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Student Management Suite

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  1. Please make "other name" exportable in the export file builder for use in outside applications like Smartpass

    We integrate with other apps via Clever and other tools and would like the option for "other name" to be an exportable field.

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  2. In the admin side of message center, it would be helpful for the office staff to

    be able to drill down into teachers classes directly to send information out to specific students so the information could be posted on specific students. We would like to be able to email and post this information without having to do processing lists each time we want to do this. At this point you can send the information to the entire class but cannot send to specific students. We are trying to automate a process and this would speed things up if they could select only the specific students and contact them both by messenger and email at the same…

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  3. Default Date for Parent Entered Requests

    It would be helpful to have the date field in the Parent Entered Requests screen to not default to the calendar day minus 7 days. We have several parents who are putting in requests many weeks ahead of time and we are not seeing those because the date is only a week back. It would be great if we could set it to the first day of school or a date of our choosing.

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  4. Option to add Outstanding Fee(s) to the custom report card

    Option to add Outstanding Fee(s) to the custom report card. This option is already available on the regular report card but not on the custom report card, so this should not be a very difficult PR.

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  5. Adding a parent / guardian name next to the home phone number when printing the field trip roster.

    We just started using the Field Trip Master this year for scheduling our field trips. When we print the roster for the field trips, it includes the home phone number, but does not include the parent or guardian's name next to the number. The emergency contacts show the name and the phone number, so I am hoping that a primary guardian name could be added as well to the report. This would help to know who we are contacting at the home number.

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  6. Attendance Labels on Standards Basic Report Card

    Need the ability to rename the "Excused" and "Unexcused" labels on the attendance summary within the Standards Basic Report Card area. Right now it is hard coded and we need the ability to rename Excused/Unexcused labels. For our district we want to reflect Funded/Unfunded instead.

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  7. District to District request multiple students via processing list or range by school code

    When using district to district, it would be very helpful to be able to pull in demographic and family information from our local districts for multiple students attending our Career Center. The ability to use a processing list or select a range by school code to request multiple students at once would be extremely beneficial.

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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.

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  11. Student Ranges/Filtering

    Add the option to show student records of students who have been enrolled in the entity at any time during the School/ESY year, regardless if they are currently inactive.

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  12. Prorate Schedules

    It would be helpful, and time saving, to be able to clone Prorate Schedules from Current Year Schedules to the New Year Schedules, as opposed to creating each individual Prorate Schedule for each individual entity.

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  13. 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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  14. Mass Change Transaction Records - Add Previous School Year Option

    WS\OF\CS\SS\PS\UT\TR - Adding the ability to select the previous school year for this utility would be very helpful in instances when dates need to be changed after end of year processing has taken place.

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  15. Adding the option to enter Field trips for previous school years

    It would be nice if you could add field trip information for previous school years

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  16. mfa

    Our teachers use Yubico security keys for multi factor authentication. Will this be an option for Skyward?

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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.

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  18. We would like to see additional buckets added to the Grade Proof sheets report. For example, we need to be able to include EOC buckets for

    We would like to see additional buckets added to the Grade Proof sheets report. For example, we need to be able to include EOC buckets on this report when we use it, on classes that the EOC is heavily or entirely weighted on.

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  19. The ability to clone gradebook events (standards gradebook) from year to year.

    We can clone the standards gradebook from year-to-year, why can't we clone the events too?

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  20. In Section Master, when looking within a section and clicking view roster, the student key, alphakey, is not an option to add. Could it be?

    In Section Master, when looking within a section and clicking view roster, the student key, alphakey, is not an option to add. Could it be? We are looking at the filters and it isn't there to choose.

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