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Student Management Suite

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  1. Criminal Background

    It would be helpful if there was a box to enter if the person passed or failed their background checks along with the date the check was ran.

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  2. Student Educational Milestone screen set up to view like the Career Plan screen

    Student Educational Milestones screen set up to view like the Career Plan screen. Grade columns 9 - 10 - 11 -12 with educational milestones listed under the grade column. Detail milestone code, short description, Required to Grad? Y or N, date completed.

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  3. Adding State-EDE number (STN) to teacher Security Group

    Adding State-EDE number (STN) to teacher Educator Access Plus Tab. A majority of our testing software utilizes the student State-EDE number (STN). It would be beneficial if we could have the State-EDE number (STN) placed in another spot or allow access to ONLY the State-EDE number (STN) in the IN/NCLB tab or student profile. Teachers have access to the student's other ID and internal ID but not the STN which doesn't make sense. We do not allow teachers access to the IN/NCLB tab due to student SSNs being attached to that area.

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    0 comments  ·  Teacher Access  ·  Admin →
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  4. Transfer attendance to different course in the same period

    I would like to be able to transfer attendance between different courses that are offered during the same period when I do a schedule change, the same way I can do when switching sections of the same course. We offer combined classes that are regular and honors for a course, and students switch at the end of the semester to the honors section, and we need to transfer attendance although these are two different courses.

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  5. Family Access Food Service and Fee Management Paid By (parent name)

    Please add the parent name to the paid by, it just says 'Via Web'. We have split families and both parents have equal rights for the children, they want to see that they paid for food service or the fees. Even on the receipt it doesn't show who paid for it.

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  6. pd by in food service

    Nowhere in Food Service does it say who made a payment. It only says Via Web. It does in Fee Management Fee History: Webstore Payment made by (parent name). In Food Service it doesn't say that in the history. Please add this to the history.

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  7. Letter generation system for the health records area of Skyward

    This request was submitted to me by our health staff. "We need a letter option for dental exams. Skyward already has the ability to run reports, we just need to add the letter option. The dental report is located under Office-Health records-Reports-Dental.

    An example of this can be found under Office-Vaccinations-Report-Vaccination. There you can see Skyward has templates for Legal Letters. We use these templates constantly."

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  8. SBAA Cash Receipts

    I would like to see SBAA Cash Receipts have the flexibility as the Account Management Cash Receipts in changing column order and width in order to have the receipt date on the screen with other pertinent information and not out of sight to the left.

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  9. Student Access - Option to show Credits without GPA

    We would like the option to show earned, failed, and pending credits for students in Student Access, withOUT also making GPA's available to view.

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  10. I would like to automate when a work flow code is changed in NSOE to email the next person in the approval process

    We have a code ODT (out of district transfers) in the workflow process that the clerk will use when the NSOE application is ready for principal approval. I think it would be extremely helpful to have automated emails in the workflow process. When a particular code is used/changed an automated email would email the staff member next in the process that the application is awaiting their approval.

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  11. Payor Balance Notices - mailing address vs. physical address

    Please add programming logic to the system that will use the payor's mailing address if it exists in the system. Right now we are getting several of these letters returned because the system is using the physical address and not the mailing address.

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  12. Vision Screenings - It would be helpful if the students previous Lens Code would appear each time a new screening is added.

    It would be helpful if the students previous Lens Code would appear each time a new screening is added. It is difficult to check health conditions before each vision screening.

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  13. Mass change Web access based on grade level

    It would be helpful to be able to add/remove Web Access for students based on a grade level. We do not want our 4k-1 grade student to have Web Access on but would need to turn on Web access for 2nd grade.

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  14. Grading & Attendance Summary Report - Add Included Activities to Report

    This reports allows the user to choose certain activities, but the activity is not listed on the report. Adding the activity to the report will be very helpful when more than one activity is included. This will eliminate running the report per activity.

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  15. SkyScan

    PLEASE include a way to name a file from the SkyScan window when scanning.

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  16. Abdence Reasons in Subscibed attendance email

    In the subscribed automated email that goes out to parents from Skyward it would be very helpful to have the absence reason included in the email information.

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  17. We currently incentivize attendance from previous years in our waiver process for finals. Is there a way to set up what a student and parent

    We currently incentivize attendance from previous years in our waiver process for finals. Is there a way to set up what a student and parent sees in Student and Family Access which would include their entire history of attendance for all years they are in high school. Currently it only displays the attendance records for the current year. We would like a senior to be able to see their attendance records from their freshman, sophomore, junior as well as current senior year.

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  18. Idea: Add the local student ID to the At Risk Entry By Student screen so when we pull the spreadsheet we have it there.

    Add local ID to At-Risk Entry by student screen, and have a mass add and mass end for At-Risk criteria by processing list.

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  19. Automate the Immigrant Status Data Submission to WISE

    the data should automatically report to DPI/WISE if a student meets the 3 criteria of having an immigrant status. The criteria are: 1) age 3-21 as of the third Friday pupil count - we have DOB and know when the pupil count is each year so this can be automatically calculated 2) not born in the US - if another country is listed on the Birth History tab this can be automatically calculated and 3) in a US school for less than 3 full academic years - does not need to be consecutive years can be automatically calculated if the…

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  20. McKinney-Vento pop up when a family is exiting so that the conversation can be had about best placement and staying in school of origin

    McKinney-Vento pop up when a family is exiting so that the conversation can be had about best placement and staying in school of origin

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