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  1. 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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  2. 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!

    6 votes

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Option to Clone Variable Scales

    We need an option to clone variables scales in the secondary gradebook from entity to entity and include it as part of the year end utilities to clone from year to year.
    We have 20 campuses and we have to define the percent high and low values from 1 to 100! That's 2000 we will have to enter annually when we should be able to clone them after the first 100.
    WS\EA\GB\SE\PS\CF\VS

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  6. Update Student Records for all Letters sent

    The goal of this enhancement is to have all letters that are sent to parents become part of the student record. The negative impact is that now we have no record of the letter being sent and nothing to refer back to if a parent would question what they received.
    If all of the reports that can be done as letters would have the same check box that the vaccine report done in letters has it would provide a well documented health record for all students. The check box for vaccines is Update the records of the students that letters…

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  7. Default building codes on Staff

    When adding new staff to system the default building code should automatically be assigned to a staff member.

    Currently it is not and when our export to Skylert goes out staff members are NOT being entered into their assigned building.
    There is a work around currently but you have to add the staff and then drill down on the staff member to add the building code again to the entity.

    6 votes

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  8. Section 504 Custom Forms Report

    Would it be possible to add a date range or school year parameter to the Section 504 Custom Forms Report so that when campus staff print the forms entered they can filter for current school year or at least a date range that falls within the school year?
    Campus staff print the "ARD" packet for students annually to hand out to parents but the current functionality of the Section 504 Custom Forms report prints all custom form records regardless or school year. This causes staff to go through the PDF to determine which forms apply to the current 504 ARD…

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  9. TREX Validation notification

    Please add a pop up notice or tab that will show that there is a validation error with the proposed file in the maintain area. The TREX report shows it at the end but that means we have to run that report each time. If a notification or tab showed in the modify area it could be resolved without running the report. Many times campus users especially at the beginning of the year are trying to fulfill many requests and they skip the step of running the TREX report only to get their file rejected by the state. A visible…

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  10. Addition of Term Selection to WS\OF\FS\SS\RE\MR

    We would really like to be able to run the Students Missing Specific Courses/Subjects report by specifying one or more terms rather than being locked into the full school year. For example we wanted to quickly produce a list of students who were missing only math courses for Semester 2. Since term selection is not available for this report we were not able to produce any reports of value. If there are alternate means of quickly producing such a report we'd gladly appreciate any feedback as we are brand new to Skyward this year and our knowledge base is still…

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  11. Add Family access credentials to Auto-email

    Would like the ability to create an auto-email to the guardians of a student that includes the link to get their Family Access login and password set up that is triggered when the NSOE application is approved.

    1) the ability to manually send this email already exists on the family screen
    2) there is an auto-email that triggers off of the NSOE approval but the set up does not include the FA credentials.
    We just need to two connected.

    6 votes

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  12. Adding transaction dates to the course by course report

    Adding teacher transaction dates to the course by course report. This would be very beneficial so that you don't have to expand each section to view the dates.

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  13. ADA/FTE report title and column headers

    We would like to have the ability to have the template title appear on each page of the ADA/FTE Report instead of just on the initial parameters page. Furthermore, we would like the Reporting Period: # parameter descriptor to appear under the Semester 1 or Semester 2 column header so that it is clear what reporting periods are included. Having just Semester 1 or 2 is very misleading for staff who only look at the district or campus pages. And example of the report is attached.

    5 votes

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  14. Printing Reports includes Navigation Menu Paths

    It would be great if when reports print, the Navigation Menu Paths were printed at the top. That way, someone else would be able to find their way to run themselves.

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  15. Change History in the gradebook.

    Teachers often change due dates for assignments. There is no history to show this. It would be nice to see when any change is made in gradebook.

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  16. OneRoster

    In the OneRoster Export, please include TX State Course Service ID in the course.csv

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  17. District to District request multiple students via processing list or range by school code

    When using district to district, it would be very helpful to be able to pull in demographic and family information from our local districts for multiple students attending our Career Center. The ability to use a processing list or select a range by school code to request multiple students at once would be extremely beneficial.

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  18. Transportation

    It would be nice to have the function to MASS add/update Transport records based on Transportation category. Right now we can only MASS end records but need to manually touch everyone to add back in. Example add new record for walkers 00 with x date. OR have the ability to only end records for example Transportation category "riders". The all or nothing category is not the best way to manage these records.

    5 votes

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  19. I need a report to pull dual credit courses and credits for a students career.

    I need a report to pull dual credit courses and credits for a students career.

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  20. Attendance totals by date range for grade book

    When teachers are taking their attendance and use the view of previous days it gives them a total of excused, unexcused, other and tardy absences. They are asking if I can adjust those totals so they are just for the current semester instead of the whole year. This is a problem when classes are year long. Give the teacher to adjust the total by a date range they can choose.

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