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Student Management Suite

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  1. 504 Indicator

    Our special education department has requested that when hovering over the 504 indicator that the student's impairment is shown for quick reference.

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    0 comments  ·  Section 504  ·  Admin →
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  2. 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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  3. State Reporting Extract Should Report SE Exit with Program Code

    All Student Special Ed information including Program and Disability should report in the collection following the student's SE Exit.

    This is required by the State Of Michigan.

    Currently this information must be manually added to the Maintain area or directly in MSDS.

    Please expedite this change.

    2 votes

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  4. ADD A REFRESH BUTTON ON THE "SUBSTITUTE ASSIGNMENTS" TAB

    ADD A REFRESH BUTTON OR UPDATE BUTTON ON THE 'SUBSTITUTE ASSIGNMENTS '

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  5. Career Plan – Remove both semester courses with one click

    We are setup with semester courses which are grouped when displayed on the plan. When making a schedule change and removing a course, we click the “drop down” on the group and then “Remove <course> from the plan” twice. We would like to click this once and have it remove both semesters at the same time.

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  6. customize columns as in filters for ALL screens especially office to class/activities.

    Please make all the windows adjustable to a custom view. Column width is the biggest issue. Especiall in the "office to class/activies. There are many, almost all windows are adjustable, but they do not stay that way from student to student etc. Since we all use different info and have different amount of class periods we don't have to continue to adjust and modify around columns we don't use.https://skyward.maps.k12.wi.us/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsSky/satndbrws019.w

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  7. Staff Crosswalk Between HR & Student Management

    For those of us who have combined databases, it would be really helpful if the staff information for their State/WISEid and DPI Educator File Number (Entity ID) would automatically crosswalk/populate from their HR information when we add the person to the staff list in Student Management. A lot of other useful information copies over from HR when we add the person as staff on the SM side. This would save a lot of time & double entry since we have to have this information on their SM record for state reporting (course associations)

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  8. When marking time slots attended, it would be nice to have a symbol or something to make it easier from the calendar view.

    When you look at the appointment slots on the calendar view, it would be helpful if there was a symbol or something that would show up after the slot was marked as attended /no show.
    It is tricky to keep track of the ones that have been marked as you have to click into the slot to open up the dialogue box.

    2 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Conferences  ·  Admin →
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  9. n the diabetes care log, it is required to enter a blood glucose number. We have situations in which the glucometer reads "high". This ind

    In the diabetes care log, it is required to enter a blood glucose number. We have situations in which the glucometer reads "high". This indicates the blood glucose is too high to be read by the meter. Can you add a box that says "glucometer reading high"? We are unable to record a value when it reads high, but we need to document the meter reading.

    2 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Health  ·  Admin →
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  10. Food Service

    Food Service to help meet the new Verification Summary Report with ISBE 2023.
    They are now asking for students that have extension of benefits. If we could have in WS\FS\PM\PA customer control records at field that allows us to mark as extended benefits.
    They are also not wanting the REDUCED MEDICAID directly certified students to pull into the verification. They do however want to know the number of students individually receiving the benefit.

    2 votes

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  11. watercolor

    It would be nice if there was a watercolor feature to add to Custom Forms when used for student forms such as a Certified Compulsory Attendance form or Transcripts when printed as Unofficial.

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  12. mobility code support

    Please add utilities to allow the mass add/removal of mobility codes from Entry/Withdrawal records. Ideally, I should be able to specify a date range, and optionally a withdrawal code and a mobility code to be entered if the criteria are met. Also, making the mobility code available to data mining would be very helpful as well. Affects: PA State Reporting

    2 votes

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  13. email

    Please make student's current teacher and all admininstration, actually all staff available to see a screen by using an email staff button feature as used in certain fields. This would be great especially for attendance and discipline.
    Thank you,

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  14. screen personalization as in with filters

    Please consider making the individual screens adustable to personal preference. Such as the width of the columns and the order in which the columns are displayed. Just like in the filter settings. I guess in a nutshell, please make all screens filter friendly. It would be such a great help in viewing especially since the whole screens do not show and we may not use each columns info. I know I can adjust them manually but it needs to be done each time the screen comes up.
    Very much needed in attendance by activity and assigning substitutes in the staff…

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  15. Please ADD "Select All"/"Check Boxes" Option when Cloning Events Across Entities

    In WS/EA/GB/ST/PS/UT/CE, please add the option to "Select All", "Unselect All", and check boxes. We have one teacher at each grade level create all events for Lang Arts and Math in their Gradebooks. Then, we clone those to all other teachers, at fourteen elementary schools. At one grade level, I'm having to manually "Select" then "Add" 68 classes in this process.

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  16. change filter/layout

    be able to change filter/layout in all screens to benefit our usage in student management

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  17. Adding guardian information to Educator Access

    The teachers are not able to view the boxes for the custodial parent and pick up. The parents have to be added for their educational rights in the family section, however the teachers cannot see any notes or if the custodial/pick up boxes are checked. Therefore could release a child to the non-custodial parent without knowing that they didn't have custody. This is a legal issue that needs to be corrected as soon as possible.

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  18. Mobile ID Card - Make available to parents in Skyward Family Access mobile app

    PLEASE make the Mobile ID Card for students available so that it can be enabled on the Family Access side for the Parent App! We need this for the ability to scan when parents come to pick up their students early or in the event of a reunification event as well as many other uses. Thank you!

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  19. Updating Staff information (like SSN)

    It would be nice if there were more options when it comes to updating staff information. I would like to delete all the SSNs for all staff in particular, but right now that is a manual task.

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  20. Mass add payment plans from a processing list

    Mass add payment plans from a processing list, currently have to do this one by one per student account.

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