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Student Management Suite

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  1. 3 Year olds not in the PK Grad YEAR receiving Sped Services

    Year for 3K students who receive services through Marathon County Special Education. They have now taken over the Birth to 3 services for the County.
    As of now I put them in a PK grad year to upload WISE etc, then change back to a code I made (3K) This way I don't forget to do a status change for the following school year.

    1 vote

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  2. Add Medicaid Parental Consent Date for Special Ed Other tab in Student Profile

    SHARS and other groups and entities now require the date of parental consent for medicaid billing. This is collected in the Frontline ESTAR/ESPED program and we have asked them to add that field to the nightly export.

    However, we need a date field in Student Profile - Special ED - Other tab for the data to be imported to. Please see the screenshots doc attached. Thank you.

    6 votes

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  3. NSOE add special education and 504 acommadation fields for parents to populate

    NSOE add special education and 504 accommodations fields for parents to populate. It doesn't have to be all fields just those to alert office they need to pass on to special education

    7 votes

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  4. Printing Electronic Signature Pages Within IEP/EVAL Forms

    When enabling an electronic signature on an IEP/EVAL form, it would be critical to have the ability to print that electronic signature within the form. This is essential when a student trasnfers to another district, and signature pages of consent are required to be sent. The ability to effectively use an electornic signature in SPED forms requires the capability to include that signature wtihin the form, as if the guardian signed it manually in person.

    9 votes

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  5. IEP ACCOMMODATION FIELDS THAT CAN BE PULLED INTO REPORTS NEEDED FOR IEP FORMS

    For several years every time we get ready for standardized testing, we have to manually go through IEP's because there is no way to pull the accommodations for each student that has an IEP or 504 plan. Within the IEP, we list the accommodations for testing, however that is not a field that can be data mined nor is it a field that named to pull on any other report.

    It would be great to modify the IEP form to allow the fields to be pulled into reports and data mined, especially for accommodations for testing, but also for goals…

    8 votes

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  6. 6 votes

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  7. During rollover maintain the placements in IEP's and update the dates

    The placements must be able to update the placements to the new year at rollover and update the date as the first day of school and the last day of the IEP or the last day of school. We have doing those one by one by hand. I am sure there is a utility, but was afraid to run the utility.

    8 votes

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  8. Initial Evaluations to have a referral type.

    Having a way to document and track a referral would be helpful to know where the initial evaluation came from. This is a field in the Section 504 as Referral Type. Being able to track this information would be helpful.

    7 votes

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  9. Adding Test Accommodations to all Tests

    To have an option when entering in a student's test accommodation to apply the accommodation to all tests. Currently our staff has to create an accommodation for each test the student has to take. We have found that if a student needs an accommodation for one test than usually that student needs that same accommodation for other tests as well. Having an option when creating an accommodation to Apply to all tests would provide our staff with significant time savings.A check box for when creating a accommodation that can be applied to all tests.

    14 votes

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  10. Multiple dates in same year for Medicaid consent

    At the Spring User Group a request was made to change the Medicaid Billing Consent screen so that more than one consent can be entered in the same year. The use cases given for needing multiple consent dates were split household and both parents sign consent change in legal guardianship new signature required. We also have students who change resident districts during the school year but their attendance stays with us (CDEB school). We are required to have a new M5 signed since the form is specifically tied to a district of residence. I cannot enter the updated consent date…

    14 votes

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  11. 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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  12. Do not require all forms to be edited on a clone

    Many times when doing a review/revise only one or two areas of an IEP need to be adjusted - but as a result of cloning all forms need to be edited - this causes a lot of extra clicking in order to be able to print the entire review/revise IEP when only one page of the entire document may be updated

    28 votes

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  13. Schedule Tracker to update real time/more often

    It would be helpful if the tracker would update real time or could be set to update periodically throughout the day - since it only updates once a day as they are updating and correcting things they are not seeing a true picture of the status of students via the Widgets/Tracker.

    23 votes

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  14. Add School Psych to list of Student Contacts

    When setting up nightly email notifications it would be helpful to notify the school psychologist assigned to a student about special education evaluations since they are the ones that complete the evaluations. These people are not always service providers so they don't fall into that available category so I would like to see "school psychologist" added as a category under "Student Contacts".
    This enhancement would keep school psychologists notified about upcoming evaluations and those that are past due.

    23 votes

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  15. translated forms

    It would be extremely beneficial to our district and I'm sure others as well to have the DPI translated special education forms uploaded into the forms templates. As it is now I have to clone the English version of the form then either cut and paste from the DPI Word document or type it in myself. This is not difficult but is quite time consuming. If we had 1 person doing this then all other districts would just need to upload the form.
    Outcome: One person puts in the time to enter/create the translated form instead of each district on…

    29 votes

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  16. IEP Agreements

    My understanding is that because we have multiple IEP forms created a student would have to have all 5 forms complete for the instructors to get the "agreement" check box. This causes an issue for us because our students come to us from 5 different school districts so a student will only have 1 IEP form - not all 5 assigned to them.
    I would request consideration to allow an IEP to be signed off on by teachers based on one form being complete.

    23 votes

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  17. Add an Evaluation Due field

    The "case due" field tells staff the date an eval expires - three years from the completion date of the previous evaluation. Staff need an "evaluation due" for new evaluations that take place before the 3 year expiration date so they know when the 60 day period mandated for evaluations to be completed is up. For instance a student had an eval on 3/24/15 so the case due field is auto-filled with 3/24/18. However parents/staff have requested a new evaluation on 12/16/16 so staff need to know when 60 days from this new date is so they can have the…

    28 votes

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  18. Clone button for Evaluations

    While there's a clone button for IEP forms there is NONE for evaluation forms. It will make their life easier if there could be a clone button for evaluation forms too.

    26 votes

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