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Student Management Suite

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  1. Add processing lists to Test Score module

    Wis. Stat. sec. 118.33(1m)(a)1 Section 3266R requires high school students to pass a civics test before graduating from high school beginning with the class of 2017. How and when the exam is given and recorded is up to individual districts - no vendor no mandatory recording procedure. But it is a requirement so my district is using Skyward to track student completion and include that information on transcripts. We have a need to identify students who have not yet taken or not yet passed the exam. I can use data mining ranges to find students who have a test record…

    25 votes

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  2. Student Browse Test Scores

    Add Keystone Test Scores under Test Scores in the Student Browse view like the Student Profile for easier view of the Keystone Scores.

    23 votes

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  3. field access in Skybuild

    Make the 504 data housed in the Special Programs area available to Skybuild.

    29 votes

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  4. Quick Print for Parent Web ID Letter

    I'd like to see a Quick Print button on the web access tab so that we could set up or use a letter (either a Skyward configured one (like the basic/enhanced report card) or a custom letter like we have) and be able to generate a letter with the parents web access username and password. If there would be a better location to put the Quick Print button that's fine. But something is needed because the only option is to go into Data Mining and try to create all of the letters then find the one that needs to be…

    24 votes

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  5. NEED TO ADD A REGISTERED TRADEMARK SYMBOL

    Our district offers many AP courses and we are required to have the trademark symbol after the letters AP on any of our course descriptions in the catalog transcript report card or any report. Skyward does not allow us to enter the symbol and converts it to (R). I just want to make sure that we document that we have tried to comply with the request made and that if any legal actions are taken that it is not held against the district because of the inability to accomplish this in Skyward. I have spoke to a customer representative from…

    15 votes

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  6. Staff State ID

    Please make Staff State ID available in Skybuild.
    This is needed in Skybuild so they can import or export items to link staff information. They need another field to link to. Skybuild does have the ability to use the Student ID.

    92 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  rebeccag responded

    Looking into options for adding Staff State ID to Skybuild.

    Data Mining is a tool for Student information reporting, so Staff State ID will not be added to this area of the software.

  7. Notification of Assignments turned in Electronic

    From Teacher : I'm wondering about students submitting late assignments through Skyward and if there is a way to get a notification when a student submits an assignment late. I'm finding that after I go through and grade assignments that have been uploaded I don't have a good way to know if a student submits something after that. So far the only option seems to be for me to keep checking the graded assignment to see if anything has been submitted recently. That takes a lot of checking. If Skyward has or added a notification option I'd love to get…

    44 votes

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  8. Add Day Number to Calendar report

    It would be very helpful if you could add "DAY NUMBER" to the calendar report that currently lists the Calendar Days of the school year. Currently it lists the date and type of day but not the day number of the school year. When we use a snow day the day number of the school year changes so if we could see it listed on the report that would be great.

    31 votes

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  9. Option to exclude account from timeout setting

    We have accounts that are setup for student kiosks in the Clinic and Counselors office. Because of the attendance requirements we have our security setup to automatically log users out after 15 minutes which is also happening to these kiosk accounts. We need an option to exclude them so they don't have to login every 15 minutes.
    Log kiosk machines in once and have them stay logged in forever so students can use it to check in. If the nurses & counselors have to go log back into skyward so the student can check in then they might as well…

    48 votes

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  10. Health letters

    Can the Vacc Letters be changed to "Health Letters" to automatically document any Hearing/Vision/Scoliosis/Vaccines/etc letter that is generated and sent home? It is important for these letters to be properly documented and recorded as being sent. Thank you

    26 votes

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  11. 2nd Family Conference Scheduling

    Teaching staff is requesting that ONLY 1ST Family/Guardians be allowed to schedule conferences. Currently every guardian attached to the student has the ability to schedule. This creates multiple teacher conferences for the same child and unfortunately the parents that can't get along twist their meeting information and use it against the other effectively putting the child and teacher in the middle. It also takes a conference slot from availablity and forces the teacher to have virtually the same meeting twice.
    The option to limit registration to Family 1 already exists. It would be very helpful to have that option in…

    36 votes

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  12. Treatment Tab

    We would like to request a Treatments tab in the Health area. Our nurses would like it to have the same functions as the Medication tab so that treatments can be entered and scheduled and be able to be reported on. The example given was a student that has seizures. The nurse has a daily treatment with this student that cannot be scheduled.

    23 votes

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  13. Email Guardians Button

    Please add a button with exact functionality as "Email Teachers" only to "Email Guardians". Right now there's no way to email all the guardians in a family or to choose from amongst available guardians. User has to click the link write an email; click the link write another email etc.. Other possibility is to cc the other parent--but this requires switching back and forth through windows plus a copy and paste and errors are possible. If the attached screen had an Email Guardians button it would be so helpful!

    29 votes

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  14. Verification Status Report Needs Date Range Option

    Greetings. We use the Returning Student Registration option via Family Access to register returning to district students as well as returning next year students. So essentially it's always open. Unlike NSOE there's no notification to our staff unless Pseudo Changes occur. I've shown them how to check the Verification Status screen and how to run this report. Problem is if you want to check a time frame or perhaps schedule this weekly to see if any parents completed this process (let's even assume with no changes so this would be your only option of even knowing) you always get the…

    29 votes

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  15. STAAR EOC Performance Level I needed on STAAR EOC

    In order to track which students have taken an exam and failed we need to be able to see Level I performance on a required EOC exam not just Level II and III.
    Standards change depending on whether a student is testing for the first time or repeating an exam already failed.

    12 votes

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  16. Add School Psych to list of Student Contacts

    When setting up nightly email notifications it would be helpful to notify the school psychologist assigned to a student about special education evaluations since they are the ones that complete the evaluations. These people are not always service providers so they don't fall into that available category so I would like to see "school psychologist" added as a category under "Student Contacts".
    This enhancement would keep school psychologists notified about upcoming evaluations and those that are past due.

    23 votes

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  17. add an optional fee to a course

    We currently can add a required fee to a course such as a fee for all students in choir. We can also add an OPTIONAL fee to an entire school population. We need to have the ability to add an OPTIONAL fee to a course. This would allow us to set up a fee for a garment bag to students in choir. Nice to have but not required. OR a choir dress if last year's does not fit anymore.
    It seems we can add a required fee to a course. AND we can add an optional fee to an entire…

    31 votes

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  18. Course Type Codes with More Than 3 Characters

    We need to be able to create Course Types with more than 3 characters. Being limited to 3 characters hinders our users to utilize/create codes that contain more than 4 or more characters. The downfall we are running into is that when a transcript is printed courses that have 4 or more course types attached does not print all the codes associated.
    This will allow our registrars to print transcripts with accurate data displayed.

    7 votes

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  19. Student Grading Notifications

    We recently started using Student Access Grading Notifications and informed our students how to set them up. We would like to know how many students are actually using this feature but there isn't a way for us to see that. We would like to see a view added to the Student Access Users Screen similar to what is seen in the Family Access Users Screen titled "Email Notification Alerts." This would give us a quick glance of who has and who hasn't signed up for email grading notifications.

    15 votes

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  20. Custom report cards element cloning

    This applies to CTE but could also have implementations in K-12.

    While it is possible to clone Standards Based Custom Report Cards and change the school year (Being able to do this automatically as part of the cloning processes at the end of the year would be great) if you are using an object in the report to limit the results that you see on the report you are bound to having to select those each year.

    We are using Standards Gradebook Custom Report Card currently to show all tasks that a student has accomplished against and Academic Area. This…

    25 votes

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