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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add option to “Link Industry Cert ID to course 0000000” to the “Mass Change Class Roll Worksheet Data” utility template

    It will be very helpful to have the option to “Link Industry Cert ID to course 0000000” added to the “Mass Change Class Roll Worksheet Data” utility template. We use the “Mass Change Class Roll Worksheet Data” utility to mass populate the Industry Certifications/Digital Tools with an “F” Fail outcome using a processing list. The “Link Industry Cert ID to course 0000000” option is already available in the Career/Tech Ed>Industry Certs when adding Digital Tool records manually for the elementary grades. The Digital Tools for elementary grades are reported under course 0000000 only, we are adding hundreds of Digital Tools…

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  2. Add the Arena Schedule Type to Data Mining and Skybuild

    Please add to Data Mining and Skybuild the Arena Scheduling Type code field (see screenshot) from the Student CY Scheduling > Office / Current Schedule / Student Schedule Generation / Entry by Student, which is displayed on the very right side of the data line.

    8 votes

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  3. Email Notification for Student Name Change

    When students have been adopted and last name or other names change, send out an email notice so that those who work with the student are aware of the change. If there could also be a way to type in the 'old' name and be redirected to the 'new' name, that would be very helpful as well.

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  4. Determining Official Electronic Signature

    Our state food service department requires that we be able to show that applications were correctly determined, the date of the determination and the signature of the determining official. It would be very convenient if this were available in Skyward so we would not have to print out each application. In a district of almost 8000 students that's a lot of applications!

    8 votes

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  5. Print Online Applications on 2 Pages instead of 3.

    We have to print out online applications for auditors, food service people, etc. The print area is set so that it prints 3 pages and takes a lot of space in notebooks, additional paper, etc. We would like to see the print area reformatted so that it would print on 2 pages (or one page front and back). It looks like it would be simple to remove the page break prior to Step 4 and include it on page 1. Thank you!

    8 votes

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  6. Attendance comment report

    The Attendance Comment Report is used by our elementary school. But instead of homeroom number, it would be more helpful to have homeroom teacher and student grade on this report. The sort by Date/Student doesn't even have HR number. We would love for HR teacher and grade level to be a choice on this report.

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  7. A module that would allow schools to print ID cards using a created template.

    The ability to upload a created template into Skyward where we can print student ID's (including creating a bar code).

    Unless there is already the ability that I do not know about.

    8 votes

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  8. A report for grades that shows the number of courses failed by grade level and to be able to compare between 2 school years.

    A report in Skyward that shows the number of courses failed by grade level? By course? I'm not looking for specific names. I need to be able to compare those numbers between last year and this year.
    Specifically comparing quarters from year to year (T1, T2, T3, T4)
    and semester Fall FIN and Spring FIN

    8 votes

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  9. Message Center Individual Email

    In the virtual world we currently now all live in we have found a need to be able to complete mail merge letters with select information that just applies to that individual and we then want to be able to send this information via email to students and/or guardians. Like a process where I can pick students I want and attach a document that only applies to them and send it to them individually from a list. EX: Class list that would supply individual students with their login information and password for a project specific to them

    8 votes

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  10. Add a checkbox that could be unchecked if the alternate teacher should not be reported on the DOE-CP.

    We have to add staff as an alternate teacher on a class meet for various reasons: para responsible for taking attendance, substitute teachers who need access to digital resources, other staff members and/or teachers needing access to digital resources. When pulling data for the DOE-Certified Positions, all staff members who are added to the meet appear on the report. A checkbox that could be unchecked when the staff member or teacher should not be pulled on the CP would prevent them from appearing on the report and prevent all the "missing responsibility code" errors that appear on the DOE-CP report.…

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  11. Automatic Email Setup when Fee Activity Changes (in Fee management configuration)

    We currently use the automated emails for new fees by bill code. The problem is that we cannot configure what the emails say by entity. It would be great if you can configure this by entity and not district wide only.

    8 votes

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  12. Transcripts posted to portfolio

    It would be nice if transcripts could be posted to the portfolio tab the same way report cards do.

    8 votes

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  13. Add FS Application and all other options to NSOE the same as they are available in Online Registration

    Add FS Application and all other options available in Online Registration to NSOE

    It would make so much more sense and save so much time and extra hassle for parents and staff to have the same options available for new students enrolling in the district as the students that e-enroll each year.

    Once we have a parent registering their new student(s) we want them to be able to do everything needed to register at that time. We may not get the parent to go back on and complete the rest of the registration process which includes important steps such as…

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  14. Function to be able to import teacher recommendations into course requests for future scheduling

    Teachers are able to put in recommendations for what class a student should be placed into the following school year. As a counselor making schedules, it would be very helpful it we could import these recommendations into the students' course requests so we don't have to do this by hand. It would save so much time and be very helpful!

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  15. Report for grades not transferred in by teachers

    Due to Covid-19 and the massive amount of students changing their courses due to changes in enrollment from brick-and-mortar to virtual and then back. We are unable to keep up with monitoring the teachers transferring grades into the new course without a report to aid the Administrators that flags the teachers who are not transferring grades. This is resulting in massive amounts of grade changes and corrections and reprinting of report cards. This issue is based on the process that Skyward has put in place to have teachers manually transfer grades for students to calculate Final and Semester. With this…

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  16. Please add staff Photo ID number to Skybuild Export Builder.

    It is becoming a more and more common requirement for data sources. It would help to just use the number as a unique identifier, or at the very least, as a source to match up to other sources via staff ID numbers.

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  17. Mass Assign SAT/ACT/TSIA Reimbursement

    In Texas we are required to indicate students for whom we have received reimbursement from the State for an SAT/ACT/TSIA exam. That needs to be a field that we can mass assign so we are able to quickly add that notification when we receive our school day test scores. Currently, you have to go into each individual student and add the indicator.

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  18. Consecutive Attendance Days Report

    Add the option for Today - # Days to the Consecutive Attendance day Report so it can be scheduled as a daily task to send to Principal. We have 13 schools and running it daily for each school is very time consuming. I was hoping to schedule tasks.

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  19. Communication to families

    I would like to see an option for parents to select their perferred way of communicating with the school. E-mail, phone, text, etc.

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  20. NSOE change field name of SSN to Student's SSN

    Could you change the field Social Security Number to Student's Social Security Number? It's right under Mom's Maiden Name and often our parents enter their SSN instead of the student's SSN. That would help with confusion.

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