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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Provide more access for non-primary families

    It's not right for schools to be put in the predicament of choosing one guardian over another to be "primary" in divorced family. Equal parental rights should have equal parental access in the system. I understand there may be cases where one guardian can overwrite another guardian's information on the student, but as long as that information is tracked and perhaps put through the pseudo-changes approval process, then it can be managed.

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  2. Ability to run state reporting exports by processing list

    Please add the ability to run state reporting exports by processing lists.

    This would be very helpful as we are trying to fix certain students who do not automatically pull, etc. Thanks, Lisa

    12 votes

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  3. Wellness Screening Question Customizations & Additions

    We need the ability to have more than 2 questions for customizing the Wellness Screening and the ability to put in a return date that can be seen in EA+ as well. I am attaching an example of our Elementary Sick Student Call In Log (zoom in to view full form). We want to customize Skyward to look similar to this. We also need to have a View for Office staff and the nurse to see who is out and for how long and what their return date is. Also, reporting in Data Mining on this would be super! Thanks!

    12 votes

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  4. Automated Emails for Failed Wellness Responses

    It would be helpful to be able to setup automated emails that notify a particular staff member(s) when a failed Wellness Screening response is submitted, rather than always needing to login to Skyward and check the report.

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  5. 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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  7. New Student Online Enrollment Reports

    Parent email address should be added to the user-defined reports in application processing-prior to approving the application. you can print them in the portal. However, it only picks up new parents. If parents went through an already established family access account(those with students already) they aren't included in the excel spreadsheet and there is no way to generate a list of them all in one report, especially for kdg. reg.

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  8. Separate Student Families from the Student Information tab in Student Access

    When in Student Access, we have had to shut off the Student Information tab where a student can see their Advisory Teacher, Counselor, and LOCKER NUMBER AND COMBO. They also can see their parent information and Emergency contacts. We feel the Parent Information should be on a separate tab in Student Access that can be toggled on or off by the district. The problem with having this information on the same screen as Locker Info and other pertinent information to the student is that since a student can see information on both Family 1 and Family 2, if a separated/divorced…

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  9. 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…

    12 votes

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  10. Change Theme color on screen of different year Course Master

    When having to work in two different screens where one is the current year Course Master and another screen is a different year Course Master, it would be helpful if we had the option to chose a different theme color for the other year's Course Masters.

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  11. Add notifications of what's new in gradebook for parents (newly graded assignments, etc.)

    These are ideas from a parent in our district that I actually think would be fantastic additions for all parents in Family Access since I, too, once had to keep track of a scattered child's assignments. My thought is to have some kind of "what's new" feed in Family Access that would show this information

    Here are his ideas:

    My son has a history of not turning in assignments. On some of those assignments, he has no recollection until they show up in Skyward as missing. I keep a history of all assignments, when they first show up in Skyward,…

    12 votes

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  12. Tardy Kiosk Configuration Options.

    Add configuration options to allow the absent type/reason to follow the bell schedule. The bell schedule allows you to have a class start time and an absent time.

    i.e. They are marked tardy if absent less than 10 minutes and marked absent if they are more than 10 minutes.

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  13. Custom Forms - Add Skyward Fields

    In the Student>Custom Forms, we would like to have some Skyward Fields added:

    Advisor
    Counselor
    Discipline Officer
    Teacher of Record
    CY Homeroom
    CY Homeroom Room Number
    CY Homeroom Teacher

    We would also like to have the option to choose how the student's name displays when we select the Student's Name field. Sometimes we will want to use the full name and sometimes we want just the first & last name.

    Thank you.

    12 votes

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  14. Which parent is responsible for the payment of fees

    In the student set up have a check box or a field to indicate which parent is legally responsible for the payment of the fees. Usually a problem when there is a 2 family house hold.

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  15. Apply earned credit before planned credit to grad requirements

    We are having issues with the configuration of the grad requirements module. Skyward is not considering earned credit before planned credit. Problem>
    We have a student with 4 courses that meet a graduation requirement.
    2 are earned credit and 2 are planned credit. When we change from the default to the school year configuration, in both cases, 1 earned and 1 planned credit are applied instead of 2 earned. Both configurations list earned credit as the 5th criteria considered out of 8 criteria. Any counselor in our district would tell you that earned credit will always trump planned credit when…

    12 votes

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  16. Email Trigger When Grade Change Request is Posted

    We would like an email trigger to send to the teacher when a grade change they requested was posted by the principal.

    12 votes

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  17. 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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  18. Request Changes for Student/Family Information on Mobile App

    We live in a "Mobile" world...
    Parents are able to request changes to student, family address, family information, emergency contacts, etc. on their web-based Family Access account. Many of our families do not have a computer and use the Skyward mobile app to see their student's information. We would like for parents to have the option to request changes to information from the mobile app.

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  19. User Defined Online Enrollment Report

    It would be extremely helpful to be able to pull the family contact email address as one of the fields to Select to print in the User Defined Online Enrollment Report. Right now I can only pull family address and phone and majority of our communications are sent via email address.

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  20. Add Homeroom Code and Homeroom Teacher to custom forms

    Please consider adding Homeroom Code and Homeroom Teacher to the Skyward Fields available to pull onto the Custom Forms. A lot of times when we are setting up the Custom forms for parents to complete at the beginning of the year the forms that we want them to fill out require the homeroom field. At the high school and middle school level the students and parents don't always know who that is until the first day of school. We ask parents to complete these forms over summer. We would like the ability to pull that field from Skyward so it's…

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