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  1. Link the Counselor Automatically f/Entity Screen

    The goal is to automatically link the counselor's name that is on the entity screen to the Counselor column in the Guidance "Entry By Date" screen when a student puts in a request to see the counselor. With this enhancement the counselors will be able to see who their student is immediately instead of trying to figure it out. We have a large HS and it takes time. With this enhancement it would save counselors a good amount of time of thumbing through students trying to figure out which ones belongs to them and more time spent on the students…

    17 votes

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  2. Date Range needed

    I need to be able to look at enrollment for several date ranges not just a snap shot day. This is causing hours of compiling data to find this information
    Please adjust the date to include high and low.

    17 votes

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  3. Share Option in Data Mining

    Would be nice if Data mining reports had a sharing option like other report templates have. As not everyone needs to see all datamining templates being utilized. Some templates are created for just 1 person to use as needed but other users don't need access to same template or information within that template.
    The creator would have the option to either share the template for everyone to see it the way it looks now or not share the template.

    17 votes

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  4. CRDC - sport - team

    I'm guessing activities are primarily set up so coaches can communicate with the athletes. It would be helpful if there was a Sport dropdown where we could select the sport that the activity is tied to.
    Then Skyward could program how many are in that sport as well as how many are in each team.

    16 votes

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  5. PEIMS CRW please add "Process Individual Staff" so we can re-extract one or a few teachers

    PEIMS CRW please add "Process Individual Staff" so we can re-extract one or a few teachers ... we waste a LOT of time re-extracting all staff sections when we might only need to extract sections for one teacher

    16 votes

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  6. Ability for parents to attachment documents such as Doctors Notes to Absence Request, or updated shot records to Health Info

    It would be nice for the parents to have the ability to attach/upload documents into the Family Access center. The documents would then be attached to the student and stored in Skyward instead of microfiche.

    16 votes

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  7. Mass delete processing lists

    I would like to be able to mass delete processing lists created within a date range.

    16 votes

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  8. All canned reports should have other id/name key to create processing lists

    Every single report that is a canned report in Skyward for districts to use should ALWAYS include either the student ID or the name key so that processing lists can be created from them. It is such an easy field to add but I have spent the past 2 hours manually creating processing lists because the students couldn't be imported. It's such a waste of time when adding this one field to report is a minor change and would allow an incredible amount of flexibility for districts to have the data they need at their fingertips.

    16 votes

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  9. NSOE - Limit grades available to parent by campus

    If a parent selects a High School for the campus, they should not have the ability to select KG for the grade! We need the ability to only show the grades available on the campus. This could default to the grades setup on the “School Codes” table and then we would also need an override in the NSOE config.

    16 votes

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  10. Add 3 additional fields to the Absence Occurrence Report

    See the attached. Would be very beneficial to have three (3) additional fields added to the resultant report of the Absence Occurrence Report (WS\OF\AT\RE\AR\AO);

    fields to add:
    1) student's current school of enrollment (default entity)
    3) other id; AND
    2) student's current grade level

    reference attached

    16 votes

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  11. NSOE Middle Name Field

    It would be beneficial if there was a way to mark the Middle Name field as required but also have a check box to indicate that there is no "No Middle Name". This would alleviate a lot of data quality issues in our district and also be more clear for the guardians that have children without middle names.

    16 votes

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  12. Web Login ability to Online Enrollment Users

    For NSOE, it would be helpful if an admin was able to Web Login to the Online Enrollment Users accounts so we can assist remotely with application issues.

    Currently, I cut and paste email and password info in to a new login in screen to log in as them to help them with steps in the process.

    16 votes

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  13. Create an import layout for the TSI Assessment

    I would like for there to be an import template created to import the TSI (Texas Success Initiative) Assessment. This test is being required for students to enter college and it would be helpful to have the results in Skyward to share through TREx and on transcripts.

    16 votes

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  14. Method of Instruction within Student Browse

    Would be very helpful to have MOI as a field available in one of the Student Browse Views or create a new View for this. This would be an easy and quick way for school admins or office staff to see which students are missing a code or to set filters to display one particular group and drop them to Excel. I know they can run a data mining report but the Student Browse is much quicker and easier to use for our staff who aren't comfortable creating their own DM reports.

    16 votes

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  15. Message Center - allow TIME to be included when posting to Student and Family Access Message Screen

    When creating a message in the message center, there are 2 options, include in Student / Family Access and email. With the email you can specify a date AND time when it will be sent. But with Posting to Student / Family Access you only get a date.

    Please allow the same TIME option to be included for WHEN it will post to the student / family access page too. We might send an email at 6 pm and we do not want "early" notice also being posted to the message wall in Student / Family Access. The messages should…

    16 votes

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  16. Special programs reminder on entry/withdrawal

    Currently, in the entry/withdrawal, if a student has a special program tab, it prompts us to add or drop when a student is adding or dropping. There are two new tabs under the Special Programs that do not have this "reminder". It is the SAAP and the Method of Instruction. It would be nice if it would automatically que us to remember to close out those records.

    16 votes

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  17. Unofficial transcript available in Family Access

    It would be great if we could run a transcript that had unofficial as a watermark that could be posted - either in reports where they run a current one, or at the least one we could run like our report cards and post to the portfolio. This would make the end of the year scholarship, as well as other things along the way, smoother for our Student Services.

    16 votes

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  18. Make it easier for existing FA users to register New students w/out duplicates

    There needs to be a way to keep RETURNING students from submitting a NSOE application. I know that we can disable displaying the link to new enrollment on Family Access, but if you do that then existing users will have to request another acct to register a new student. Say a parent has 2 in school and now they will have a PK. Parent already has an account. If the register new student link is not visible in Family Access she will have to go to the district site and click on the new student enrollment...which defaults to register for…

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  19. Skyward field for "today's date" in custom form (auto populated for parent)

    As we ask parents to fill out custom forms online, we ask that they "electronically sign and date" the form. We would like to be able to have the field for date auto populate the date they are signing so they don't have to type that date. When we print the form, it does show a date completed but parents do not see that date. We want them to see that they are signing and dating the form.

    16 votes

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  20. Add an Automated Email option for Special Programs

    Add an Automated Email option for Special Programs. And for Ltd Eng Prof. and Homeless, and Section 504, and....you get the idea...we have no options for automated emails in the Special Programs area.

    16 votes

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