Technology "How To" Admin Assistant
For Administrative Assistants
Skyward – General Navigation (Student Records) Quick Start Videos
Overview of General Navigation
How to View District or Different Entities (Schools)
How to View Current and Previous School Years
How to Create a New Window for Navigation
How to Reset your password
How to Navigate to Previous Screen in Skyward
How to Navigate to Home School
How To View ‘My Messages’ in Skyward
How to Add a Dock to Frequently Used Screens (Similar to Adding a Favorite)
How to Create a Favorite
How to Create a Live Tile
How to Create a Chart Title on Dashboard (Graphical Display)
How to Export Data on a Screen to Excel File (List Students)
How to Insert a Column to a Browse Screen (View Additional Demographics Information)
Skyward Videos – Fundamentals of Student Management Quick Start Course - IL
How to Enroll a New Student to a School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPofPlxUYH4
How to Reenroll a Student for Current School Year
How to Mass Enroll Students in Same School
How to Mass Withdraw Students in Same School
How to Attach Parents/Guardians to Families
How to Add Guardian to a Student
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAbcWxw-DXo
How to Add Separate Parent/Guardian from Family to Create New Family
How to add Address to a Family
How to update student address
How to Print Student Mailing Labels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NKH2t9SQE
How to View/Update Student Profile Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsigITRVrfI
How to add Emergency Contact to a Student
How to Add a Note to a Student
How to Add an Alert to a Student
How to Withdraw a Student
How to reenroll student in the current year
How to Create a Status Change for Student Enrollment
How to update student promotion on retained status for end of school year.
How to Attach Students to Homeroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk-7Kk2Nzm4&t=5s
Skyward – Attendance Mastery Course -IL
How to update attendance for a student
How to Mass Add Attendance by Class
How to Create Attendance Class Roster Report
How to Run Monthly/Quarterly Attendance Report
How to Generate Attendance/Grade Report
How to mass update attendance for a group of students
Skyward: Scheduling – Future Quick Start Course - IL
How to Add a Class Section
How to Create a Meet
How to Mass Add Sections for a group of students
How to Run a Honor Roll Report
How to Run A Student Rank Report
How to Find Students with 2 or more courses with D/F Report
How to View and Run Report Card
How to Run A Transcript Report
How to Create a Quick Report
Skyward: Family Access - Student/Parent Access
How to View Student Information in Family Access
How to View Student Grades in Family Access
How to View Calendar Information in Family Access
How to Configure Settings for Notifications via email
How to View Student activities in Family and Student Access
How a Parent Can Enroll their Child for Registration
How to Download/Upload Online Forms in Family Access
Viewing a Student Portfolio in Family Access
How to Transfer Grades Administratively
How to Drop a Student's Section
Skyward: Traditional Gradebook and Teacher Access
Overview of Teacher Access and Gradebook
How to quickly access docks, tiles, and favorites in gradebook
How to Change the Class Selector in Gradebook
Grade sheet Legend
How to Teachers can enter Attendance for Students
How to View/Update Category Weighting
How to Copy Grade Calculation for Other Periods
How to Create Class Groups in Gradebook
How to Create an assignment
How to Attach a file to gradebook assignment
How to Score Individual Assignments
How To Mass Score Assignments
How to Mark an Assignment as Missing
How to Mark an Assignment (Not Included in Final Grade)
How to Mass Update Missing Assignments
How to Mass Update Individual Student Assignments
How to Assign Extra Credit
How to Transfer Grades in Teacher Access
How to Print or Export Blank Grade sheet
How to Create a Missing Assignment Report
How to Drop the Lowest Score Using Total Points and Category Weighting
How to override a student individual grade
How to enter Report Card Comments
How to Enter End of Team Exam Grade in Gradebook
Skyward - Approving Online Forms
How to Approve Online Forms