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Student Management Suite

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  1. MFA via Email or Text

    Just putting in a request to have MFA over email or text built into the system.

    Email especially would help us get MFA set up for staff members who prefer to not use their personal cell phone for work. Not many of our staff members use an app for MFA already so this would help us meet those staff members where they are.

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    6 votes

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  2. Arena Scheduling Required Forms

    I would like the option to require parents to complete/submit a custom form (liability waiver for summer school) before they can click the "Submit Schedule" link in Arena Scheduling. This will eliminate the need to chase down parents after they submit their schedule to collect the signed waivers
    before the start of summer school.

    6 votes

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  3. Improving Access to Custom Forms in the Skyward Mobile App

    Many parents have expressed interest in being able to access custom forms directly through the Skyward mobile app. The technology department gets numerous calls and support requests from parents stating they are unable to locate the custom forms. If integrating custom forms into the app is not feasible, an alternative solution could be to add a "Custom Forms" button or link within the app. This "Button" would redirect parents to access those forms through their web browser. This would provide parents a more convenient way to access any necessary custom forms, even if they cannot be directly integrated into the…

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  4. English Learner Students, we would like an attachment button like we have 504 Students

    We would like an attachment button like we have 504 Students

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  5. As of date for any special program

    We often get asked, who was ____ last year. (Fill in the blank with any special program or Food Service.)
    A number of areas in Data Mining have an As Of date field. It would be amazing if all would have a "___ As Of Date"
    Examples:
    ADM As Of Date- Type (Y/N already is there, but we need to know the type)
    Alt Ed As Of Date -Program Name
    Food Service As Of Date- Lunch Code
    Foster Care As Of Date
    Gifted and Talented As Of Date- Area
    Homeless As Of Date - Living Arrangement

    6 votes

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  6. email to parents when report cards are posted to the portfolio

    is it possible to have Skyward auto email a parent when the Progress Reports and Report Cards are posted to the portfolio in Family Access from the Office Side and not use the message center?

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  7. Print Future Schedules to Sort by Class Period

    Currently when printing future scheduling schedules the class sort is by the current year schedule. It would be very useful if the sort by class period would be from the future schedule, not the current schedule.

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  8. Email Notification when family cancels absences request in family access

    I have notifications enabled to notify our secretary when a family member creates an absence request via Skyward Family Access. This is working great. However, if that family member goes in an cancels the previously entered request that has not been approved yet is there a way our secretary can get an email notifiation of that? Also, would be nice for the parent to get an email of that cancellation as well.

    6 votes

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  9. update skyward documentation

    Your skyward documentation area is not updated to newest version. When I look up, for example, how to enter different kinds of discipline and actions it very vague and is of no help. It is also from 2012. I realize that having so many documents in the help area would take a lot of time you should do this for some of the most used areas. I think if you attached a video from a up to date skyward webinar would be easier also.

    6 votes

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  10. Student Locator Icon access in Educator Access Plus

    The student locator icon is not available when teachers are in Educator Access Plus taking attendance in their class. If a student is not in the classroom but not absent, they have to go out to the dashboard to access it (Because they have security to do so). It would great if they could click on the student locator pin on the bar at the top while in their gradebooks.

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  11. Hide Specific Courses in the Course Master

    I would like the ability to pick specific courses in the course master using a check box and hide them. We run a computerized credit recovery program and those courses need to stay active. There are a lot of them that I would like to hide similar to how I can hide rows or columns in an Excel or Google sheet. This would allow me to see only the active courses offered to the majority of students.

    6 votes

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  12. Add the ability to pull the discipline detail report into and excel file.

    Add the ability to pull the Discipline Detail Report into an excel file.

    We use the predefined comments to better track the types of offenses causing the discipline action. (Ie: Dress Code Violation, Smoking/Vape) Although I have a datamine set up, if I could pull the same information in the detail report to excel that would be helpful. Isolating the predefined comments from additional comments the discipline officer may want to enter would also be helpful when filtering to run a count.

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  13. Mass set note filter

    We’ve researched this issue, and it turns out that the system is functioning properly. We’ve tested, and users at the middle school (and elementary school) do have access to see the legal notes. However, the list of notes is filtered by date, and the user must update the “Filter Options” to see notes since a specified date. If the filtering date is not far enough back, then older notes are not shown. We’ve confirmed with Skyward Support that there is no “rolling forward” process for notes from year to year or campus to campus. They are tied to the student.…

    6 votes

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  14. Automated emails to activity staff when students grades drop.

    It would be great to automatically notify the staff when a student or students in their activities have grades drop below a certain grade.

    6 votes

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  15. Add Other ID# to Guidance Reports

    This is self explanatory. All student reports in Skyward should be standardized with the ability to print Other ID#.

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  16. In need of a report that shows the date/time a gradebook was updated.

    It would be helpful for our Principal to be able to run a report that shows the last time/date a gradebook was updated. There are reports in Skyward that show times/dates for Parent/Student access and the last time/date Attendance was updated for each class. This would help to ensure all gradebooks are up-to-date and grades being reported are the most current.

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  17. I would like to be able to attach a picture to a fee.

    Having the ability to add an attachment to a fee (Chromebook repair fee, book damage..).

    6 votes

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  18. Allow transfer of previous term grade from the Office to the Gradebook

    We would LOVE to have the ability to push a grade for a new student (or one with a schedule change) from the Office/Grading module to the new teacher's gradebook for previous terms. While we understand that a teachers should click the NEW button and use one of the 5 methods to get grades into previous buckets in their gradebook, getting teachers to do this (and do it correctly) is a huge headache for us. This would save a tremendous amount of time for teachers AND officer personnel. The teacher, of course, could later make adjustments if needed.

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  19. Identity Field and Data Mining

    Adding the Identity area is very helpful, however, Data Mining will not allow you to create a report to only export students with entries in the Identity field. The only way it exports is for all students and then you have to compare line by line to find the students that have a different legal name than what their profile name (preferred name) is.

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  20. Create an option in Advanced Features Entity count reports show count breakdown by students in house and serving schools ?

    This report would give us the breakdown of number of students attending in house and those attending specific serving schools.

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