Empowering Parents & Students with Skyward Parent Access

The days are over of asking your student if they have any homework or not knowing what your student’s current grade in class is.  Why?  Skyward!

Skyward is a school administration software, that manages for Citrus County Schools both our business/staff management and student management systems.  This is a most comprehensive system that our district has been merging toward for about a year now.  We began early last year by merging our business, accounting, and human resource divisions to Skyward.  Then, later in the year, the student management system began merging to Skyward.  The transition has not always been easy.

The part of Skyward that has excited me the most is the Family Access.   This new access allows students and parents to have live and instant access to their student records, including; gradebook, lesson plans, attendance, discipline, missing homework and more.  In addition, you can also set up your system so that you can get not only weekly or daily updates of your student grades and missing homework but also instant email alerts.

Students are taking a new interactive approach to their grades seriously.  I am regularly hearing about students that are turning in late or missing work or taking a test and then, once they get home, clicking the “refresh” key to see how their grades have improved.  Parents are now saying how much better informed they feel about their students grades, “less surprises” they are saying.  Teachers, like the family   access as they say parents are becoming better informed as to how their students are doing in class.  This also allows teachers to no longer have to print and send home weekly or bi-weekly grades.

If you have not yet, I encourage you to sign up for Skyward.  If you have signed up, login and start using it daily to stay up-to-date on your students school work.  It is easy, enlightening and can be fun too.

Both my wife and I use Skyward to keep up with our kid’s homework assignments and grades.  Daily we check their grades and on Monday’s we check what homework they will have for the coming week.  WE may know more about our student’s school life now than ever before.

If you do not have access to Skyward yet and would like access, fill out the application (sent home with students at midterm). Copies can be requested from your student’s school. Once completed, turn the form into the school. When set up, you will receive an email with your login information. You will need to have an up-to-date browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) with the pop-up blocker disabled to access the Family Access component properly or for your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. You can download the Skyward Mobile App from iTunes by clicking here or the Skyward Mobile App for Android by clicking here.

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