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Student Management Suite

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  1. Ability to view customer fees by grade - Browse screen filter options

    We are looking for the ability to view outstanding student fees by grade. With the view Fee Activity, we lose the grade.
    With customer details, we have the grade, but then do not have a fee balance that shows. We need this to capture our 5th and 8th graders before they move to a new building for end of year activities.

    5 votes

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  2. When a parent dies if there could be a button under relationship to choose. Some Spouces are not ready to remove them

    When a parent dies if there could be a button under relationship to choose. Some spouse's are not ready to remove them right away.

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  3. Mass Add/Change/Delete Student Requests

    Currently, the default ranges on the Mass Add/Change/Delete Student Requests is set to Exclude Special Ed students. This causes them to be excluded even when running this utility using a processing list. All other mass utilities have open ranges, so schedulers didn't look at the ranges in this utility before running it with a processing list and didn't realize all ESE and Gifted students on the processing list were getting left out. They are now going in and changing it, but it would be nice if the default was truely open ranges so students protected by law weren't inadvertently excluded…

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  4. Mobile App: Attendance by Period

    The ability to have the option to take attendance by period with the mobile app so it combines the sections if they have multiple sections within one period.

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  5. FA requested absence deletion notification

    It would be great if there was an automated email notification when a parent deletes an absence request in FA.

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  6. Family Access Users login history

    It would be nice to be able to see the Family Access user login history. We can see it on the student but not the parent. This would come in handy for us to help the parent get logged in. By seeing time, date operating system and browser, just like the student login history.

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  7. Early Grad Class Rank

    When a student graduates a full year early, there is no way to include them in the class rank for the cohort that they are actually graduating with. This is due to DPI requiring that they stay in their same cohort. I had to find a workaround to get these students to be included. It would be nice if there was a dropdown or field for "Grad Year for Rank" that could be 12, even though they are still in 11.

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  8. Change the the expected grade level to enroll in if the DOB is changed.

    In Step 1 of the application, the user enters the DOB and a popup displays showing the expected grade level to enroll in, and that grade level populates in a separate field.

    If the user changes the DOB, there is no popup identifying the correct grade level and the grade level expected to enroll does not update.

    This is problematic as parents often fail to update the grade level and the custom forms populated in Step 6 are generated dependent on the grade level.

    This seems to be more of a programming error than an enhancement request.

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  9. EA+ My Activities add *** GPA, Term GPA and grade bucket grades on the same report

    EA+ My Activities add *** GPA, Term GPA and grade bucket grades on the same report. For example on the Activity Roster or the Progress Report. Both help our coaches determine whether students are eligible to play. Or even when expanding the activity next to the students name.

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  10. Home Language Codes

    The Home Language Code is located in the student profile, the family tab, and the LEP tab, but these do not update each other so you have to remember to add/edit all three sections. It would be a lot more helpful if they would update in all 3 locations when one of them is updated, because it is hard to remember that there are 3 different places to add/edit it and the code should usually be the same in all 3 locations as well.

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  11. Discipline widget

    Can a widget be created to show on the home screen when an office managed discipline referral has been created? It would be like Employee Access when a staff member requests time off, a widget can be turned on for the approver to see the requests on the home screen. This would be helpful in the event that automated emails aren't working correctly, the principal would always get to see referrals upon logging in to skyward.

    5 votes

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  12. Give check box option for preferred name in reports

    My teachers have the option to display the preferred name (other name from the general tab) in their grade books. When they print reports the student's legal name shows. They would like a check box in the report templates to show preferred name for students. With more and more students preferring a different name that legal and state reporting we want to use the other name field and not change the student key.

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  13. Add the ability for Portfolio Import utility to link with the Student State ID, to allow import of PSAT/SAT, IAR results

    Add the ability for Portfolio import utility to link the Illinois state ID, to allow import of IAR and other state and college Board test results.

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  14. Interactive Scheduling Board Export

    It would be super helpful if I didn't have to choose my options every time that I want to export my interactive scheduling board to excel. We use this for our master and I have to go in and click the same things every single time. It's very frustrating and time consuming.

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  15. skyb

    Please add fields from the Misc tab in the Special Prgms area. This will help when sending summer school data to the state. Data is sent differently since the entity isn't state reported.

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  16. Return the option to DISPLAY BY GRADING PERIOD in Course Length area

    DISPLAY FEATURE THAT WORKED GREAT WAS REMOVED. Option to "Display By Grading Period" was removed and now Course Lengths can only be seen by Control Set. We have over 25 Control Sets for our large summer school program, viewing by Control Set is cumbersome to say the least. My Control Sets now span 3 1/2 pages, versus a view by Grading Period, that listed, and gave me add/edit capabilities, all in a nice condensed list. Here is the last bit from the ticket I submitted.

    "At this time, there is no way to flip the display on the Course Lengths/Control…

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  17. Please add/show the date a Product Idea was submitted.

    Please add/show the date that a Product Idea was submitted next to it's title.

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  18. Processing New Student Online Enrollment application, allow change order of Emergency Contacts

    Scenario: A parent submits a new student application and fails to check the emergency contact box for either/both guardians.
    During processing of application, if the registrar then checks the emergency contact box after, they are added after any other emergency contacts in the order added.

    We would like the ability to change the emergency contact order at time of processing a new application so the registrar can appropriately have the correct order prior to completing the application and not have to go back and change after processing.

    We do allow guardians to change the order at time of yearly registration.

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  19. Enable Future Schedules in EA+

    Students can see future schedules but teachers can't except via a printed report. Please give teachers the same future schedule view (for "next" year) in EA+.

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  20. Endorsement Progress Report Page Break Option

    Would like a page break by student option in the report to. This makes it easier to separate and share with individuals as needed.

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