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Student Management Suite

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  1. Edit academic standards in Secondary Gradebooks

    We are using academic standards in our secondary gradebooks. Once an assignment is created with academic standards attached and then is saved, you cannot edit any of the academic information. For example, the wrong point value is attached to an academic standard. Once the assignment is saved, this value cannot be edited. The entire assignment must be deleted and recreated. We would like the ability to edit academic standards once they are attached to an assignment.

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  2. Attendance Mail Merge

    Similar to the mail merge in discipline, if you can create a freeform that will allow to create documents that pull student information directly from the student profile.

    This will be useful for all PA users in completing school attendance improvement plans which are required by the state. Users can create a standardized template that uploads fields with the student information.

    7 votes

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  3. we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

    we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

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  4. Expose IEP, FRL, ELL status in Clever API

    Clever has the ability to pull IEP Status, Free/Reduced Lunch Status, ELL Status but those field are not exposed on the Skyward API. If we could pass those data elements through Clever to certain applications we roster through Clever, we would be better able to effectively analyze student results and application effectiveness.

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  5. days present

    It would be helpful to have a field for attendance: Total Days Possible( based on students entry date) that could be added to Custom Report Cards and Transcripts. At the end of the year/semester it would be extremely helpful to see how many days a student was absent out of a total number of days possible based on their entry date.

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  6. Make Primary Phone Required Entry During On Line Registration

    We have families that skip the Primary Phone section. This is vital information for the school office. We would like to see that be required to be filled in before the screen can move on.

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  7. Renaming Existing Custom Attendance Letters without cloning

    There are times we may need to rename an existing custom attendance letter without editing the content, such as we do with report templates at times, however, the only option is to clone/rename/delete the letter that is being renamed. Can the option be added to change the name of an existing custom attendance letter as needed? AT Letter>Config>select/edit - update the name?

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  8. Pin number

    When running Class roster report, it would be nice to have the ability to add the student's pin number as an available option. Secretaries like to give the teachers, especially at the elementary levels, the students' pin numbers, as well as some of the other indicators that are already available to select in the Detail area. WS/OF/CS/RE/CR/CR

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    Great suggestion! While not directly on the Class Roster report run from Office, the student’s pin number could be something you enable teachers to run on their own class rosters from their gradebooks.

    Within the Educator Access Plus District Setup (WS\EA\PS\CF\DS), you can enable the option to “Allow Teachers to display Student’s Food Service Key Pad # on Class Roster.” With this set, when the teacher adds or modifies a template for the Class Roster report (from the Reports menu on the main screen of a gradebook), they will see a check box that allows them to print this information.

    Our Customer Consultant Specialists would be able to assist with any questions on these options. Thank you!

  9. Automated email - Current Year Schedule Changes - Class Is Dropped

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    Current Year Schedule Changes - Class Is Dropped Automated Email, add the ability to select specific courses to trigger email to specific staff. More specifically we would like an email to go to our bookstore manager when a student drops a course that has a course fee attached.

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  10. Email button from discipline tab

    As a small elementary school, we contact parents pretty much any time a student visits regarding discipline. Some of our offenses could easily be communicated via email as a parent "heads up" rather than requiring a phone call. An email guardian button from the offense page would be great.

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  11. allow attachments to emails from family view of student profile.

    I need to send an email (with an attachment) to an individual students parent. you can send an email to a parent from the family tab of the student profile but there is no Attach option. as a non teacher without a grade book i would need to use the advanced features Message center and then create a processing list with one student in order to send an email to a guardian with an attachment.

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  12. Add Check Mark & Completed Date/Time for Step 2 of Online Form Process

    Adding a check mark and the completed date and time to step 2 of the online form process would be instrumental in reducing parent confusion.

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  13. Attendance report showing a list of the day's attendance in the Skyward Mobile App

    It would be great if we could access the attendance "entry by date" section through the Skyward App, or access to any other report that shows attendance for that given day. This came about while we were doing an Intruder Drill, and I was asked to account for any kids that were known absent today. I tried to do it by memory, but it would be really handy if I could pull a report on my phone to know for sure in case of an emergency where we have to evacuate the building.

    7 votes

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  14. Add SCHOOL NURSE as System Contact Selection in the Automated Email Maintenance area.

    Add SCHOOL NURSE as System Contact Selection in the Automated Email Maintenance area.

    7 votes

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  15. Custom Forms Table

    When adding a table to Custom Forms, it would be beneficial to be able to resize the columns. Currently the columns are nearly impossible to resize.

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  16. Limit who can see Social Security Numbers

    Our auditors are requesting that we have the ability to limit who has access to student social security numbers for previous students. If a student is no longer active in the system they want us to be able to limit who can see those social security numbers. I know several Florida districts have been asked this this year in our audits this year and have had to state that we will work with Skyward to see if this can be addressed. Within security you can assign users to only see current student SS#'s

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  17. auto emails for seclusion/restraint status

    I'd like seclusion and restraint status to be built into the auto email system. Reporting has become much more comprehensive, and we see merit in being able to set up an auto alert that could be sent to key stakeholders anytime a building level discipline officer entered any seclusion/restraint data.

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  18. Expand Characters for Middle Name

    Our district currently has multiple students with names that are too long to fit in the Middle Name field (mostly because of multiple names). We need this field expanded in order for Birth Certificate names to match our Official documentation. Please assist.

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  19. 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.

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  20. 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.

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