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Student Management Suite

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  1. Custom Forms /Ability to post Custom Forms to the portfolio

    We currently have many Custom Forms that we would like the option to place into the portfolio (ex Customized Progress Report)

    18 votes

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  2. Nursing/Custom Forms

    Our nurses would like to get an alert or an email if a parent checks a box stating any health issues on our custom form. Is this something that can be done.

    18 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Health  ·  Admin →
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  3. Teachers need to see Obligations in Teacher Access

    Campuses often need to identify students that have obligations through the office and they want to make sure that teachers are aware of these students in their classes. If some indicator or alert could display in Teacher Access that would provide that connection.
    Our campuses often identify students that lose privileges for various reasons and they need an effective way to make this information available to the teachers.

    18 votes

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  4. RFE for Guidance Note/Visit Attachement

    We have had several requests for the ability to attach documents to a guidance note/visit just as can be done with other notes in the student profile. Currently there is no Attach button when adding a guidance note/visit. We don't even see a selection for Guidance in the drop-down list for All Notes. We think this would be a great addition to the program. having it all under the guidance tab would be ideal but at this point just having a place to attach a document would be great.

    18 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Guidance  ·  Admin →
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  5. A report for DOE attendance data - (in attendance, 1/2 day absent, excused/unexcused absent)

    We need a report (prefer one that dumps an Excel spreadsheet) that provides the DOE attendance calculation. It would be amazing if calculation results could be stored in a table, like the Year To Date attendance.

    Without it, it is difficult to verify that the DOE has the correct attendance data and it is difficult to identify students who are close to the 94% target.

    17 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  6. District option for student indicators

    We have many student indicators that are district wide. It would be helpful if you could add the indicator from 000 and it would be a district indicator and if you added the indicator from an entity it would be entity specific.

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  7. Create an online assignment in EA+ that can update attendance automatically

    We need a quick and easy way for teachers in remote learning to take attendance. If we had the ability to create online assignments that updated attendance in the teacher gradebook automatically, it would save so much time. We could use a special code for this purpose so teachers could tell if the student has attendance by submission of an assignment vs. teacher manually taking attendance.

    17 votes

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  8. Automated notification email when new staff are added.

    Automated email when new staff is added, emailed to a predefined list of addresses.

    17 votes

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  9. Allow Parents/Guardians to reset their Family Access Password

    Parents and Guardians become frustrated when they are required to contact the school for a Family Access password reset. It would be beneficial for them to have the option to reset their password on their own using a verified email or phone number.

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  10. Show if there are additional students linked to a particular Guardian within a different household

    We have many guardians that are attached to two households due to combined or split family situations. It would be nice if the Family area showed whether there are other students linked to a particular guardian, even though the students are not linked to the same family ID.

    17 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  11. Address Master search functionality

    Currently in Address Master you can only search by Street. We would like the functionality so that if we sort by Number that we can search by the Number by typing in the search box.

    17 votes

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  12. Message Center

    It would be extremely convenient and helpful if, when creating a message in the Message Center to send a "test message" to just the person who is creating the message prior to sending it out to students and/or families? It would be a nice feature to be able to "test" the message by sending it to oneself to make sure it is set up correctly prior to sending to students and families. Thank you!

    17 votes

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  13. attendance letters - excluding individual students

    When creating 5 and 10 day attendance letters... is there a way to exclude individual students from generating a letter? For example we have a few students that are on the attendance letter list that have known issues that would make it to where they should not get an attendance 5 or 10 day letter. We have a kiddo at the burn center that is absent but the medical paperwork has not come in yet. Until then when we run the letters they would be on the list. We do not want to have to hand pull the letters that…

    17 votes

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  14. Add Other ID to every report so that vertical lookups within Excel would be much easier

    Add Other ID to every report so that vertical lookups within Excel would be much easier

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  15. Family 1 can allow Family 2 to do registration

    Would like to see an option for Family 1 to check a box that will allow Family 2 to do registration We have close to one quarter of our population where there are two families. We have a battle raging each year on who is allowed to do what for their children. Sometimes families do not mind sharing responsibilities; however some do not want to share responsibilities. What we have had to do if both families are in agreement is move Family 2 into the Family 1 position so they could accomplish the task and then move them back. A…

    17 votes

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  16. Staff Pictures

    I would love for us to be able to include staff pictures on staff reports. We could use the report as a Staff Directory with pictures and contact info. The directory could be very helpful, especially to new staff.

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  17. Distribute Student Demographic Info - fields need a blank option

    Currently, it is difficult to know if these fields in the Student Profile have been set to No or if they were No by default...Military, Higher Ed, Public, District, Local Use, Media, Vendors, Field Trips.

    If those fields were blank by default, then it would be more clear that the field was set to No intentionally.

    17 votes

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  18. In Family Access and Student Access separate transcripts from the portfolio area, like report cards are separate.

    We would like to use the portfolio area for registration and legal documents. But we do not always want these items displayed in family access and/or student access. But we cannot use the portfolio in this manner because this is the only area custom transcripts display. We can allow report cards to display separately, even though they are technically in the portfolio. Or another option would be to allow us to assign a type to the documents in the portfolio and then have a set up area in family access that lets us designate which types to display.

    17 votes

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  19. Allow Import of Wanding Messages in Food Service.

    It would be nice to either tag a health condition as a wanding message or have the ability to import wanding messages into the system via Skybuild imports. This would eliminate the possibility of accidentally serving a student that has a health related allergy because it wasnt inputted as a wanding message.

    17 votes

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  20. Parent background checks

    Please add a date completed field to the background check.
    We are to update them every 3 years. This would be most helpful!

    17 votes

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