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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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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  2. Add Grade Year to the Range in Custom Forms NSOE

    We use a lot of custom forms and you can choose which forms a student fills out based on their grade. We as asking that you also add grad year as a range to define who can see the forms. When my 4K students are enrolling for next year their grade will be PK/EC and that is the same for all grade years after the current 4K so it does not show the forms correctly when a student is enrolling.

    35 votes

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Data Mining - File Name match Data Mining Report name

    It would be helpful and less confusing for our users if, the name of the Excel file we download would be the same as the Data Mining report name rather than something like SKR1857952J3N3827. When users look in their Downloads folder, they have to open each file to see what the data is.

    It also makes it difficult to remember which Data Mining report was actually used to generate the file.

    34 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. 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

    34 votes

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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. PIMS: Extract a list of multiple students

    Often I have multiple students that I need to extract PIMS data for. Currently the PIMS extract templates only all for ranges of students or 1 student at at time. Literally hours of time will be saved by PIMS administrators if a list of students could be extracted at a time. This is common functionality in other SIS systems.
    Add a "By Individual" range option and then an "Individual" button" that allows the user to build a list of students. This setup/functionality is already found throughout Skyward. i.e. The Student Information report (WS\ST\RE\SI)

    33 votes

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    Thank you for submitting and voting this Product Idea. I have attached a Skyward Help Doc to assist. Please let me know if you still require additional assistance. Thanks.

  20. Add Near & Far vision screening fields to Letters

    Merge fields in the letter only have Corrected and Uncorrected Right and Left eyes and is pulling the Far vision results. For the state of PA we need to specify the Near vision and Far vision fields for each eye corrected and uncorrectd and label and report them all. Need the Near vision fields added to the letter.

    Expected outcome is to have merge fields for PA districts for both Near Corrected Right and Left eye and Near Uncorrected Right and Left eye as well as the existing Far Corrected Right and Left eye and Far Uncorrected Right and Left…

    33 votes

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