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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Student Management Suite

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  1. 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?

    20 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Student  ·  Admin →
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  2. Student Information Report

    We generate a report in Students/Reports/Student Information to send home to Family 1 at the beginning of the school year in order to update their family info. So much easier for families to make minor changes rather than receive a blank form and enter data from scratch each year. It would be beneficial if we were able to print each family on it's own page rather than all families printing on same page. We have a child who lives with mom in Family 1, but dad wants his data in Skyward as Family 2 but doesn't want mom to know…

    7 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  3. Staff Pictures

    I would love for us to be able to include staff pictures on staff reports. We could use the report as a Staff Directory with pictures and contact info. The directory could be very helpful, especially to new staff.

    17 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Staff  ·  Admin →
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  4. Data mine Credits Earned

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

    11 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  5. Need a way to send email reminders to parents who have incompleted returning student registrations

    It is impossible to get an accurate list in data mining of parents with incomplete returning student registration (believe me, we've tried - verification status is not an accurate indicator and includes parents who are new to the district who are complete because they have completed new student enrollment). However, we need to periodically email our parents who have incomplete online returning student registration and have no reliable way to do so. We need either an accurate data mining indicator of who is required to complete online registration and has not done so, or a new automated email reminder that…

    68 votes

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  6. Add 'In Time' to Entry by Date Screen

    We use the Entry by Date screen to monitor our attendance throughout the day. We also use the Tardy Kiosk. We are constantly opening student entries (Edit) to view their In Time. Adding the In Time would really improve efficiency of this browse.

    12 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Attendance  ·  Admin →
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  7. Add Overwrite option for Tardy Kiosk under Absence Type Codes

    Our time saved in writing passes and tracking late arrivals with the addition of the Tardy Kiosk has been significant. The time added by cleaning up excused absences that Kiosk has overridden has unfortunately replaced that saved time. We are having to review the entries several times a day.

    Absence Type Codes currently have the config option to "Allow overwrite by Positive Attendance". Adding an option for "Do not allow overwrite by Tardy Kiosk" would allow us to mark our Excused and Exempt types, eliminating our constant review of entries.

    19 votes

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  8. 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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  9. Skylert -Add Student Fields

    Add more student related fields such as student phone number and student email. Why does Skylert just have to be geared towards parents? Why can't students be included?

    15 votes

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  10. Processing List in Fees Reports

    Add the ability to run ALL fee management reports by processing list.

    6 votes

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  11. Language Translation

    Currently there is only an area for Spanish translation of report cards and discipline. It would be helpful if there were many different columns (perhaps a dropdown list) that we could designate for different language translations. (ex French, Chinese, etc)

    16 votes

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  12. Custom Forms /Ability to post Custom Forms to the portfolio

    We currently have many Custom Forms that we would like the option to place into the portfolio (ex Customized Progress Report)

    18 votes

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  13. 10 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Reporting  ·  Admin →
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  14. Seamless Transfer of Grades within Entity When Student Transfers Sections/Classes

    The current 5 options process to transfer grades to a new class/section is tedious at best. Teachers do not have the time to individually select each assignment for kids when they transfer to them. When a student transfers within the same entity these grades should automatically move over or calculate with the combined grades of the new class.

    74 votes

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  15. Allow Attachments from Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc.

    Ability add attachments that aren't first uploaded into Skyward. We don't have Word or Excel on most of our Staff computers so downloading an attachment to view it does no good for most of our users.

    36 votes

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  16. Add option to use Processing List to turn off schedules in Family/Student Access.

    In the Entity Configuration for Family/Student Access, you can turn schedules off for selected students. It would be helpful to be able to use a Processing List rather than selecting one-by-one.

    37 votes

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  17. transaction

    It would be nice if the default scheduling transaction effective date in Skyward would populate as the next calendar day instead of the next scheduled day of school when dropping a student. Having it be the next scheduled day of school causes problems with SCAs and exiting a student. It seem counterintuitive for a user to have to change a date that Skyward autopopulates.

    20 votes

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  18. PA - Start using separate enrollment transaction dates and enrollment dates

    In PA, our enrollment template asks us to report separate enrollment transaction dates (the date the student was entered in the SIS) and the enrollment date (the first date the student physically showed up to attend school). Skyward does not provide a way to enter or store a separate transaction date. It forces us to use only the enrollment date as both the transaction date and the enrollment date. This is very problematic because we must enter students into the system days before the student actually attends school. We need both dates. We can't keep flipping dates (tracking them manually…

    20 votes

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  19. Stop auto entering 9th grade entry dates

    When a new student enrolls in grade 9-12, Skyward is automatically entering the enrollment date as the 9th grade entry date. We have to look at the previous school's records to determine when the student entered 9th grade for the first time and manually change it in Skyward anyway because all students in grades 10-12, and some in grade 9 who are repeating, have a different 9th grade entry date than the enrollment date. The auto population causes issues because if the data entry person forgets to make the change, there is no way to know that a bad date…

    8 votes

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  20. Add an enrollment limbo option for students who are approved in online registration without adding a state reportable enrollment date

    When new students are approved through the online application/registration process, Skyward is adding the approval date to the entry/withdraw tab as the official enrollment date. This is problematic because these dates are not accurate since there is a day or so lapse in time while the school builds a schedule, finalizes assessments and placements for special services, etc. Therefore, it would be helpful if new students could be added in a "pending status" where schools can see the student and build schedules without causing the need for the registrar to keep tabs and change the enrollment dates once the school…

    7 votes

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