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  1. State Reporting TX - require data entry for New GRADE LEVEL field for those with POP SERVED of 06

    in the STAFF PROFILE area, when adding a RESPONSIBILITY for Role ID of 033 or 087 ... and a POP SERVED of 06 ... require user to enter a GRADE LEVEL ... this would help avoid errors from rule 30090-0120

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  2. Indicators on class roster report

    When running a class roster report (not as a teacher, but on the student management side) we want to be able to print the student indicators. The teachers are able to print this easily with this roster report, but it doesn't on the office side, it currently only allows us to print the 540, LEP, and Sp Ed indicator. Which is great. However, there are times we want to be able to print other indicators as well.

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  3. Method of Instruction - Start/End Dates

    We are using the Method of Instruction as a way to keep our teachers updated on a daily basis when students are going to be in-person or virtual, as it is fluid with students staying home due to illnesses. For students staying home one day, we want to be able to put the start and end date in for today (for example) for virtual, and assign in-person for the next day. However when we do this, it removes the Method of Instruction for today.

    Can the system be programed so that a start/end date of the same day starts at…

    13 votes

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  4. Allow Message center to send to specific Student Groups

    Due to COVID reasons many different groups of students are in one classroom. Group A on different days than Group B but still in the same course. It would be nice if the teacher had the ability, if they setup student groups, to send to just those student groups.
    Add an option under send to multiple classes to change to send to students if they are setup. This will then show a list of all the different groups along with the class they are in.

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  5. Method of Instruction Report For Teachers

    Teachers need to be able to print a report that displays a student's Method of Instruction. Maybe just add Method of Instruction on the Class Roster report?

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  6. Need entity settings for Student Wellness screener

    We need entity controls for parent/student ability to submit. We would not want elementary kids submitting their own screener but we may allow students to do it at secondary.

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  7. Message Center Attachment Size Limitation check BEFORE allowing user to save/send message

    Currently if a message exceeds the attachment size limitation there is not an instant notification to the user in Message Center. The current setup allows the user to add large attachments that end up went saved try to process in the email queue for hours (we had an example of 6 hours) before failing and giving an error. In addition, the time that is spent for these messages to try and process and fail it is also holding up other messages from being sent with small or no attachments (until hours later). If the system could do a file size…

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    Planned  ·  Clayton Bentz responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Product Ideas Portal.

    After some review, we have determined what we believe is causing Message Center email queues to error out due to attachment file sizes.

    This is due to a user attaching more than one file to their email within Message Center with a total combined file size exceeding the allowed maximum for the district’s email client.

    To help prevent this from happening, we will add the ability to set a maximum size limit for all attachments (“Total size limit for all Message Center Attachments for a given message”). This configuration will be located in the Maximum Attachment Size setup area (PS\SA\DM\DS).

    Thanks!

  8. Giving teachers capability to take previous days attendance for class and not individually

    Our teachers will be taking attendance for a school day the following day. We are doing Asynchronous Remote which gives the student until Midnight to log in.
    When the teacher logs in to take attendance it pulls up the current day and they are having to click on each individual student to record the previous day.
    Is there a way for them to mark the class as a whole for the previous day?

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  9. PERFECT ATTENDANCE

    PERFECT ATTENDANCE: Date AND Period Specific
    Currently, skyward does not have a way to verify TSDS report PDM3-130-007. We need to be able to pull a report that ties to funding only and something that is date specific.

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  10. Ability to Set a Post Time

    We send a lot of emails at a specific time of day but I cannot control when it posts. As soon as I click "save" it will post even though I set the message to go out at a later time that day.

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  11. Ability to choose sibling connection

    It would be very helpful to have the option of choosing whether students are siblings or not when they share a guardian. Sometimes we add Organizations as a family member to show outside agency therapists, case managers, or even legal Children & Youth guardians. Right now, any students who happen to share a therapist or case manager are automatically flagged as siblings so we have to create a separate guardian record for the same person. It would be great if there was a pop-up box notifying us that another student has the same guardian and giving the option of linking…

    13 votes

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  12. 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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  13. CY Member

    When running the Year Start Process, if a student Status is Inactive, update CY Member to No. If this is Yes and left yes and you have a data mining or crystal report that uses CY Member, you will get inaccurate data.

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  14. Mobile ID Card available to Parents in Skyward App

    PLEASE make the Mobile ID Card for students available so that it can be enabled on the Family Access side for the Parent App! We need this for the ability to scan when parents come to pick up their students early. Thank you!

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  15. County Abbreviation in Address - Allow 4 Characters

    Please allow 4 characters (maybe more) in abbreviations for Counties in the address tables. We require staff to enter counties when entering addresses. Since we have many divorced parents living in other states, we run in to counties with differing abbreviation conventions. For instance, Clay County in Kansas is CL. Clay County in Missouri is CLAY. And Clay County in Georgia is CY. And then to make it worse, Clark County in Nevada is CLA. Since I can only enter 3 characters right now and I need to have Clark County in NV. and Clay County in MO, I have…

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  16. Ability to change "Online Forms" label in Family/Student Access

    We use our Online Forms for our Co-Curricular and Athletic forms that students have to complete each year. Student's and Parents get confused and either fill out the Online Forms instead of the Online Registration or they complain that they can't find the forms. If we had the ability to rename this label in Family/Student Access like we can for Online Registration and New Student Online Enrollment I think it would be less confusing for parents/students.

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  17. Option to Run Scheduled Tasks Only on School Days

    Our attendance office runs various reports and tasks but only on school days. Please consider an option of being able to run scheduled tasks only on days that are scheduled days of school. When these tasks run on weekdays that do not have school they create unnecessary reports and in the case of automatically marking students absent like we do in Positive Attendance she needs to remove those absences so parents don't get phone calls for absences on days we don't have school. Thanks for your consideration of this request.

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  18. It would be great if on the message center template if we were able to add all staff for a building. Not just the teachers.

    It would be great if on the message center template, if we were able to add all staff for a building. Not just the teachers. Currently it is only the teachers that have students assigned to them. For example: If there was an incident at the school that we could send a message center message out to all guardians, teachers, and all staff assigned to an entity.

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  19. Edit Class Meet

    Once the edic class meet window is saved and the user is returned to the course master window, give me a setting to leave the section detail open that was just edited. When working on sequential sections it is difficult to always accurately click the next section after the screens have reset. Once I am done in the course and click on the next course, section details can all close.

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  20. Add section to Custom Transcript for Dual Credit detail

    Add a section to Custom Transcripts where you can display the detail of the Post-Secondary information for Dual Credits.

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