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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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.

    12 votes

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  2. 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…

    12 votes

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  3. Daily Attendance and Eligibility for Athletic Participation

    Are athletes eligible to participate in sports based on attendance? We currently have an Absence Occurrence Report scheduled to run daily against a Processing List. The task goes to head coaches to show students' attendance for that day. There currently is no option for "Today's Date" in this report, so our staff have to update the date on the reports each day--which gets cumbersome. An alternative to selecting "Today's Date" would be to add an option on the Day Summary to run against a Processing or Activity List.

    12 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  4. 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.

    12 votes

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  5. 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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  6. 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.

    12 votes

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  7. 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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  8. 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.

    12 votes

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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.

    12 votes

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  12. 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.

    12 votes

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  13. 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…

    12 votes

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  14. Alternate Teacher linked to conferences

    The ability to schedule conferences for the alternative teacher and tie the students to them.

    12 votes

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  15. Add CTE Certifications to transcript.

    I currently use custom transcripts and I recently saw on a new student's transcript from a previous school a box where CTE Certifications could be listed. Since the state of Kansas recently added this to the student data they collect and this is a separate tab for a student is there a way this can be added to our transcripts? Maybe an element similar to the test box that can be selected so ACT or PSAT scores can be added. I have these already on my transcript.

    12 votes

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  16. Using Tardy Kiosk for In/Out Tracking or Students

    Would like to be able to set 2 different codes on 2 different Tardy Kiosk machines to be able to track the in/out of students in a school day. Would then like to be able to run a report to automatically change codes to PIMS reporting codes at day end. Currently with only 1 code allowed we cannot determine who is coming into the building or who is leaving. This information is essential for attendance processing. At this time can only code 1 code on tardy kiosk even though 2 machines are being used. Need the ability to code 2…

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  17. Add Transcript As Option for Student Family Access

    The goal is to provide students with quick access to information regarding when and where transcripts have been sent. The intention of this RFE is to free the school counselors of the majority of student requests for this information and to provide the requested information to students as soon as the information is entered into Skyward. The negative impact is students making multiple trips to the counselors' offices to check on the status of their transcript requests. Add transcript as an entity configuration option for students and family.

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  18. End date for all programs

    When a student is withdrawn from the school/district it would be great if that date would automatically be the end date for all programs the student is in--GT, ESL, Special Ed, etc.

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  19. Add 'In Time' to Entry by Date Screen

    We use the Entry by Date screen to monitor our attendance throughout the day. We also use the Tardy Kiosk. We are constantly opening student entries (Edit) to view their In Time. Adding the In Time would really improve efficiency of this browse.

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  20. Mail merge in message center

    It would be great if you could have merge tags that could be used to personalize messages sent through Message Center.

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