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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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.

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    1 comment  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Withdraw Form

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

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Add Ability to Access/Complete Forms on Mobile App

    Goal - To give parents and guardians the ability to access and complete online forms. This will allow parents to conveniently sign the forms. Expected Outcome - Quicker response from parents/guardians which will result in a quicker response time to provide technology devices to students.

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  9. Configuration Setting Needed for Long/Short Names

    When adding Staff it would be useful having default configuration setting for long and short name. Presently when adding a new staff member Skyward auto-populates the long and short name with the Last Name of the new staff member i.e. Washington. We would like to have the option to configure for example the Long name as Last Name First Initial i.e. Washington G. Also the limit of 10 and 20 characters for the short and long name is not enough. There are many employees that have hyphenated names that are much longer than 20 characters.

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  10. Mass Update Conferences already created

    There needs to be a utility created to mass edit conferences already created. Example PT conferences scheduled for 11/15/18. Had to be rescheduled due to weather. New date is now 11/29/18. All previously scheduled conferences for 11/15 need to be moved to 11/29.

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  11. Email Progress Reports

    In the standards gradebook teachers do not have an option to Select Different Classes when using the Email Detailed Progress Reports under reports. Teachers have to go through the process over and over for every class they teach. However in the secondary gradebook teachers do have the option to Select Different Classes. They can go through the process once and email all parents from all classes. I would like for you to consider adding that option to the Standards gradebook to save teachers time.

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  12. Add Student Schedule to the Attendance Tab Page

    When you go to a student's portfolio Attendance tab and click Add to take attendance for a student it would be extremely helpful to have the student's schedule appear at the bottom of this window/page and/or have the course descriptions under each period. (For example O1 - English 9) Without the course names on the Attendance Tab page users need to open a new window pull up the student's schedule and take attendance with both pages side-by-side. It is time consuming when you have attendance to enter for multiple students each day. Another solution would be to have the ability…

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  13. Report to identify students with no gradebook comments

    In EA+, teachers can go to the Posting Stauts in the gradebook and see a count and list of students who have no gradebook comment assigned to them for each class. We would like the ability to generate a report (or export or include in Teacher Tracker) that shows that information for all students or staff so we can quicky identify which students or teachers have not yet completed comments. At this time, the only way to find this is to log in as individual teachers to get to that screen, or to run report cards and scan individual student…

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  14. Contact person who knows both student side and finance side

    We utilize the general ledger update on fee management. Having a contact person who knows both student side and finance side would be helpful when problems arise.

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  15. Processing List in Fees Reports

    Add the ability to run ALL fee management reports by processing list.

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  16. Search by Parking Permit #

    In Mobile you can do a search by parking permit # but you cannot do that in the desktop. It would be so nice to look up this way.

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  17. Add Variable Date option on attendance reports

    The goal of this update would allow campuses to set these reports as scheduled tasks therefore saving time so that personal can concentrate on other attendance This would allow attendance clerks to concentrate more on other aspects of attendance instead of running these reports and providing them to individual teachers each week.

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  18. Need PMF of Security Group Assignment for Forms

    Greetings. So I have Health Forms that require secure access for my district. I'm going through to set those 7 forms up now as Secure Forms. When you choose the Security Groups button you can utilize the Quick Filter to narrow your group search down to the groups you need. Convenient. But do you think there's a Select All button? Nada. You can UNSELECT ALL but there's no Select All. I will be clicking 749 boxes for the next 20 minutes. Please PMF this screen to match any others that should include a Select All option. Thank you!

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  19. Option on report for Tax

    Add an option to the Fees Paid report that will show you how much money was received in Taxes when you use the tax feature in the Fee Management Configuration.

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  20. Add Counselor Field to Customizable Options

    Recently Skyward provided a new field under Entity Info to allow districts (schools) to track Counselors if they differ from Advisors. This is a great option and Skyward did diligence to add it as a mass update option under Student Mass Change. Our staff would like to see this go one step further by adding the field as an option to updating a user's custom list of fields that display under the Extra Information option within Student Profile. When you click on the Customize link Advisor can be added however Counselor is not yet available. Screen shots attached. Thank you!

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