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Student Management Suite

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  1. Watchlist risk levels and values in data mining

    Currently it does not appear that the watch list risk levels are available for data mining. By not having this it makes it harder to select custom data based on high or medium risk students compared to low risk students. In addition the value that appears on the WS\SS\RI\WL screen to indicate the watch list risk values are not exposed to data mining.
    We should be able to include the risk level as well as the value that is stored. This will allow easy reporting of custom data for students with various risk levels. In addition we should be able…

    23 votes

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  2. Date Range needed

    I need to be able to look at enrollment for several date ranges not just a snap shot day. This is causing hours of compiling data to find this information
    Please adjust the date to include high and low.

    17 votes

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  3. Hide "Absent" column in Family/Student Access

    Our middle school mentioned that atudents are sometimes confused by the "Absent" column in the student gradebook display (picture below) within the "Gradebook" screen of Student Access. This screen appears when the student clicks on a class grade. When the "Absent" column shows a student as "Excused" some students interpret this to mean the assignment is also excused. Teachers are marking it as missing however the display seems to be causing an issue. It would be nice to be able to hide this column from displaying. Provide in the Student Access Entity Configuration screen the ability to suppress the "Absent"…

    24 votes

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  4. Provide Skylert portal for staff and students

    We have staff members wishing to update their contact information in Skylert but are unable to do so. There should be a way for staff members to have access to a Skylert tab similar to what guardians are able to do now and be able to update their phone numbers and alerting categories all in one place.
    Students should also have this features. With the mass increase in student cell phone and the increased need to provide rapid communication to everyone we would like to be able to contact students via Skylert so we would like the students to be…

    34 votes

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  5. Fee Management enhancement(?)

    My understanding is that this is because we bill by family and not student. We prefer to have parents pay activity fees via eFunds. If a parent pays 3 seasons of sports fees via eFunds prior to assigning the fees in FM eFunds then automatically assigns and pays the fee and then at a later time when we run the mass assign fee Utility the paid fees aren't recognized another (duplicate) fee is created and they now have unpaid fees. Using that same scenario and having the parents pay the fee with check or cash assign the fee manually and…

    26 votes

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  6. Add the ability to add FAMILY attachments

    Add the ability to add attachments that are accessible to multiple students in the same family. Especially helpful for Online Enrollment but valuable to all districts even if they don't use NSOE.

    So we don't have to go in and attach the same document individually to EACH student. ( gets time consuming with family's who have many children). AND it would be a place that could be looked at and know that the WHOLE family had the same information ( like proof of residency court docs for all the children etc.)
    Time saver for both families and staff to view…

    56 votes

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  7. BRAEKDOWN BY ETHNICITY

    The ability to look at ada by both race and ethnicity and 2 or more races. It is difficult to see what demographic needs to be looked at to help boost ada.
    Ability to look at ada by hispanic different races and two or more races similar to the special programs enrollment count report but getting the ada in those break-downs.

    12 votes

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  8. Editing alternate teacher transaction dates.

    To improve the accuracy of PIMS StudentStaffSubtest template I would like to see your software allow for editing the teacher effective date ranges for alternate teachers. As it is now when adding an alternate meet to the course master the effective date defaults to the beginning of the school year. Unlike the primary meeet pattern alternate meets should not be required to have a teacher represented for an entire school year.
    In talking this through with the Skyward Help Desk a proposed workaround is to create an alternate meet with no teacher name listed and with the instructional…

    22 votes

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  9. Teacher Conference Scheduler - Parent Improvements

    Parents are very frustrated with scheduling conferences when they have multiple teachers for one student (for example High School Parents). There is not a way to see all slots available so they are jumping back and forth between teachers; scheduling unscheduling and rescheduling to fit the slots close to each other

    47 votes

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  10. Teachers need to see Obligations in Teacher Access

    Campuses often need to identify students that have obligations through the office and they want to make sure that teachers are aware of these students in their classes. If some indicator or alert could display in Teacher Access that would provide that connection.
    Our campuses often identify students that lose privileges for various reasons and they need an effective way to make this information available to the teachers.

