Tip of the Week: Seating Charts!

Did you know you can create a Seating Chart in Skyward? The link below will walk you through how to set this up under Attendance. This feature also allows you to show and print pictures for yourself and/or substitute teachers -- check it out below!

Seating Chart Directions

TWO Tips this Week! Elementary Teachers: Email Progress Reports

For Elementary Teachers you get TWO ✌ tips this week! Progress Reports will be going home soon! I'm sharing directions on how you can email Progress Reports to parents/guardians. For those parents who do not have an email address in Skyward you have two options. You can 1) print their Progress Report, or 2) add their email address to Skyward! Directions on Emailing and Printing the Progress Report are in the link below. 👇👇👇 Check out my earlier post for directions on Adding a parent/guardian email address to Skyward! 

Emailing Progress Reports

Tip of the Week! Add/Edit Guardian Emails

Did you know that you have the option to add/edit email addresses for parents/guardians of your students? This feature was added last year to Educator Access Plus! While on the student profile screen, locate and click the button that says Edit Guardian Email. If a parent gives you an email address that is not in Skyward you will now be able to add it yourself!

Click on the button found on the Student Profile screen:

Highlight the guardian you wish to update and then click the EDIT button.

Enter the Home Email address and click SAVE!

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REPOST! Tip of the Week -- Creating Student Groups

Do you have a need to create students groups for your classes in Skyward? There is a feature in the gradebook that allows you to create up to 10 groups in one class. An example use for this feature would be if you have more than one grade level in a classroom and you wish to use a separate set of assignments for each group. The directions in the link below will explain how you can create separate student groups and also how to create assignments for one group or all.

Create Student Groups

Taking Attendance For a Previous Day

Follow the directions below if you need to make a correction for attendance on a previous day!


Click on one of your classes for attendance.

In order to update attendance for a previous DAY ... you will want to be sure you can see DATES in the columns across your Attendance screen. IF YOUR DISPLAY SHOWS THE CLASS PERIOD columns, then you'll need to click the link that says "Show Attendance for Previous Days" (see below)

Once you can see DATES in your Attendance Display, you should be able to click right in the cell for the student's attendance that you want to change.

You'll receive a pop-up where you can change the attendance - and then click SAVE!

Change Your Student Display in Your Gradebook

Another Teacher Access Tip!! Did you know that you can change the way your Student names display in Skyward? The default is to display the first 5 letters of the student's first and last name. Follow the directions below to choose your preferred way to display student names!

1) Click on the word "Students" just above your list of student names:

2) Check out the examples on the right to help you decide which student display you prefer. Also check out the other Display and Sort options at the bottom of the screen. Remember to Save your changes!