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Student Management Suite

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  1. Student Browse - Advisor Field cut off

    WS\ST\ST Student Browse - School Information Fields

    Advisor field is cut off
    In the Student Browse > General Profile View, the Advisor name is cut off.

    Please expand the field to include the entire content

    Please also expand all the fields in Student Brown\Profile\School Information (the email address field was expanded in 2020) but the rest need to be as well

    This is the name students and parents see in Family Access so if it's cut off it is confusing

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  2. family information

    In the family information section where there are the boxes for CBC, Cust, and Pick, can you add a box for placement as well. We are running into the issue with some staff misinterpreting that custody means the right to make educational decisions vs when it's only for placement purposes (where the child is living). This would be VERY beneficial for the schools and staff that work with said students and sped paperwork.

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  3. AI Chatbot for Skyward Instructions (not student data related)

    Complex systems like SMS benefit from dedicated AI Chatbots. Searching directions using keywords results in dozens of sets of long and often redundant directions and the keywords used in the search do not always pull the correct set of directions. AI chatbots can help find answers and provide links to further information very efficiently. It can customize responses as it learns the user's role in the district and how SMS is set up for them (e.g. a teacher using secondary or standards based grading). It could give suggestions of features the user didn't know to ask about and give feedback…

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  4. Flexibility in listing absences in attendance letters

    When creating custom attendance letters, tables listing student absences must currently match the absence codes used in the threshold to generate those letters. I request the flexibility to trigger letters based on specific absence types (e.g., unexcused only) while displaying all absence types (both excused and unexcused) in the letter itself.

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  5. Buddy Blocker and/or lock certain classes/blocks

    As we get ready for future scheduling, can you check with the Skyward rep to see if 2 features are available for us to use:

    1. Student Constraints (Buddy Blocker) - is there a feature in Skyward that allows us to identify students that should not be placed together? Even further, is there a feature to indicate a soft block (admin recommendation as students are disruptive together in class) or a hard lock (must be seperated due to fights/restraining orders, etc). I see information about creating teams, but I am unsure how that would work at the high school where we…

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  6. Edit UID on TN/NCLB

    Can the option to edit the TN Unique ID field on the TN/NCLB screen be allowed? This field is currently not editable. At times students have a legacy State ID not matching the Unique ID as they should. If we find the correct match per the Ed-Fi > Request Individual IDs, we cannot select it since the student already been assigned the wrong one. Being able to update the UID to match correctly would be very helpful.

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  7. Allow more than one concurrent enrollment statuses on a students KIDS data.

    Allow more than one concurrent enrollment statuses on a students KIDS data. I have several students this semester that are enrolled in college classes through our community college and also taking tech classes through the technical college. It only allows me to have one status. So when it comes to our ENRL, right now, I can only enter one of these criteria, not both. It would be nice to have this shown on the students records for KIDS reporting.

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  8. Comments on Health Condition indicator at a certain security level for Student Indicator

    Allow all members of the Student Management group to view comments on Health Conditions indicated by the Health Condition indicator at a specific security level for Student Indicators without giving access to the entire students' IHP.

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  9. Remove 0.00 when importing a blank percentile score into Test Scores

    When importing test scores that have a blank percentile value, 0.00 becomes the value in the field instead of just remaining blank. This doesn't look very clear, as all other fields are blank except the percentile field. Would love to see a blank remain a blank in Skyward. See example.

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  10. Request from teacher: Change the symbol in the gradebook for 'no count' assignments so that it is different from 'missing' assignments. They

    change the symbol in the gradebook for 'no count' assignments so that it is different from 'missing' assignments. They currently both have a star. It would assist with us needing to go back in to update missing assignments. Seeing a different symbol for 'no count' we would know that we did not have any scores for that assignment that needed to be updated. Thank you for the consideration.

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  11. The Flex Report, under Grading Reports, currently only looks at the current year. Can we have it pull last years.

    The Flex Report, located under Grading Reports, currently only displays data for the current year. Can we have it pull last year's data?

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  12. Page Break

    Please insert a page break on forms that require signatures - P-1, ER-2A and ER-2B

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  13. Online Assignments- Lock Screen

    It would be amazing if we could lock down the screen/browser for online assignments. With all the AI out there, being able to lock it while students are accessing would be incredibly helpful!

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  14. 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.

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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