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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. "All Students" preview screen

    When making changes for families and selecting "All Students," having an option to have a pop-up show the changes that will take place, along with a confirmation asking if you'd like to proceed. This could help cause fewer issues with changes being made and affecting other families/blended families.

    3 votes

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  3. We'd like a way for the bus number to populate in Student Access.

    In student access, not parent access, if the student could see the assigned bus number, it would save some headaches at school dismissal.

    3 votes

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  4. Allow Student Indicator for Threat Assessment on Offense or BTA in Special Programs

    It would be VERY great to have a Student Indicator available that is based on either the Discipline Offense record SSS Threat Assessment checkbox, or the Special Programs BTA record.
    Yes, there is a work around if you use the District Categories - BUT that requires more steps on already overworked staff and adds MORE chance of human error in data entry that may cascade into other areas.
    Please see attached document with screenshots.

    3 votes

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  5. Giving more flexibility when selecting students in SIS Exports

    It would be very helpful if we could use processing lists in addition to the range and individual student choice in SIS exports. Many times I have to correct data for groups of students and this would speed that up.

    3 votes

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  6. The login is already used

    Skyward is Assigning Other IDs already used by other students. Please fix this issue. This is probably due to students being merged and the ID becomes available, but then Skyward assigned the ID to a different student and we cant assign the ID and password to this new student. See error.

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  7. Family custom forms

    Skyward gives us the access to create a Parent custom Form so Families can fill out just one form per family, but we are unable to print the form. It would be nice to be able to print the Parent Custom Form we create too.

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  8. STAFF INFORMATION REPORT

    It would be nice if we could print the Teacher transaction dates on the report. These are very important for Texas State Reporting.

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  9. Attendance Tab - Add the option to select specific days of the week for reoccurring absences during a specific hour(s).

    If a student has an appointment during 7th and 8th hour every Thursday for three consecutive weeks, we have to choose each date, add in the attendance, save and then choose the next date. Being able to isolate specific class periods for specific days of the week within a date range, would make for a smoother process.

    3 votes

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  10. parent entered request

    Add the functionality to change the status of a Parent Entered Request in Attendance. Once a request is approved/denied, the request status can no longer be changed. It would be helpful to have access to change this status as needed.

    This button is found in a couple of different screens. Here's one area where it exists. Office > Attendance > Entry by Date. The button is located on the right side of the screen.

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  11. Have a setting in security to allow access only to active students

    We have some employee types, such as paras, that need limited information for students. We would like to be able to limit this access to Active students only. There is no need to see all students that ever attended that entity.

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  12. 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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  13. 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.

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  14. Have the ability for parents to select who is the primary person/contact in the male be listed first in the family contact screen.

    Families should have the ability to select who the primary person is in the household to receive various emails. Sometimes only the person listed first in the family receives documents, but the secondary does not.  Would be nice to have the ability to select who the primary person is for each task. For example. food service low balance alerts, grades, discipline, unpaid invoices, ect.

    3 votes

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. Hiding final grades in Family Access for standards gradebook

    It would be great if we could hide the final grade in family access for standards gradebook. New DOE rules, we have to send a final grade across for ALL courses. We are adding the P/F to report, but we do not include that on report cards. However we can't block it from family access. It makes no sense to parents because there is no pass or fail for elementary grades.

    3 votes

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  18. 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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  19. Roster Report Active Classes

    When Creating Template for printing of Class Roster would be good to have option to search for individual classes that have status of Active. Currently there is no filter for Status

    3 votes

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  20. 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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