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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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…

    2 votes

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  9. 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.

    2 votes

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  10. change filter/layout

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

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  11. 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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  12. 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.

    2 votes

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  13. 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.

    2 votes

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  14. substitute

    In Substitute Assignments, it would be great to have an option that limits access to attendance only. This way one day or temporary subs could take attendance like a teacher without needing a paper roster. This would also prevent them from having access to modifying student grades.

    2 votes

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  15. Changes to Bar Code Report

    Option to print the Other ID on bar code label
    Additional label format options
    Ability to change the font size on the label

    2 votes

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  16. Do Not Report Report as Primary School to Ed-Fi

    I have beef with the "Do Not Report as Primary School to Ed-Fi" checkbox in the entry record. I would like to exclude these students in entity counts, when mass scheduling fees, and when mass scheduling students. There are several reports I would like to exclude them from as well. Having this option would be very helpful, thank you!! ;)

    2 votes

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  17. Mass Change Billing Detail Dates

    Under Administration > Fee Management > Setup > Utilities > Mass Change Billing Detail Dates we need the ability to select multiple Bill Codes to change the Due Date. Currently you can only select one code at a time.

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  18. Add student PA Secure ID to Keystone Exam Report

    In order to upload info into the PGT Act 158 Portal, student ID is required. The keystone exam report, under test score reports, only gives the student name. I tried data-mining, but the format of the Keystone Exam Report is much closer to what is needed.

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  19. Food Service Reporting and Proc Lists

    It would be wonderful if there was a way to create a Processing List of Food Service Payors (either inactive or active - ability to choose). This would be helpful if you need to use this payor list in other areas of the software. Currently, I needed this list of Inactive payors with balances to find out when the family left the district. It doesn't work to use data mining as there are multiple siblings and multiple withdrawal dates, etc.

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  20. USE OF TEAMS IN REPORTS-ATTENDANCE

    In Day Summary Report I need to print this out by Team but can only print it out by grade. If you can add the option to print by Team it would save me a lot of work. Right now I have to use a Processing List for each Team and we have 10 Teams. There are other reports that we can't use for Teams as well that if added would be great and save time and trouble.

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