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  1. HOURS FOR SENIORS

    I am submitting this in hopes that something can be done. We use hours on our certificates for seniors when they graduate (example 1200 out of 1485 hours completed). These hours are calculated by the amount of days they are enrolled minus any unexcused absences. (2.75 hours a day = 495 hours a year for 3 years) This is done for each shop they were in if they happen to change shops. It gets difficult if they withdraw and come back in the middle of the year because I have to subtract those days. I have been doing this by…

    22 votes

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  2. Creating Processing List using School emal

    It would be very helpful if School Email was added to the options for importing Students to a processing list. Currently the only options are Name Key Other ID and State ID.

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    0 comments  ·  System  ·  Admin →
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  3. Ed-Fi Setting for Future Entry/Withdraw dates

    Could we have an Ed-Fi config setting that allows us to set how many days in the future Ed-Fi will sync records?
    For example, before the school year starts, winter break, spring break etc. we have families tell us they will withdraw or enroll in the future. Currently, if we future withdraw or enroll, we get more conflicts and errors on reports.
    I would like to only send future E/W records if the date is 3 days in the future, otherwise the record should not be sent. Other districts may want to set it to 5 or more days.

    21 votes

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  4. Post Secondary Licensure/Certification

    Our counselors are having to enter Post Secondary Licensures/Certificates in 2 areas: (1.) Under TX/NCLB - Performance Ack: this is where the info is for the transcript/TREx ( 2.) Under Special Programs - Post Sec Cert: this is where the info is for PEIMS... It would be a huge time saver if they only had to post in 1 area. We would like to see transcript/TREx data being pulled from Special Programs - Post Sec Cert.

    21 votes

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  5. Add IBC Vendor to Mass Add Special Programs Utility

    Add IBC Vendor field to the Mass Add Special Programs for Post Secondary Certification. The IBC Vendor field is a required field and is usually the same for each certification within each district.

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    3 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  6. It'd be nice to have the student status tied to the E/W records. T

    Sometimes we have are made aware that a student will be withdrawing in a few days or a week, and we'd like to enter that withdraw record with the future date as we find out about it, but still allow the student to be active until that date hits. Same with enter dates. Sometime they don't start for a week or two but it'd be nice to push through the enrollment and have that student go active on the future date.

    21 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Enrollment  ·  Admin →
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  7. ALL REPORTS NEED BIGGER / DARKER FONT

    Whether it is printing out the NSOE forms for a student's record or printing any report in the system - the font size is too small and too light. We need the ability to enlarge font size / change report format so reports and other items printed from SKYWARD are large/dark enough to be read.

    21 votes

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  8. adding a blank or asterisks for default

    On student Profile when entering the student key social security number or other id if the student does not fall in the range would like it to default to a blank or asterisks screen instead of first student in alpha.
    this hopefully will stop mis-entering information under a students record that should not be updated.

    21 votes

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  9. Standards Coverage report

    When using curriculum mapping we are having a hard time confirming that all standards associated to a curriculum master record was linked to a curriculum map. For example we know all the specific standards that should be covered in 3rd grade math which are linked to the curriculum record. We will then want to confirm that the curriculum map appropriately addresses all the standards to ensure complete coverage of standards.
    A report which lists which standards were covered how many times and highlighting the standards which were not covered would be helpful.

    21 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Curriculum  ·  Admin →
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  10. No Show Count or Excluded Assignments

    It would be beneficial for our district to enable a feature that would disable visibility in Family Access for specific students for specific assignments. Or the capability to select students that a specific assignment applies to within a classroom. There are some students that may need excluded from specific assignments and we would like those to not show in Family or Student Access.

    21 votes

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  11. Educational milestones connected to Test Scores

    Goal: entry of a Test Score that meets a specific criteria automatically triggers a 'complete' date on an Educational Milestone.
    Wisconsin Civics Exam requires students to earn a minimum score as a requirement for graduation starting in 2017. We are entering it as a Test Score so it appears on transcripts along with ACT and other test scores but are also trying to include the status as an Educational Milestone so students and parents are aware that this is required. Right now when students complete the test I have to double enter.
    Expected outcome: Test Scores include a test administration…

    21 votes

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  12. Student Health Report

    Student Health Report and the report in the Quick Print area needs to include results for Convex lens Stereo depth perception Color blindness as required by PDE. Currently there is no ability to add these results to this report for an overall printout of all vision screenings. Nurses currently would have to create/print a separate Data Mining report for all students whose records need sent to other PA districts and for any all health printing of records.

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  13. Instructional Responsibility for PVAAS

    The percentage of shared instruction will set to default to the value based on dividing 100 by the number of teachers flagged as having instructional responsibility for a course. Our district has followed an 80/20 responsibility for two co-teacher courses and 55/35/10 for three co-teacher courses in our six elementary buildings. There is no way to change the default and each individual student record will need to be changed for all teachers. This will be a very time consuming task and may attribute to more errors when uploading to PIMS thus creating incorrect records in the PVAAS system. Instructional responsibility…

    21 votes

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  14. Discipline Bullying

    To prepare for the civil rights report next year is there a way for the victim information in discipline to be required for any bullying offense? This would ensure that the information for report will be accurate.

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  15. We would like to be able to delete bells without it deleting bells from the prior years.

    every year we have so many bells that role over that we do not need. We would like to delete the bells not needed but with your system it deletes the bells from the prior year. We know we can change the time and titles but it still leaves a lot of bells and its messy and confusing. See document attached showing a school with all the bells. We had to XX out the bells they are not using this year so it would not confuse them. instead of having 20 bells from prior years it would be nice to…

    20 votes

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  16. NSOE

    It would be extremely convenient if, when denying an NSOE application after giving the reason for denial, the guardian could then have the option to make corrections to the existing application and then resubmit it rather then having to start the entire application process over again.

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  17. Birth Country needs to be a dropdown or list.

    In Student Profile, Birth History, the Birth Coutnry needs to be a dropdown or list because the field as it stands allows for anything to be entered.

    Example of what we see - US, USA, U.S., U.s.a., United States, u s a
    This affects data in other programs. Could we tie it to the ED FI Country of Birth??

    20 votes

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  18. Texas - Industry Based Certifications (IBC) Module

    1. On the course master add a field similar to the course groups (use the certifications table as the look up table – WS\ST\TB\SP\TB\PO) allowing us to associate certifications to the course. Would need to be school specific.

    2. In the gradebook give teachers an option to add the certification, date, pass/fail. They would only be able to select from the certifications associated with the course they are currently in the gradebook. Data entry for the teachers would have to be simple and fast.

    3. Display certifications to the student and parent in Family Access.

    4. Populate the certification under the Special Programs tab…

    20 votes

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  19. Homeless Students receiving OSS - Texas

    Homeless students and OSS Discipline. Texas

    to comply with state law we would like a warning message to come up when a user is entering a discipline record for a homeless student AND trying to give the student OSS . We would like a message to pop-up on the data entry screen warning the user about what they are trying to do and that it does not comply with Texas law. We believe doing this modification at the data entry point would help districts not break the law - where as a PEIMS/TSDS edit at PEIMS/TSDS time is too late.…

    20 votes

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  20. Change History

    Under Student we have the change history button could you add the Special education addition/changes to that field also so we can see who is changing the information?

    20 votes

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