into options for adding Staff State ID to Skybuild.

    Data Mining is a tool for Student information reporting, so Staff State ID will not be added to this area of the software.

  17. Notification of Assignments turned in Electronic

    From Teacher : I'm wondering about students submitting late assignments through Skyward and if there is a way to get a notification when a student submits an assignment late. I'm finding that after I go through and grade assignments that have been uploaded I don't have a good way to know if a student submits something after that. So far the only option seems to be for me to keep checking the graded assignment to see if anything has been submitted recently. That takes a lot of checking. If Skyward has or added a notification option I'd love to get…

    44 votes

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  18. Add Day Number to Calendar report

    It would be very helpful if you could add "DAY NUMBER" to the calendar report that currently lists the Calendar Days of the school year. Currently it lists the date and type of day but not the day number of the school year. When we use a snow day the day number of the school year changes so if we could see it listed on the report that would be great.

    31 votes

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  19. Option to exclude account from timeout setting

    We have accounts that are setup for student kiosks in the Clinic and Counselors office. Because of the attendance requirements we have our security setup to automatically log users out after 15 minutes which is also happening to these kiosk accounts. We need an option to exclude them so they don't have to login every 15 minutes.
    Log kiosk machines in once and have them stay logged in forever so students can use it to check in. If the nurses & counselors have to go log back into skyward so the student can check in then they might as well…

    48 votes

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  20. Health letters

    Can the Vacc Letters be changed to "Health Letters" to automatically document any Hearing/Vision/Scoliosis/Vaccines/etc letter that is generated and sent home? It is important for these letters to be properly documented and recorded as being sent. Thank you

    26 votes

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