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Student Management Suite

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  1. Data mine Credits Earned

    Would be helpful to be able to data mine the credits earned field

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  2. Vehicle information available for updates in Custom Forms or Online Registration

    We use online registration and when we sell a parking permit we need to have the student car information in the vehicle section under General in the Student Profile area. I would love to see the vehicle type, color and LP added to either the custom forms area or to the online registration area for updating directly by parents. At this time, we created a custom form but must export and import to have it viewable by our security using the mobile app when they are in the parking lot. If it is not in they must contact the office…

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  3. PEIMS - Special Programs closed at end of year and opened for new year (Rollover Process)

    I am currently new to this position and I have seen lots of PEIMS miscoding under special programs/AT RISK/SPED, etc. Since we report every year, I would hate to clean up historical data. Is there a way we can code these programs/fields on a year to year basis? I would love to see the ability to mass end all programs and mass open for new year during the end of year/rollover process.

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  4. Lease Expiration Date Field/Pop-up

    Need a Lease Expiration Date field that can be reported on data mined with ranges and checked as renewed.
    currently there is not a filed for entering in expiration dates and we need to be able to keep up with and gather this information from parents.

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  5. Display comments when application is not disabled

    We would like to be able to post informational comments in family access for parents or students to see under the various applications. However you can only use the comments feature if the application is disabled. Example would be explain how to read or interpret the test scores so when parents would understand the data posted in Skyward.
    We would like to be able to post informational comments in family access for parents or students to see under the various applications. However you can only use the comments feature if the application is disabled. Example would be explain how to…

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  6. Texas STAAR 3-8 Report

    The additional Texas STAAR EOC Report WS\OF\CA\TS\RE is a very useful report for all secondary campuses is there any updates that will address a similar report for STAAR 3-8 Exams. This will facilitate analysis of student test scores as they move from campus to campus and or target for tutoring. The negative impact is that we have to use a separate third party software to assist with the analysis of student score data.
    Standardized testing will always be in Texas this tool will facilitate the campus personal with score analysis and student placement

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  7. Default Assignment Display Options from District

    When creating a new assignment the display option for "Show Score As:" defaults to "Score". We need a way to make this default to "Variable Scale Point Value"? Preferably from the campus or district level.

    When creating a new assignment the display option for "Show Score As:" defaults to "Score". We need a way to make this default to "Variable Scale Point Value"? Preferably from the campus or district level.

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  8. Reset Tardy Counter on Tardy Kiosks

    We restart the count of tardies for students at the start of a new semester so their sem 1 tardies don't carry into sem 2. They all start from 0 in the new semester. The Tardy Kiosk receipt that is printed still shows a cumulative count for the school year. Please consider adding the functionality of being able to reset the counter on the Tardy Kiosks at the end of a semester.

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    2 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  9. "daily register"

    on the DAILY REGISTER and also on the Voc Ed Contact Hours Utility, add RANGES as a way to exclude classes ... and also add a way to add the begin / end dates without entering each one .......... our DAEP is a program (not its own campus) and I have to exclude our DAEP sections for CTE classes i.e. no contact hours for these sections and we have two large high schools and it is SOOO PAINFUL to set this up in these two areas ... and eventually I had to stop running it under 000 because the system…

    10 votes

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  10. Perfect Attendance Report - Absence Occurrence Report

    Currently, we can only pull Attendance Occurrence Report for 1 year at a time. I would like to run a Perfect Attendance Report for multiple years.

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  11. Survey Error Total Report Should be exportable to Excel

    State reporting reports should be excel compatible due to large amounts of data that needs analyzing. The totals report especially. Dumping to excel takes cleanup because of the extra page titles and no spaces between formats. All reports should be Excel compatible as it is the way to analyse data easily.

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  12. Add asterisk next to Identity tab name to indicate student has had a name change entered, as is done under Special Programs

    To help quickly flag students who have had an alternate name entered on the Identify tab, could an asterisk be added to the left of the Identity label? This is currently done for Special Programs.

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  13. Attachments in Online Registration

    2 suggestions for attachments in Online Registration:
    1. Allow for some attachments to be required and others to be optional
    2. Allow an attachment to be uploaded for a family so that it applies to all students in the family.

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  14. Suspension time required

    It would be helpful if the "Total Time" field could be required when entering a suspension. Sometimes our admin forget to indicate how many hours or days a student must serve for a suspension. Thank you!

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  15. Add the Student State ID to the student browse

    Can the Student State ID be added to the student browse?

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  16. Custom Forms - allow form

    I think it would be very helpful to have an option that allows an Online Form posted in Family Access to automatically close after a parent submits it. Otherwise it is possible for parents to go back and edit what they have already done, and depending on the form this is very hard to try to manage. There are definitely times when you only want the parent to complete the form once. If the system can't automatically close the form once completed, perhaps an option can be built in to allow a processing list to be used to EXCLUDE students.…

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  17. Allow the family to enter both Parents on one screen. Many times only one guardain gets entered in the enrollment process.

    It makes more sense to me to be able to add both guardians in one screen instead of having to click a button to add a second guardian to a family. Most people do not understand how the family set up is so they fill in one parent and move to the next step. We spend a lot of time following up with parents because they do not take the time to read the buttons.

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  18. Home Language Survey

    Please add the Home Language Survey data from the Special Programs area to the Data Mining area so it can be reported on.

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  19. NSOE - Unsubmitted Application Report

    Hello:

    Our District would like to request an "Unsubmitted Application Report" in the NSOE module. This would be extremely helpful for when guardians start an application and "think" they have finished it but actually have not. We had a guardian who started an application in February but didn't complete some of the custom forms but still thought he had completed the application. He finally stopped in at the school in May to find out why the application was not approved when it was never submitted so we did not know about the enrollment. How can we create an "Unsubmitted Application…

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  20. Addition of identifying information for siblings

    It would be a great asset if the siblings that are listed in the family tab could be identified with grade level and entity. This has become a great need during the Covid-19 situation. When a student has been exposed, one entity has to reach out to the other schools to let them know the siblings may be required to quaratine as well. Nurses usually have access only to their specific students and can't see what entity the siblings are tied to in order to make contact.

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