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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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.

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  2. 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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  3. 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)

    3 votes

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  4. 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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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. Unrecorded Class Attendance Sort by Teacher Option

    Unrecorded Class Attendance can only be sorted by date. At the end of the year, in order to print a report by teacher (for principals), you must take it out to Excel and fill in every line with the date and day for every day in the school year. Otherwise, there is no option to sort by teacher. Either adding the option o sort by teacher or adding the date to every entry would resolve.

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Add date ranges for enrolled and dropped schedule class status to Grade and Attendance Analysis, Grade Input and Proof Sheet, Selected Grade

    Add date ranges for enrolled and dropped schedule class status to Grade and Attendance Analysis, Grade Input and Proof Sheet, Selected Grade Reports. So that registrars can put in a start and end date for students enrolled in a class. This would be useful when looking for missing grades for a term.

    3 votes

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. General Collection Data Extract

    When extracting for my General Collection, I'd like more filters to extract groups separately. For example, I'd like to be able to extract only the Special Education kiddos. Currently, I'm using a Processing List to do this, but it would be nice to have a few features built in.

    3 votes

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  16. Registrar Configuration

    We have discovered that staff can change the status of an approved application to WIP IF the student is Inactive. Our district does now want this to be an option. We would like to request an additional check box option to not allow staff to change the status of an approved application.

    Students
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    3 votes

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  17. 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!

    3 votes

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  18. SkyBuild import

    We would like to mass import Student PIN and Previous SSN field which is on TN/NCLB tab through Skybuild import.

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  19. Add Foster Care to Export File Builder

    Inside the SkyBuild under Special Programs there is no ability to pull the data inside the Foster Care Fields on a student's profile. We need to send this data out for some software/applications and it is not there. It has other programs like Homeless and LEP but Foster Care is missing. This would be super beneficial to be able export our student data in the SkyBuild.

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  20. Add Advisor Designation to Staff Info Screen

    We would like to request an "Advisor" staff designation be added to the staff information screen so staff members can be assigned the advisor role between entities without having to add the entity permission to the staff member. The counselor field is not always available on certain reports that campuses and district administrators use.

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