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Student Management Suite

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  1. Margins In Attendance/Discipline Letters

    We would like to shrink the margins on our custom letters to fit all information on one page. This would be beneficial for layout of the custom letters.

    28 votes

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  2. Mass Assign Title I - Add option for Individuals

    When Mass Assigning Title I records please consider adding the option to assign by Individual and By Processing List as these features exist in other Mass Add utilities.

    29 votes

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  3. Need More Characters!

    We submitted this last year but really need this addressed. Currently our medication dosage unit codes only allow for 5 characters. We enter the dose unit of medications and have run into this more than once that if a dose is in the 10000s we are unable to qualify WHAT the measurement is. For example: 10000mg 10000units etc. This is a safety concern because we need to be able to denote WHAT the measurement is for that medication. I have attached a screen shot. I am trying to enter a medication that is 12000 units. Melissa Anez 320-616-2208\n\nRoyalton School District…

    46 votes

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  4. Schedule Task with Preview

    For years I have had the Mass Delete Grades By Grade Bucket run as a 2 part Scheduled Task. The tasks that I had saved were no longer working so I created new templates to run the utility. However now from my Print Queue when I select the Task button "Schedule This" is not available to select. After submitting a Skyward service call I am told: "We recently changed an option to be able to schedule a process that has a preview. Any utility that has a preview at the beginning is no longer able to be scheduled. I apologize…

    34 votes

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  5. Entity INFO now has COUNSELOR needed in Auto email

    Since the COUNSELOR field is now available in entity Info this needs to be an option to select when in automatic email setup area. See attached screen shot of the view of Entity Info (with Counselor now has an option) and of Code Selection in Automatic Emails where Counselor is not available. When will this be added? It is not fair to give the Counselor field in one area but not make it available in others areas within Skyward
    Any Event/Trigger that offered Advisor please add Counselor field as an option

    24 votes

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  6. No Show Count or Excluded Assignments

    It would be beneficial for our district to enable a feature that would disable visibility in Family Access for specific students for specific assignments. Or the capability to select students that a specific assignment applies to within a classroom. There are some students that may need excluded from specific assignments and we would like those to not show in Family or Student Access.

    21 votes

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  7. Custom Forms Need to Print Confidential Numbers

    When you print a custom form that pulls family phone numbers if they are flagged as confidential they print the word confidential. There needs to be added to options for editing Skyward Fields for Custom Forms like Data Mining the field for Phone should have a flag (check box) item to say 'Print Confidential Numbers.'

    34 votes

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  8. Online registration font

    I think it would be a good idea to have the option to change font size and color for the online registration opening message. Right now it is smaller and people just glance over it. Sometimes it is helpful to put an important note in that area.
    Add an area in the setup to adjust font.

    83 votes

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  9. SAML Relying Party Configuration

    I am requesting that Skyward configure SAML for Districts that have an IDP. Minnetonka has it's own IDP - we use Identity Automation. I'd like to be able to use our SSO service to log all users into Skyward by way of a SAML integration with Skyward.
    I am willing to help do the testing to get this up and running. I know there are other users that use Identity Automation for an IDP and could also benefit from this type of configuration.

    52 votes

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  10. Day Rotation post somewhere for Student/Parent

    We have classes that are on a 2 day rotation and a 3 day rotation. We are able to set that on our calendar in Skyward and with our courses; however currently it sounds like it does not show anywhere for our students in their Skyward Calendar or anywhere else. The students receive their schedule and it shows the rotation day number by the course but how is the student supposed to know which day it is currently throughout the year? Currently we post the day number in the hallway but it would be nice if students could either click…

    50 votes

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  11. Add Other ID to list of students

    We would like to see if Other ID for each student could be added to the choice of students when adding a student to the Activity. As we have many students with the exact same name. This would make it much easier.
    We would like to see if Other ID for each student could be added to the choice of students when adding a student to the Activity. As we have many students with the exact same name. This would make it much easier.

    25 votes

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  12. More Space for Customize Bar in Student's Profile

    The customizable area that stays on the top of each of student's screen is very helpful to users to quickly see information useful to them. It would be helpful to add the Team information to this area so that those that use Teaming could quickly see what team the student is on since many times that guides schedule times lunches (that are not put on schedules) and other matters in the building. Without this information available we've been attempting to use the student indicators however those are not easy to populate and keep populated correctly and we do not have…

    84 votes

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  13. Add Lice Screening to Entry By Homeroom

    Please add a Health Test of "Lice Screening" to be able to be entered by Homeroom (and Class?) It would save countless hours for nurses input of this screen for lice.
    Huge time savings when it comes to data entry for nurses.

    16 votes

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  14. Skybuild Field Needed

    Customer's need the Keep Attendance field from the Course Master added as a field available to export in Skybuild. This is a requirement for the Illuminate DnA export which is used widely throughout MI.

    27 votes

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  15. Utility to Reset Dr. Note Required

    Need to have a utility where we can reset the "Dr. Note Required" flag as part of our EOY process.

    45 votes

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  16. Re-routing Attachments to Enrollment

    Good Morning! I am requesting that we make it possible for certain Attachments (under Portfolio) to be re-routed to the Enrollment tab under Student Profile. When parents go to upload their residency documentation under their Family Access it routes both documents to the Attachments tab instead of the enrollment tab where it really should go. We'd like to keep our attachments tab solely for report cards to keep everything organized. Right now when we have a parent come to us in person we upload the documents ourselves to the Enrollment tab; we would like to keep it consistent and have…

    30 votes

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  17. Absence Occurrence Report

    We would like to have total columns add to the Absence Occurrence Report so that it may total AUE's by the way we do our schedule. We have a 12 day rotation schedule Day1 is 1-6 and Day 2 is 7-12. I have attached some print screens so that you may understand what I am talking about. Please let me know it this would be possible. We have made a request like this in the past when we first acquired the software but nothing ever came of it. Thank you for your time.

    27 votes

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  18. Add ability to delete Message

    Please add a "Delete" button to Message Center. Users would like to be able to remove/delete a scheduled message prior to the deliver date/time. The button "Recall" is confusing to the end user. Thank you.

    35 votes

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  19. Mobile App Configuration

    Requesting that the mobile app follow the entity configuration for Family Access.
    We configured the Entity Configuration for Family Access not to show Homeroom and advisers as we did not want parents to be able to see these until a specific date. However the parents were able to go onto the Mobile app and see them in Student Information by clicking on the "I" button. Advisor and Homeroom are both listed. This defeated our purpose of wanting the parents to do the current student registration and then allowing them to see the schedules etc.
    The expected outcome is for Skyward…

    74 votes

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  20. Block out grade entry for ranges of students

    We are looking for a way to isolate teachers from being able to enter any grades into their grade books for a range of students. We have students of all grades within classes and coming from a variety of schools. At the end of each year we get notice from our sending schools when they want grades for their senior students as well as when they want their underclassmen grades.

    The problem we have is that we have teacher who even after being told what schools and grades are due on what days there are grades that are still being…

    22 votes

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