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Student Management Suite

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  1. Allow fields created in one custom report to be pulled into another custom report.

    I understand user created fields in custom reports are unique to the individual form but having the ability to pull those fields into other reports would be a timesaver. Here is an example from our district.

    Parents list their previous school and contact information on one of our enrollment custom forms. I would like to pull those fields into another custom report - student record request, so creating a request for records could be an automated process.

    3 votes

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  2. Method of Instruction- Mass Delete Special Programs

    We currently use 4 different MOIs. We would like to be able to Mass Delete and Mass End a specific MOI. Currently, there is no option to do that- it is set up to mass delete or mass end on a specific date.

    3 votes

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  3. Ability to have individual custom forms emailed to a specific person once the form is completed in NSOE or back to school packet

    Ability to have individual custom forms emailed to a specific person once the form it completed in NSOE or back to school packet. As of now I think it can only be done when it is put out to families as separate form.

    3 votes

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  4. Auto Email Notification when a student is entered as MV so that the liaison can be notified and a email generated notifying them of their ri

    Auto Email Notification when a student is entered as homeless McKinney-Vento so that the liaison can be notified and a email generated notifying them of their rights automatically as required in the law

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  5. Add Student Ranges to Nightly Auto Email

    Nightly Auto Emails are being generated for inactive students long after they have left the district or graduated. Add Student Ranges functionality, like there is for Event Auto Email. See attached screen shots showing setup

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  6. Disable teacher gradebook viewing abilities for Semester 2

    While building Semester 2 schedules, it would be very beneficial to deactivate teacher viewing abilities in gradebooks for Semester 2 only. Building schedules is a process in which the Counselor assigns courses, then proceeds to shuffle the courses according to requirements that need to be met for each individual student. When teachers can view the schedules as the Counselor is beginning the process, we are bombarded with unnecessary emails and drop-ins. The capability to activate viewing abilities once the schedules are fairly settled, when teachers most definitely can offer input regarding students that may have been overlooked, would be far…

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  7. Clone Section 504 Data (excluding Dates) in Special Programs - Section 504

    When entering the Section 504 Data in Special Programs for each individual student, it would be nice to have a Clone Tab so it would clone all the information as far disabilities and Student Accommodations. Most of this information stays the same each year; but dates would need to change.

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  8. Ability to Mass Delete templates by date for Report Cards/Progress Reports

    I have so many Report Card/Progress Report Templates that must be deleted and i have to delete each one. I have one for the report card, one for the upload to the portfolio for RC, one for Progress Reports and one to mass upload to the portfolio. That is possibly 4-6 per year for all 40+ campuses.

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  9. october 1 count

    For the Oct 1 Child Count, if a student is NOT being counted due to different placements and another school is claiming them, it would be nice to have an "Exclude" button in entry/withdrawal similar to the "Exclude from 3rd Friday Count" button.

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  10. Starting grade for Standards Based Gradebook

    Standards based grade books should have the option to transfer in a starting grade like the secondary grade books allow. Many of our students transfer in from schools that do not use standards based report cards. It would be VERY helpful to allow teachers to enter a starting grade so parents have an ACCURATE idea of what their child's grades are. (My district uses both standards and a final percentage in our standards based report cards.)

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  11. Total College Credit Hours for students

    Currently, our counselors are calculating by hand and by looking at the transcript to determine if a student has enough college hours for an Associates upon high school graduation. It would be helpful if these course hours could be data mined out (current and historical classes) or have a report in Skyward that can be used to get this data.

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  12. Add Gender to the Identity tab

    It would help if gender were on the Identity tab so we could specify the gender per DOE reports.

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  13. Add the ability to sort by class for the student missing assignment report

    Allow the gradebook student missing assignment report to sort by a class and teacher, so this report can be run and given to the study hall/pride time teacher for that student to make sure those students know what they should be working on in study hall/Pride Time.

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  14. Student Locator

    It would be great to see the OTHER ID on the Student Locator. We have to go to another screen to get the other id.

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  15. Have "Other Name" from Student Profile as a field option in the Food Service POS module.

    When a student goes by a name other than their legal name, Food Service should be aware to so we use the correct name during meal service.

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  16. Would it be possible to create a field in the attendance entry by date screen to record the time and it would autofill the correct periods.

    Would it be possible to create a field in the attendance entry by date screen to enter the in/out time and it would autofill the correct periods based off the students schedule. We have 4 grade levels with different time periods. At this time, we need to go into the student record to confirm the period with the time for each student.

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  17. Prevent deletion of Evaluation

    From Student Services, Special Education, Student Profile, it is too easy to delete a student's Evaluation, which also deletes al IEPs, forms, placements and disabilities under that Evaluation.

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  18. Add Default Entity Column in Staff

    Please add the Entity ID column to the General Staff view... if I switch to the Entity view I don't get their title, email, name ID, DPI Ed #, etc... if I switch to the General view I don't get their Entity. Just need that one field on the General view. Thank you!!!

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  19. teacher license number and student state ID on same report

    We would like to be able to have a report with students' state ID number and teacher license number. This is required for our screener which is required by the state.

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  20. Academic Areas - Please take away cross-entity ability to see/edit/delete

    It would be very helpful if the academic areas was only available to view per entity, editing is only allowed in entity subject/skill was connected to, subjects/skills are only available for other entity to clone and not for them to edit or delete, and/or a "canned filter" is available to filter out other entities.

    Example: Currently, if our high school secretaries go into the academic areas they are able to edit and delete the subjects and skills entered in the elementary entity. If the high school adds academic areas they are mixed right in with the elementary ones. Also if…

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