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Student Management Suite

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  1. Quick Score Feature open thru Grade Input End

    Our teachers use the Quick Score Feature in their Gradebook. However once the grading period has closed that feature is no longer available. Teachers would like to be able to use the Quick Score Feature until the Grade Input End Date expires.

    40 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Gradebook  ·  Admin →
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  2. Standards Grading: Listing Events

    Currently events are displayed by date. When you have multiple events and multiple skills the screen is hard to read.
    We would like to see events grouped together with their skill and date. If nothing else an option to view it his way would be another option.

    22 votes

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  3. Instructional Responsibility for PVAAS

    The percentage of shared instruction will set to default to the value based on dividing 100 by the number of teachers flagged as having instructional responsibility for a course. Our district has followed an 80/20 responsibility for two co-teacher courses and 55/35/10 for three co-teacher courses in our six elementary buildings. There is no way to change the default and each individual student record will need to be changed for all teachers. This will be a very time consuming task and may attribute to more errors when uploading to PIMS thus creating incorrect records in the PVAAS system. Instructional responsibility…

    21 votes

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  4. School Health Record Report

    Add health notes as well as office visit notes.
    Our nurses have indicated that the School Health Report should also include notes. They are pleased that this report has been created but would also like notes to send as a student transfers to a new district. They strongly feel that the notes need to be included in a students medical record.

    52 votes

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  5. Advanced Custom Forms-Add fields to Skyward's List

    I am working on new Advanced Custom Form to be completed during online enrollment (NSOE). I would like to have 3 Skyward fields added to the list of Skyward fields available to select from while creating a student custom form. The fields are as follows:

    1 - Student Physician's Primary Phone;

    2 - Student Dentist's Primary Phone;

    3 - Student's Allergies (as described by the parent in a multi-row text box)

    Parents are providing this information as requested in NSOE "steps" and sigh when the same information is requested later in the Step 6 custom forms.

    Please add the 3…

    32 votes

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  6. Ability to configure Hall Pass receipt info

    Similar to the Tardy Pass it would be nice to alter wehat is included on the hall pass. We would like the alphakey and other id removed since this information is the basis of their network account. The hall pass as it is now can not be used. the ability to customize it same as tardy would solve this issue

    58 votes

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  7. allow term adjustments to be calculated into final

    We often use grade adjustments within term grade posting based on attendance and other expectations. It is rare that our teachers use the weighted grade option as that is very difficult to have a balance of equal points between grading terms. As I understand that is the only option to have the grade adjustments be calculated into the FG. (By the way we have semester/term grading). If a teacher makes (ex) a grade increase because a student was close to an A- that positivity should be then reflected in the students final grade. That is not currently the case. A…

    52 votes

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  8. Allow Attendance Factor For Selected Entities

    If you try to run this report from the district entity you can still only enter one Attendance Factor value. This value is then attached to each entity displayed on the report. That is obviously not correct. The current workaround is to run this report at each entity specifying a different Attendance Factor value each time. This is inefficient. It would be helpful if you were able to specify the Attendance Factor for each entity when running from the district level. This way you only need to run the report one time vs. eight times (in our case).

    47 votes

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  9. Exporting Duplicates

    When creating exports for online curriculum it has become a problem in some cases where I am unable to automate exports due to duplicate student data being pulled. I am aware there are systems that my export can filter through to remove duplicates from my student exports to then be automatically imported into online curriculum. I am asking for Skyward to have this capability to do this.
    I am asking for the capabilities to remove duplicate student data within the Skyward export itself.
    xample: HMH data exports attached from HMH

    57 votes

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  10. Add Withdrawal date to Customize area on Stu Prof

    Currently in the Customize area of the Student Profile you can opt to show the student's current enrollment date which displays only if the student is active. If the student is inactive the field shows as blank. It would be helpful if this field would switch to show the most recent withdrawal date if the student is inactive. This would be helpful to view when working in other screens to see when the student became inactive for the campus/district especially in regard to PEIMS coding. Currently you would have to open a new window to view the E/W screen or…

    15 votes

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  11. increase character count for assignment comments

    Increase the numbers of characters permitted in the comments area when using the Score Entry in a teacher grade book.

    25 votes

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  12. Add In/Out Times to Entry by Date Screen

    Recently our staff have started to use the In/Out Minutes option for Attendance. They would love to be able to see that information on the Entry By Date screen without having to completely open up the student record. Is this something that can be added to that view?

    31 votes

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  13. additional hearing merge fields

    Texas state hearing screening laws require that students who fail their first hearing screening are rescreened. Please add additional hearing merge fields so that the hearing letters accurately print all of the screening results.
    See Texas hearing screening form M-40 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Additional hearing letter merge fields:

    --Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Rescreening entry Threshhold table

    --Rescreening entry Combined Results

    34 votes

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  14. vision letter merge field additions

    Need Vision Letter Merge Fields for:

    --automated screening device

    --Need Merge Field for Rescreening Date (2nd screening when "rescreen" box is checked)

    --Need Merge Fields for Corrected Right and Corrected Left on Rescreening entry

    --Need Merge Fields for Uncorrected Right and Uncorrected Left on Rescreening Entry

    See state's vision screening form M-60 http://www.dshs.texas.gov/vhs/require.shtm

    Texas passed law in 2015 and expanded it in 2017 allowing students to be screened with an automated screening device. There is no Merge Field for a Vision Letter to indicate that the child was screened with an Automated Screening Device. The state requires that referral letters…

    34 votes

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  15. Email teachers/staff about notifications

    We have teachers/staff who don't notice the little yellow (!) notification/alert icon. We do know that they check their email on a regular basis.
    Is there a way that emails can be sent notifying them of notifications/alert and inform them what the notification contains?
    It doesn't have to be an immediate email but at most twice a day. Or set for customizable times of the day multiple times a day.
    Just would like to get teachers and other staff to notice that they have a notification/alert.

    38 votes

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  16. Simplify the process of combining gradebooks

    Simplify the process of combining gradebooks when the course has both a primary and alternate teachers.
    Currently we have to remove all of the alternate teachers merge the gradebook then add the alternates back then delete the primary teacher and add them back since the last teacher added is automatically set as the primary.

    40 votes

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  17. Additional Bus Stops Needed

    Currently the Bus Stop area in Busing can only hold 4 routes. We have some students with up to 6 routes. Our parents view busing in Family Access and aren't always getting all the information they need.
    Please consider adding the capability to add up to 8 bus stops per student in the busing area.

    55 votes

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  18. Office Visit By date report for the nurse

    Can we add disposition added to this report? Office Visit By Date report

    24 votes

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  19. hall pass - include signature image and email

    We would like to be able to email the Hall Pass from the Attendance tab in Student Profile directly to the student's current teacher. This would immediately let the teacher know that the student should be returning to class.
    We would also like to be able to insert an image of a signature on the pass so that it is signed when emailed or printed.
    The student's current teacher is displayed on the Hall Pass screen. If we could email it to the teacher either in addition to printing or in place of printing then the teacher would know exactly…

    28 votes

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  20. Add an Option to Select Grades Courses Only

    Add an option to the report to select grades courses only. Currently that option is not available and our Withdrawal Form prints out on 4 pages. The negative impact is that we cannot utilize this Skyward Report with its current options.
    Add a Course Selection field to select by either Range or Individual (just like the Student Selection option). Within the Ranges we would need the option to select graded courses only.
    Our expected outcome is that we would not have to create a custom form document for student withdrawals. We would be able to utilize the Skyward Canned Report.

    33 votes

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