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Student Management Suite

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  1. On line Registration - Completion Status

    Our district nurses would like to know if there is a way to flag the On-Line Registration for when guardians complete the process but then actually go back in and make additional changes - especially to health records but this would be helpful as well for all staff so that they are aware that additional changes have been made. Or is it possible once the on-line registration is successfully completed guardians are then locked out or have a view only access to the on-line registration information with a not stating Your On-Line Registration has been completed. For additional changes to…

    8 votes

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  2. Auto-Email for Online Registration Completed

    We'd like to have an auto-email option that would automatically notify all family contacts for a student when the online registration process has been completed. This would notify the parents that the task is completed so they wouldn't need to go into Family Access to view the forms to see if it's complete. This also would notify Family 2 contacts (which in some instances are more diligent about making sure the tasks are getting done) that the expected task has been completed.

    8 votes

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  3. Health Restrictions Tab

    Under Office- Health Records- Student Profile

    A tab to the left for RESTRICTIONS that will end up on the All Health List.

    Would need to be able to enter a date, a restriction (No PE, walking only, etc) and also a Release to all activities....it would be great if the Restriction and Release to activities would pop up on the All Health list for a quick look as to if a student is or is not released or restricted.

    Also a tab to download their restriction/release form. We currently keep a paper file on hand. We tried just downloading the…

    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Health  ·  Admin →
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  4. • Add the User Defined option to the Curriculum Master Report

    Add the User Defined option to the Curriculum Master Report (WS\OF\CA\CM\RE) to allow users to add helpful information such as service ID's. Service ID's are a critical part of the Texas accountability and reporting system and should be easily available in reports.

    8 votes

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  5. Add Teacher License number as a field to data mine under schedule

    We have to create student schedule reports to export into other software and there isn't a TLN field to select in the CY or NY Schedule options. Mapping students with teacher names is difficult.

    8 votes

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  6. Stop auto entering 9th grade entry dates

    When a new student enrolls in grade 9-12, Skyward is automatically entering the enrollment date as the 9th grade entry date. We have to look at the previous school's records to determine when the student entered 9th grade for the first time and manually change it in Skyward anyway because all students in grades 10-12, and some in grade 9 who are repeating, have a different 9th grade entry date than the enrollment date. The auto population causes issues because if the data entry person forgets to make the change, there is no way to know that a bad date…

    8 votes

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  7. Add option to record more than one grade level within Staff Entity Maintenance

    We have several staff members (Art, PE, Music, etc.) who teach courses at multiple grade levels, however, the staff entity maintenance screen allows only one grade level to be selected. Ideally, this would allow for entry of more than one grade level in this screen as well as the option to select a default grade level.

    8 votes

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  8. Ability to import Sports Physical field

    We were able to import in a list of students who had physicals but we had to go into each record manually and click the Sports Physical box. This field was not available for import through Skybuild. Please add this field so that it can be imported or at the very least a utility that can mass update via a processing list.

    8 votes

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  9. Distinguishing "missing" from "pending" grades

    In Skyward, if a teacher enters an assignment but does not instantly post the grade (given that the due date has been entered accurately), the student/parent dashboard lists the assignment at the top of the page as "missing." However, if I enter an assignment and am in the process of grading it, I need Skyward NOT to communicate incorrect things to parents/students. Please change that. There is a spot for me to mark a grade as "missing" as I enter grades for students who failed to submit a particular assignment. This must be distinguishable from a pending grade for which…

    8 votes

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  10. Add Prompt to Update Students Tied to Incident

    When users attempt to edit an Offense Code for students tied to an Incident there is no option to change the code whether it's temporary or inaccurate. Skyward misleads the users by sending them to the Offense Code screen to select a different code. The program should allow for updating all students tied to the Incident when the Configuration setting to force students to have the same Offense code is engaged. The prompt allows a user to make the change or back out of the change and should confirm which students are updated if the user proceeds to make the…

    8 votes

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  11. View Course Long Description

    We would like the option to view the course long description in the course master. Our schools like this course name better than the short description.

    Either always see the long description or have a filter option to show the course long description.

    8 votes

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  12. Add an import for RTI

    Add a SkyBuild import interface for RTI data.

    8 votes

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  13. Add Processing List Option to Student Selection

    It would be beneficial to have an option to choose students in the student selection area from a processing list when using the Mass Change Categories utility. This option is already available in the Add/End/Delete Special Programs utility. The concept is the same and some districts (including ours) need to use categories for a large number of students. Selecting students individually would be too time consuming and would defeat the purpose of even using a category.
    Copy the programming used for the Add End or Delete Special Programs utility to allow the use of processing lists in the student selection…

    8 votes

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  14. E/W History in Skybuild

    Currently Skybuild only allows the current E/W recod to be exported. We would like the option of including historical E/W records as well. The problem is if one record was open yesterday but today that record was closed and a new one was opened the proper withdrawal information for the previous record is never transmitted.
    If it were possible to include E/W History in Skybuild we could export all E/W records for the year including their proper withdrawal dates and codes. Otherwise the recipient system will just get the new record and have to guess as to what values to…

    8 votes

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  15. Different rights for different parents

    In some cases we have a parent who has educational rights but has a protective order from knowing where mom/child live. By law we have to give parent rights to kids grades but not where he/she lives guardians names registration info etc. Skyward really needs to add a code of some sort that ONLY gives that member of the family rights to the GRADES tab not attendance not student info nothing else!!!!

    8 votes

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  16. Add Student Grad/Grad Year to Report

    Our Principals rely heavily on the Chronic Attendance Report. It would be very helpful for this report to include student grade level/grad year and/or the ability to sort by grade/grad year. It would also be helpful if a range of percentages could be entered and only those students print. I currently have to print it for each grade level put it in Excel and delete the students with less than 10% absent.

    8 votes

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  17. Add ACC INSTR in Special Programs to the Mass Add/End Utilities

    Please add the ACC INSTR (for accelerated instruction) option in Special Programs to the Mass Add and End Utilities for Special Programs. I've looked and ACC INSTR is not an option in either location in the Mass Add or End utilities. Thank you.

    7 votes

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  18. Option to include future transactions in graduation requirement progress

    Our district uses future transactions to drop or add a course at term or semester break because the ability to edit the terms on courses creates many other issues with our third party exports, state reporting for membership, attendance, etc. However, when future transactions are used, a course that will be added or dropped is not included in a student's graduation requirements. This makes it difficult to determine which students are actually deficient in credit for graduation. It would be great to have the option to include course credit in the graduation requirements when the course will be added or…

    7 votes

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  19. Service call emails

    It would be helpful if service call emails contained the conversation. Currently, if there have been a few responses it can be difficult to remember the context for the last answer given by support.

    7 votes

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  20. Pop-up Window for required Doctor's Note while entering Attendance

    If a student is flagged "Required" Doctor's Note" it would be nice if there was a pop-up or some form of indicator that would not allow an excused attendance to be entered without that Required Doctor's Note either in an attachment form or even as fields that have to be entered. Such fields could be the date listed on the Doctor's Note along with the Doctor's name maybe even a free-form comment field in case anything needed to be entered in regards to said note.

    Also to go along with this feature it would be nice if a report could…

    7 votes

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