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Student Management Suite

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  1. Two (2) Signature (Administered By) Fields for Medications

    Our nurses have indicated that TWO(2) signatures are required for administering medications. We need to have two places for Administered by to be in compliance with regulations.

    3 votes

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  2. Mass Change Receive Forms

    I'd like an option to run a utility to mass change family flags to receive forms.

    3 votes

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  3. SkyScan Install Options

    Update the SkyScan installer to support command line switches including the silent install. This would allow us to push the installation and not have to manually install it.

    3 votes

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  4. Increase New Student Online Enrollment Clarification/Field Sizes

    I am currently setting up New Student Online Enrollment for our school district and when I explain the process on the parent side to college educated people I have to repeatedly explain that the New Student Online Enrollment is in reality (for our school process, I understand this could be the only step for enrollment for new students) more like an application, which we verify, and then they would completed the Student Registration. I wish there were more characters under the General Application Options "Rename "New Student Online Enrollment" to: New Student Online Enrollment Application to help clarify this process…

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  5. Upload button for POR when parents request Student Info change

    Add the feature for parents to upload a new proof of residency or an attachment from the screen where they are requesting the change in Family Access. We do not make the change without documentation so when we see it in approvals, we need to look up student and contact parent. The ability to add a free form message would be helpful as well or a pop up letting them know a new POR will be required.

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  6. Mass Update At Risk Field

    Currently we can only mass add one record to our At Risk field. The state of KS has up to 12 options to check that qualifies a student for At Risk. Once we mass add a category ie ESOL if we get a list of another indicator later ie Migrant we can do a mass add, but it will only pull in those that aren't already marked. We then have to go in to each student and mark them individually. In our district we have several thousand ESOL, several thousand students who are marked under the Dyslexia screener and almost…

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  7. Add student / state / alphakey ids to the monthly/quarterly report

    There are currently no student ids for the monthly/quarterly report. Any id would be a wonderful addition to be able to compare against state files for chronic attendance. Thank you!

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  8. SMS 2.0 Base ADM Report by student in Excel Format

    Base ADM Report by Student – exportable to Excel. At TDASC we were offered ideas on how to reconcile ADM to SOWRD on individual student basis. It seems that the other State SIS vendors already offer this report in Excel. The report should include the individual student [EdFi ID] and the individual student ADM per each reporting period. This Excel Export would be extremely beneficial to reconcile ADM to the State System. The exact same report is available now in SOWRD. I have attached the SOWRD headers.

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  9. Ability to run Voc Ed hours and Daily Register for a single student

    It would be super helpful to have the ability to run Voc Ed Hrs utility and Daily Register by student(s) so that, when making corrections to a student or just a few students, you would not have to run for the entire grade level or campus to update the student details to Ed-Fi - especially with the new ATND submissions every six weeks.

    2 votes

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  10. Student Profile, Guidance Tab, add Visit Reason to Column Displays

    Student Profile, Guidance Tab, add Visit Reason to Column Displays
    Administration is requesting Visit Reason to be added (less clicks and ease of viewing an important field)

    2 votes

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  11. Designated report for Family custom forms

    As there is a designated report for Student custom forms, there needs to be one for Family custom forms.

    Right now, there is only the ability to pull data for family custom forms via Data Mining.

    Having a report that will allow schools to print all completed forms or more easily pull the data from those submitted forms.

    2 votes

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  12. pLEASE ADD the state id to the Directors monthly Vocational Class FTE report so we can compare it to SWORD/EDFI for TN

    Please add the state id to the Directors monthly Vocational Class FTE report so we can compare it to SWORD/EDFI for TN. Otherwise, we have to go through multiple conversions to find a common key. This is not a wish, this is really necessary to do the job.

    2 votes

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  13. update parent phone number only

    Security update to this menu path WS\ST\TB\FA\FA

    The update would allow the edit of a guardian(s) phone number view only access for the address
    We only want select staff to change addresses but if we take away this security it takes away the ability to edit guardian(s) phone numbers too.

    2 votes

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  14. Separate Waiver Code for LEP and ESL

    When a student is EB because of a waiver, they can be waivered for LEP or ESL. Right now there is one radio button for both LEP and ESL waivers. This does not allow us to create an indicator based on if the student is waivered for LEP or for ESL. It would be helpful if these were separated so we can create a student indicator for a student with a waiver for LEP separately from a student with a waiver for ESL.

    2 votes

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  15. 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

    2 votes

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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