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  1. Custom Form View on Family Access Read Only

    It would be very helpful if we could make Custom Forms view-able to parents on Family Access. We have a Behavioral Standards custom form that is completed by several teachers. We would like parents to be able to view the form on Family Access instead of printing them all out and sending them home. Report Cards are available to our parents in the Portfolio tab and we would love to see the option to add Custom Forms there as well.

    24 votes

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  2. Add Counselor Field to Customizable Options

    Recently Skyward provided a new field under Entity Info to allow districts (schools) to track Counselors if they differ from Advisors. This is a great option and Skyward did diligence to add it as a mass update option under Student Mass Change. Our staff would like to see this go one step further by adding the field as an option to updating a user's custom list of fields that display under the Extra Information option within Student Profile. When you click on the Customize link Advisor can be added however Counselor is not yet available. Screen shots attached. Thank you!

    6 votes

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  3. Entering events for specific studnts

    We would like to have the option of selecting individual students or ranges of students when entering an event. Right now when entering an event the default is for the event to be applied to all students.

    With standards based grading the teacher is often grading only one student or small groups of students. This would allow the flexibility for teachers to only enter the events for the students who were assessed.

    57 votes

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  4. Application of trend grading to subjects

    We have set up subjects within each course that each have multiple skills. We would like for the subject grade to be a trend of all events added within that subject. Right now it is set up so that each skill gets a trend rating and if we choose to grade the subject it is an average of each of the skill ratings.

    This would allow teachers to report trend ratings by skill or by skill grouping and all events entered would have an equal weight. The power law calculation would not need to change it would just be applied…

    58 votes

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  5. Ability to move widgets around when using Ipad

    We aee an Apple district with most employees and students using Ipads. While at the user conference in October I was using an Ipad to follow along. During the Skyport & Mobile Apps for Finance & HR I was unable to move widgets with the Ipad -this not a functionality at this time on mobile devices.
    It would be useful to have the same functionality of moving widgets around on a mobile device. As a district we would like to encourage more mobile use for hierarchy approvers but this is difficult when widget they need to quickly see is not…

    32 votes

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  6. Percent Attendance by Teacher Report

    It would really be helpful if this report also broke down by course. All of our PK classes report attendance in period 6. So the report combines the morning and afternoon classes together. We need the ability to show them separately.

    30 votes

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  7. Enable export of students with PA ID

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    hen students change key items in Skyward name birthdate sex you must upload the students to the PIMS PA Secure ID web site with the changes. Now to accomplish this you need to key in all this information which can lead to mistakes. If you have a large number of students (which on occasion we do) this becomes time consuming when you have to 'assign' the ID on the PA side and resolve miss matches. I've included a screen show of the information
    Enable a selection of specific students that have PA ID's to upload to the state website…

    23 votes

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  8. Email button addition

    In the current scheduling tab there is an email button that you can email individuals. Can we get that in the attendance section?

    30 votes

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  9. Automated Unrecorded Class Attendance/Bell Schedul

    Requesting an enhancement for Unrecorded Class Attendance email generation to be linked to the Bell Schedule for the day. Example: We are on a half day bell schedule but the Unrecorded Class Attendance is sending emails based on our full day bell schedule.

    44 votes

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  10. Increase search capabililty to include "contains"

    Speed the search for locating the student record when the name being given(i.e. Juarez)is the second part (i.e. Zavala-Juarez)of the last name in the database. This is a frequent occurrence. While there is little negative impact on the daily operation if the enhancement is not made it could prove otherwise during an emergency situation.

    Being able to use wildcards (*) during the search would be fabulous but even being able to choose between 'begins' with and 'contains' would be great.

    43 votes

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  11. Increase Email Recipients on Exports

    The Email Results To field is limited to 200 characters. If the number of users who you would like to email the results to exceeds this number you would have to create the second export. ** If the field is extended(like this box of 911) there would be no need to run a second export to send to email recipients that did not fit on the first run because of the 200 character rule.

    25 votes

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  12. Teacher Access to see if a Student Fee Paid Online

    As a district we are trying to move more and more of our fees to online payment. Our goal is to not have teachers collecting money within the classroom and storing the money in the classroom. The issue for the teachers is that they have no way of seeing which students have paid the fee online without having the school office generate a report for them. This is time consuming for the office and for the teacher. Some teachers require students to bring in the receipt of the payment from RevTrak in lieu of getting the information from the office.…

    49 votes

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  13. Ability to Combine Standards Gradebooks

    It would be very helpful if we had the ability to combine the standards gradebooks the same way that we can combine secondary gradebooks in Educator Access Plus.

    31 votes

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  14. PreID not pulling accommodations

    Our district enters ESE accommodations into the Local Accommodations box in Skyward; but these aren't recognized during the PreID process. See attachment for screenshots of student accommodation location. Can Skyward's PreID script look for accommodations from the Local Accommodations box to assign the Y/N for this field? And if that is not possible can the PreID script automatically assign a "Y" for accommodations if a Primary Exceptionality is identified?

    52 votes

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  15. request for referral on busing

    I have been asked to make a request that a discipline referral be added to the transportation portal so bus drivers can submit misbehavior on the bus and the principals can pull it out of the program or will get an email to notify them of the referral.

    14 votes

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  16. Reporting on "No Count" Assignments

    Request from teacher: Teachers often want to monitor work completion participation rates time spent pleasure reading etc... but they do not want these "behaviors" counted as part of the academic grade. Luckily Skyward allows teachers to enter these categories into their gradebook and mark them as "no count" so parents can access the information at the same time leaving the academic grade untouched. However teachers often need to calculate averages for these behaviors. It makes it easier at report card time to say "Your child met their pleasure reading goal 67% of the time."

    Could you please add a reporting…

    25 votes

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  17. Display Day Rotation in Attendance

    When a teacher opens Student Information (blue "i" icon) to view attendance for all classes they cannot see the Day Rotation on the absence records. The day rotation code displays in a variety of other screens but having it display here would be helpful for the teacher to view trends. Please consider adding the Day Rotation column to this screen to assist teachers.

    23 votes

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  18. Grade Mark Group Long Descriptions

    Expand the Grade Mark groups description on SBRC teacher screen: There is room on the left.

    32 votes

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  19. translated forms

    It would be extremely beneficial to our district and I'm sure others as well to have the DPI translated special education forms uploaded into the forms templates. As it is now I have to clone the English version of the form then either cut and paste from the DPI Word document or type it in myself. This is not difficult but is quite time consuming. If we had 1 person doing this then all other districts would just need to upload the form.
    Outcome: One person puts in the time to enter/create the translated form instead of each district on…

    29 votes

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  20. Insulin administration

    Could there be a link between the diabetic flow sheet where you state how much insulin was given and the actual medication section so there is no need to double document

    26 votes

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