Goal:

a) Display Day 1/Day 2/exceptions designations on a calendar for educators students and families.

b) Allow exception days to be locked and exempted from recalculation of the Day1/Day2 rotation.

c) Provide ability to designate a day as something other than Day1 or Day2 but still have it count as an instructional day

Negative impact:

a) Examples: Administrator wants to set up meeting with teacher who has prep only on Day1; parent wants to arrange rides for student who has off campus pass for a class that meets on Day2; teacher trying to set up a guest speaker for class that meets on Day1; parent wants to set up doctor appointment for student but tries to avoid missing math class. We have many examples where people need to know whether specific future days are Day1/Day2. While it is possible to sit down with a calendar and count out every other day exception days throw off the rotation and it is tedious for all parties to have to do this every time. And parents may not be aware that an assembly scheduled one day next month is an excpetion day for example so their scheduling may not be accuarate.

b) Day1/Day2 schedule is set for the year including exception days (inservice assembly etc.) that throw off the rotation. So all is good now...until we have a snow day or an assembly or something that requires the Day1/Day2 schedule to be reset. When the reset is done and the system recalculates the alternating Day1/Day2 all the exception days are overriden. But our inservice days that were already sety as exceptions are not impacted by the snowday so have to be re-entered and subsequent rotation days reset every time the schedule changes. Please allow the exception days to be locked so the recalculation of alternating Day1/Day2 designations skips the days that have already been locked.

c) While some exemption days are not instructional days (ex. inservice) we occasionally run alternate schedules on school days. At this time marking a Day0 or X causes the day to not be counted as an instructional day and we would like another option for instructional days that don't follow our regular schedule pattern.

a) Skwyard already has all the pieces - the Day1/Day2/exceptions schedule already exists. The calendar already exists. The FA/SA ability to display or hide different calendars already exists. It seems like it should require minimal programming to add an existing schedule to an existing calendar.

Educators do not have a calendar view like what appears on the SA/FA display so it may not be quite the same request. But since Skyward already contains all the necessary pieces it would be nice to see those pieces assembled in a way that would address this need.

b) I have no idea what this entails but am relaying the emphatic requests of the individuals in my district who handle the upkeep of the calendar. It is inefficient and tedious to have to reset the same exemption dates every time something happens to adjust the Day1/Day2 rotation and leads to mistakes because of having to repeat the same process over and over again. Ability to set certain days as locked would remove all of those issues.