The Skyward SMS Common Tasks for Building Secretaries training is focused on the specific tasks listed below. This training will be primarily focused on secondary secretaries; elementary secretaries are invited to attend knowing that some setup and configurations may be different. 

To accommodate the variety of topics, we will only have a 30 minute lunch break.

• Navigation - Print Queue, Browse Screen Views and Filters
• Attendance Maintenance, Adding Attendance by Class or Activity, Attendance Reports – Daily Summary and Attendance Detail or Summary
• Basic Data Mining with mailing labels
• Discipline Detail and Discipline Summary Reports
• Current Scheduling
  • Course Master Overview
  • Schedule one student 
  • Mass Add/Change/Delete Student Request (Schedules)
• Grading
  • Discussion of Posting Grades and Posting Dates
  • Grading and Attendance Analysis Report for Progress or Athletics
  • Secondary Report Card Tasks: Checking for blank grades, utilities for GPA and Report Card Setup

As a pre-requisite to this class, you need to watch the recordings found in our Training Materials Library > Skyward SMS 2.0 Documents > Student – SMS 2.0 > Basic Trainings >Numbered 1, 3, 4, 5,  and 7. This training session will build upon the content of these recordings and not necessarily start at the beginning of each topic. The training materials library can be found from our homepage at www.esd101.net/newisc. If you need assistance logging on or need to know your username and/or password, call 509.456.2718.