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  1. NSOE - virtual signature block on the applicaiton

    The NSOE application needs a virtual signature block and date option for districts to add on their NSOE application for the parent to enter when they are filling out the application. A virtual signature is now acceptable by the ISD auditors. Currently have to print the application and get the parent to sign it or create a custom form which isn't a professional look for an application for enrollment.

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  2. Course Groups in Course Master Browse Screen

    We would like to see a column added to the Course Master browse screen for the Course Group assigned to the course. This will be helpful when preparing courses for the WI Direct Admit procedures. There is currently not an easy way to get an overview of which courses already have a Course Group assigned.

    2 votes

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  3. Ability to Clone a Medication Record

    It would be nice to be able to clone a Medication Record in cases where the dosage changes.

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  4. Child Restraint

    Our district would like to see a box under Child Restraint in both Special Programs and Special Ed where we can enter the name of the person doing the restraint.

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  5. Family Access Schedule Entity Configuration, create an option to choose specific year to change current or future schedule viewing options

    Under Family Access Schedule Entity Configuration, create an option to choose a specific year in order to change current or future schedule viewing options so that, for example, if we choose to 'hide teacher's name on class', for our students' future schedules, we can do so without affecting their current schedule.

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  6. 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.

    2 votes

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  7. Select Family Member/Emerg Contact shows Family names and Emergency Contact names in alphabetic order. Unfortunately the nurse does not know

    Select Family Member/Emerg Contact shows Family names and Emergency Contact names in alphabetic order. Unfortunately the nurse does not know which is which. Is there anyway to add a relationship column to this screen. This would help the correct person be contacted in a appropriate amount of time.

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  8. Display a preview of Food Service Application Letters

    Is it possible to have a preview of the Food Service Application letters prior to posting them to Family Access or emailing them to parents/guardians?

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  9. Comment section in nurse check in

    We are trying to improve the communication between teacher and nurse, especially with the littles at primary.
    When a teacher sends a student to the school nurse, they fill out a skyward form and it gives a very brief explanation of why i.e. "arm", "head", "leg", etc... Is there any way we could add a comment box to allow for more details to send to the nurse and maybe so the nurse may inform the teacher of further instructions?

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  10. 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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  11. scheduling constraints - specific section

    I know that we have the option for scheduling constraints for a student and a specific class/teacher. It would be amazing if that could be expanded to specific sections or other students. We are having more personal conflict issues that we need to separate students in classes. Much of the information is private/legal and can't be shared so often, inadvertently, one of us in the department changes a schedule and the students end up in the same class. This has been causing some serious issues. Please consider this idea in both SMS and Q.
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  12. Endorsement Option Sort Order

    Update the following 3 areas to use the endorsement option "Order-Num" column for the display sort order similar to how the tabs display in Endorsement Maintenance. If this is not an option them at least make them sort alphabetically.

    Family/Student Access > Endorsements > Add

    Student Profile > Grad Reqs > Endorsements > Update Declaration

    Student Profile > Grad Reqs > Endorsements > Add under the Endorsements Received section

    Entered [SC:6108057] and they said this is not possible, enter an enhancement request.

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  13. Health Conditions Codes

    When new health condition codes are added into the system, they do not automatically create a health flag/student indicator for the student.
    You have to go into advanced features and adjust the health student indicators at each entity to get the new conditions to flag.

    It would be great if any new health condition code that gets added, would automatically create a health student indicator.

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  14. Add a delete utility tool to delete orphaned courses and sections. This is available in Qmaltiv but is needed in SMS.

    Add a delete utility tool to delete orphaned courses and sections. This is available in Qmaltiv but is needed in SMS. We had a new staff member delete a course and because this utility tool is not available it continues to come up as a fatal for our Peims submissions.

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  15. Endorsement Earned Freeze

    The ability to "freeze" earned endorsements for graduated students in order to update and change curriculum codes without having to update 10 years worth of courses.

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  16. (Texas) Add Course Service ID to Endorsement Progress Screen

    With the addition of needing to have the programs of study, endorsements, and IBCs align with the correct PEIMS codes, it would be very helpful to have the PEIMS codes for courses on the Endorsement progress page of skyward. With it just having the local course code, it requires that we go back into the transcript if there is a course that we are unsure of the PEIS code to make sure the alignment is correct. It would same an immense amount of time to have all the pertinent information on one page.

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  17. Having the option when printing a student transcript to add any comments with the Award

    I spent a great deal of time putting all of the student activities into the system for each student over the years that they participated in. WIth that I also added the individual awards for that activity. Within the award template there is a comment section, which I used for various things like 1st Place, 2nd Place, Gold, Silver, Bronze etc. But after doing all of that I realized that it isnt't an option in printing a students transcript to include that comment anywhere. It should be listed as an option to print on the transcript. Please consider adding this…

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  18. Bus drivers writing referrals

    We would like to enable bus drivers to write referrals within Skyward. However, we do not want them to have access to sensitive information, such as the Primary Guardian details or phone numbers. Currently, we cannot restrict this information from their view. We would like to propose an edit that allows us to customize the bus drivers' view accordingly.

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  19. MCCC drop after this date should be sent to MCCC

    I just found out that we are required to enter a date for when grades should be sent after a drop for MCCC. Since I have many course lengths for each school, it is very time-intensive to change these dates each year by hand. It would be very helpful to have a process with year-end to enter those dates like we do when entering calendar dates. Or a utility to mass assign that date for terms across calendars and entities like we do for attendance days/workshop days/vacation days. Something where it isn't an individual update.

    2 votes

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  20. 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.

    2 votes

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