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Student Management Suite

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  1. Mass Export Report Cards with a Custom Filename Format

    In order to import or share student report cards into some of our other software, the vendors require the report card files to have the filename as either the student ID (Other ID) or student name (LastFirst), so it would be helpful to have these options when exporting from Skyward.

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  2. Add Course Substitution Option to Grad Reqs

    Under coursework requirement area - WS\ST\TB\GQ\TB\GQ

    It would be helpful if in addition to the options to manually add coursework, that there also be an option to add coursework being used for substitutions. Using the picture as a reference, an S can be added to the options to choose from if needing to substitute a course.

    For example, a student in Special Education may have a LOTE substitution for graduation. I would like to have the ability to add courses designated as General Electives to Texas Graduation areas of LOTE and Physical Education as these are the areas where students…

    3 votes

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  3. service call contact preference email default

    I think it would be nice if you could make the default for "contact preference" to be email instead of phone when submitting customer access requests (aka service calls) to Skyward. I would almost always prefer to have Skyward attempt via email first but always forget to change the option from phone to email before submitting.

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  4. Add YTD Earned Credits as option to Custom Report Card

    Would be helpful to have 'YTD credits earned' as an option under GPA and Credits in the Custom Report Card.

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  5. Allow Special Characters in names - for example - Zoë - right now we can enter it disappears as soon as you leave the field.

    Allow Special Characters in names - for example - Zoë - right now we can enter the ë but it disappears as soon as you leave the field.

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  6. Import Schools where Transcript Sent

    Update skybuild imports to include schools where transcripts were sent information.

    Date Sent
    School Name

    We have high school campuses using other applications like Naviance and Career Cruising to send transcripts however we need to import the schools sent information back to Skyward transcripts tab for historical purposes.

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  7. Medicaid Area in Student Management/Student Profile

    We would like to see the Medicaid tab listed under Student Managment/Student/Student Profile/Health. Our nurses are in here adding medication and office visits more than they are in the Office/Health Records/Student Profile area.

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  8. make the all day check mark in family access absent request unchecked by default?

    The ability to make the all day check mark in family access absent request unchecked by default?

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  9. Add All Entry and Withdraw dates to the transcript

    Need the ability to add all Entry and Withdraw dates for the student on the custom transcript for the entire time the student was enrolled in the district regardless of what school the are currently active in.

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  10. Do Not Report to Ed-Fi - Enrollment Record

    We need a "Do Not Report to Ed-Fi" box on the E/W entry page so certain entity enrollments can be ignored for the Ed-Fi sync.

    Situation: we have an entity that is our alternative school. We enroll students from our distirct as well as neighboring districts. We need to report the students from the other districts for attendance purposes, so we gave the entity our HS DOE number. This causes issues when our students enroll or withdraw from this entity. Quite a few of our students are only taking a class or two, so they are enrolled in both our…

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  11. Add period and total minutes to extracted data FTE report

    it would be helpful to have the classes listed on the FTE student schedules from the maintain in period number order and to add the period number to the report. It would also be helpful to total the minutes for each student in addition to totaling the FTE.

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  12. Give more flexibility to naming of periods in Bell schedule

    Give more flexibility to naming of periods in Bell schedule. Most of our high schools have a short period at some time during the day, so if it was between 2nd and 3rd period they might call it 3a. Or some schools would like to call it "Patriot time" or "Prime time". They don't want it to be the zero period and show up out of order. Or maybe a way to default student schedule to sort by meet times.

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  13. Course requests configuration - add message

    I would like to be able to add a text message on the course Selection Screen in Family Access.

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  14. Add field for youngest child

    It would be very helpful to have a field to indicate whether a student is the youngest child or not.

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  15. Report Legal Name to Ed-Fi - add checkbox field in data mining

    PLEASE add the "Report Legal Name to Ed-Fi" checkbox as a Yes/No option to choose in data mining so that we can find inconsistencies without having to stare and compare as to which names have changed. Thank you!

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  16. Add National Recognition Program to FTE/Diploma Tab

    College Board has added a new National Recognition Program. We would like it added to the FTE/Diploma tab in Student Management under the National Merit Scholar selection. It would need a drop down box with four selections:
    African American Recognition Program
    Hispanic Recognition Program
    Indigenous Recognition Program
    Rural and Small Town Recognition Program

    File from the College Board is attached as well as an image of the FTE/Diploma tab with the area we would like it added to.

    3 votes

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  17. The student PIN number needs to be added to Skybuild import and export especailly since TN has been moving away from SSN to PIN numbers.

    TN Dept of ED had directed TN schools to move from SSN to local generated PIN numbers. Skybuild needs to have the PIN number added as field option.

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  18. 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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  19. CAREER PLAN - Identifying the class from AP/Honors/Regular better by name and weight classification/add course number too.

    CAREER PLAN -- It would be VERY helpful if in the Career Plan screen, where the name of the class shows, if either the full name shows or the shortened name of the class shows, and the course numbers. It is not helpful to see a partial name because you cannot see if it is an Honors class or not. We typically have the course code reflect if it is an honors class, as well as having the word or at least the letter 'H' tacked on to reflect that it is honors. Also, in the weight area, the first…

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  20. PA: Economically Disadvantaged record start or end created when lunch code effective date changes

    When lunch codes change, so does the Economically Disadvantaged special programs record. Unfortunately, one does not "trigger" the other. Since you cannot schedule a task for mass adding a special programs ED record, you cannot fully automate the process. If you eliminate the process of Previewing then Updating then it can be a scheduled task. OR add economically disadvantaged to your list of importable program type. Currently, you can only import immigration status and method of instruction. SEE ATTACHMENT

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