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Student Management Suite

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  1. Emergency contacts

    Have a box next to the contact name to insert words like call this parents first or look at the comment box. I don't always carrot down to see these messages before I start calling emergency contacts.

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  2. I would like to suggest that there be an addition of running Mass Generate Family Permissions/Passwords by Processing List. Our school distr

    I would like to suggest that there be an addition of running Mass Generate Family Permissions/Passwords (WS\FA\FM\PS\UT\PP) by Processing List. Our school district turns off web access to families who have any type of residency exception each year until updated documentation has been turned in. Our current process is to manually call up each necessary student profile then navigate to the web access tab and then edit the family access to uncheck Allow Family Access. Then we reverse it once appropriate documents have been returned to us. We generate this list of students with these exceptions via a Data Mining…

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    0 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  3. Add a delete utility tool to delete orphaned courses and sections. This is available in Qmaltiv but is needed in SMS.

    Add a delete utility tool to delete orphaned courses and sections. This is available in Qmaltiv but is needed in SMS. We had a new staff member delete a course and because this utility tool is not available it continues to come up as a fatal for our Peims submissions.

    4 votes

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  4. Display all parent phone numbers on the Profile info page

    Currently the student profile info page only displays the primary 1st guardian phone number. You need to click on the parent/guardian name to view their second phone number. It would be helpful if the profile info page would show all the phone numbers for the parent/guardians.

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  5. Enrollment Dashboard

    It would be great to have an enrollment dashboard screen that would show a grid of current enrollment by grade/gender. This would be helpful when needing some quick enrollment numbers, rather than needing to run a report or use Student Browse.

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  6. Entity button for program records

    With all the program records needed for Ed-Fi and now many needing to be entity-specific, it would be nice to either allow us to select the entity when we add the record from 000 (or any entity) or even better give us an entity button like on the entry/withdrawal tab so we can add the record correctly. Flipping between several entities for one student is cumbersome and confusing.

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  7. Automated Email- Deleted Entry/Enrollment

    Automated Email- Deleted Entry/Enrollment- not when the student gets deleted from the entity, but when their entry/enrollment would get deleted (ex: student that has been attending with us for the last few years and was enrolled to join us this year, but ended up NOT attending- so they wouldn't get deleted from the entity, but their entry/enrollment would get deleted since they are not actually attending)

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  8. busing

    In busing, we would like to see a mass add start and end date. This would allow us to set up routes for the upcoming school year, and keep past records for reporting purposes.

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  9. Discipline Letter Cloning

    Add an option to clone discipline letters like in attendance letters. We have different information of campuses that require a custom letter for each campus. It would be helpful to be able to clone and adjust instead of creating from scratch.

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  10. Creating a utility to mass remove student indicators

    Can a utility be created to mass remove student indicators? For example, we use the Dr. Note Required indicator when a student has reached so many absences. We then remove this indicator at the end of the year as students start fresh every school year. It would be helpful to be able to run a utility to remove them rather than go in and remove each one individually.

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  11. staff import

    Staff import from HR as an option on the SIS db in the STAFF tab vs. the secured users tab. Currently the option to "Import HR data" into the SIS is just on the security access area. This feature would be an ideal option on the STAFF tab in the student db so campus staff get the correct first name/last name/required information then the security access could be set up afterwards. Having the option in reverse doesn't allow campus staff adding STAFF to import the correct and necessary information.

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  12. Other ID vs Skyward's Student ID in Maintain

    Having the Other ID in the Maintain browse would be more beneficial to search a student that using Skyward's internal generated Student ID#

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  13. Edit Locker Numbers

    It would be nice to have the option to edit locker numbers. For example, the ability to re-number all lockers in the 6th Grade hallway to all begin with a "6". A utility to mass change would be very helpful in this instance.

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  14. add Direct Admit Wisconsin to Online Registration to opt in or out

    add Direct Admit Wisconsin to Online Registration to opt in or out

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  15. Mock Attachments & Manage Required Documents from NSOE to Family Access

    Currently, NSOE allows for viewing and checking off documentation uploaded through the portal. Family Access should reflect this same option, providing a link to view attachments from Online Registration and Online Forms, and provide a Manage Required Documents button to mock the same options setup for NSOE. This is imperative for districts tracking Proof of Residency, unless they want to use post-it notes or a spreadsheet outside of Skyward.

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  16. Processing List Clean Up

    It would be helpful to have a Utility to mass delete Processing Lists by date so that we can keep old processing lists cleaned up as much as possible without have to delete them one by one.

    Something much like the Data Mining Utility to keep them cleaned up

    4 votes

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  17. Activity Report w/Leader AND Students

    Please add a Print Option of "Activity Staff" and "Activity Leader=Yes/No" to the Activity Report by Activity, so that all relevant information for an Activity can be on one report. (WS/OF/AC/RE/BA) Thanks!

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  18. I would like the ability to hide the question of Student Language in the Student Information area of NSOE

    In Texas we have to have the family complete the Home Language Survey in their native language and having them answer language questions in more than one place causes confusion and answers that don't match.

    We would like to be able to hide the Student Information field on NSOE of Student Language so that our staff can enter what is answered on the Home Language Survey and not have to look for mismatches between the HLS and parent answers.

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  19. Need a way to data mine or report on State Credit, Local Credit, Total credit

    Due to different registrar errors when entering transfer credits we are finding that our State + Local is not equal to Total Credits on some students. It would be much easier to find these if there was a way to data mine this information.

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  20. Monthly Attendance Email to parents

    We would like to send an email to families at the beginning of each month showing them their student's absences so far for the quarter/semester/year. It will be helpful for families to get this information automatically to remind them how important attendance is AND a paper trail of their student's attendance. Hard to be surprised that your kid has 10 absences if you get an email every month showing their status!

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