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Student Management Suite

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  1. Hide Address 2 from Online Registration

    It would be helpful if we could hide address 2 from the online registration module. Currently, the only options we can hid are primary address and mailing address. Address 2 shows under the family address section in online registration and families are getting confused and entering grandparent addresses and second homes.

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  2. Automated e-mail for addition or change of indicator

    It would be helpful to set up an automated e-mail that would be triggered when a student indicator is added or changed. For example, when a Parental Consent indicator is added or edited an e-mail would go to the teachers of the student and the administrators.

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  3. OTHER ID ON MY STUDENT LIST IN GRADEBOOOK

    In gradebook, on the MY STUDENTS list you cannot see the Student ID/Other ID. We think it would be beneficial to have this to ensure FERPA when discussing a student with a teacher. They rarely know the other ID that we us so frequently on the SMS side. It currently can only be seen if selected inside a course gradebook.

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  4. Setting a time limit for teacher referral submission

    We need a way that we can limit how many days prior to discipline referral can get entered. We want to lime the teachers from entering a discipline record prior to 3 days. If today is the 15th, we do not want them to enter a record for the 10th.

    11 votes

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  5. EA+ - Ability for teachers to search students by Other ID in gradebooks (My Students)

    EA+ - Teachers receive emails regarding students by using the other ID, instead of student names to keep things confidential.

    In all other areas of Skyward, the other ID can be used to look up students. Is it possible to have a search option or display the students other ID in EA+ Teacher Gradebooks > My Students that will allow this?

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  6. Ability to remove punctuation from names when creating usernames/emails

    On the Automatically Generate Logins and Passwords screens (PS\CA\SE\PS\CF\AU) we need the ability to remove any punctuation and spaces from all name parts (first, last, middle, namekey). Currently we can remove spaces from namekeys but not from first, middle, last, and we can't remove punctuation from any of them.

    We are using the "namekey with spaces removed" option for our usernames but currently have a vendor that won't accept emails with apostrophes, such as O'Neil. It would solve a lot of problems if Skyward could remove those when creating the usernames/email addresses.

    11 votes

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  7. Run Attendance Totals for Previous Years

    WS\ST\TB\AT\AT (Students > Student Profile > Attendance)
    It would be helpful if we could click on the Totals button and run attendance totals for previous years. Currently, we can only run it for the current year.

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  8. Option to use a Processing List for Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments

    We would like the option to use a Processing List when running the Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments.

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  9. Single Sign On Mobile App

    Please allow a "Sign in with SSO" button on the Skyward Mobile Apps for Android and iOS, so districts with SSO configured can allow that type of security on mobile apps as well as the web.

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    Started  ·  Jacob Kneser responded

    We are happy to announce that we are rewriting our mobile app to allow for single sign on support for SMS. The updated app is currently in beta testing and is expected to be delivered soon! We will post an other update here once it is released.

  10. Create Utility to Mass Add/Update Bill Codes

    Create a Utility to Mass Add or Update Bill Codes. Example: Our equipment damages accounts changed, so we have to manually update each Bill Code for each piece of IT equipment. Don't want to have to update every Bill Code with the same data. Instead be able to upload a file with the data to update or with all data to Add new codes.

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  11. NSOE - NY Enrollment Enable FA

    Hello:
    It would be extremely helpful if, after an NSOE application has been approved for NY (next school year) that the Family Access Account could also become active for that student prior to the year-end roll over. Guardians who apply via NSOE are granted access to FA however if the approval is for next year and they then log in FA during the current year, they get a message stating: "This user does not have access to Family/Student Access" which causes confusion for guardians who have an accepted application. Our district registrar has fielded numerous phone calls from guardians questioning…

    11 votes

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  12. Request Courses - Remove a "Selected Course" from the "Available Courses" column

    Once a course has been selected in the "Course Requests" for future scheduling please remove it from the "Available Courses". It causes confusion for some as they think there is a bug in the system and creates support calls. Logically, your "Selected Courses" should no longer be "Available Courses".

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  13. Option for New button to write to grade bucket

    We have a tremendous number of students changing classes due to current conditions. When teachers use the New button, we have to either repost grades or manually enter grades into grade buckets. It would be nice to have an entity level option that writes the transferred grades into grade buckets,

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  14. Requesting update to report in this path WS\OF\CA\GR\RE\SE?

    It would be helpful for this report to have the option to print the Student's Other ID on the report (not just the NameKey). The Other ID is a main id that counselors use when reviewing information about students on various other reports and documents.

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  15. Interactive Scheduling Board Display-Column 1/Row 1 Displays

    When looking at the Interactive Scheduling Board, the top row and the first column are repeated. It would be extremely if we can have the option to lock them, just like you can in Excel and they will scroll with you instead of repeating.

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  16. Be able to view scheduled conferences under student profile

    It would be great if a conference tab was added under student profile so that schools could see the scheduled conference without having to run a report or going to the staff table. Being able to schedule there would be helpful also.

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  17. 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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  18. Need to be able to populate attendance based on Student Wellness screener fails/blanks

    We need an attendance link/update utility between the wellness screen and the attendance screen. We already have a "failed screener" absence reason. We'd love to auto-update attendance as screener fails are entered with that code. That way a teacher who is taking attendance in any period can see if a screener-failed student is still present in class and ask them to head to the office/nurse to leave school.

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  19. New Student Online Enrollment check for matches an option to also change values for existing records

    New Student Online Enrollment check for matches an option to also change values for existing records. We have found that when checking for matches because a student is already existing registrars are getting frustrated guardians don't always fill out the form exactly right or the student was put in the system with missing information. For example on the NSOE application a parent is asked for a previous district and school. If the school chooses to use the existing student record in the system when choosing the matches the existing record doesn't have those fields the application can't be approved because…

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  20. Message Center - Favorite for quick access

    Teachers would like the ability to make the Message Center page a Favorite when logged into Educator Access Plus.
    Currently, they must navigate to each class first.

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