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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Please Secure Staff Confidential Data

    I'm requesting that the data in WS\SF\SF be secured with more options of specific info to secure/provide access to as opposed to the current option of allowing access to all staff data or no staff data. We are using the parent conference scheduler feature this year and in order for our office personnel to be able to schedule conferences when parents call or stop in we need to allow the office personnel access to staff data. Currently when a person is given access to staff data this includes access to social security numbers birthdates and phone numbers. Office personnel do…

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  5. Future Scheduling for LEP & 504 attributes

    When generating a scheduling run, you have the choice to balance by "attributes". The only attributes available currently are gender, race, and SPED. This is important because it looks at codes to avoid putting too many students with the same attribute in the same section. Could we add two more attributes of LEP and 504? I think that these special populations are just as critical to balancing as is the attribute of Special Education. Since 504 and LEP codes already exist in Skyward

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  6. NSOE Enrollment Users Mass Delete

    We need a utility to mass delete old and unused NSOE Enrollment Users. As of right now, there is only a Delete button that can be used to individually delete each one. This is time consuming and a hassle.

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  7. Online Registration Set Up-Student Information

    Please add an option to Auto-approve the Home Phone under student information. I don't think it makes sense that the parent can have a name change auto-approve, but the home phone cannot.

    We would never want anyone to change the child's name, but do not mind them changing the home phone.

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  8. The ability to categorize reports and search within Data mining

    It would help to find reports in data mining if we could apply one of more categories (Grades, GPA, Discipline, Demographics, ect..) to individual reports. Also, the ability to search by either a category or key word in a report title.

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  9. Schedule to Inactivate a Security User & Staff

    Our District would find it very helpful if we had the ability to schedule a date to Inactivate a Secured User and in addition the ability to add a date for making a staff member inactive. We often find a staff member is leaving the District but are given directions for specific dates to inactivate them as staff and as a secured user in both Skyward Student and Finance. It would be very helpful if a date to inactivate could be added within the secured user and staff areas of both Skyward Student and Finance.

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  10. Please create a Student Indicator for Dyslexia. Now that Dyslexia is being reported in PEIMS, the indicator would be very helpful.

    Please create a Student Indicator for Dyslexia. Now that Dyslexia is being reported in PEIMS, the indicator would be very helpful.

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  11. Under online registration, student information, says home email, can it say student home email. Parents keep putting their email in .

    Under online registration, student information, says home email, can it say student home email. Parents keep putting their email in and that is where the student's home email is. Then when parents go to the parent section, they don't update their email because they put it under the student information by mistake.

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  12. field access in Skybuild

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

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  13. Add School and Calendar Ranges to Message Center

    The Student Ranges available in Message Center do not include the capability of limiting the students by School or Calendar codes. Recently we sent scholarship application information to our High School students and Vocation students from out of the district all received the same email. As a result some of them applied for the scholarship even though they did not qualify because they were not residents of the district. They are coded with a different School code that would have been excluded them from the emails if the School code were an option to use to narrow the ranges. This…

    29 votes

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  14. Mass update grading periods

    Please see the 2 attachments. I am trying to clone grading periods using WS\OF\AT\PS\UT\SC. I have updated the grading periods for campus 001. I am selecting to mass update "all entities" using 001. The entities all carry the same # of grading periods (same calendar terms YR & S1 & S2... all same throughout the district). It is not updating as requested. I have submitted this on SC#3297632 and they referred this to the ME. The ME said "It will set the Term start to the first grading period with that start term. It will set the Term stop to…

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  15. Email Guardians Button

    Please add a button with exact functionality as "Email Teachers" only to "Email Guardians". Right now there's no way to email all the guardians in a family or to choose from amongst available guardians. User has to click the link write an email; click the link write another email etc.. Other possibility is to cc the other parent--but this requires switching back and forth through windows plus a copy and paste and errors are possible. If the attached screen had an Email Guardians button it would be so helpful!

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  16. Verification Status Report Needs Date Range Option

    Greetings. We use the Returning Student Registration option via Family Access to register returning to district students as well as returning next year students. So essentially it's always open. Unlike NSOE there's no notification to our staff unless Pseudo Changes occur. I've shown them how to check the Verification Status screen and how to run this report. Problem is if you want to check a time frame or perhaps schedule this weekly to see if any parents completed this process (let's even assume with no changes so this would be your only option of even knowing) you always get the…

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  17. 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.…

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  18. 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.

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  19. POS improvement

    It seems to be when an incorrect number is entered and it takes you to the selection screen. The default is the first person in the alphabet and if you accidentally choose select instead of back the purchase is charged to the default person. It would seem to me that a better option than that would be when an incorrect # is entered you would get a message on the screen that lets you know that the # is incorrect. If you want to look up by person you can choose the customers tab in the lower left of the…

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  20. Add homeroom teacher e-mail address

    I would like to see the homeroom teacher e-mail address be added to the available filed list in Skybuild under the entity area. If we want to do something similar now it requires to utilize the full student schedule in skybuild and requires extra filtering.
    This would simplify exports for systems that only require a single teacher's email address per student and can not accept the full student's schedule.

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