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  1. Obligations Visible in Family Access

    Need parents to be able to see obligations in FA so that it can't be said that they didn't know or weren't informed.
    Without parent being able to see them campus must send out constant reminders. Being able to tell parents that their obligations are always accessible would assist campuses in communicating to parents.

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  2. Data Mining Reports posting to Family Access

    Security setting in Data Mining reports posting to Family Access. We are requesting a warning and confirmation page when someone runs a data mining report that will get posted to Family Access. Currently if someone is not sure what they are doing they can post information to Family Access without realizing it. This can be done either by them marking Family Access in a data mining report they built or simply by running someone elses data mining report (to see what it is pulling) and not realizing the report is set to print on family access. It would be nice…

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  3. update all areas to use the Gender Identity

    The gradebook area is still hard coded based on the traditional gender field in Skyward. The gender identity is shown when viewing the student information but the main screen is still based on the traditional field. Please update all areas in the software to use the Gender Identity (if present) instead of the Gender field. It is very confusing to see different genders depending on where you are in the software.
    All areas of the software will use the Gender Identity if the field is filled in.

    37 votes

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  4. Allow Attachments from Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc.

    Ability add attachments that aren't first uploaded into Skyward. We don't have Word or Excel on most of our Staff computers so downloading an attachment to view it does no good for most of our users.

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  5. Add option to use Processing List to turn off schedules in Family/Student Access.

    In the Entity Configuration for Family/Student Access, you can turn schedules off for selected students. It would be helpful to be able to use a Processing List rather than selecting one-by-one.

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  6. Allow parents to customize their food service low balance notifications

    Parents should have the ability to customize food service low balance alerts in Family access.
    Currently this is controlled by checking a box to allow guardians to subscribe to food service low balance notifications in District User Settings, and then entering an amount for the low balance. We would instead like this low balance amount to be moved to Family access, so that when a parent checks the box to subscribe to the low balance notifications, they can also choose a custom amount for the low balance.

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  7. Medical Grade Override Hassle

    We have noticed that when the Medical override is used for a quarter that the FINAL calculation does not take the override into consideration for final average.

    If there are 30 assignments before a Medical is given then the teacher needs to go through and set all 30 assignments to NO COUNT.

    It would seem that applying a Medical override should do just that...Override. Override the assignments so they do not count for or against the student who now is receiving a grade override.

    Either offer a utility that allows teachers to mark all assignments in term as no count…

    36 votes

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  8. Allow additional grade ranges on Course Master

    The course master only allows a range of -02 - 12 when entering grade ranges for a course. Update it so that it accepts more values.

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  9. 2nd Family Conference Scheduling

    Teaching staff is requesting that ONLY 1ST Family/Guardians be allowed to schedule conferences. Currently every guardian attached to the student has the ability to schedule. This creates multiple teacher conferences for the same child and unfortunately the parents that can't get along twist their meeting information and use it against the other effectively putting the child and teacher in the middle. It also takes a conference slot from availablity and forces the teacher to have virtually the same meeting twice.
    The option to limit registration to Family 1 already exists. It would be very helpful to have that option in…

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  10. Add Link to use WISEid in Portfolio Importer

    Request to add "Link to" option for WiseID for Portfolio Importer. We attach the .pdf ISR reports for assessments to the student's portfolio. In order to do this in mass we rename the files to the student's ID that is available either in the file name (NWEA) or on the page : Forward ACT Aspire. Forward uses the student's NameID (the Skyward ID that is sent to the state) and ACT Aspire used the WiseID.
    It is easy to rename the files from a field on the report with inexpensive software. For the ACT Aspire report renaming it to the…

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  11. Add the ability to export Education Milestones

    Skybuild export does not include the option to export Education Milestones. The Skybuild import includes these fields to import data as well as DataMining also includes this data. Would like these same fields to be added to the export option.

    This would allow us to export the Education Milestone data.

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  12. Make Tardies turn different color than Absences

    When the teacher is taking attendance tardies turn red just like absences. It would be easier to distinguish the tardies from the absences if the tardies turned a different color like yellow.
    This would make it easier for teacher to make sure they have marked the students correctly. Looking at the screen if they see yellow and no students are tardy they would know immediately that the student was marked incorrectly.

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  13. NSOE mobile app

    The NSOE custom forms need to be made into an app or "mobile" so that parents can fill out the forms on a phone. It is extremely difficult for a lot of people that only have a tablet or phone and who don't have a regular workstation or laptop to fill out the forms.

    35 votes

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  14. Extract students WITH PASECURE IDs

    Goal: Ease of making corrections.

    If there is a need for correction ie name change; birthdate typo; gender reassignment etc. we should have an export file created to re-upload to PA Secure ID to make the correction.
    Currently we can only pull student data if the PA Secure ID is missing.

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  15. Medication inventory read quanity

    Want the inventory section of the medication profile to read quantity not milligrams as not all medications come in MG... We count per pill not by milligrams. or have a drop down for mL for liquid meds and pills for pill form medications.
    clarification: in the medical field when we do inventory counts we count the number of tablets not the number of milligrams or puffs (inhalers). So when you add a medication inventory we would like the option to pick capsules tablets puffs or milliliters. We don't want the inventory to count milligrams or what we put in the…

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  16. Enable Families to enter vaccination information

    To reduce data entry and enable more electronic processing please create a way for families to enter new vaccination information - either as an option in Online Registration or as an item in Family Access similar to what is available in NSOE.
    Similar to NSOE families can enter their student's vaccination records instead of having nursing staff enter all. This is a nice feature in NSOE but not all vaccinations are done at the time of the NSOE entry and there is no way for parents to go back in and add them later OR add future required vaccinations.

    35 votes

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  17. parent notification

    I would like to request that rather than a number pre-populating when a contact is selected as "notified" (in Office Visit) that we are able to choose from the list of numbers listed for that emergency contact and the option to choose email if we have emailed parents. The option to chart multiple contacts would also be helpful as custody situations. As it currently functions the system pulls in the first number for the contact. The ability to select the appropriate number we called is extremely important as we need to be able to properly identify the number that we…

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  18. Auto Calculate Performance Acknowledgements

    Automatically Calculate Performance Acknowledgements.
    Create a program to automatically calculate performance acknowledgements. This was done by another district to use as an example. Please see attached handout from their TSUG session as well as the SSIS packages they are using.

    35 votes

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  19. check obligations before verification

    It would be helpful if the system would warn that there are unmet obligations in online registration.

    35 votes

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  20. NSOE in Family Access - entity specific

    Would like a option to be able to disable New Student Online enrollment in Family access for each entity. Making it entity specific.
    Could this me accomplished by adding it to Family Access > Setting > Configuration > Entity Setup like the others we can enable and disable.

    35 votes

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