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Student Management Suite

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  1. School Path to show in Family Access

    We have rezoned twice now and it is a major issue when parents do not know what campus their child needs to go to. Is it possible to add the school path/NY school path to show in the student info in family access? If parents could see their school path/NY school path it would help the confusion and all the phone calls and letters to parents.

    7 votes

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  2. Add Range or Proc List to CTE Indicator Update

    It would be very beneficial to have the option to run the process to set the CTE indicator either by grade level range or by processing list.

    7 votes

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  3. Request for Multiple Calendars on Day Summary Repo

    My request would be that instead of putting in a range of calendars that you be able to choose which calendars to use for the report. As a CTC we have multiple calendars for different schools different sessions etc. which are needed for state reporting and other purposes. It would be nice to incorporate multiple calendars onto one day summary report instead of having to run multiple reports in order to catch all the calendars.

    7 votes

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  4. Have multiple tardy kiosks options

    I would like to have the option to have a late arrival and early release tardy kiosk in addition to a Truly Tardy option. This would allow us to streamline operations during attendance taking at our highschool. We would like the ability for students coming in late to school to check themselves into the building. In addition the late arrival kids that are scheduled to be out of the building during the first 2 periods need to check into the building so we know that they arrived in school. Then it would be nice for the students that are on…

    7 votes

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  5. Grade History Report - The ability to sort courses by either Year or Subject

    Currently the grade History report automatically sorts courses by Year. We would like the ability to sort by subject as well.

    7 votes

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  6. Add grade criteria to the prerequisites

    I would like to add a grade criteria to certain courses. We currently go through student selections one at a time. We have minimum grades in prereq courses for many or out AP or Accelerated courses and this would be great.

    7 votes

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  7. Initial Evaluations to have a referral type.

    Having a way to document and track a referral would be helpful to know where the initial evaluation came from. This is a field in the Section 504 as Referral Type. Being able to track this information would be helpful.

    7 votes

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  8. Preferred name field for API

    It would be great to have a preferred name field in the API so that when we sync with Canvas, our transgender students can see their preferred name in Canvas rather than the legal name in Skyward.

    7 votes

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  9. grade mark legend-translated

    We would love to translate the detailed description for the grade mark legend on report cards. Currently we have to use the description to print on report cards because the detailed description can not be translated.

    7 votes

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  10. Student Current Scheduling Matrix View

    We like using the Matrix view, but would like to be able to "hide" past terms, or have a filter option, so we can view Term 02 and Term 03 without seeing Term 01 for example.

    7 votes

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  11. Key Pad Numbers

    Auto delete once a student withdraws or graduates.

    7 votes

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  12. Student Information Report

    We generate a report in Students/Reports/Student Information to send home to Family 1 at the beginning of the school year in order to update their family info. So much easier for families to make minor changes rather than receive a blank form and enter data from scratch each year. It would be beneficial if we were able to print each family on it's own page rather than all families printing on same page. We have a child who lives with mom in Family 1, but dad wants his data in Skyward as Family 2 but doesn't want mom to know…

    7 votes

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  13. Add an enrollment limbo option for students who are approved in online registration without adding a state reportable enrollment date

    When new students are approved through the online application/registration process, Skyward is adding the approval date to the entry/withdraw tab as the official enrollment date. This is problematic because these dates are not accurate since there is a day or so lapse in time while the school builds a schedule, finalizes assessments and placements for special services, etc. Therefore, it would be helpful if new students could be added in a "pending status" where schools can see the student and build schedules without causing the need for the registrar to keep tabs and change the enrollment dates once the school…

    7 votes

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  14. Career Plan Clusters

    It would be very helpful to add an area in Career Plans for a drop-down to choose the endorsement cluster the student is on, and be able to run reports against it for CTE

    7 votes

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  15. Have the new ethnicity/race form show parents their current information and allow them to change it. Instead of having them re-enter info.

    Have the new ethnicity/race form show parents their current information and allow them to change it. Instead of having them re-enter information.

    7 votes

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  16. Positive Attendance Enhancements

    Just started using PA in our district for some little things and have been thinking of ways to make it better.

    1. Have teachers be able to see a student's PA check in location in their grade book for their class period(s). This would be useful for cases where a student is absent from class it would be good to know if the student went to an approved location for that teachers class or not.

    2. Have student self check in for nurse/office visits also update PA when they check in. Right now unless the secretary is watching the queue and updating…

    7 votes

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  17. Course Type Codes with More Than 3 Characters

    We need to be able to create Course Types with more than 3 characters. Being limited to 3 characters hinders our users to utilize/create codes that contain more than 4 or more characters. The downfall we are running into is that when a transcript is printed courses that have 4 or more course types attached does not print all the codes associated.
    This will allow our registrars to print transcripts with accurate data displayed.

    7 votes

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  18. Message Center-Only Show Schedule After Online Reg

    For Message Center add the option to "Only Show Schedule After Online Registration is Completed" for only teacher messages. Because the teachers name and course is listed when a teacher posts to message center without this option its difficult to keep scheduling information under wraps under the online registration is complete. Administration / principal messages would need to be allowed prior to online registration completion. This would allow instructions and messages concerning the completing the online registration to be posted along with any other pertinent information.
    To be consistent with other areas and truly keep student schedule information hidden options…

    7 votes

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  19. Add Service ID as a field that can be viewed

    I would like to see service ID and other Texas specific fields added as a options that could be added or removed from the column view in curriculum master and course master. Having this there would make verification of the data much simpler than having to generate a report.

    7 votes

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  20. Skybuild/CTE Family Import

    Because CTE is growing by leaps and bounds, ISD's and RESD's have a need to import and overwrite much more student demographics information. In particular Family and Emergency Contact information.

    Currently, Family information imports that we use between district databases and our CTE database can only be imported once. After that, the settings to overwrite family information is not available in Skybuild Imports. This prevents us from providing critical Student and Family information updates between systems.

    For that matter limiting the districts ability to overwrite data using an import is a bit of an over reach.

    It is critical that…

    6 votes

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