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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. Gradebook Combination

    "We need a work around for the Combine Classes feature. Currently, it only works for courses with the same code. I (and many teachers at my school) have co-taught courses which are split into two grade books per period (half regular education course code, other half special education course code). I am unable to combine them, even though they are the same period/section. I assign the same material to both and grading is really difficult and time consuming because I have two sections of kids for each period I teach.

    For example, I would like to make 1404/001 (regular ed.…

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  2. Mass add tests with a default value using a processing list - WS/OF/CA/TS/UT/MU

    Would like to be able to mass add tests with a default value using a processing list. As students pass their IL and US Government tests (required), it would be nice to be able to mass add these by their Government class or by processing list with a default value of "Pass".

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  3. progress report attendance

    Currently, the progress report email to parents are counting the total periods missed by a student and not the days based off of the calendar. Would like to have an option for days based off of the calendar

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  4. Family Home Language

    The Home Language field has been causing issues during enrollment. If a family is marked as 835-Spanish that populates into the LEP Home Language for the student also. The LEP form for that student is all 211 - English, but it currently has 835 - Spanish. Now someone must remember to update that field. I think it would save time and errors if the two fields were not linked. If they were not linked there could be a field add to the student that would allow us to populate the Home Language from the enrollment form.

    Thanks,
    Donna

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  5. + attendance mark present only if in the correct place instead of anywhere

    Positive Attendance is based on the Period, not the Class. So students can scan into any device they want for the day but the Positive Attendance Log is what you use to catch those students and discipline them appropriately

    We would like a feature that only allows students to scan in and be marked present in the class they are schedule for.

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  6. SpEd ACT Form to mimic the Forward Form layout (with the dropdown options)

    This past year we worked with Skyward on the Forward Form to clean up the accommodations and designated supports to ONLY be able to choose options that apply to Wisconsin in the drop down. We put in a support ticket to see if we could do that same for the ACT Form. Skyward doesn't have any current plans to do so and advised that we submit an idea. Our Director / DAC, requested that we submit the idea in hopes they would change their mind and reconsider this option.

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  7. Add Button to View Application Letter at WS\ST\TB\FS\FS

    Having the ability to click a button and view an individual student's food service application on the food service tab would be very helpful by saving precious time.

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  8. Tech at Home --- Required Fields

    We have a district with a High Free and Reduced Population. Families move around a lot -- so circumstance change on internet / computer access. There is a field in NSOE -- but we are unable to make it Required. We also opened up the fields in Returning Student Registration - but families bypass this. So now my data isn't correct for the new year as we put an end date in for last year.

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    1 comment  ·  Family Access  ·  Admin →
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  9. default cursor to search field in all list screens

    currently when you open a list screen the cursor is no where. You have to click on the search field. It should automatically put the cursor there so I can start typing. It already does this on the student profile.

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  10. Add sort by Family ID for Student fee statements

    Please add a sort by Family ID when printing Student fee statements. We manually have to do this every year.

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  11. Would like to be able to view a student's Current English Proficiency Level in Educator Access Plus

    Would like teachers to be able to see a student's Current English Proficiency Level in Educator Access Plus.

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  12. Mass Fee Creation: Credits and Waivers Removal Utility

    It would be nice to have a Utility to Mass Delete/Reverse/Remove Credits and Waivers applied to students. We had to manually touch several hundred of our students to correct their book bills.

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  13. Interactive Scheduling Board Updates

    Option to change section name in interactive scheduling board when right clicking on the section chip and selecting "View/Update Class Details".

    When hovering over the section chip, add student counts.

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  14. Mass Fee Creation: Credits and Waivers BUG

    Our district participates in a Federal program that gives us ESSER funds that pays for certain fees on book bills for our students. Our Superintendent wants the fees displayed and that they were covered by these funds for parents to see. Skyward told us to use the Credits and Waivers utility under Mass Fee Creation. This worked fine on our first year last year, however this year we ran into major issues. We clone our fees every school year so they are the same. For some reason when we ran the utility this year if a student had an unpaid…

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  15. perfect attendance reports for specific periods ~ to compare what we have to submit to the state ~

    There seems to be ideas about this that are being ignored , I know each year we call about the submission we have to do for perfect attendance but cant check perfect attendance until we get the list of kids from the upload of the submission and have to check kids one by one . It seems skyward should have something that we could run by period for our secondary campuses that would elevate checking one by one

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  16. Stripe

    Have Skyward integrate with Stripe. We were told to purchase RevTrak for the Food Services module and then now we have to purchase the Fee Module for a separate fee. Please integrate with Stripe as Stripe has full API capabilities.

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  17. Textbook Quick Entry continuously scan without switching between fields

    Having the ability to continuously scan without clicking between the student and scan code fields.

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  18. allow overlapping enrollments

    In certain scenarios, it would be useful to be able to set certain Withdrawal codes to be able to allow overlapping enrollments. For example, if an enrollment was created and submitted to our State Reporting authority in error, we may need to retain a record of that erroneous enrollment, but would need to overlap a new, corrected enrollment.

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  19. Create Mass Add for Portfolio Highlights

    We add highlights for all of our HS students. Most of the time we add the same highlight to several hundred students. Currently they must be entered one student at a time. Having a mass add with the ability to utilize a processing list would be a huge time saver.

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  20. at risk lep

    Currently, the Mass Generate At-Risk Identification Records utility allows the use of Criteria Codes to mass generate At Risk records for students with a LEP record. This is very helpful but the utility will also code if you have students in a Dual Language Program that are not LEP but are participating as At Risk. These non-LEP students have a LEP record, as required, for funding purposes.

    I propose that an additional "sub-criteria" option is created for At Risk Reason Code 10 - Is of Limited English Proficiency. The "sub-criteria" should allow districts to select from the list of Parental…

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