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Student Management Suite

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  1. Data Mining Sort Options

    It would be very beneficial if we could sort by a field (homeroom, advisor etc) and select the option "print all data on one line" together. As of right now, if you chose to sort and have a page break by a field, you can not chose to have all the data on one line. The same is vise versa, if you chose to have all data on one line, you can not sort/page break by a field.

    8 votes

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  2. Add Emp. ID from Staff record to Data Mining in areas where Teacher is listed such as Schedule.

    We send the NameID or EmpID to vendors as the field to identify our teachers/staff. Recently, I needed a field that was in Data Mining. I had trouble finding it in SkyBuild so I thought I was going to have to rebuild my extract in Data Mining, I needed Emp ID (NameID) as the key for teachers but Data Mining only had Alphakey to identify the teachers/staff. We don't use that field when sending data to vendors.

    6 votes

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  3. Pulling previous year's data

    It is incredibly hard to pull data from previous school years in the system. Sometimes we have to go back to previous years in order to fill out information for grants, MDE, authorizer, etc and right now that's near impossible to do. I've used JMC in the past and they had a really easy tab that changed the year that you were operating in for data, Skyward needs something simple like that in order to go back to previous years to pull data when needed, or needs to be incorporated into the reporting system to add a box for what…

    22 votes

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  4. Data mine program entry date for English Learners

    I have discovered that anytime an adjustment is made to the English Learner tab the Program Entry Date must be entered. This was a new field added for state reporting about a month ago. We would like to be able to data mine this date so we know which students need the program date entered so we don't have to do it when we are trying to enter minutes for our state reporting. Thank you!

    18 votes

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  5. Ability to compare the value of two fields in the And/Or Filter

    There are times when comparing the values of two similar fields would really come in handy. It would eliminate some of the additional clean-up and filtering in Excel afterwards.

    16 votes

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  6. Add a button within Field Selection that would allow a newly added field to be moved to the top.

    This is a qualify of life request but I would love to have a button added to the Field Select screen which would give the option to move a newly added field all the way to the top. Many times when I'm working with a complex data mining field, I find myself clicking the UP button over and over and over and over to move the field where I need it. Having a TOP button would save many clicks/time.

    14 votes

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  7. The ability to categorize reports and search within Data mining

    It would help to find reports in data mining if we could apply one of more categories (Grades, GPA, Discipline, Demographics, ect..) to individual reports. Also, the ability to search by either a category or key word in a report title.

    29 votes

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  8. Student Locator in Data Mining

    I would love the ability to data mine students current location. This could be useful anytime someone needed to find a group of students during a specific period of the day.

    7 votes

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  9. Mail Merge Data Mining into an Email

    It would be excellent if we were able to mail merge our data mining into an email home to parents. Right now it will only allow you to mail merge it into a template that must be printed. It would save the districts a lot of postage and man hours spent stuffing envelopes.

    22 votes

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  10. Data mine Credits Earned

    Would be helpful to be able to data mine the credits earned field

    11 votes

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  11. Add Teacher License number as a field to data mine under schedule

    We have to create student schedule reports to export into other software and there isn't a TLN field to select in the CY or NY Schedule options. Mapping students with teacher names is difficult.

    8 votes

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  12. Add Current Year Balance Due field available in data mining

    We are a corporation where previous year balances are rolled over from year to year via the Cash Basis w/ Fee Detail option during the year end process and we would LOVE to have a field in data mining that displays only Current Year balance due.

    When we send families to collections, it has to be on current year balances and not having a field that serves this purpose within data mining makes life much more difficult when providing this information to debt collectors.

    16 votes

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  13. Add All Special Programs to Data Mining

    There are a number of Special Programs which are not available for Data Mining reports. We would like all available.

    113 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  rebeccag responded

    Inquiring with customers to see which specific reporting needs are not being met for Special Programs. Looking for consistency.

    Voters: Please include details for this idea if there are specifics you are looking for! This greatly helps us evaluate if options exist or what type of change should be considered.

    Thank you!

  14. Add Special Programs for export

    We now have new Special Programs (Grad Pathways ILEARN ISTEP Retest) as well as other programs Title I Shrtnd Day Not Tested that are not available in Data Mining. We need them to be. SkyBuild Export only has eight of the Special Programs available for export. It would help if they also would appear in Skybuild.

    8 votes

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  15. Ability to select students based on other ID in data mining instead of the name key

    Ability to select students based on other ID in data mining instead of the name key

    14 votes

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  16. Share Option in Data Mining

    Would be nice if Data mining reports had a sharing option like other report templates have. As not everyone needs to see all datamining templates being utilized. Some templates are created for just 1 person to use as needed but other users don't need access to same template or information within that template.
    The creator would have the option to either share the template for everyone to see it the way it looks now or not share the template.

    17 votes

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  17. Add "Created Date" to data mining for Medicaid

    We would like to be able to data mine Medicaid log detail entries by the date they were entered. This date can be found in the "History" of detail entry but is not one of the available fields in data mining. We bill Medicaid ourselves and have found that we have missed many monthly entries because they have been entered late resulting in a loss of reimbursable funds. I have attached a screenshot of the date we would like included as a data mineable field.
    If we could data mine by the "created date" then we would be more accurate…

    24 votes

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  18. Custom Forms Need to Print Confidential Numbers

    When you print a custom form that pulls family phone numbers if they are flagged as confidential they print the word confidential. There needs to be added to options for editing Skyward Fields for Custom Forms like Data Mining the field for Phone should have a flag (check box) item to say 'Print Confidential Numbers.'

    33 votes

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  19. Mail Merge Data Mining

    I need the option to set up mail merge in landscape layout versus the only current option of portrait.

    20 votes

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