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  1. 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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    2 comments  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  2. Course Recommendation Report for Teachers

    Teachers are unable to easily view the recommendations that they have entered for their classes. They have to individually go to each student to see the recommendations that have been made but there is not an easy way to check to see which students do not have a recommendation. This puts a burden not only on teachers but also on the guidance/office staff when trying to finalize recommendations and turn them into requests. It is vital that teachers are able to run a report that shows the recommendations that have been made.
    A report that teachers can run by section…

    30 votes

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  3. Different rights for different parents

    In some cases we have a parent who has educational rights but has a protective order from knowing where mom/child live. By law we have to give parent rights to kids grades but not where he/she lives guardians names registration info etc. Skyward really needs to add a code of some sort that ONLY gives that member of the family rights to the GRADES tab not attendance not student info nothing else!!!!

    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Family  ·  Admin →
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  4. Automated Email on Home Language

    This is the second Skyward School District that I have worked for that believes it would be amazing to have an auto email generate when a secretary is putting in a new student and the home language is marked something other than English. This piece of information is critical for timely screening purposes and many times the information is not communicated in a timely fashion to the appropriate people. I put this request in when I worked for Urbana and it was turned down but I am trying again. For school districts with large ESL populations this could be a…

    12 votes

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  5. TREX Validation notification

    Please add a pop up notice or tab that will show that there is a validation error with the proposed file in the maintain area. The TREX report shows it at the end but that means we have to run that report each time. If a notification or tab showed in the modify area it could be resolved without running the report. Many times campus users especially at the beginning of the year are trying to fulfill many requests and they skip the step of running the TREX report only to get their file rejected by the state. A visible…

    6 votes

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  6. Add

    Add configuration feature in Health Records so that defaults can be Updated for health users for state-mandated screening entries (vision hearing scoliosis and physical); this would help assure fields are correctly completed for state reports (see Office Visits Configuration "Update Users Office Visit Defaults" WS\OF\HR\OV\PO\CF\OV)
    This would assure that fields critical for state reports are defaulted correctly to pull accurate Texas state health reports.

    44 votes

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  7. Medication:Link End Status with Stop Date

    Currently the End Status drop down field is not connect to the End Date. So a Med can be stopped by the End Date and the End Status can remain as "Normal". The Medication tab in Student Profile will display the Medication as red "stopped" but the End Status drop down may still be selected as "Normal". This causes issues on Medication Reports and Data Mining. You cannot run a report for Stopped Medications based on the End Status.
    Please connect the End Status to the End Date so that it defaults to Stopped when a Medication End Date is…

    58 votes

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  8. NSOE Addresses

    Is there a way to make all the fields in the address appear in the proper case such as initial caps or all caps. Perhaps allow control to each district to choose case.
    It seems we tend to have a lot of clean up from NSOE.
    To have proper case either initial caps or all caps with a choice per district to choose the case of the letters.

    15 votes

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  9. NSOE Drop down for Hospital

    Would like to have a drop-down to choose Hospital in NSOE with a choice to add one that is not on the list.
    We tend to get many spellings of Hospitals in our area and then have to clean them up later. A drop-down list might help to not have so much clean up in this area.
    To have a drop-down choice in NSOE for Hospitals appearing in the Name Master in the Hospitals area.

    32 votes

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  10. Addition of Term Selection to WS\OF\FS\SS\RE\MR

    We would really like to be able to run the Students Missing Specific Courses/Subjects report by specifying one or more terms rather than being locked into the full school year. For example we wanted to quickly produce a list of students who were missing only math courses for Semester 2. Since term selection is not available for this report we were not able to produce any reports of value. If there are alternate means of quickly producing such a report we'd gladly appreciate any feedback as we are brand new to Skyward this year and our knowledge base is still…

    6 votes

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  11. Attendance Enhancement Needed

    We have a "mini" college campus @HS. We have over 350 kids that move in and out of our building on a daily basis that we need to track for attendance. We have codes set up for such but there is no simple way to enter this except one by one!
    I would propose to add an enhancement in the Attendance Entry by Class or Activity screen to add a "selected days" button and a "meet" button to easily add students scheduled in certain classes that leave the building. It would also be nice to do this on individual student.…

    24 votes

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  12. Add Service ID as a field that can be viewed

    I would like to see service ID and other Texas specific fields added as a options that could be added or removed from the column view in curriculum master and course master. Having this there would make verification of the data much simpler than having to generate a report.

    7 votes

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  13. Add Ability to Access/Complete Forms on Mobile App

    Goal - To give parents and guardians the ability to access and complete online forms. This will allow parents to conveniently sign the forms. Expected Outcome - Quicker response from parents/guardians which will result in a quicker response time to provide technology devices to students.

    6 votes

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  14. Add the ability to export Education Milestones

    Skybuild export does not include the option to export Education Milestones. The Skybuild import includes these fields to import data as well as DataMining also includes this data. Would like these same fields to be added to the export option.

    This would allow us to export the Education Milestone data.

    36 votes

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  15. Add Family access credentials to Auto-email

    Would like the ability to create an auto-email to the guardians of a student that includes the link to get their Family Access login and password set up that is triggered when the NSOE application is approved.

    1) the ability to manually send this email already exists on the family screen
    2) there is an auto-email that triggers off of the NSOE approval but the set up does not include the FA credentials.
    We just need to two connected.

    6 votes

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  16. Limit who can see Social Security Numbers

    Our auditors are requesting that we have the ability to limit who has access to student social security numbers for previous students. If a student is no longer active in the system they want us to be able to limit who can see those social security numbers. I know several Florida districts have been asked this this year in our audits this year and have had to state that we will work with Skyward to see if this can be addressed. Within security you can assign users to only see current student SS#'s

    7 votes

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  17. Add what vaccines are linked to prompt message

    When adding a vaccination record to a student that has linked vaccines there is a message that appears asking a user if they'd like to add the date record to the linked vaccines. On this prompt the linked vaccines are not listed so you do not know where the date records will be added.

    45 votes

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  18. Add ability to look up student by first name

    We have kindergarten students coming through the lunch line who have issues with their last names. It would be helpful if the software would allow the lookup of a student by first name in addition to the last name that is currently available on the POS screens.
    Ability to lookup student by first name while in the POS screens

    34 votes

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  19. Email Response for Parent Entered Requests

    When parents enter an attendance request an email is sent to the attendance secretary notifying the secretary of the request. When the attendance secretary opens the Parent Entered Request to Approve/Deny the request she can enter a reply to the parent. We need the reply to send an email the parent. Currently it only appears in Family Access if the parent returns to the Attendance tab.

    10 votes

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  20. add more character to field format for Test scores

    I am needing to change the field lengths for the test score areas: screen heading and report heading. Currently the fields are hard coded for specific length. I would like those to be longer - up to 20 (if possible).

    There is insufficient room for us to put in the wording that we want to use.

    We are getting phone calls from parents stating they don't understand what the headings are saying. Example: we are using %ile for percentile. We want to be able to type the whole word in the heading.

    I know there is several boxes to break…

    26 votes

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