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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

    8 votes

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  6. 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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  7. 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.

    8 votes

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  8. Automatic email to parents to clear unexcused absences

    It would be extremely helpful to have an automatic email go out to parents if an absence has not been excused within a week of their absence. I understand there is an email option parents can sign up for in Family Access but many of our parents don't use this.

    8 votes

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  9. Mass update KELPA tests by Program Participation Code-KANSAS St Reporting

    It would be great if we could mass code by participation code in the Mass Update Assessments for KELPA testing. There are 2 different test codes depending on the Program Participation level and it's a pain to mass code all students with the same code and then have to adjust a few hundred students who need the other code even using a process list.

    8 votes

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  10. Create Ability to Automatically Generate Letters for Various Reasons

    We would appreciate the ability to generate letters for various reasons that will work like the automated attendance letters. Being able to pull students for various demographic reasons would be ideal.

    8 votes

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  11. Security to allow user to Administer Medications without being able to Add additional medications

    Our school nurses enter the medication in the Medication tab, but trained clerical and paras may administer the medication. Currently I cannot set security to allow a user to administer medication without allowing them access to add additional medication. We would like the ability to set security so only nurses can add, while trained users can administer.

    8 votes

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  12. Withdrawal Form

    We would like to be able to customize the student withdrawal form. We need to add some fields to the form in order for it to be useful. There are also some areas that are not pertinent.

    8 votes

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  13. Add RTI Interventions to Skybuild Export

    We would like the ability to export student RTI information specifically interventions with Skybuild. This will allow a teacher to enter an intervention for a specific program in EA+ and then nightly the students will be exported and populated into those systems.

    8 votes

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  14. During rollover maintain the placements in IEP's and update the dates

    The placements must be able to update the placements to the new year at rollover and update the date as the first day of school and the last day of the IEP or the last day of school. We have doing those one by one by hand. I am sure there is a utility, but was afraid to run the utility.

    8 votes

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  15. Electronic Application

    Make the electronic Application less confusing when it comes to loading family members into the allowed spaces. Children in the top. Adults ONLY in the bottom. Do not allow them to duplicate names! Have an option to "add" more students. We have some families who are unable to submit it electronically due to having more kids in the household then spaces on form.

    Make it so their errors are highlighted before they are allowed to move onto the next screen. Many do no see the errors listed at the top of the final page. I have tons of applications just…

    8 votes

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  16. Print Students schedules from Skyward like they do from Student Acess

    Schedules print from Student and Family Access in a very easy to read format, especially for complex day rotations. We would like to see that type of schedule format available from Current Scheduling, Reports, Student Schedules. We have complex day rotations at our Middle School, especially our 6th grade classes with both Trimester, and Year Long Classes that meet different days throughout the week, sometimes one day, some times two days, sometime 6 days. The Student Access schedule lays it out in a very readable format, much better than the one available in the Current Scheduling reports. However we cannot…

    8 votes

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  18. Need ability to default for new families check boxes for Receive Report Cards, Print Hard Copy Report Cards and Receive Forms.

    Need ability to default for new families check boxes for Receive Report Cards, Print Hard Copy Report Cards and Receive Forms.

    We can do so for custodial and pickup, but not for the report card stuff.

    We spend lots of time double checking why someone didn't get a mailing or a report card due to a box being left unchecked by accident.

    I know there are mass assign options, but we want the Receive Hard Copy of report cards to be blank to begin with and parents can change within online registration if they really want a copy mailed to…

    8 votes

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  19. Creating a Teacher Aide (TA) button to add a student to a section roster as a TA w/o having to create a new TA section

    Creating TA specific sections of a course allows us to keep track of specific TA sections of a course for attendance, reports, etc. However it causes us to have many sections to have to be created for just one single student in this position, thus creating a large, unwieldy section master.

    Could a TA button be added to scheduling so that any student enrolled in an existing section could be made a TA (shows on teacher roster as such and changes grading to P/F) by just clicking the button? We had this with a previous SIS that we used and…

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  20. Stop Ala Carte Purchase option enabled by parents on Skyward Family Access

    This is a great option, however, the message is confusing in POS. Instead of saying " A Permanent Stop Purchase option is set for STUDENT NAME," can it read "A Permanent Stop Ala Carte Purchase option is set for STUDENT NAME?

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