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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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.

    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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.…

    8 votes

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  5. 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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  6. 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…

    8 votes

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  7. 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!

    8 votes

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  8. 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.

    8 votes

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  9. 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.

    8 votes

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  10. 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.

    8 votes

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  11. 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.

    8 votes

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  12. 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.

    8 votes

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  13. Add a Language of communication option

    Offer Language of communication option for Parents to choose.
    English or Spanish or both
    Also to be used in Custom Standard based report cards.

    8 votes

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  14. Attendance Alert

    It would be beneficial to have the ability to get an auto email or some kind of alert if a student is present the 1st period of the day and then is marked absent the next period.

    8 votes

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  15. IEP ACCOMMODATION FIELDS THAT CAN BE PULLED INTO REPORTS NEEDED FOR IEP FORMS

    For several years every time we get ready for standardized testing, we have to manually go through IEP's because there is no way to pull the accommodations for each student that has an IEP or 504 plan. Within the IEP, we list the accommodations for testing, however that is not a field that can be data mined nor is it a field that named to pull on any other report.

    It would be great to modify the IEP form to allow the fields to be pulled into reports and data mined, especially for accommodations for testing, but also for goals…

    8 votes

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  16. Would like to see MOI available to view in Family Access.

    Parents would be able to know how the student is coded in our system.

    8 votes

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  17. Add filter for Staff Wellness Screening to show only Active Staff

    Add filter for Staff Wellness Screening to show only Active Staff on District 000 entity.

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  18. Data Mining Oldest Only

    When running a data miniing report, is there a way to get the report to pull just one record for each family (Family 1 and Family 2). We need to run an address report for district students (KG-12th grade) for Families 1 & 2 but we only want one record per family. So basically add an Oldest/Only button or feature to Data Mining Reports.

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  19. Positive Attendance Button through Student Access

    With the current Pandemic and schools closing to go virtual at any time, it would be extremely helpful if we can have a button, by student by class, where a student can check in that they are present. This button should be only available when the district says activate it or if the entity is virtual. The option to activate it for students who are virtual but the school is not should also be available when the student is in the same class. We may have a situation where a student is doing virtual, via camera or other devices, within…

    8 votes

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  20. Data Mine Previous School and Previous District fields

    The fields "Previous School" and "Previous District" located under the School Path tab, are not available in data mining. We have families fill this information out and there is no way to data mine it out to use or analyze. It would be extremely helpful to be able to data mine out these two fields. I would like to use them to verify new KG students have the correct entry codes for state reporting.

    8 votes

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