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Student Management Suite

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  1. Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments

    Would like the Mass Delete Portfolio Attachments to allow deletion of Inactive students only based on Grad Year.

    9 votes

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  2. we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

    we would like to be able to get an automated email whenever a portfolio attachment of specific types are added.

    7 votes

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  3. Verify all email address fields

    For ALL emails fields, student details, Parent Details, Emergency Contacts, Staff and TEACHERS:
    Verify the validity of email address fields. As a Minimum:
    Don't allow commas
    Don't allow spaces
    Don't allow special characters like !,$,%
    Require a @ somewhere in the middle with text before and afterwards

    We have a lot of our extracts with vendors crash every year because of bad data entered into any of the email address fields.

    10 votes

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  4. Make Emergency Contacts Phone Number Required Step in On Line Reqistration

    During On Line Registration, require that at least one phone number be entered for any Emergency Contact that is added.

    11 votes

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  5. Make Primary Phone Required Entry During On Line Registration

    We have families that skip the Primary Phone section. This is vital information for the school office. We would like to see that be required to be filled in before the screen can move on.

    7 votes

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  6. Increase Field length for Student Names

    With student names becoming increasingly longer and tied to so much testing, it would be nice to have the field length increased especially for middle and last names. Our district uses on-line enrollment and enters the full legal name (including middle) so that matching is easier to identify students without duplication, especially for or high mobility students. The length issue has primarily been with middle and last names (especially those that have 2 last names)

    93 votes

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    We understand that the name field character limits could be longer, we are excited to announce that they have been extended on the Qmlativ product. We recommend that you use the Legal Name fields for those students whose names do not fit in the standard name fields. These legal names can be sent via state reporting. 

  7. More Automated Email Options

    Homeroom and Advisor changes should be on the scheduling or demographic changes for the student. Including it on the Enrollment changes isn't helpful at all because they aren't yet assigned to a homeroom when they are enrolled. So when a new student arrives, we have to go into Skyward to find their homeroom teacher or advisor.

    11 votes

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  8. Notes

    Each year, after system rollover, each user has to enter gen notes > filter > make changes > apply. This must be done in order to view previous years notes. We use the notes sections for important information and it is very inconvenient for each staff member to have to perform this process.

    Can an enhancement be created so that all notes roll with the system automatically for users to view without having to perform the above process?

    7 votes

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  9. Add option for second line to Student Profile Customize area

    Add an option to add a second line to the Customize area of the student Profile area. As SMS 2.0 has matured, additional fields have been added to this area, but the amount of space available to display these fields has never been expanded. The ability to add a second line would allow users to display more information in this area.

    7 votes

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  10. allow attachments to emails from family view of student profile.

    I need to send an email (with an attachment) to an individual students parent. you can send an email to a parent from the family tab of the student profile but there is no Attach option. as a non teacher without a grade book i would need to use the advanced features Message center and then create a processing list with one student in order to send an email to a guardian with an attachment.

    6 votes

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  11. Student Graduation Date Mass Create/Change Utility - Use Processing List

    We have different groups of students that will graduate on different dates. It would be helpful if we could run this utility using a processing list.

    11 votes

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  12. Add Date and Expiration Option to Critical Alert Messages

    Everyone uses the Critical Alert field for much more than health options. The flag is nice and the option to have it pop-up to display. Our district especially uses this for parent issues, legal issues and much more. The problem is, that over time these messages are terribly outdated as a student's career progresses at a district. There should be a date field entered that includes a start/end date with an option to have the Critical Alert expire! Then it will auto-turn off the message when the user so desires to have it do so. If they want to leave…

    15 votes

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  13. County Abbreviation in Address - Allow 4 Characters

    Please allow 4 characters (maybe more) in abbreviations for Counties in the address tables. We require staff to enter counties when entering addresses. Since we have many divorced parents living in other states, we run in to counties with differing abbreviation conventions. For instance, Clay County in Kansas is CL. Clay County in Missouri is CLAY. And Clay County in Georgia is CY. And then to make it worse, Clark County in Nevada is CLA. Since I can only enter 3 characters right now and I need to have Clark County in NV. and Clay County in MO, I have…

    13 votes

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  14. Automated Email for Student Language field to notify ELL

    Provide an auto-email option that looks at the Student Language field. If the student language field is something other than English, provide the ability to create an auto-email so that the staff in Special Services can evaluate the need for English Language Learner services.

    19 votes

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  15. Online Registration Set Up-Student Information

    Please add an option to Auto-approve the Home Phone under student information. I don't think it makes sense that the parent can have a name change auto-approve, but the home phone cannot.

    We would never want anyone to change the child's name, but do not mind them changing the home phone.

    29 votes

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  16. Under student profile, enhance the ranges options with a student indicator and choose the indicator (view all ELL students) etc.

    Under student profile, enhance the ranges options with a student indicator and choose the indicator (view all ELL students) etc.

    14 votes

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  17. Customized Drop Down Menu for Withdrawal Notes

    The ability to customize reasons for withdrawal so it is easier to create a dashboard once you export out of skyward. Our superintendent wanted to know the top 5 reasons kids were withdrawing but since it is all typed manually not all statements were identical even if they were saying the same thing. Having a pre-made drop down menu would make this seemless.

    8 votes

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  18. Deleting data from custom forms.

    We need a utility that deletes data from all Custom Forms for every new school year instead of cloning the custom forms. Cloning a custom form can break any process that feeds from these forms.

    11 votes

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  19. auto emails for seclusion/restraint status

    I'd like seclusion and restraint status to be built into the auto email system. Reporting has become much more comprehensive, and we see merit in being able to set up an auto alert that could be sent to key stakeholders anytime a building level discipline officer entered any seclusion/restraint data.

    7 votes

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  20. Change History

    Under Student we have the change history button could you add the Special education addition/changes to that field also so we can see who is changing the information?

    19 votes

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