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Student Management Suite

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  1. 9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  2. More filters on data mining to exclude

    It would be nice if we could exclude with a click of the button. For example, if I want all my language minority students, then I could say "not like English" and I would get all the students with another language than English. It would be a very convenient and easy to understand feature. Thanks!

    9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  3. class roster report add guardian email to details to print

    Adding the option to print guardian email on the Class Roster Report under Office\Current Scheduling\Reports.

    9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Scheduling  ·  Admin →
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  4. Parent conference confirmation emails - include guardian phone number field

    With COVID making conferences virtual instead of in person, our conference scheduler will be setting up scheduled phone calls. It would be very helpful to be able to include the parent/guardian phone number in the confirmation email to confirm that as the contact number.

    9 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Conferences  ·  Admin →
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  5. skylert attendance export (COVID related enhancement)

    With distance learning we need the ability to pull the Skylert attendance export for the previous day's absences. We allow students to work throughout the day so teachers can adjust attendance the following morning. We'd like to continue using our automated attendance calls via School Messenger but have them turned off because there is no option from this area (WS\AD\SL) to run the export on the previous day. Please add a field that would allow us to select the previous day.

    9 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  6. Academic Area report

    Our secondary schools have transitioned to standards based gradebooks. It would be helpful to have a report that would list the academic area and the courses assigned. We had to manually go through each academic area to make sure each one of our courses was assigned to an area. What could have been done in a matter of minutes with a report that could be exported to Excel, ended up taking 16 hours to go through one by one at each secondary school.

    9 votes

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  7. Star Time and End Time for On Line Features

    Hello:

    It would extremely helpful if along with the date for On Line Registrationa and On Line Forms, if there would be a start and stop TIME as well. There is some confusion when choosing the dates as to what time the on line applications will actually start and end or if an administrator wants the application "turned on" per se at 2:00 today and end on Friday at 4:00PM - we are are not able to manage those time requests.

    Please advise.
    Thank you!
    Leonita Loomans
    WBSD

    9 votes

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  8. Edit for parents in new student enrollment

    Currently parents are unable to access forms if they have accidentally hit submit. Is there any way Skyward could add an Edit Button so parents could have access to make changes or add information??

    9 votes

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  9. Skybuild and Data Mining date ranges

    It would be a great time saver to include the option of 'current year' when building skybuild or data mining reports that run every year. Every summer, we have to edit each report to change either the school year or date range for the report to run based on the current school year.

    9 votes

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  10. A Parent/Guardian communication log for each individual student

    With school being permanently closed for the rest of the year, it would really be helpful to have a centralized communication log. Our district is working together to ensure everyone has the most updated information which requires school administrators, office staff, counselors, Deans IT support staff, Special Education staff and coaches in addition to teachers who are in constant communication with parents/guardians to somehow document the date, time, subject of the communication, who they spoke with and more detailed notes field if needed. This needs to be attached to each individual student not as a family note. If the setup…

    9 votes

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  11. Message Center - One per Student

    Sometimes a teacher has a student in more than one class, please add the option to only send "One message per student" when multiple classes are chosen to receive a message.

    9 votes

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  12. Other Name Field Added to the Medical Areas

    All medical input fields should contain the Other Name field. Example, Student > Student Profile you can customize the line to add "Other Name" field. On the Office > Health records > Student Profile and "Other Name" field is not available on the customize line. Add to medical fields: Health Office Visit, Entry by Date, Office Visit add, etc. any input screen a nurse would work in so they can see the students' other name when working in the file. Other Name field should be close to or under the field of student name.

    9 votes

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  13. Send Auto Emails to ALL F1 P/G in NSOE

    We feel that ALL Family 1 Parent/Guardians should receive ANY email that goes out from NSOE.

    We discovered, by accident, that in NSOE, only the 1st Parent listed for the family will receive auto emails. This could be the email that is generated after they submit their application, or an email they might receive if an application is denied. If there is no email listed for the 1st Parent, they will not receive anything, EVEN IF there is an email listed for the 2nd Parent.

    Skyward has indicated that this is "by design"; please vote to get this changed ASAP.…

    9 votes

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  14. WS\OF\AT\PS\UT\UY

    The Update Attendance History YTD Totals utility (WS\OF\AT\PS\UT\UY) does not allow updating or cloning from year to year. You cannot update it for a new year or clone it.
    This means the utility and scheduled task must be recreated every school year, for every entity. This is not practical, especially for large districts.

    9 votes

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  15. Attendance letter template assign to a list of students without scheduling the letters

    We have our scheduled attendance letter templates set up to create and send a letter to parents once a student reaches a threshold of six unexcused absences. This letter states that the parent will need to report to the school for a mandatory conference at a set date and time to discuss their student's truancy issues and what can be done to resolve them. However, some of these parents don't show up for this meeting and then those students are sent home with a letter stating that they are on an overnight suspension until his or her parent shows up…

    9 votes

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  16. Multiple email addresses for parents/guardians. Like a work and home.....

    Add option for multiple parental emails.....with a comma or semi colon in the family tab email field.

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  17. Time stamp field format in Custom Forms

    It would be great to have an actual time stamp field available when creating custom forms. Right now we use a text field and put in the ToolTip instructions to enter HH:MM AM/PM, but rarely is it entered correctly. This is a huge hindrance if we want to pull data out of the system for any sort of analysis. An field that automatically fixes the formatting (like the date field) would be extremely helpful.

    9 votes

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  18. Automated Email Notificaiton for Email Changes

    Our SpecEd Dept would like an option to get an automated email notification from Skyward when email addresses get changed- in particular for sped students. We already have the option for email notifications when names, addresses, and phone numbers are changed, but not for emails.

    9 votes

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  19. ed fi errors

    Create a new document with every ed-fi error and how to correct it in Skyward.

    9 votes

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  20. Make Skycode available for Educator Access Plus

    Would like to make the offense level mandatory on the teachers referral entry screen but Skycode is not available in this area.

    9 votes

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