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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add a utility or configuration setting to enable Display Other Name Field in the Teacher Gradebook

    It would be helpful to have a mass add utility or a configuration option to automatically enable the Display Other Name (when available) in Teacher Gradebooks instead of the first name and middle initial. This would ensure every teacher would see/use the Other Name field if it is populated.

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    0 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  2. Preferred name available in Point of Sales System.

    We have transgender students that come through the lunch line. It is quite confusing and embaressing when a student comes through the line that has not legally changed their name yet. We need a be able to have a better system than using the critical wanding messages that we use for food allergies.

    7 votes

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  3. Allow for Family access configuration of conferences enable/disable to have date start and stop option

    Allow for Family access configuration of conferences enable/disable to have date start and stop option with times.

    7 votes

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  4. Automated email for demographic changes

    We would like to see the option added for automated emails for demographic changes which would include changes of the following:
    Date of Birth
    Gender
    Social Security Number
    Ethnicity
    Race

    7 votes

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  5. Grade Level Visible When Posting Grades

    Our school posts grades for seniors days before posting for the rest of the school. While you can change the display options in the gradebook to see a student's grade level, once you go in to post grades, the grade level is no longer visible. It would be great if it would carry over so then teachers would know which students are seniors and who they have to post grades for.

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  6. Custom Forms

    Hello: When creating fields for custom forms, it would be extremely helpful if there could be a warning or a pop-up stating that the data you have entered for this field has exceeded the Max Allowed Characters so that it could be corrected right away. What happens is that we don't know that the Max Characters have been exceeded until the form is active in FA or SA and we get hundreds of phone calls telling us that they couldn't complete the form because Max Characters have been exceeded.

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  7. Add the ability to filter on special codes in the gradebook progress reports or missing assignment reports

    I have several teachers that have requested a way to track late assignments. They use a special code of Late for this but there is no way to print a report for only students with late assignments. They would like this for RTI purposes .

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  8. Data mine assignments synced from LMS

    Currently, you can only data mine information about online assignments built in Skyward—not assignments that are synced over from an LMS such as Canvas. Our district needs the ability to generate an Excel report of listing all students' assignment scores and submission dates. I appreciate you can generate assignment detail and progress reports that list assignments reports via Educator Access Plus, but the print format is not usable.

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  9. Virtual - Courses with Students in Multiple Entities

    Due to the pandemic we have now added virtual teachers, students and classes. Providing a virtual teacher at each building and each grade level is not economically feasible, due to the number of enrolled virtual students. Creating a new virtual entity is not an option due to state accountability.

    This year’s solution for virtual teachers was to enroll them as a staff member in each entity. Classes were created with the virtual teacher and virtual students. Each of our virtual teachers have multiple gradebooks in each entity. For example, a teacher with five core classes at each of our six…

    7 votes

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  10. New Student Online Enrollment allowing a existing guardian to edit their address

    New Student Online Enrollment Application allow existing guardians to update their address.

    When a guardian is bringing their child/children back into the district since the guardian is already in the system they can't update their address which has almost always changed. It would be very helpful if they could change their address on the application.

    7 votes

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  11. Add Method of Instruction and District Category to Student Profile > Ranges

    We would like to see the Method of Instruction and District Category added to the Ranges options when narrowing down the Student Profile. Please add these as options for filtering. Thank you!

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  12. Selected Grades Report: add Student email and parent email address fields.

    Would like to have Student emaill address and parent email address to the Selected grades report to make it easier to identity who to contact when we run the report. We run this for a D/F list and then contact the parent.

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  13. Fee Management - Ability to Reverse Charge if paid via web/vendor

    Currently, if a parent pays for a fee/charge using our online vender/wep payment, we lose the ability to reverse the charge and have to use an Arrears code to document the refund. It would be a lot easier if we could still just do a "reverse charge" and process the refund record for fees paid online like we can for fees that were paid with cash/check.

    7 votes

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  14. merge student records

    Allow fee management and food service customer/payer records to be merged.

    7 votes

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  15. MOI on attendance field

    Can you put "Method of Instruction" on the Today's Attendance field for each student, so you can see, if the student is absent, what MOI they are instead of having to go to their profile page?

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  16. Expired Password Reset

    It would be very helpful if the utility to Mass Generate Family Permissions/Passwords (WS\FA\FM\PS\UT\PP) would include the option to only reset expired passwords.

    We send out letters yearly to families regarding their accounts then weekly as new students register through the school year. In this letter we include the initial login and password (blank if the parent already changed). A number of parent accounts have expired passwords since elementaries typically hadn't logged in much, but with virtual schooling we have a lot more parents trying to log in.

    7 votes

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  17. attendance edit comments

    We would like the option to allow teachers to edit their own comments once they have saved comments.
    Our elementary schools are set up with 2 attendance periods. When the teacher enters attendance in period 1, it populates period 2.
    This year with COVID we have online teachers. They can change attendance type for period 2 after the initial save, but cannot modify comments for period 2.

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  18. Link Calendar to Attendance for Emergency Days

    Currently when we have an emergency day (snow day, cold day, etc), we need to manually go into each entity and delete out attendance for pre-arranged absences, etc. When editing the calendar for these days, it would be much more efficient and so helpful if a pop-up could ask if we want to delete student attendance for specific/all entities/schools.

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  19. 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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  20. Mass Delete for General Staff Conferneces

    There really needs to be a way to mass delete General Staff Conferences. You can mass delete Regular Parent Teacher Conferences. This would really help with clean up.

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