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Student Management Suite

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  1. Increase the Font size on the Vaccination Report for faxes

    The font on the Vaccination Report needs to be larger so it is legible when faxed to other schools. Now it cannot be read in a fax because the font is too small. If necessary to accommodate a larger font, it can be made landscape instead of portrait.

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  2. Tardy Kiosk and In/Out minutes for state of IL

    The check in times on the Tardy kiosk are not saved in the same place as the in/out minutes used for IL state ADA reporting. I know the state has changed lots of attendance requirements, but many districts are continuing with the ADA standards for attendance.

    Since these are 2 different fields, it still requires staff to go into each student's record to input the check in time.

    If there could be an option to have the tardy kiosk check in times tied to the in/out minutes for IL state reporting, I think more districts would use it.

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    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  3. NY registration and NY Grad Year Fee's

    When registering for NY, within the CY, the system should look at which year the application is being processed and apply those grad year fee's. Currently, the system only looks at the CY grad year fee's, which are different for our NY fee's, and applies CY grad year fee's for an application that has been approved for NY.

    This is not work around this except running a mass add fee daily and since this is a processing utility, it can not be scheduled. I have to physically go into 10 schools each day, re-create the ranges and set up the…

    8 votes

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  4. Add Comments Field to Attendance in Secondary GB

    Add a "Comments Field" in Attendance in the Secondary Gradebook so that when a teacher entered attendance they could also enter a comment next to that field to indicate the time a student actually arrived in class and there would be a record of it. This would help to hold kids accountable for when they arrive to class and also show a pattern for tardiness or absences.

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  5. Capability to give teachers access in their gradebooks to Physicals tab in Student Profile

    It would be extremely helpful if teachers could have the capability of having access to the Physicals tab in Student Profile from their gradebooks. This would be so coaches could have access to their scanned physicals. We know this is already an option for the Student Portfolio, but the problem is that we have scans in this area that they cannot legally see due to FERPA and HIPAA.

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  6. Add Period Fields To Discipline

    When a teacher puts in a Discipline we would like to be able to select what period this occurred.

    8 votes

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  7. Customized Drop Down Menu for Withdrawal Notes

    The ability to customize reasons for withdrawal so it is easier to create a dashboard once you export out of skyward. Our superintendent wanted to know the top 5 reasons kids were withdrawing but since it is all typed manually not all statements were identical even if they were saying the same thing. Having a pre-made drop down menu would make this seemless.

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  8. TX - Curriculum Master - Mass Copy Curriculum Master Information Utility

    Please add the following to the Texas state specific fields to be updated area in the mass copy curriculum master information utility:
    Transcript Area
    Voc Ed Contact Hours
    College Credit Hours

    Currently the only option is service id, but many times updates are needed with these other fields. This would assist districts with updating courses over multiple years (such as current & future) for multiple campuses.

    8 votes

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  9. Please make surveys available on the mobile app for teachers.

    Please make surveys available on the mobile app for teachers.

    8 votes

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  10. Positive Attendance

    We use Positive Attendance for students to check in to Student Services or the Health Center. This creates an attendance record so the teacher knows where they are. It would be great if these students could also "check out" when they are leaving that location so we can track where they are.

    8 votes

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  11. Add Special Programs for export

    We now have new Special Programs (Grad Pathways ILEARN ISTEP Retest) as well as other programs Title I Shrtnd Day Not Tested that are not available in Data Mining. We need them to be. SkyBuild Export only has eight of the Special Programs available for export. It would help if they also would appear in Skybuild.

    8 votes

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  12. Teacher Effective Date

    Please add Teacher Transaction Date available on MEET screen. This causes many fatals for Texas PEIMS State Reporting.

    8 votes

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  13. Family 1 Family 2 Prompt to delete EmergContact

    In a divorce situation where there are two family records we would like a prompt to the 2nd family/parent when Family 1 deletes them as an emergency contact. The prompt to Family 2 would be to approve or deny the delete request. We're aware we can have this setting enabled for the campus registrar to review/approve/deny the request but don't want that burden on them. This is a hot topic for our district that has come up several times and has made its way to our leadership as well as parent calls directly to Skyward's leadership.

    8 votes

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  14. Add report to track number of families using FA

    My district is trying to determine an approximate percentage of families/guardians who utilize Family Access for each entity and in a given time frame. I can run a Login History report but that doesn't give me a count or a comparison to the total number of users for calculating a percent. Please provide a report or data mining utility that will calculate a percentage or will allow a data mining export so we can calculate Family Access Usage based on our own criteria.

    8 votes

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. HOME LANGUAGE SURVEY in Custom Forms

    The Native Language and Home Language fields that are used for the EL Export to the state are not available in custom forms. We would like both fields available so we can create the HLS in custom forms, making it match the state so we are in compliance, and use it in the NSOE. We cannot do this at this time because the only field that is available is the Language field, which is a local field.

    8 votes

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  19. • 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.

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  20. 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.

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