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  1. Adding a parent / guardian name next to the home phone number when printing the field trip roster.

    We just started using the Field Trip Master this year for scheduling our field trips. When we print the roster for the field trips, it includes the home phone number, but does not include the parent or guardian's name next to the number. The emergency contacts show the name and the phone number, so I am hoping that a primary guardian name could be added as well to the report. This would help to know who we are contacting at the home number.

    2 votes

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  2. Attendance Labels on Standards Basic Report Card

    Need the ability to rename the "Excused" and "Unexcused" labels on the attendance summary within the Standards Basic Report Card area. Right now it is hard coded and we need the ability to rename Excused/Unexcused labels. For our district we want to reflect Funded/Unfunded instead.

    2 votes

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  3. Teacher Room Availability - pull only ACTIVE classes

    Within WS\OF\CS\BC\RE\TR... there should be an option to look at only ACTIVE classes. Right now the report pulls Active and Inactive classes which is not helpful when trying to find room availability, and there is not a template setting to only choose Active classes.

    2 votes

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  4. Mass delete old proc list utility

    A utility to mass delete processing lists would be helpful.
    Or even if a user is made inactive - and option to delete their user proc lists would be great.

    4 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. Processing List when Printing Indiana Statements

    When printing Indiana Statements it would be quite helpful to be able to use a Processing List instead of manually entering over 700 customer IDs.

    1 vote

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  8. Course/Class Counts report not accurate

    Currently the Course/Class Counts report is not accurate since it shows total of all student by all teachers, so if there is a primary and an alternate on the course record, a class of 22 students becomes 44. We need a way to filter to ONLY the primary teacher please.

    26 votes

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  9. Give check box option for preferred name in reports

    My teachers have the option to display the preferred name (other name from the general tab) in their grade books. When they print reports the student's legal name shows. They would like a check box in the report templates to show preferred name for students. With more and more students preferring a different name that legal and state reporting we want to use the other name field and not change the student key.

    5 votes

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  10. Endorsement Progress Report Page Break Option

    Would like a page break by student option in the report to. This makes it easier to separate and share with individuals as needed.

    4 votes

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  11. All canned reports should have other id/name key to create processing lists

    Every single report that is a canned report in Skyward for districts to use should ALWAYS include either the student ID or the name key so that processing lists can be created from them. It is such an easy field to add but I have spent the past 2 hours manually creating processing lists because the students couldn't be imported. It's such a waste of time when adding this one field to report is a minor change and would allow an incredible amount of flexibility for districts to have the data they need at their fingertips.

    16 votes

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  12. Other ID field on all reports

    It is frustrating and time consuming to run a report to compare data only to find that one report used alphakey and the other used Other ID. Other ID should be standard on every report run - many schools use this as their student ID and NOT the alphakey. Alphakey could also be standard, they could both the there; we use Other ID but bottom line, one field needs to be consistent across ALL Skyward reports so we can do data comparison more efficiently. I should not have to keep a data mining report strictly to convert alphakeys to other…

    15 votes

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  13. Report Building Clone

    It would be great if you could build a report in one entity and then clone it into another one without building the report in each entity.

    55 votes

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    Due to framework limitations this cannot be completed for all reports in the system; however, if you have specific reports that you feel cloning capabilities would greatly impact your district, please list those reports so that we can explore them on an individual basis! 

  14. Student State ID option on Student Reports

    Please include the option (checkbox?) of printing the State ID number on any student report, especially the Student Information report as this is the only unique reference recognized by Illinois.

    Also many of the state student records compliance documents require the IL State ID. Would be very helpful to not manually handwrite or mail merge a sticker onto the report.

    11 votes

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  15. Add MOI to Class Count Reports

    Please add MOI to the Class Count reports to simplify seeing the numbers of students in each group.

    9 votes

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  16. Student Information Report needs a user defined fields option

    The Student Information Report is a great report. What would make it a fantastic report is the added option of user defined field selection. There are many student demographic data fields needed for data matching between systems when a student transfers. I am attaching a file with the fields needed that would make this a wonderful report to run when a student withdraws. And, no this can't be data mined out in a easy to read format. It is accessing too many modules and is splitting the report. I have already placed several service calls and non of the Skyward…

    7 votes

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  17. Cloning Reports from entity to entity

    We have many reports that we customize using User Defined fields. We're not just running reports with open ranges. It's very time consuming to create these specialized reports at all six entities. It would be nice if we could clone our reports from entity to entity. Thank you.

    28 votes

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  18. ALL REPORTS NEED BIGGER / DARKER FONT

    Whether it is printing out the NSOE forms for a student's record or printing any report in the system - the font size is too small and too light. We need the ability to enlarge font size / change report format so reports and other items printed from SKYWARD are large/dark enough to be read.

    21 votes

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  19. Add Other ID to every report so that vertical lookups within Excel would be much easier

    Add Other ID to every report so that vertical lookups within Excel would be much easier

    17 votes

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  20. Missing Assignment Report by student.

    We would like to print a report in Student Management that shows all missing assignments in all classes by student. With or without a description & teacher. For example, we would like to know how many students have 10 or more missing assignments.

    10 votes

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