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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Code entry for Birth County and City

    Request the option to be able to enter in County and City codes into a list and set a default to use per entity.

    16 votes

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  2. Add Lice Screening to Entry By Homeroom

    Please add a Health Test of "Lice Screening" to be able to be entered by Homeroom (and Class?) It would save countless hours for nurses input of this screen for lice.
    Huge time savings when it comes to data entry for nurses.

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  3. When creating Staff at entity; have option to go directly to security area to add security for that staff person

    When creating a Staff member, a teacher for example, it would be nice to have a box to check to 'Add Security' and upon saving that set up, be taken directly to the Secured User area to that specific staff members account and add their security without having to move out of the Staff area and into the security area and then retype in the staff name and expand to add the security. This could go hand in hand with adding and effective date to start or end security and / or active or inactive status of staff. Definite time…

    15 votes

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  4. Student Cell Phone in Online Registration

    When the student's third phone field is shown under Student Information in Online Registration, the family just sees a drop-down that has a default value of blank, an empty field and then Ext with a field next to it. The drop-down is shaded the same color as fields that are read-only. Can there be an option to set the default value of the drop-down or at least have a description that is next to that drop-down so families don't just glance at these blank fields and think there is nothing to enter there?

    15 votes

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  5. Ability to drop all classes for a student on the student Profile Schedule screen

    In our elementary schools, we have many students who start with one teacher and have several classes assigned from that one teacher using a scheduling group. When that student changes teachers each class has to be dropped manually on the Current Scheduling area on the student profile. The ability to choose to drop all and enter one effective date would be great, or at least the same screen as when adding classes and entering effective dates for each class on one screen would work. The same as when using the schedule all button on the add course button. This would…

    15 votes

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  6. email report cards

    Several of our schools have been asking for the ability to email report cards in a mass process. They have been posting online but less and less parents are going into Family Access to check so they are considering going back to a mailed report card.

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  7. Message Center

    It would be great if on the message center, you could also have a Staff selection. Alot of times, I send out district wide messages for fundraisers and such. For staff, I enter additional names. That is time consuming and I honestly could forget someone. Having that option to select staff along with teachers, parents and students would be a huge help...because teachers do not include staff.

    15 votes

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  8. COVID Wellness Screening customize

    COVID Wellness Screening customize the fields according to each schools needs.

    15 votes

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  9. Add a Family to a student by Family ID

    We have so many situations when a parent be required to enroll/register their children at multiple schools in our district. If one registrar searches for them by using a parent's middle name, another uses the parent's middle initial, and another one leaves it out entirely then we end up having to combine multiple accounts. We do keep stressing to them to check for matches. If the student is already registered and they need to add a Family #2, if they could have the screen open of a sibling and pick that same family ID number instead of having to type…

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  10. NSOE - Guardian's Additional Information for Student

    There is a field where guardians can give any extra information that they feel is important for the student they are enrolling. The problem we have is that the information is only available once you click to process or view the application. 1. There is no option to turn this field off (we could use a custom form to capture this) or 2. have the information print on the Quick Print report where you can print the application and all the custom forms in one place. We would like one of the two options made available to accurately process applications.

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  11. Ability to compare the value of two fields in the And/Or Filter

    There are times when comparing the values of two similar fields would really come in handy. It would eliminate some of the additional clean-up and filtering in Excel afterwards.

    15 votes

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  12. Student Management Configuration Pop-up Alert for Parental Consent Notes

    In the Product Setup, Skyward Customer Access, Student Management area, you can set the configuration to turn on a Pop-up for Critical Alerts. We would like to see a Pop-up for Parental Consent Notes as well. We have many Critical Alerts, so it becomes unwieldy to add the Parental Consents as Critical Alerts, to use that functionality. Too many pop-ups are annoying. But a separate Parental Consent pop-up would make sure staff knew if a custody issue existed when parents are picking up their students.

    15 votes

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  13. Headcount By Grade, Race, Gender and Socioeconomic Status - Add "Today" date option

    Please add a date option to run for "Today" so that this report can be scheduled to run daily and report today's enrollment count.

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  14. Add Date and Expiration Option to Critical Alert Messages

    Everyone uses the Critical Alert field for much more than health options. The flag is nice and the option to have it pop-up to display. Our district especially uses this for parent issues, legal issues and much more. The problem is, that over time these messages are terribly outdated as a student's career progresses at a district. There should be a date field entered that includes a start/end date with an option to have the Critical Alert expire! Then it will auto-turn off the message when the user so desires to have it do so. If they want to leave…

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  15. Health office

    I think it would be great if the nurse or the health office aid added an office visit and selected "keep in office" that it would automatically show up in the student's attendance for that hour. That way the teacher could see it right away without having to ask the person in charge of attendance to do it or requiring a call to the teacher.

    15 votes

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  16. Create Permission Slips for Field Trips and Push Them Out to Family Access

    Our district would appreciate the ability to create permission slips for field trips via the Field Trip Master and push them out to family access so parents can sign them electronically. Ideally, the fields permission slip returned and date returned could reflect what transpires in family access. If that is not attainable, a report which would pull this information for us would be an important addition.

    15 votes

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  17. Gifted added to Mass Add End Local Programs

    We REALLY need the Gifted Records to be an option in the Mass Add/End Special/Local Programs area! As far as I can tell the records have to be added each year. When pulling AD only current year records (open or closed) will pull. Any previous years records (even when left open) will NOT pull. The importance of keeping year to year records can be understood as grant funding is involved and we don't want open records that aren't really in the program any more to pull and report to DOE. With that said when a school (one middle school) of…

    15 votes

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  18. Sports Physical Expiration Alert/Email to Parents

    We would like a sports physical email to automatically go to parents 30-60 days before their child's sports physical expires.

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  19. Skylert -Add Student Fields

    Add more student related fields such as student phone number and student email. Why does Skylert just have to be geared towards parents? Why can't students be included?

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  20. Roster of Special Programs

    In the Roster of Special Programs it would be helpful to allow the option to only print for the primary teacher.

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