All NWEA Skyward Summer School Enrollment Updated - Wed, May 14, 2025 Read More LOCKED OUT OF SKYWARD Updated - Fri, November 22, 2024 Are you trying to log into Skyward but get an error message that your password is wrong? THE MOST LIKELY CAUSE OF ISSUES RELATED TO LOGGING INTO SKYWARD ARE BECAUSE IT IS TIME TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD FOR LOGGING INTO A DISTRICT COMPUTER.... Read More Operational Reports for NWEA Map Growth Assessments Updated - Tue, November 19, 2024 The Operational Reports section of NWEA Map Growth Assessments is available to certain individuals with access to run data reports for their school. These roles are typically reserved for the Building Test Coordinator of a school. Read More Detention Center Data Entries Updated - Wed, November 13, 2024 The purpose of this article is to show the needed data entries for state reporting of attendance for students detained in a detention center. The school district with the detention center will be responsible for reporting the student's ... Read More Standards-Based Gradebooks for Secondary CBE Courses Updated - Tue, November 12, 2024 At East St. Louis District 189's alternative school, students take courses following a Competency-Based Education model. This article outlines the setup in Skyward SMS 2.0 for determining semester grades and assigning credits for those ... Read More College & Career Readiness Data Collection Updated - Tue, November 12, 2024 Beginning with the 2024-25 school year (SY25), the state of Illinois will include the College & Career Readiness (CCR) metric as part of the calculations for every high school's Illinois School Report Card. This metric will account ... Read More Updating Family Access Accounts in Skyward Updated - Wed, October 23, 2024 Parents and Legal Guardians can access Skyward to review their student's attendance, grades, and more. The purpose of this article is to review the steps to update an account to ensure access to the system. Prior to providing any infor... Read More Scoring Events Updated - Wed, September 11, 2024 Events can be scored from multiple locations within the Standards Gradebook. These locations include: Read More Events for Standards-Based Gradebooks Updated - Tue, August 06, 2024 The Standards-Based Gradebook is used by teachers with students in Kindergarten and 1st Grade, as well as the teachers at Gordon Bush Alternative Center. This type of gradebook tracks a student's progress toward mastery of specific le... Read More Teachers & Skyward Attendance Updated - Tue, July 30, 2024 All teachers will take daily attendance in Skyward. The purpose of this article is to review this process. Read More Running the First Day "F" Report in Skyward Updated - Mon, July 29, 2024 During the start of the school year, staff will be working to determine which students have reported for their first day and when that first day was. You can use an ABSENCE OCCURRENCE REPORT set up for the code "F" in Skyward. This art... Read More Updating a Student's Default Entity Updated - Sun, July 28, 2024 As a student moves between schools, it may be possible that the DEFAULT entity does not match the active enrollment for the current school. The process to update this can be done under a student's profile on the Student Management side ... Read More Transcript Labels for F1 Cards Updated - Fri, May 17, 2024 The F1 card that is a part of each student's permanent folder contains the grades earned for all subjects and attendance data, separated out by school year. Beginning in 6th Grade, transcript labels can be printed and affixed in the F1 ... Read More Mass Emails through Skyward Message Center Updated - Wed, May 01, 2024 The Skyward Message Center provides users with the option to communicate to students and families through email and/or Family/ Student Access. This tutorial will take you through the steps on the Student Management side of the system. Read More Request a Grade Change in Skyward Updated - Wed, April 24, 2024 If a teacher finds himself in a position where a grade change is needed, either for a term grade or a specific assignment, it will be necessary to submit a GRADE CHANGE REQUEST within the gradebook in Skyward. Read More Gradebook Display Options Updated - Wed, April 24, 2024 A teacher's gradebook has different display options. In the gradebook, select the DISPLAY OPTIONS button to create your preferred view for your gradebook. This will allow you to customize your Gradebook. Read More Identifying Chronic Truants and Chronic Absentees Updated - Thu, April 18, 2024 Regular attendance to school is important for students to improve outcomes as they grow and learn. There are two different attendance metrics used to identify students and families who made need additional supports to reach their potent... Read More Average Daily Attendance Updated - Thu, April 18, 2024 The AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE for a school can be run for a date range, specific students, or a specific calendar. This calculation represents the total number of school days that students have been present divided by the total number o... Read More Updating Attendance for a Specific Student Updated - Thu, April 18, 2024 It may be possible that office staff will need to update attendance for a single day or a period of time for a student. This can be done on the Student Management side of Skyward. Read More Setting a Course Effective Date Updated - Thu, April 18, 2024 The Course Effective Date on a student's schedule is important to ensure that the student is able to earn attendance (because he has enough minutes scheduled for a complete day) and for the teacher to have the student available in Skywar... Read More Entry/ Withdrawal Report Updated - Tue, April 16, 2024 The Skyward Entry/ Withdrawal Report can be set up to provide many different types of information related Entries and Withdrawals for a specific school year. To access this report, you will need to be on the Student Management side of S... Read More Printing Address Labels from Skyward Updated - Tue, April 16, 2024 Printing Address Labels from Skyward can be done through the Data Mining field under STUDENTS on the Student Management side of the system. Read More Setting Up Testing Accommodations in NWEA Updated - Tue, April 09, 2024 Students with IEPs, 504 plans, and/ or ELL plans, may be eligible to have certain accommodations or accessibility features while taking their NWEA Map Growth assessments. Read More Setting Up an NWEA Testing Session Updated - Tue, April 09, 2024 Teachers have several options to find students to test for NWEA Map Growth assessments. A test session must be prepared prior to the class session. It is also recommended that the specific test be assigned to each student prior to the ... Read More New Teacher Accounts for NWEA Updated - Tue, April 09, 2024 NWEA MAP Growth assessments cannot be accessed through Clever. All teachers with a Skyward account and classes/ students registered to that account will automatically have an account created in the system. Please have new teachers fol... 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