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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Add ability to delete Message

    Please add a "Delete" button to Message Center. Users would like to be able to remove/delete a scheduled message prior to the deliver date/time. The button "Recall" is confusing to the end user. Thank you.

    35 votes

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  4. Custom Forms - Cloning Security

    We would like the ability to clone security attached to custom forms. Currently when a custom form is cloned security does not clone and has to be set up for each form.

    35 votes

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  5. Add LEP Y/N Option to Student Profile Tab

    I cannot count how many different reports I run using Data Mining or exports of data that need to go to third parties reports for grants administrative reports and reports for funding associated to students who are ELL. Skyward allows us to search for LEP Served but doesn't have a simple LEP (Y/N) field as it does for Special Education. Frankly I'm shocked this request hasn't come across a long time ago. Can this field get added to Student Profile? There's a Student Indicator that will show (assuming it's enabled) if a student is LEP but we can't use Data…

    35 votes

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  6. LETTER ATTENDANCE TYPE

    Attendance Letters are sent by TYPE code only. We need the ability to send Attendance Letters by Type AND/OR Reason Codes. TYPE It works great for unexcused absences... but when we use the letters for CREDIT DENIAL WARNING based on 90% attendance, we need to pull by REASONS instead of Type because the 90% reason includes excused absences (dr appt, college visits, bad weather, military enlistment visit, etc. etc.--there are many).

    34 votes

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  7. Year End

    It would be great to have one place to put in the calendar with holidays, begin and end terms, etc. and have it filter to any other area it needs to be.

    34 votes

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  8. ADA Report by Economic or Special Program Populations

    I have a request for an ADA report by Economic Status, can this be added and other special populations/programs as well?

    34 votes

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  9. additional hearing merge fields

    Texas state hearing screening laws require that students who fail their first hearing screening are rescreened. Please add additional hearing merge fields so that the hearing letters accurately print all of the screening results.
    See Texas hearing screening form M-40 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Additional hearing letter merge fields:

    --Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Rescreening entry Threshhold table

    --Rescreening entry Combined Results

    34 votes

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  10. Schedule Task with Preview

    For years I have had the Mass Delete Grades By Grade Bucket run as a 2 part Scheduled Task. The tasks that I had saved were no longer working so I created new templates to run the utility. However now from my Print Queue when I select the Task button "Schedule This" is not available to select. After submitting a Skyward service call I am told: "We recently changed an option to be able to schedule a process that has a preview. Any utility that has a preview at the beginning is no longer able to be scheduled. I apologize…

    34 votes

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  11. vision letter merge field additions

    Need Vision Letter Merge Fields for:

    --automated screening device

    --Need Merge Field for Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Need Merge Fields for Corrected Right and Corrected Left on Rescreening entry

    --Need Merge Fields for Uncorrected Right and Uncorrected Left on Rescreening Entry

    See state's vision screening form M-60 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Texas passed law in 2015 and expanded it in 2017 allowing students to be screened with an automated screening device. There is no Merge Field for a Vision Letter to indicate that the child was screened with an Automated Screening Device. The state requires that referral letters…

    34 votes

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  12. case load factoring using DPI number

    Currently the report looked at the Disability Code and Primary Disability (Y/N) - as the fields that should be included in a Case Load Factoring report. At this time the students disability and environmental code are not a factor. I am submitting this as an RFE as it would be beneficial to have this report in skyward to manage caseloads of staff. Currently we manually have to run a report like this then add all of the caseload factoring numbers to the students based on environmental code and grade. This is time consuming for all involved. This report could help…

    34 votes

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  13. Mass add health note

    Would love the option to add a health note but be able to have it chart in several children's files at once. So like a mass add medication but a mass add health note

    Ex. Scoliosis screening letter sent home via mail for parental response.

    Little Falls school in agreement as well.

    34 votes

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  14. Teacher lunch and preps on schedule

    Enable a course to be indicated that it is for a teacher schedule
    . On a course have in the drop down 'category' have Teacher Schedule. When you would select this you could have meets and assign teachers but not assign students. This would then enable the class to print on the teacher schedule.

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  15. Provide Skylert portal for staff and students

    We have staff members wishing to update their contact information in Skylert but are unable to do so. There should be a way for staff members to have access to a Skylert tab similar to what guardians are able to do now and be able to update their phone numbers and alerting categories all in one place.
    Students should also have this features. With the mass increase in student cell phone and the increased need to provide rapid communication to everyone we would like to be able to contact students via Skylert so we would like the students to be…

    34 votes

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  16. Custom Forms Need to Print Confidential Numbers

    When you print a custom form that pulls family phone numbers if they are flagged as confidential they print the word confidential. There needs to be added to options for editing Skyward Fields for Custom Forms like Data Mining the field for Phone should have a flag (check box) item to say 'Print Confidential Numbers.'

    34 votes

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  17. Add ability to look up student by first name

    We have kindergarten students coming through the lunch line who have issues with their last names. It would be helpful if the software would allow the lookup of a student by first name in addition to the last name that is currently available on the POS screens.
    Ability to lookup student by first name while in the POS screens

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  18. Fee Management Emails

    When emailing statements, it would be so helpful to have the option to email to both parents in family 1 - both families would be helpful as well
    It would be like the message center then, where you could choose who receives it.
    We have so many families where mom is listed as parent 2 but dad is the one getting the emails but never checks his email.

    33 votes

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  19. Message Center - Text Option

    Teachers would like to be able to communicate via text. More and more parents prefer a text over an email (or a phone call). In addition to this, many parents do not use/access their email. Please consider adding the option to text in Message Center.

    33 votes

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  20. RFE - Student Profile - Career/Technical Tab PIMS

    We need to have the CIP Code updated in the Student Profile Career/Technical Tab whenever a student changes their Technical Shop. It was discussed before that you were working on having the CIP Code update in the profile when we update the student schedule with the new technical class. The issue I am having is that when they do change a student's schedule they do not notify me so I can manually go in and change the career/technical tab for my PIMS Upload. Since I do not get notified of the changes some students are reported in the wrong technical…

    33 votes

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