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Student Management Suite

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  1. Percent Attendance by Teacher Needs Another Link

    Nearly every single one of our 21 schools asks for Percent Attendance. We've obviously needed to update security access because the report is located under Educator Access Plus however telling them over and over again how to get to it has become a bit mind-boggling. Is there any way we could add the link to this report to ALSO show under Office\Attendance\Reports? Wouldn't that make sense? Yes it's teacher-based thus being here is cool but it's also teacher and grade level based from an office perspective. Out of convenience alone adding this report under the Attendance Reports would benefit everyone.…

    29 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  2. Ability to print a blank custom form

    I would like the ability to print a blank custom form for parents/students/staff who need a paper copy of a document. For example we have a student health form that parents fill out which is online. Some of our families prefer to fill out this document on paper and we have no way to print a blank entry form (a form with blanks instead of the field names).
    The ability to print blank entry forms would allow staff and parents to create paper copies of custom forms.

    81 votes

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  3. Make Tardies turn different color than Absences

    When the teacher is taking attendance tardies turn red just like absences. It would be easier to distinguish the tardies from the absences if the tardies turned a different color like yellow.
    This would make it easier for teacher to make sure they have marked the students correctly. Looking at the screen if they see yellow and no students are tardy they would know immediately that the student was marked incorrectly.

    36 votes

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  4. Option on report for Tax

    Add an option to the Fees Paid report that will show you how much money was received in Taxes when you use the tax feature in the Fee Management Configuration.

    6 votes

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  5. Texas STAAR EOC Report needs Student IDs added

    This report is a great report. It pulls student's STAAR EOC information along with the Exemptions and the reasons. Pulling the reason for the exemption was not possible through data mining. This report needs to be further developed by:

    1. Adding the Other ID (Student ID)or Student Alpha Key. With so many similar names it is time consuming to look up the individual students with similar names and compare scores in order to match up the correct student. This is especially involved when running the report at the (000) level.

    2. Adding a check box to have an option to "Export to…

    25 votes

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  6. Add Team to Sort Options for reports

    Our Middle School and many others have Scheduling Teams. Often they need to sort data by these teams but it is not an option. Would like Current Year Scheduling Team from the Entity tab of the Student Profile added as a Sort Option.
    Sort Options to include Team for Honor Roll Report Cards and other grading reports.

    30 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Grading  ·  Admin →
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  7. Health Attachments

    Our nurses would like the ability to add attachments to the Office Visits Health Conditions Childhood Illness Dental Vision Hearing and Physical tabs like they have the ability on the Medications tab.

    29 votes

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Custom Forms - cloning to the other system

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

    75 votes

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  15. 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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  16. 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…

    44 votes

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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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