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Student Management Suite

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  1. EMERGENCY CONTACT AREA FOR STAFF

    We had an episode today that required emergency contact for a staff member. There was no where on the student management side that included this information. This is vital information that each building should have access too online.

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  2. Precoded attendance show on attendance worksheets for substitutes

    It would be helpful if attendance that has already been coded like field trips, on campus testing, etc would appear on paper attendance for substitutes. This would save attendance clerks lots of times having to go back and forth to see who is really absent and who isn't.

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  3. Student pictures included in Office class roster report

    The teacher class roster report offers the option to include student pictures. It'd be great if this were also an option in the Office class roster report.

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  4. Add full change history of family information to family history area along with who made the change date/time.

    Add full change history of any family information to family history area along with who made the change date/time.

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  5. Ability to view who has requested a login and password for NSOE application to follow up if they completed the application

    I need to be able to see who requested a login and password to apply and did not complete the application. Ran into issues with families thinking they had applied and it was not complete.

    If an email could be auto generated to me for anyone requesting a login and password to complete the NSOE, I could monitor to see if they complete the application and email them to see if they need assistance if they did not.

    I was able to download the emails from Product setup > System Admin > email history > into an excel document. Then…

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  6. Guardian 1 and Guardian 2 should be able to set their own ranges for grading email notifications.

    Parents have the capability to turn on/off grading email notifications. However, only guardian 1 is permitted to set the ranges. If the option is going to be offered to each parent, then each parent should be able to set their preferences. Mom may want to be notified every time her child receives a grade above 90, but dad/stepdad would only want to be notified when a grade of failing is received. Current set up is limiting parent participation in child's educational progress.

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  7. Student State ID option on Student Reports

    Please include the option (checkbox?) of printing the State ID number on any student report, especially the Student Information report as this is the only unique reference recognized by Illinois.

    Also many of the state student records compliance documents require the IL State ID. Would be very helpful to not manually handwrite or mail merge a sticker onto the report.

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  8. MOI printing on reports

    Our district would like for the attendance reports to actually PRINT MOI (method of instruction on the report itself

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  9. Add Effective Date on Staff Maintenance

    Hello: We often get communication from our HR Department indicating an employee exit with a specific date. Typically that date is in the future. It would be extremely convenient if and effective date could be added to the Staff Entity Maintenance area to flag the exact date that the staff member should be flagged to Inactive. This would eliminate having to "Save" HR notifications and then remembering to inactive or activate the staff member based on information from HR.

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  10. Allow Skyward App Parent/Guardian Users to Attach Files through Add Absence Request

    Add the functionality in the Skyward App (Family Access) so users can add attachments when using the "Add Absence Request". This will cut down on parents needing to separately email doctor notes or other required attendance documents or send the document with their student. This will also reduce the amount of work that is needed by attendance clerks or decrease the response time to updating absences.

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  11. It would be very helpful for our secretaries/registrars if the District Category code could be added to the Day Summary report. Thansk!

    It would be very helpful for our secretaries/registrars if the District Category code could be added to the Day Summary report. Thanks!

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  12. Returning Student Registration via Mobile App

    Can you add the functionality of Returning Student Registration via the Mobile App? I have a lot of parents who have requested this.

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  13. Add the ability to send parent notifications for attendance entered for prior dates as well as today

    With remote learning attendance, corrections can be made up to a week later. We need the ability for Family Access notifications to include not just attendance entered today for today, but attendance entered today for a prior date.

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  14. Add a way for teachers to adjust the default for attendance

    Currently, the gradebook attendance defaults to being present. Virtual teachers now have to mark students virtual each day to be counted present. It would be nice if teachers could change the default so they would all show virtual instead of present or have a way to mark all students at once so you don't have to click on each student individually. Thanks!!

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  15. Need to able to view and update Student Wellness screening in EA+

    We need an EA+ (mobile and web) view of screener results that updates/refreshes live - a list of kids in 1st period and their screener results. We need to be able to stop students immediately as they walk in the classroom door if the screener result is fail or blank. This preventative measure can't be done at the building level - it will be done at the classroom level by their first teacher of the day. We are picturing something similar to the Post Daily Attendance screen but with a date, list of kids, and results.

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  16. Translation software

    Google Translate used to work with Skyward. Since it no does, it would be great if Skyward built that feature into FA.

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  17. All Fields in Data Mining Should Also Be Available As Insertable Fields For Automated Emails and Messages

    It seems odd that only specific fields are available to be inserted into Automated Emails and none are available in the Messaging Center. It would be extremely helpful to have the ability to create an Automated Email using all the fields available via data mining.

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  18. Other name fields needs a greater reach

    The other name field needs a greater reach. We have students who go by different names and the other name field only applies to the class roster report and the gradebook. Would love to see the other name field utilized in student/family access. food service POS. Fee management customer fields. etc

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  19. Automated Email for Staff Changes

    We would like to have an automated e-mail generated when a staff member becomes inactive in an entity. An e-mail could then be generated to the Skyward admin who handles the User Accounts, prompting a change in their Active Secured User status to NO.

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  20. Delete Attendance Letters

    It would be so much easier to have secretaries delete attendance letters that have already generated if a student turns in the appropriate excuse. It is too risky to give them access to the Utility to Maintain because of the "Delete ALL Attendance Letters" option. We'd like to have the delete button right on the student profile- Attendance- Letters tab.

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