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  1. 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…

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  2. increase character count for assignment comments

    Increase the numbers of characters permitted in the comments area when using the Score Entry in a teacher grade book.

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  3. Reporting on "No Count" Assignments

    Request from teacher: Teachers often want to monitor work completion participation rates time spent pleasure reading etc... but they do not want these "behaviors" counted as part of the academic grade. Luckily Skyward allows teachers to enter these categories into their gradebook and mark them as "no count" so parents can access the information at the same time leaving the academic grade untouched. However teachers often need to calculate averages for these behaviors. It makes it easier at report card time to say "Your child met their pleasure reading goal 67% of the time."

    Could you please add a reporting…

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  4. Add Other ID to list of students

    We would like to see if Other ID for each student could be added to the choice of students when adding a student to the Activity. As we have many students with the exact same name. This would make it much easier.
    We would like to see if Other ID for each student could be added to the choice of students when adding a student to the Activity. As we have many students with the exact same name. This would make it much easier.

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  5. 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

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  6. Increase Email Recipients on Exports

    The Email Results To field is limited to 200 characters. If the number of users who you would like to email the results to exceeds this number you would have to create the second export. ** If the field is extended(like this box of 911) there would be no need to run a second export to send to email recipients that did not fit on the first run because of the 200 character rule.

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  7. Add Placed to Promotion Status

    Promotion Status has Retained Promotedand Pending. Can we get Placed added to the list. When a student does not earn the promotion but is placed in the next grade we need to be able to document that the student was placed and not promoted.
    This enhancement will allow us to properly document how a student got to the next grade.

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  8. Would like the Deposit Number to show on this repo

    Would like the Deposit Number to show on the Payment by Check Number Report and to have a total at the end of the Amount Column. It would also be nice if the name of the entity is at the top of the report so you know what building it belongs to.
    This would be most helpful when trying to balance records at the end of a month to balance to our manual credit card receipts. We have several different systems we have to balance to and this would speed up the process.

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  9. option in gradebook to mark unscored as INCmissing

    As schools change their grading policies to eliminate the giving of zeros it makes sense to have an option to "mark all un-scored as missing and incomplete". This would be an additional button leaving the "mark un-scored as 0 and missing" or a way to change the function of that button.
    This option would be in response to latest educational practice which says zeros are unduly punitive and don't inspire students to follow up and do the work. An incomplete is no grade so if the student wants a grade they have to do something.
    I believe you could have…

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  10. Diabetes Care Log needs additional BG fields

    The diabetes care log only has one field for blood glucose (BG) results and one field for Carb Intake. For scheduled diabetes care this is sufficient; however frequently students have non-scheduled care due to high or low blood glucose. When this occurs blood glucose is tested a minimum of 2 times during one clinic visit and when a student has low BG carbs may be given more than one for treatment (every 15 minutes if BG remains low).
    Right now you can only enter one BG or Carb Intake or Ketones Results in the fields allowed then additional BG results…

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  11. Discipline Graphs

    When reviewing a discipline graph report and then clicking "export to calc" for additional information could "time" be added to that excel report?

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  12. Allow date range for missing assignment display

    Family/Student Access - gradebook display - missing assignment list
    Please don't display assignments as missing if the student is not enrolled in the class. That covers classes that have ended (from 1st semester) and classes that have been dropped. I can't imagine a time when that list could be helpful and the list loses its impact and usefulness when students learn to ignore it because "that's all old stuff I can't make up anymore anyway".
    This list currently displays missing assignments for classes the students are no longer enrolled in. I have changed temporarily changed the configuration to limit the…

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  13. 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…

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  14. Custom report cards element cloning

    This applies to CTE but could also have implementations in K-12.

    While it is possible to clone Standards Based Custom Report Cards and change the school year (Being able to do this automatically as part of the cloning processes at the end of the year would be great) if you are using an object in the report to limit the results that you see on the report you are bound to having to select those each year.

    We are using Standards Gradebook Custom Report Card currently to show all tasks that a student has accomplished against and Academic Area. This…

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  15. Add to EAPlus Student Hearing and Vision Test Info

    Teachers would like to have available to them the Hearing and Vision Test Results for their students within the Teacher Access login. Parents can see a student's health information at their Family Access Portal teachers do not. Teachers need quick access to Hearing and Vision Tests for evaluation purposes with regard to IEPs RTI or other. They prefer to not bother the Office Staff for the information and the convenience to have it for a quick look up is invaluable. It would be helpful to be able to include it on a report that teacher's can run in the student…

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  16. Ability to email from the Office Visit area

    Would like to have an Email button added to the Office Visit area. This would give the nurses options to communicate with parents at the time of exiting/releasing a student from the office.
    Add the Email button similar to the Email button on the Scheduling tab in student profile. Add the option (radial button) for parent email along with the staff and teacher options.

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  17. 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.

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  18. Add the OTHER ID field to the Standard Report Card

    We would like the field of OTHER ID added to the options in the header/footer area of the Standard report cards. As we work towards an electronic cum folder it is a requirement to have the Student's OTHER ID number on the report card so we can use that to rename the files for mass uploads to the electronic cum folder process.

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  19. PASS+ Room Allowed Based on Schedule

    Students can use PASS+ to mark themselves present in any room. Please develop ability to identify if a student is in their expected/assigned room location and allow/deny student attendance based on whether student is in proper room/location. The PASS+ device currently denies attendance entry based on schedule (can't scan in during times that are not on the bell schedule). Having the PASS+ compare the device's room code to the student's schedule would prevent students from using PASS+ to sign in where they shouldn't be. We can use a Crystal Report to identify students at the end of the day who…

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  20. Make Primary Phone Number assignable per guardian, not household

    Currently, if Guardian2 signs into Skyward Family Access and changes the primary phone number to be G2's cell phone, not only does the HOUSEHOLD primary phone number change, Guardian1's Primary phone number is not only replaced, it's been fully lost.

    Primary Phone Number should be assignable for each guardian. It's not 1989 anymore. Cellphones exist. The default phone number for any given student should be Family1/Guardian1, not a household number.

    You give the ability to export F1/G1 Primary Phone alongside F1/G2 Primary Phone. It's always going to be the same phone number and it causes issues for me constantly with…

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