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Student Management Suite

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  1. Data Mine Previous School and Previous District fields

    The fields "Previous School" and "Previous District" located under the School Path tab, are not available in data mining. We have families fill this information out and there is no way to data mine it out to use or analyze. It would be extremely helpful to be able to data mine out these two fields. I would like to use them to verify new KG students have the correct entry codes for state reporting.

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  2. add Alpha as an option in student schedule run

    Not knowing what the potential constraints may be next year with COVID19 we are thinking ahead to possible scheduling options and what a school day may look like. One idea that has been floated is to split the days alphabetically and have A-K come days 1,3,5 and L-Z come days 2,4,6. So with that being said, would it be impossible to add ALPHA as an option in the schedule run area under "Balance by Student Attributes" ?

    6 votes

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  3. Future Course Selection Letter for Parents

    It would be so nice to be able to print a Future Course Selection for each student to be mailed home to parents to confirm their student's course selections for the next school year.
    I would love a format similar to report cards with the option of "Parent or Guardian" and address. Also, allow for printable comments. We'd love to be able to inform parents on this form that schedules are firm and cannot be changed after a certain deadline.

    6 votes

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  4. Add a Confirmation on Withdrawal

    Make the person who is withdrawing a student enter their initials to a question - "Do you have appropriate documentation to withdraw?"

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  5. Add Gifted & Talented to display under Special Programs, similar to 504

    We would like to have Gifted & Talented added to display under Special Programs, similar to 504.

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  6. Add Emp. ID from Staff record to Data Mining in areas where Teacher is listed such as Schedule.

    We send the NameID or EmpID to vendors as the field to identify our teachers/staff. Recently, I needed a field that was in Data Mining. I had trouble finding it in SkyBuild so I thought I was going to have to rebuild my extract in Data Mining, I needed Emp ID (NameID) as the key for teachers but Data Mining only had Alphakey to identify the teachers/staff. We don't use that field when sending data to vendors.

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  7. Allow skybuild to get the newest 15 Program/Services instead of the oldest.

    We have students with more than 15 entries in their Program/Services and since Skybuild returns the oldest 15, we cannot create skybuild reports that have their current info. The pic show a student of whom we cannot get any of his current Programs and Related Services data (the ones circled in red). Please change the order so we have access to atleast the most recent 15.

    6 votes

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  8. family access bill codes

    When creating a bill code that you would like to have posted on Family Access there would be a check box right on the bill code set up screen to do this, rather than have to go into the family access set up tab and recreate the bill code.

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  9. Teacher Passes

    Teachers have the ability to create a "pass" for a student to come to their classroom during a specified time that can be seen by other teachers when taking attendance. Teacher X needs to Student during Homeroom. Teacher X creates pass that will show in Students Homeroom teachers attendance so Homeroom teacher can send student to TEacher X during Homeroom.

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  10. 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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  11. Fee Managment Balance and Total of OUtstanding Textbooks

    Would it be possible to add the dollar amount of outstanding fees as well as any textbooks the student has assigned under the ENTRY/WITHDRAWAL tab? This will alert the campus registrar and facilitate access that data within the same location (entry/with tab) and will enforce to zero out any fees and return textbooks before withdrawing the student.

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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.

    6 votes

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  13. Sort in Interactive Scheduling Board

    When using teacher view in the interactive scheduling board, I have to click and drag each teacher to sort them in the order I want. It would be nice if I could sort them by course or department as well and it would be nice if I could select more than one at a time. I have to click and drag each one... one at a time!!!

    6 votes

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  14. Parent Contact Log

    Our counselors and administrators would like to have a parent contact log that shows the date, who contacted, contact type code and a reason note. This would just be a simple way to see when a parent was contacted and the reason. Currently, we are going to create this in a custom form but it would be better if it was part of the actual Skyward system.

    6 votes

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  15. Federal Race Code should work the same in Data Mining as it does in Skybuild.

    Skyward's explanation: Within Data Mining the Federal Race Description falls under a new folder that contains the Fed Race Code and Fed Race Description. This means that in data mining a separate line will be printed for each Federal Race that is selected for the student. If the Data Mining report is set up to be one line then it will repeat the fields as many times as needed for how many Fed Races apply to the student.

    Skybuild is not set up in this manner to repeat the field multiple times for each Fed Race that applies to the…

    6 votes

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  16. Family/Emergency Contacts

    When enter new students past students should not show up for Family and or emergency contact possibilities. Once they graduate and we can't use them for these fields they should not show up. If you can't do that then they need to be grayed out and or also have an ALERT come up saying your about to use a past student for this field do you want to continue. This is causing so many problems when registering students.

    6 votes

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  17. Withdraw Form

    Be able to edit Header of Withdrawal Form
    We need our entity address and phone number on our withdrawal form

    6 votes

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  18. OneRoster export and OneRoster api student username options

    Please add the ability to choose which field is sent in the OneRoster Export within Skybuild for the student's username and the ability to add a prefix to that field.

    It currently exports the student's alphakey, but our district typically uses the student's other id for other software companies, since it doesn't change with a name change like the alphakey.

    For some companies, we use a combination of the otherid and a letter/number combo such as D87 in front of the student id number.

    Other districts use the student's state id number.

    Having the ability to customize which field is…

    6 votes

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  19. automatic emails home language

    When parents complete the Home Language Survey as part of Enrollment or Online Registration, it would be wonderful if an automatic email could be generated when the 'HLS Result' is set to 'Screen'. This could alert to correct staff members to follow-up more quickly with the family and student when needed.

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  20. Student ID cards via use of the Skyward Mobile App

    We utilize printed/physical student ID cards with the student's Other ID as a barcode on the back and Alphakey as a barcode on the front for such processes as navigating through the lunch line, checking in/out library items, and scanning in at the office for those who are late or leave early. There are those who lose, forget, or cannot find their cards so we are constantly reprinting or ordering replacement cards. It would be helpful for students to be able to access an "e-student ID card" through the Skyward mobile app so students always have the ID cards and…

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