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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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…

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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.

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  17. Other ID field on all reports

    It is frustrating and time consuming to run a report to compare data only to find that one report used alphakey and the other used Other ID. Other ID should be standard on every report run - many schools use this as their student ID and NOT the alphakey. Alphakey could also be standard, they could both the there; we use Other ID but bottom line, one field needs to be consistent across ALL Skyward reports so we can do data comparison more efficiently. I should not have to keep a data mining report strictly to convert alphakeys to other…

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  18. 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.

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  19. Add school issued device to student check out form

    Can we add, to the student check out form, an area to indicate that their school issued device has been returned? Or better yet, could we add in the Web Access AUP area, a way to indicate who has a device and possibly the tracking number on it? Maybe have the ability to import from Destiny (as an example). Then have that pull into the form as well.

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  20. 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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