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  1. Save Descipline letters to Student records

    Currently Discipline Letters cannot be saved to the student record. Attendance Letters are but not Discipline Letters. We would like to be able to save these letters to the Student record in Skyward.

    Add the capability to save Discipline letters to the student record as Attendance Letters are. Provide a Letters button in the Student Profile Discipline tab to allow users to view any Discipline Letters sent.

    39 votes

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  2. TEACHER SCORE CARD

    We are trying to implement the teacher score card and have gotten feed back from Administrators that the words scorecard is like we are scoring them on something. Its seems harsh to some. We are requesting that a name change be like "Classroom Statistics" or something like Grade book Statistics

    12 votes

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  3. Add Ability to Select Multiple Individual Students

    It would be helpful to have the ability to select multiple individual students on the PIMS Extract screen just like you can do for other reports. Right now I can enter a Student Key range ultimately allowing me to run a PIMS extract for one kid at a time. However I'm thinking it'd be helpful to be able to select Range or Individual. If you check Individual you could then add one name key at a time to a selected names list. That way if there are 5 kids I know I must run an extract for I can add…

    32 votes

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  4. Allow Sys-Wide users to delete Data Mining Reports

    Have an option to indicate System Wide Users who can have the ability to delete Data Mining Reports

    10 votes

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  5. Allow Sys-Wide users to delete Data Mining Reports

    Have an option to indicate System Wide Users who can have the ability to delete Data Mining Reports

    90 votes

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  6. Custom forms /Advanced custom to family access

    The goal for this enhancement is to be able to have the option to post advanced and custom forms to family access. Not all custom forms should post to family access only ones specified.

    A negative impact of not having this enhancement is having to printing these reports for parents when they would be able to view this information online.

    Having this information in a working advanced custom form within Skyward is already a goal that has been accomplished. Having this report become a custom form viewable within family access would open the doors for other information that could be…

    47 votes

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  7. Enable Families to enter vaccination information

    To reduce data entry and enable more electronic processing please create a way for families to enter new vaccination information - either as an option in Online Registration or as an item in Family Access similar to what is available in NSOE.
    Similar to NSOE families can enter their student's vaccination records instead of having nursing staff enter all. This is a nice feature in NSOE but not all vaccinations are done at the time of the NSOE entry and there is no way for parents to go back in and add them later OR add future required vaccinations.

    35 votes

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  8. Teacher lunch and preps on schedule

    Enable a course to be indicated that it is for a teacher schedule
    . On a course have in the drop down 'category' have Teacher Schedule. When you would select this you could have meets and assign teachers but not assign students. This would then enable the class to print on the teacher schedule.

    34 votes

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  9. Add Grade Year to the Range in Custom Forms NSOE

    We use a lot of custom forms and you can choose which forms a student fills out based on their grade. We as asking that you also add grad year as a range to define who can see the forms. When my 4K students are enrolling for next year their grade will be PK/EC and that is the same for all grade years after the current 4K so it does not show the forms correctly when a student is enrolling.

    36 votes

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  10. Online Conferences

    It would be very helpful to have the ability for the parent/guardian to request an interpreter in online conference scheduling. Something we can pull in either data mining or (preferably) an indicator in conference reports. Without this we are using a lot of man hours compiling this information.
    A box for parent/guardian to check stating they require an interpreter for parent/teacher conferences. When selected this would show up as an indicator on conference reports.

    58 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  rebeccag responded

    Thank you for the suggestion! We will be reviewing this request in more depth, including the input from the development team.

  11. Medication Inventory Autoemail

    The problem with the Medication Inventory dose email is if you have an epipen that is only one dose. If we set up that autoemail that parent will receive an autoemail daily if we set it up that parents receive an email once the dose is down to 5. The expiration date autoemail works great for the epipen but not the other. Any suggestions?

    26 votes

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  12. Medication Inventory in Quick Entry

    When in Quick Entry for Medication our health aides just check that the student received their medication for that day. The only problem is it doesn't show them on that screen what the current inventory is so they are able to keep reducing the inventory without realizing it is already at a negative. So ideally they should not be able to give a medication that is in negative inventory or it should be highlighted red. Unfortunately we are finding our medication inventory and the medication in the bottle are not matching.

    26 votes

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  13. Medication Inventory Report

    We are having issues with medication inventory and the inventory being off. We know that we can see the current inventory and we can see how it is administered each day but we would like to run a report to see what Skyward showed the inventory was on a daily basis. Example: We had a student whose inventory was spot on on 12/15/16 but now today 1/9/17 it is off. We want to run a report back to 12/15/16 to today to see what Skyward showed the inventory was on a daily basis along with the administers.

    25 votes

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  14. Add Near & Far vision screening fields to Letters

    Merge fields in the letter only have Corrected and Uncorrected Right and Left eyes and is pulling the Far vision results. For the state of PA we need to specify the Near vision and Far vision fields for each eye corrected and uncorrectd and label and report them all. Need the Near vision fields added to the letter.

    Expected outcome is to have merge fields for PA districts for both Near Corrected Right and Left eye and Near Uncorrected Right and Left eye as well as the existing Far Corrected Right and Left eye and Far Uncorrected Right and Left…

    33 votes

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  15. Add NEW Address and Phone Field to Check Out Form

    We would like to see a section on the Check Out Form to add the student's NEW Address and Phone once they leave our district. The report currently being used is in the E/W Tab - Quick Print. Please see attached. The first page is the Skyward form and the second page is our old ProSoft SIS form which worked very well. The secretary is now handwriting the new info which is negative. And honestly our old form was a much cleaner form.

    52 votes

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  16. Utility to inactivate staff

    Managing staff and security accounts manually is a major task. I would like to request a utility that would inactivate users in Staff and set the Active Secured User field in Security to 'No' if they have not logged in within xx number of days. We would be able to select the number of days since last log in to inactivate.

    Inactivating accounts for staff who've been out for a lengthy period of time. But the resolution would be easy since accounts are only being inactivated. We would turn those accounts back on manually.

    44 votes

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  17. Changes to the Endorsement Area

    I have noticed when I go in to delete or add an endorsement (make any type of change) it wipes out the parent and student signature name and dates. Is there any way possible that endorsements can be added or deleted but the other information does not delete and can stay there unless we choose to change it? Some students have several endorsements on their 4 year plans and then maybe choose not to complete one of them. It would be easier to just delete that one or add one when we see they will have an extra endorsement without…

    24 votes

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  18. NSOE in Family Access - entity specific

    Would like a option to be able to disable New Student Online enrollment in Family access for each entity. Making it entity specific.
    Could this me accomplished by adding it to Family Access > Setting > Configuration > Entity Setup like the others we can enable and disable.

    35 votes

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  19. Utility to mass change "Date Due"

    Need the ability to mass change "Date Due" on items within the textbook tracker. Specific to devices and not textbooks for students and staff who keep their iPad or Laptop over the summer and through the next school year.
    This feature will be a time saver to admin/campus staff when updating inventory and due date information to be able to run a utility to change a due date for a specific date criteria to reflect a new date a year in the future will save having to adjust records one by one.

    15 votes

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  20. Educational milestones connected to Test Scores

    Goal: entry of a Test Score that meets a specific criteria automatically triggers a 'complete' date on an Educational Milestone.
    Wisconsin Civics Exam requires students to earn a minimum score as a requirement for graduation starting in 2017. We are entering it as a Test Score so it appears on transcripts along with ACT and other test scores but are also trying to include the status as an Educational Milestone so students and parents are aware that this is required. Right now when students complete the test I have to double enter.
    Expected outcome: Test Scores include a test administration…

    21 votes

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