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  1. Military family flag/pseudo change in FA

    When adding new students and on the general profile page there is a newer field for yes/no/not applicable for military families. We do track this info on new students but would like that info on all students. We would like to have this flag added to the pseudo change screen set up in family access so families can update this info on their own. These is a military field listed but that is for mailing to the military not if they are a military family. I've attached a screen shot of similar field setups.

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  2. Attendance taken by Alternate Instructor

    When attendance is take by the Alternate Instructor. the primary instructor is still getting an email that they have not taken attendance. We would like to be able to have the Alternate Instructor record attendance without receiving this type of email for the Primary Instructor when technically the attendance for this course has already been taken.

    28 votes

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  3. message center

    Message Center Alerts

    When a family posts a message to a teacher(s), alert the teacher via email. Or have the option to email the teacher directly through Family Access. Teachers are missing messages from the message center because they are not aware a parent sent them.

    28 votes

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  4. 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.

    28 votes

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  5. 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.

    28 votes

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  6. Margins In Attendance/Discipline Letters

    We would like to shrink the margins on our custom letters to fit all information on one page. This would be beneficial for layout of the custom letters.

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  7. Do not require all forms to be edited on a clone

    Many times when doing a review/revise only one or two areas of an IEP need to be adjusted - but as a result of cloning all forms need to be edited - this causes a lot of extra clicking in order to be able to print the entire review/revise IEP when only one page of the entire document may be updated

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  8. 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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  9. Auto Email Trigger/studen locator

    The student check in at the nurse needs to trigger the automated emails to the teachers on the student schedule. Teachers usually do not even have access to the student management piece of Skyward which then also makes us give them access to that module so they can see the student locator to see if a student is in the nurse's office. The systems needs to include the auto emails for the nurse module and the student locator needs to be programmed in to be included in Educator Access. Teachers should not have to have two separate windows open to…

    28 votes

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  10. Parent needs to see all time slots that were avail

    When a parent is trying to view all available conference time slots and a teacher is completely booked it only allows the parent to view the time slots taken for that specific course and section. We want the parent to see all time slots that were at one point available but are now closed. The parent in this example thought we only gave them 8 choices when in reality there were 30 available spots.

    28 votes

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  11. Adding column for total attendance

    Teachers are requesting a column to be added to the screen where they can input grades for the marking period. This column would contain total days absent for each student. See the attachment to see exactly what screen. No impact from it not being done. Not an important feature just a request.
    Just a column being added so teachers can view total attendance for each student when entering marking period grades.

    28 votes

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  12. 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.

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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.

  13. hall pass - include signature image and email

    We would like to be able to email the Hall Pass from the Attendance tab in Student Profile directly to the student's current teacher. This would immediately let the teacher know that the student should be returning to class.
    We would also like to be able to insert an image of a signature on the pass so that it is signed when emailed or printed.
    The student's current teacher is displayed on the Hall Pass screen. If we could email it to the teacher either in addition to printing or in place of printing then the teacher would know exactly…

    28 votes

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  14. Add an Evaluation Due field

    The "case due" field tells staff the date an eval expires - three years from the completion date of the previous evaluation. Staff need an "evaluation due" for new evaluations that take place before the 3 year expiration date so they know when the 60 day period mandated for evaluations to be completed is up. For instance a student had an eval on 3/24/15 so the case due field is auto-filled with 3/24/18. However parents/staff have requested a new evaluation on 12/16/16 so staff need to know when 60 days from this new date is so they can have the…

    28 votes

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  15. External Lunch Menu Link for Mobile App

    Request for mobile app: Lunch menu area - we would like to have the mobile app have a clickable link so that the lunch calendar link URL will take patrons to the lunch menu calendar. We would be able to provide a link to our pdf lunch menu through the mobile app.

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  16. Electronic Signatures on Custom Forms for Registration

    It would be beneficial if parents had the ability to electronically sign custom forms for registration.

    27 votes

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  17. Add Utility to Mass Add Entry Withdrawal Records

    Students change grade levels throughout the school year at many at-risk campuses. Currently the process for entering a status change must be done on an individual student level. Adding a utility to withdraw as a status change and create a new entry from a processing list (or selecting individual students) would streamline this process.

    The ability to complete a status change withdrawal and new entry record for all grade level advancements during the school year.

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  18. 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…

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  19. Need capability to copy template from year to year

    Under the Mass Change Course Master Fields I use the Course Range option of Individual Course Selection to make Texas specific changes. For instance all my courses that are the first part of a two semester course are assigned a course sequence code of 1. The courses that are the second part of a two semester course are assigned a course sequence of 2. And the courses that are single semester only have a course sequence code of 0. I also do this with population served for certain courses among other changes.
    I would like to be able to copy…

    27 votes

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  20. 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…

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