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Student Management Suite

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  1. message center ranges

    Please add Next Year status as one of the range options when using Message Center by Range. This is helpful so that we don't send messages about next year information when we already know they will not be attending the district next school year. I know we can create a processing list and do it that way, but that is way more cumbersome for the end user.

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  2. Student Graduation Date Mass Create/Change Utility - Use Processing List

    We have different groups of students that will graduate on different dates. It would be helpful if we could run this utility using a processing list.

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  3. RTI Referral Report - Advanced Custom Form

    Teachers have the ability to print RTI Referral Reports and include custom forms that were part of the process. When they print the Referral Report and include custom forms, the custom forms print in HTML format. The result is a very long list of fields that wastes a lot of paper.

    Please allow the Advanced Custom Form to print as it was designed so that teachers can view the information in the same manner in which it was entered.

    11 votes

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  4. EA+ Portfolio access

    It would be great if we could limit which portfolio attachment types are visible in Teacher access. Right now it is all or none.

    For students and families, we can pick and choose which ones show to parents or students by attachment type.

    It would be helpful to be able to do this setup by building as well. Thanks, Lisa

    11 votes

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  5. Blended Families

    Would like an option to have 50/50 families in Skyward instead of Family 1 and Family 2. When doing a mailing, sometimes you only want actual custodial families to get the info, so a Family 2 may not be appropriate. And then there are other times when you want a custodial parent to get the info, but if you are only mailing to family 1, that family won't get it. The family setup is not real conducive to the reality of family situations that we deal with.

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  6. Custom Report Card Colors and background

    Currently there are no options for changing the colors used for shading in the custom report cards. Report cards could be improved if shading is allowed in more than one color and options to change color with RGB code or HEXA-Decimal code. I would like to see changing colors / backgrounds option of any boxes / object in custom report cards.

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  7. Elementary A/B Honor Roll Report

    Elementary does not use GPA. It would be great if there was a report showing which students have all A's or B's in the core subjects (could prompt for course #'s?). Using the selected grades report now, but if the student has 1 A in 1 subject he will appear on the report and that would not qualify him as a A or B honor roll student.

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  8. Deleting data from custom forms.

    We need a utility that deletes data from all Custom Forms for every new school year instead of cloning the custom forms. Cloning a custom form can break any process that feeds from these forms.

    11 votes

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  9. Different color alert notifications

    System alerts with different colors for different categories. For example, Red for Health, Blue for custody.

    11 votes

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  10. Develop Skyward to have the same communication capability with parents that Remind has.

    Teachers need to communicate with parents and have to copy Skyward demo data into Remind. Could Skyward develop the same type of communication tool for teachers?

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  11. Utility to mass delete alternates

    When we decide not to run a course it is easy to mass delete requests. It would be amazing to have that option so the course isn't still sitting in their alternates.

    11 votes

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  12. Texas - Need a CTE 2 coherent sequence coding utility for students

    Please create a Texas CTE student coherence sequence coding utility. Texas allows us to code students as a "2" if they have a 4 year plan to take a coherent sequence of 2 or more CTE courses for 3 or more credits and they are enrolled in or have completed a semester of courses that are part of their coherent sequence. All of these elements are easily identified in Skyward by looking at schedules, 4 year plans, endorsement pathways, courses, and credits. However, our CTE staff have to spend hours paging through 4 year plans to identify students.

    We should…

    11 votes

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  13. Add column with name of submitting person

    We would like to have the name of the person who actually submitted the FS application added to the Pseudo Applications screen. As it stands now anyone in the family can submit the FS application but when you go to find the application you have to know the primary guardian name of the family - that is the name that appears. When our auditors come I have to give them a cheat sheet that has student names names of primary guardians and also names of the other guardians in the family so they can find the applications they are looking…

    11 votes

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  14. attendance attachment

    I would like to be able to scan and attach Dr. notes to individual students under attendance. It would be an easier way to track excused absences.

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  15. Staff Locator Should Include the Course Code as well as a Link to View the Class Roster

    Would like to see the course code and section number under Student/Staff Locator (currently it only shows the section number) and be able to click on the section to view the class roster. This would be great for people who only know the teacher's name or don't have access to the Course or Section Masters.

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  16. Data mine Credits Earned

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

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  17. 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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  18. 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.

    11 votes

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  19. 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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  20. 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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