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Student Management Suite

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  1. Students Current Scheduling - allow filtering of dropped courses

    Include a "dropped" field in the actual List View so that Dropped Courses can be Filtered out. Will make it much cleaner for counselors to view and at the same time easier to match with Student Fees. I realize they are color coded, but it still junks up the schedule.

    4 votes

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  2. Students Current Scheduling - allow filtering of dropped courses

    Include a "dropped" field in the actual List View so that Dropped Courses can be Filtered out. Will make it much cleaner for counselors to view and at the same time easier to match with Student Fees.

    4 votes

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  3. 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.

    4 votes

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  4. setting to always drop and never delete courses

    Could there be a setting to restrict end users to always drop and never delete a course when changing a students schedule? Deleting a course rather than dropping it causes problems in several of our outside programs and it still happens even though we have tried to educate people to always drop and never delete.

    4 votes

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  5. option to exclude a calendar on the CTE Contact Hours utility

    I think it was last year or maybe year before that TEA requires a calendar with instructional type DAEP ... our DAEP is not its own entity, it is a "program" so students remain in their home entity and get a schedule change to be with DAEP teachers ............. so recently I've realized that instead of exluding LOTS of DAEP sections in the contact hours utility ... it would be a lot simpler and cleaner to specify our AEP calendar to exclude those students from getting contact hours while they are at DAEP

    4 votes

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  6. Parent approval for student requested courses via Family Access

    When a student enters their course requests, to have it go to the parent in family access for approval, before it goes to the school. Instead of having to print the course request sheet and send home for signature, allow the parents to sign in and approve the course requests via Family Access.

    3 votes

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  7. 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.

    3 votes

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  8. alternate student name

    Is it possible to have a space for a student's preferred name and run reports using the preferred name? We have several students using different names than their birth name in Skyward and it would be amazing if we can see their preferred name so we are not dead naming them.

    3 votes

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  9. Search by legal name

    It would be great if we could search for a student by either their legal name OR other name and have it show up without having to go into Student Filters.

    Sometimes it is hard to remember which is the legal vs other OR if a student even has a different legal name that we need to be looking up by.

    3 votes

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  10. Add Utility to Mass Add Alternate Teachers

    Would be nice to have the ability to Mass Add Alternate Teachers to several sections of a course at a time. We need to add alternates for Title Classes so teachers are able to see student information for Acadience and other software, so to be able to add one teacher to a large group of course sections would be ideal.

    3 votes

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  11. Distribute Student Demographic Information for ?

    Under Distribut Student Demographic Information for?
    We have changed the labels for this area and the description when clicking on the ? does not match the new label. We need to be able to update the explanation of each field label.

    3 votes

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  12. Other name on health reports

    We need the ability to print both the legal name and other name on health reports. We have several students that have chosen other names due to their gender identity.

    3 votes

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  13. percentages

    When running the D/F list through the grading and attendance analysis, it would be great to be able to include percentages. We spend a lot of time going back into each individual student's profile to look up their percentage.

    3 votes

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  14. Sticky Notes

    It would be extremely beneficial (almost critical at times) to have a "sticky note" option in Students - Students Profile. Have an icon that resembles a notepad / sticky note pad that would allow you to create a personal individualized "note" on a selected students profile. The note would be only for you to see and is not part of the student record. The note would only be linked to one student. The note instantly opens every time you enter that students profile, until you decide to delete it. You can also add or delete the text in the open…

    3 votes

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  15. Secured User History Report

    It would be helpful to have a secured user detailed history report. We have internal audits and at times are questioned by state auditors for this information. A report that can be ran by secured user and for a date range that displays detailed history accessed by that user or an option to select user defined fields of access.

    3 votes

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  16. Switch School Year button for the "Room Codes".

    Since the Homeroom Codes have the ability to be updated by using the Switch School Year button, it would be very helpful to also include the Switch School Year for the room codes. The descriptor for the room codes can and do change from current to future.

    3 votes

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  17. 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.

    3 votes

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  18. 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!

    3 votes

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  19. Family Cap Report

    We would like to see a Family Cap report for Athletics. Currently the only way to see it is to run the fee code totals and it is not real pretty. I tried to convert it to Excel and sort it by Family Cap and it is a mess.
    Thank you,
    Jayne Huth, School District of Reedsburg

    3 votes

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  20. other name option in food service pos

    Have "Other Name" as a screen field option in Food Service POS. It is available for teacher gradebooks but not for the cafeteria.

    3 votes

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