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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add Move Date as pre-defined field for address change automated email

    We have a very transient district and have many families that move and give us a future move date. When we put in a new address we have an automated email that goes out to our specific staff that need it. We would like to be able to enter in future moves so that our transportation director is aware and we would like to give him the date it will take place. When you are on the Student Profile > General > Addresses tab and select Move to New Home it asks you for a Move Date. We would like…

    9 votes

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  2. Educator Access Plus Secondary Gradebook Reports

    It would be great if we could run the reports in educator access plus under the secondary gradebook for past years and not just the current year. If there is a question on a grade for the transcript on a previous year, we have to log in as the teacher to access it. And if the teacher left the district, we have to make them active, log in and then make them inactive.

    9 votes

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  4. Career Plan - Additional options requested when printing the student career plan

    Would it be possible to have additional options when printing the Student Career Plan:
    1. Please include Counselors’ Name and Student ID to print at the top, just as the student name, alphakey, etc.
    2. Can the Declared Endorsement & Pathway be listed on the career plan report, up on the top of the page by the student name?
    3. Please allow to also sort by Subject Code when printing the career plan.
    4. Can we add to print “Course Type” that way we can see if the course was earned as DC, Summer School, Credit by Exam, Honors, AP…

    9 votes

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  5. Staff - Allow import of all fields

    The Staff screen has a lot of content. You all have the ability to send the screen to a csv file. There should be an opinion to input all the data the export provides. For example teacher certification ID. I.E. SC:3789852 Makes life easier during a first year transition as we are missing a lot of data and were told we can't provide an export again to have it uploaded.

    9 votes

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  6. Add ability to view only Active Students

    When building a processing list by campus it would be nice to view only active students. This having to go through ANY student ever enrolled in the campus is very time consuming. I believe this feature would speed up the process of building the processing name list.

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  7. Need to Be able to have 2 different codes

    Need to have 2 codes for tardy Kiosk. One generic code for tardy arriving and one generic code for leaving students. Skyward only provides 1 tardy kiosk code for entire district. We want to be able to track by entity and to have 2 machines with 2 different codes in entity. The positive attendance piece does not work for this as it resets with every attendance mod within the school day. We have students leaving all hours of the day and cannot have time reset every single period. The tardy kiosk will keep the time open all day so we…

    9 votes

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  8. Seating chart report - tweak

    It would be helpful if the Seating Chart Report to include teacher name next to the Course/Section.

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  9. Add Skylert to the Mobile App

    The goal of this RFE is to allow parents to update their Skylert information (especially to enter "Text Message" numbers)via the Skyward Mobile App. They currently have to do so via the web version of Family Access.

    Like many Skyward school districts we use School Messenger for our mass communication system (phone/email/SMS/CustomMobileApp/SocialMedia) and we deploy the Skylert Interface in Skyward so that parents can use their Family Access account to enter/update additional contact information especially Text Message numbers - By entering the Text Message numbers in Family Access/Skylert parents are opting in for text messages to be sent to them…

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  10. Would like to add a portfoilio attachments

    We would like to create portfolio attachments for Parent/Guardian IDs court documents birth certificates cum records etc. so that this information can be looked up under each student.
    We would like to be able to upload these documents to each portfolio tab created so they are readily available if needed by staff.

    9 votes

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  11. Customize Category Colors in gradebook

    Teachers using our secondary gradebook would like to be able to customize their category colors within their own gradebook. Currently, I can change the colors, but it would change them for the whole building and not everyone wants that. It would be useful if they could just do their own within their own gradebook.

    8 votes

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  12. attendance comment field

    Expand Comments field in Attendance tab to allow for more characters
    One of our schools suggested this field be expanded to allow for 100 characters. Some attendance they can't make because of the limit in characters.

    8 votes

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  13. Email Failed Notification User Specific- Message Center

    It would be very helpful if users could receive a notification if their email failed to send. Or users could see the status (pending, sent, error) of their specific email being sent in Message Center. Currently, there is only a district wide configuration which will send an email notification when any email fails to send. It would be helpful if users could see when their specific email failed so they do not have to wait on sysadmin or question whether the email went out successfully.

    8 votes

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  14. Make the family registration not show complete unless the school approves it.

    Make the family registration not show complete unless the school approves it.
    We have parents upload proof of residency in the registration process and they will upload anything to by pass it. I would like it to not show completion until we have seen the POR and approved it.

    8 votes

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  15. Missing assignments

    Add the teacher's name to the missing assignments feature that parents can sign up for. It lists the class/assisgnment but doesn't list the teacher.

    8 votes

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  16. message center staff groups

    It would be great have the ability to create groups of staff That could be selected to include with messages. Right now it involves adding all staff using additional recipients. That is cumbersome and prone to forgetting someone.

    8 votes

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  17. Add an Attachments Section to the Identity Tab

    It would be helpful if there was an attachment section in the Identity tab. This way, we could digitally store a scholar's birth certificate (which would display their legal name) somewhere more secure from other staff roles.

    8 votes

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  18. online registration

    In Online Registration add a checkbox for "Needing to make a family change". I know we need paperwork when a family change happens, but if we could make it that the family notifies us by checking that box so we can contact them instead of completing that step and verifying it, making us think no family change has happened or is needed.

    8 votes

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  19. In Future Scheduling, Request Processing to allow Multiple Course Requests of the Same Course

    We have students who take multiple courses of the same course in a year. For example, Advanced Ag Mechanics, Developmental Instruction, Online College, etc. When building their schedule, it would be great if it allowed you to request the class more than once. Since it doesn't you do get the desired accuracy out of Auto Scheduler.

    8 votes

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  20. Blank-out Student Search

    It would be beneficial to have the student fields blank-out when an attempt to search for a student using the Student Search yields no results. Currently the first alpha student in the system and their associated data displays. If a user is not paying attention, which can and does occur frequently in a large district, an incorrect student is updated.

    8 votes

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