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  1. Attendance totals by date range for grade book

    When teachers are taking their attendance and use the view of previous days it gives them a total of excused, unexcused, other and tardy absences. They are asking if I can adjust those totals so they are just for the current semester instead of the whole year. This is a problem when classes are year long. Give the teacher to adjust the total by a date range they can choose.

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  2. Email Partial Progress Report

    The current Email Progress Report only allows reports for our defined terms. We are a center-based CTE School. We use 6 terms to accommodate students from schools that are on either Trimesters or Semesters. We'd like to be able to Email Progress Reports from a date range, not just a single term. In other words, we'd like to Email Partial Progress Reports where we can pick the date range of the report.

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  3. Option for a teacher to select whether they want No Count to be removed when an assignment is synced again from Canvas

    Option for a teacher to select whether they want No Count to be removed when an assignment is synced again from Canvas. We have a school that frequently has students that are late on their assignments. But they found that if the score is still visible it encourages them to still to the work. Also if the score is there it allows the teacher to still be able to track how the student is doing. Since this is the case when the teacher syncs the assignment after the due date from Canvas they then go into Skyward and mark the…

    1 vote

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  4. Customize Category Colors in gradebook

    Teachers using our secondary gradebook would like to be able to customize their category colors within their own gradebook. Currently, I can change the colors, but it would change them for the whole building and not everyone wants that. It would be useful if they could just do their own within their own gradebook.

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  5. More functionality for displaying different student name

    When in GradeBook allow the user to select if they want both the Identity(Legal) name and the Name, AKA field to appear on the screen and be able to do the same on the reports. Would like the Name, AKA to be in () after the Identity Name.

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  6. Bring Comments from Google Classroom to Skyward Gradebook

    Be able to take the comments in Google Classroom and add them to Skyward Gradebook.

    2 votes

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  7. Mass assign grade and mark as missing simultaneously for districts that do not give 0's

    Is there any way for your developers to create an addition to the Mass Assign Options that includes a and mark as missing check box right next to the overwrite checkbox (or below it) so that when mass assigning it would auto populate the missing as well? To mass assign a score but also still tag it as missing.

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  8. On the Gradebook Assignment Score Entry screen add the option to allow teachers to see tardy absent type along with Unexcused and Excused

    On the teacher gradebook Assignment Score Entry screen add the option to allow teachers to see tardy absent types along with Unexcused and Excused

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  9. Report Template

    We need the option for a District template for the Gradebook report

    Email Progress Report.

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  10. teacher grade posting Report to include subject and skill grades

    We are looking for a way to run a report for teachers who did not post Subject/skill grades for SBRC's. Currently we run data mining reports but that is very time consuming to go through since not all skills are graded each marking period.

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  11. Tennessee State ID needs to be pullable on reports in Gradebooks.

    Our high school teachers need to print their rosters with state id's for CTE purposes.

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  12. Allow Comments for Skills in the SBG

    The current standards based gradebook allows for comments to be added for a term, a Subject, or an event. Comments for Skills is missing. A Skill often describes a specific task (i.e. I can ...) and is exactly where our teachers need to enter comments on why students may not be achieving said Skill.

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  13. Secondary Gradebook - Ability to Pull Category/Assignment specific level data

    I would like to suggest developing a report (or ability within data mining) that would allow users to pull reports of specific categories/assignments from the secondary grade book.

    Example: I want to be able to see the trends of 3rd gr MATH TESTS or READING TESTS throughout the school year. I can only pull Quarter or Semester grades. There is a report that sort of gets this data but it is student specific and there is no way to sort and organize the data by a class or grade level for comparisons.

    Screenshot attached. show the CRAC category I would…

    3 votes

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  14. Gradebook report in spreadsheet format

    It would be really helpful to be able to pull a report in spreadsheet format of student grades. The Student Assignments report under Student Management > Educator Access Plus > Gradebook > Reports is close, but I need a csv that I can edit and upload to other systems.

    5 votes

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  15. Schedule Gradebook reports by term

    It would be helpful to allow Teachers or Office the ability to schedule an email to parents for Gradebook Report by term.

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  16. Teacher Requests for Changes to Grades count by entity

    All my administrators are seeing "(4)" next to their "Teacher Requests for Changes to Previously Posted Grades", but those 4 requests are at our HS entity. The number should only display at the entity that has the request for changes.

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  17. Disable teacher gradebook viewing abilities for Semester 2

    While building Semester 2 schedules, it would be very beneficial to deactivate teacher viewing abilities in gradebooks for Semester 2 only. Building schedules is a process in which the Counselor assigns courses, then proceeds to shuffle the courses according to requirements that need to be met for each individual student. When teachers can view the schedules as the Counselor is beginning the process, we are bombarded with unnecessary emails and drop-ins. The capability to activate viewing abilities once the schedules are fairly settled, when teachers most definitely can offer input regarding students that may have been overlooked, would be far…

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  18. Add Activity Description to the Academic Eligibility Report - not just the code

    Add Activity Description to the Academic Eligibility Report - not just the code
    So that when the report is run and sent to the administrative team they know what activity the students are participating in

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  19. Starting grade for Standards Based Gradebook

    Standards based grade books should have the option to transfer in a starting grade like the secondary grade books allow. Many of our students transfer in from schools that do not use standards based report cards. It would be VERY helpful to allow teachers to enter a starting grade so parents have an ACCURATE idea of what their child's grades are. (My district uses both standards and a final percentage in our standards based report cards.)

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  20. I need a feature to prevent grade override within the gradebook similar to that of term grades that I am able to manually lock for new

    Please reference my prior service call 5219641. Since we utilize cumulative grading, we cannot implement a starting term grade and would ideally use option 5 to submit transfer in grades for a new student. Unfortunately, those grades are not locked and our Schoology platform which is utilized by teachers overrides any existing grades entered with any sync activity. As a result, those assignments are automatically defaulted and converted to a no count with no grading. Since teachers often use both platforms, simply making an adjustment to one or the other is not realistic. Teachers would be required to convert and…

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