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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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…

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  2. 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.

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  3. Preview Needed

    Both the Student Mass Change and especially the Student Mass Delete (and maybe others) need some form of a preview.
    I ran the Student Mass Delete utility in Report mode to verity that the proper number of students would get deleted. As you know when the utility runs it doesn't save the template. When I ran it the second time in Report and Report & Delete mode I didn't run it against the same range and ended up deleting all students from the entity.
    Having both a Report mode and a Report & Delete mode is inadequate unless you can…

    31 votes

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  4. 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.

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  5. Add In/Out Times to Entry by Date Screen

    Recently our staff have started to use the In/Out Minutes option for Attendance. They would love to be able to see that information on the Entry By Date screen without having to completely open up the student record. Is this something that can be added to that view?

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  6. Special Programs- Reports/Transactions

    1. Have all special programs (including but not limited to: foster care homeless immigrant military connected PK PRS LEP and Title I--- Sped At Risk and 504 are already listed there) listed under the Student Services Tab. This would give the ability to view the students in a browse list who have the coding.
    2. Need the ability to view and report on all coding /history and change logs for those special programs.
    3. Need the ability to run special program reports from the Student Services tab instead of relying on data mining.
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  7. Family change history report

    We would like a report the would pull family change history, including family order change and address change. We have numerous requests to provide documentation showing where a student lived and with whom for any given date. It would be helpful to have a report that showed family information - what family they were (1, 2, etc.) and when. Also what their address was and if/when it was changed and changed from what address. Lastly, what students were attached to that family and who the guardians were at that time.

    30 votes

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  8. Ability to have mandatory online form at first login.

    Getting parents to fill out emergency forms, computer acceptable use policies, etc. is burdensome. Other sites on the web make you click to accept their policies before entering the site. It would be a huge help to be able to require our parents to complete the forms prior to entering Skyward for the first time during the school year and for those forms to "pop up" on the screen so they wouldn't have to navigate through Skyward to find them.

    30 votes

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  9. Need ability to hide obsolete codes

    The Scheduling Team Codes table is not year specific. This makes it impossible to delete a code that was used in a previous school year but not used this year. SOmetimes a code table contains a status field. This helps in that inactive codes can be hidden and you are usually not allowed to select an inactive record.
    The Scheduling Team codes table should either be made year specific or have a status field added to it. Only currently 'active' codes should be selectable.

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  10. Mass Add Endorsement and Option Utility

    I would like to recommend adding a Mass Add Endorsement and Option Utility per grade level. I have to mass add the Multidisciplinary Endorsement and Option #1 to all of our current 8th graders and right now We would like this one updated to request a utility that includes ranges and by individual but also includes a processing list option. We are looking for functionality to match graduation requirements/career plans.

    30 votes

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  11. Ability to Combine Standards Gradebooks

    It would be very helpful if we had the ability to combine the standards gradebooks the same way that we can combine secondary gradebooks in Educator Access Plus.

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  12. 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.

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  13. 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.

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  14. Percent Attendance by Teacher Report

    It would really be helpful if this report also broke down by course. All of our PK classes report attendance in period 6. So the report combines the morning and afternoon classes together. We need the ability to show them separately.

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  15. Course Recommendation Report for Teachers

    Teachers are unable to easily view the recommendations that they have entered for their classes. They have to individually go to each student to see the recommendations that have been made but there is not an easy way to check to see which students do not have a recommendation. This puts a burden not only on teachers but also on the guidance/office staff when trying to finalize recommendations and turn them into requests. It is vital that teachers are able to run a report that shows the recommendations that have been made.
    A report that teachers can run by section…

    30 votes

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  16. Email button addition

    In the current scheduling tab there is an email button that you can email individuals. Can we get that in the attendance section?

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  17. Printing Student Custom Forms in Student/Reports

    Under student/reports/custom forms when adding a new template the "custom form selection" box has all the old forms that are inactive. Can this be fixed to view by the current year instead of scrolling all the way thru the list? Yes some of the forms can be printed thru data mining but it's not the actual form as we would need to add to the student cumulative folder

    1. If the custom form is inactive then it should not be an option to select on the template.

    2. Add the year drop down option as in other templates so we can only…

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  18. 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…

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  19. 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.

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  20. Re-routing Attachments to Enrollment

    Good Morning! I am requesting that we make it possible for certain Attachments (under Portfolio) to be re-routed to the Enrollment tab under Student Profile. When parents go to upload their residency documentation under their Family Access it routes both documents to the Attachments tab instead of the enrollment tab where it really should go. We'd like to keep our attachments tab solely for report cards to keep everything organized. Right now when we have a parent come to us in person we upload the documents ourselves to the Enrollment tab; we would like to keep it consistent and have…

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