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Student Management Suite

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  1. Change of Address

    When a parent enters an address change via Family Access, it would be helpful for them to be able to attach 1-2 documents for Proof of Residency.

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  2. Pulling previous year's data

    It is incredibly hard to pull data from previous school years in the system. Sometimes we have to go back to previous years in order to fill out information for grants, MDE, authorizer, etc and right now that's near impossible to do. I've used JMC in the past and they had a really easy tab that changed the year that you were operating in for data, Skyward needs something simple like that in order to go back to previous years to pull data when needed, or needs to be incorporated into the reporting system to add a box for what…

    23 votes

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  3. Seperate Security for Emergency Info and Contacts

    The goal of our request is to allow Campus Nurse staff to edit Critical Alert/Emergency information and to not allow them to change Emergency Contacts.

    We have been directed to only allow the registration staff role to edit profile address and contact information. We need to limit the ability to change emergency contacts. At this time Nurses are not allowed to edit this area however they are responsible for the Emergency Info.

    Negative impact: Forcing this screen to ReadOnly for staff that is responsible for editing alert information because giving edit ability for Emergency Info also allows them to edit…

    23 votes

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  4. Display Day Rotation in Attendance

    When a teacher opens Student Information (blue "i" icon) to view attendance for all classes they cannot see the Day Rotation on the absence records. The day rotation code displays in a variety of other screens but having it display here would be helpful for the teacher to view trends. Please consider adding the Day Rotation column to this screen to assist teachers.

    23 votes

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  5. need an export of staff needing a UID

    We need an export on the Student side of Staff needing a Unique ID so we can load to TSDS export the UIDs and then import in Skyward.

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  6. IEP Agreements

    My understanding is that because we have multiple IEP forms created a student would have to have all 5 forms complete for the instructors to get the "agreement" check box. This causes an issue for us because our students come to us from 5 different school districts so a student will only have 1 IEP form - not all 5 assigned to them.
    I would request consideration to allow an IEP to be signed off on by teachers based on one form being complete.

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  7. Address Notification

    When Importing a new student record from a third party vendor into Skyward would it be possible to have a report that processes after importing notifying us that a students is currently connected to the address that we imported? This does happen when manually adding a new student but it would be very helpful if it could also be shown when importing New Student Records

    23 votes

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  8. Need to see report by rotation

    By having the report print out by rotation Day 1 is Days 1-6 rotation Day 2 is Days 7-12 rotation. In order to check our attendance offenders we run the report by student and then have to manually go through each date for each student and see which rotation they were absent on. If they have 3 or more absences on a rotation they are not in compliance with attendance rules. We then lower the grade for the rotation they are not in compliance with. If they are in Academics/Technical for Days 1-6 then they get a lower grade if…

    23 votes

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  9. "Administered By" - restriction option

    The goal of this enhancement is to give the districts the option to restrict the data that can be entered into the "Administered By" field when administering student medications.

    Our school nurses indicate that standard accepted medical practice is for the person who is administering the medication to be the same person who is also entering the data into the student's medication administration record. By allowing the Skyward user to enter someone else (other than the person logged into Skyward) in the "Administered By" field of a student record without actually seeing that person administer the medication that has the…

    23 votes

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  10. Teachers would access to additional filter views.

    Teachers would like to be able to have access to additional filter view to set filters for viewing additional data.

    Example: Set a filter to view a guardian e-mail field set filters for different buildings set a filter for attendance etc.

    23 votes

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  11. Watchlist risk levels and values in data mining

    Currently it does not appear that the watch list risk levels are available for data mining. By not having this it makes it harder to select custom data based on high or medium risk students compared to low risk students. In addition the value that appears on the WS\SS\RI\WL screen to indicate the watch list risk values are not exposed to data mining.
    We should be able to include the risk level as well as the value that is stored. This will allow easy reporting of custom data for students with various risk levels. In addition we should be able…

    23 votes

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  12. Health Report and Medication notes

    There is not an option on the All Health Report to print detailed notes. On the report we need the option to print the administration details of the med administration. Users should be able to print one All Health Report for open records requests including all information. Currently I would have to print an all health report and a medication report.

    23 votes

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  13. Add School Psych to list of Student Contacts

    When setting up nightly email notifications it would be helpful to notify the school psychologist assigned to a student about special education evaluations since they are the ones that complete the evaluations. These people are not always service providers so they don't fall into that available category so I would like to see "school psychologist" added as a category under "Student Contacts".
    This enhancement would keep school psychologists notified about upcoming evaluations and those that are past due.

    23 votes

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  14. Treatment Tab

    We would like to request a Treatments tab in the Health area. Our nurses would like it to have the same functions as the Medication tab so that treatments can be entered and scheduled and be able to be reported on. The example given was a student that has seizures. The nurse has a daily treatment with this student that cannot be scheduled.

    23 votes

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  15. Student Browse Test Scores

    Add Keystone Test Scores under Test Scores in the Student Browse view like the Student Profile for easier view of the Keystone Scores.

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  16. Allow category weighting on skills

    We would like skills to use category weighting rather than just event weighting to calculate the final grades.

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  17. Filter Options

    Teachers are looking at their class lists on the main page under the widgets. This is listing all student for them whether they are active or not. When you click on teacher's students there is a filter there but they don't have the option to change anything. There is no security for this setting. The filter follows the transaction dates. It would be nice to be able to have teacher filter out the inactive kids especially when they return in the fall and there has been quite a bit of movement for students.

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  18. Schedule Tracker to update real time/more often

    It would be helpful if the tracker would update real time or could be set to update periodically throughout the day - since it only updates once a day as they are updating and correcting things they are not seeing a true picture of the status of students via the Widgets/Tracker.

    23 votes

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  19. Enable export of students with PA ID

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    hen students change key items in Skyward name birthdate sex you must upload the students to the PIMS PA Secure ID web site with the changes. Now to accomplish this you need to key in all this information which can lead to mistakes. If you have a large number of students (which on occasion we do) this becomes time consuming when you have to 'assign' the ID on the PA side and resolve miss matches. I've included a screen show of the information
    Enable a selection of specific students that have PA ID's to upload to the state website…

    23 votes

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  20. Able to submit multiple random records for export

    There are many times when multiple students need PIMS corrections. Currenlty there is only the option to submit 1 individual or the whole entity.
    Be able to select students from a pick list in order to extract/maintain/export they PIMS data to the state.

    23 votes

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