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Student Management Suite

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  1. Lease Expiration Date Field/Pop-up

    Need a Lease Expiration Date field that can be reported on data mined with ranges and checked as renewed.
    currently there is not a filed for entering in expiration dates and we need to be able to keep up with and gather this information from parents.

    11 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  2. Obligations Visible in Family Access

    Need parents to be able to see obligations in FA so that it can't be said that they didn't know or weren't informed.
    Without parent being able to see them campus must send out constant reminders. Being able to tell parents that their obligations are always accessible would assist campuses in communicating to parents.

    37 votes

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  3. Formatting Text in Setup Area for Online Reg.

    Need the ability to format free form messages in the Online Registration setup area. Need to be able to highlight bold underline text because it all runs together and important information is lost in the current view

    Need the same formatting available in the message center and advanced custom forms

    31 votes

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  4. Would like the transcript tab in Family Access

    It would be a huge help if students could view the transcript tab in Family Access to see if the school has sent out the transcripts to the colleges that they had requested and when.

    65 votes

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    Great suggestion! One way that transcript sent information can be visible in Family and Student Access is to use Data Mining and the Report Directory. This will even work for any information you can put together in a Data Mining report!

    Within Data Mining, after you’ve created the report, you can select which entities you’d want this to be available for Family Access Display tab. You will then need to turn on the Report Directory within the Family Access Entity Configuration (WS\FA\FM\PS\CF\EC) and enable for Student and/or Family Access.

    Once setup, your students or guardians can login and navigate to the Portfolio tab and they will be able to run these reports. The benefit to this is that when the report generates, only results for the appropriate student will display.

    If there are any questions or assistance needed on this setup, our Customer Consulting Specialists would be a great help.…

  5. Need ability to hide obsolete codes

    The Scheduling Team Codes table is not year specific. This makes it impossible to delete a code that was used in a previous school year but not used this year. SOmetimes a code table contains a status field. This helps in that inactive codes can be hidden and you are usually not allowed to select an inactive record.
    The Scheduling Team codes table should either be made year specific or have a status field added to it. Only currently 'active' codes should be selectable.

    28 votes

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  6. CLONE CALENDAR UTILITIES

    Our District has MANY calendars for both public & parochial entities. Each year calendars for all entities schools & calendars within each entity within each school need to be set up. That being said one question that I continue to have is the utility for "Clone Calendar Info in Same Year." What does this utility actually do? I have tried to set up 1 calendar in 1 entity with all the calendar detail entered & then ideally I would like to clone this calendar to all the other entities & calendars but only the very basic term dates get cloned…

    44 votes

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  7. Family Access - Both parents to edit My Account

    Both parents in a Family (not just the one listed first) should have the ability to change the "Low Grade" for the "Receive Grade Emails for my students". The second parent is able to make changes to attendance notifications progress reports and the food service balance.

    12 votes

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  8. Family Access display option

    In Family Access it would very beneficial for our parents/guardians have a setting that allows them to display just active and/or non graduated students. We have had requests from parents/guardians to remove foreign exchange students from their access to remove graduated students foster children etc. We know that there is a setting to only display active students however that is a district-wide setting. A setting within Family Access so that they can choose themselves would be great.

    45 votes

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  9. Would like the Deposit Number to show on this repo

    Would like the Deposit Number to show on the Payment by Check Number Report and to have a total at the end of the Amount Column. It would also be nice if the name of the entity is at the top of the report so you know what building it belongs to.
    This would be most helpful when trying to balance records at the end of a month to balance to our manual credit card receipts. We have several different systems we have to balance to and this would speed up the process.

    25 votes

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  10. 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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  11. add Dr. Note Required student indicator

    We use wanding to check in students arriving late to school. They enter their ID# on the keypad and then the security personnel check them in. The issue we have is that if a student is required to have a Dr. Note in order to enter school the student indicator for that is not visible on the wanding screen that the security folks see.
    Please add the ability to view the student indicators on the wanding screen.

    26 votes

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  12. Master Absence Report Include Student Status

    It would be very helpful if the Master Absence Report included the ability to exclude Inactive Students. Our HS Principal uses this report and since she uses a range the results include both active and inactive students.

    31 votes

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  13. Add Ability for Kiosk to Fill Missed Att. Periods

    The intention of this request is to streamline the attendance entry process by enhancing the system to fill in attendance periods missed automatically. The goal is to enhance data quality and employee efficiency. The negative impact would be not utilizing the product or increased employee efforts to ensure data quality if component is used.
    Ideally setup would be available for system to automatically fill in attendance periods missed prior to arrival or after student signs out. We would like for this component to be used for early dismissals and late arrivals.

    56 votes

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  14. Change where transcripts sent to a free form text

    To make the work easier for our school registrars. This transcript sent option is used anytime the transcript is sent even to another high school and not just colleges. So instead of the registrar searching for the school and/or creating a new code they could just type in where the transcript was sent
    What we would want is to replace the school codes box and just make that a 40 (or whatever amount) character comment field with the date stamp still attached.

    48 votes

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  15. Importing of Health Information

    The ability to import Health information that are entered on Registration forms in InfoSnap to Skyward. Alerts and critical alerts denoted by parents. This would save time of having to re-enter things into Skyward that parents have entered in InfoSnap regarding Health related issues. Also if eliminate the need of campus personnel having to look at both systems. Alerts are critical and need to be VERY visible to staff at a moments notice.
    The flexibility to import and export more student related data between Skyward and other software.

    57 votes

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  16. Military family flag/pseudo change in FA

    When adding new students and on the general profile page there is a newer field for yes/no/not applicable for military families. We do track this info on new students but would like that info on all students. We would like to have this flag added to the pseudo change screen set up in family access so families can update this info on their own. These is a military field listed but that is for mailing to the military not if they are a military family. I've attached a screen shot of similar field setups.

    29 votes

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  17. Please Secure Staff Confidential Data

    I'm requesting that the data in WS\SF\SF be secured with more options of specific info to secure/provide access to as opposed to the current option of allowing access to all staff data or no staff data. We are using the parent conference scheduler feature this year and in order for our office personnel to be able to schedule conferences when parents call or stop in we need to allow the office personnel access to staff data. Currently when a person is given access to staff data this includes access to social security numbers birthdates and phone numbers. Office personnel do…

    28 votes

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  18. As needed medications

    Want the option to select scheduled medications or as needed medications in the quick entry portion. Right now there is only the ability to give scheduled medications through this route but would like a filter to be able to select PRN meds as well. Currently having to enter each student's name and administer PRN's that way.

    50 votes

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  19. 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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  20. RFE for Guidance Note/Visit Attachement

    We have had several requests for the ability to attach documents to a guidance note/visit just as can be done with other notes in the student profile. Currently there is no Attach button when adding a guidance note/visit. We don't even see a selection for Guidance in the drop-down list for All Notes. We think this would be a great addition to the program. having it all under the guidance tab would be ideal but at this point just having a place to attach a document would be great.

    18 votes

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