    18 votes

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  11. Diabetes Care Log needs additional BG fields

    The diabetes care log only has one field for blood glucose (BG) results and one field for Carb Intake. For scheduled diabetes care this is sufficient; however frequently students have non-scheduled care due to high or low blood glucose. When this occurs blood glucose is tested a minimum of 2 times during one clinic visit and when a student has low BG carbs may be given more than one for treatment (every 15 minutes if BG remains low).
    Right now you can only enter one BG or Carb Intake or Ketones Results in the fields allowed then additional BG results…

    25 votes

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  12. Mass Add Endorsement and Option Utility

    I would like to recommend adding a Mass Add Endorsement and Option Utility per grade level. I have to mass add the Multidisciplinary Endorsement and Option #1 to all of our current 8th graders and right now We would like this one updated to request a utility that includes ranges and by individual but also includes a processing list option. We are looking for functionality to match graduation requirements/career plans.

    29 votes

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  13. Take percentage off the Progress Reports

    We are using Standard Gradebooks at the high school level. Our teachers want to email progress reports to parents. However the percentage of the grade shows on the report (see attachment). We have chosen not to display the percentage in Family Access or student Access. There should be a choice in the teacher's setup not to display the percentage in the progress reports. Right now it is not possible so they are useless for the our teachers. They really would like to use them.
    To have a choice to be able to display or not display percentages on progress reports…

    26 votes

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  14. Remove VocEd Contact Hour on Transcript

    Voc Ed Contact Hours are based on the service ID supplied by the state and coded in the Texas State Specific section in the course/course master. Due to certification and other restrictions we have some CATE courses that we are unable to get contact hours funding for. Many of these courses are taught online and the credit is directly added to the student's transcript. Rather than have to create new course keys for these online CATE courses can the option to "Exclude Voc Ed Contact Hours" be built into Override Course Information in the Add on the grade tab.

    12 votes

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  15. Health Report and Medication notes

    There is not an option on the All Health Report to print detailed notes. On the report we need the option to print the administration details of the med administration. Users should be able to print one All Health Report for open records requests including all information. Currently I would have to print an all health report and a medication report.

    23 votes

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  16. Additional options when setting up conferences

    Due to the amount of students some teachers see during a day when a teacher sets up their time slots they would like to have a why to notify the guardians that they are requesting a conference for selected students.
    A setup similar to the check of selected list of students to be notified via message center.

    Teachers would be able to notify selected students to schedule conferences.

    24 votes

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  17. Teachers would access to additional filter views.

    Teachers would like to be able to have access to additional filter view to set filters for viewing additional data.

    Example: Set a filter to view a guardian e-mail field set filters for different buildings set a filter for attendance etc.

    23 votes

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  18. NSOE Application Submitted email to parent

    NSOE has an automatic window that pops up once the parent has submitted the completed NSOE application. We can alter the text within that window and expect the parent to read it however it would be beneficial to have the system automatically send an email directly to the parent.

    On the Automated Email Configuration setup screen it would be great to have a "Application Submitted to District" option that we can edit with reminder of next steps for parents to take i.e. contact the school registrar etc.

    45 votes

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  19. Adding Health Tab to Skyward Mobile Access

    We had a situation where a student had a medical emergency outside of the school building. Our nurse attempted to utilize the mobile skyward app to relay health conditions to the EMT's. The time it took to access the data through the desktop option on the app was extremely lengthy for an emergency situation. Having a heath tab on the mobile app would allow emergency personnel to assess patients quickly.

    Having a heath tab on the mobile app would allow emergency personnel to assess patients quickly.

    56 votes

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  20. Need to see report by rotation

    By having the report print out by rotation Day 1 is Days 1-6 rotation Day 2 is Days 7-12 rotation. In order to check our attendance offenders we run the report by student and then have to manually go through each date for each student and see which rotation they were absent on. If they have 3 or more absences on a rotation they are not in compliance with attendance rules. We then lower the grade for the rotation they are not in compliance with. If they are in Academics/Technical for Days 1-6 then they get a lower grade if…

    23 votes

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