"I see [Skyward] as being sort of that front door. If we can get people to walk through that, then we can introduce them to other things going on at the school that will hopefully make their child’s career even better."

"We’re not going to have the errors on timesheets – before a person could put down ‘8 a.m. to 4 p.m.’ and say that was 10 hours, There are not those kinds of addition errors or calculating errors on both the employees’ part and the people who process payroll. When …

“I love the API interface between our visitor management system and Skyward. It’s constantly extracting live information, so we always know who is authorized to pick up a student or step foot on our campuses.”

“At this time, I was working in the high school library, then in 2008 I started working with our IT department in various capacities. In 2014 our IT department was dissolved by retirements and an outside company was hired for IT support. At that point I pivoted and took over …

“Tardy kiosks make students accountable for being late when they have to check in themselves,” at Ocala Springs Elementary School. “Being independent, empowered and accountable are important life skills that will benefit them throughout their lives."

“The marketing firm made a video for us that we sent to every parent in the district about the move to standards-based grading, That way they knew the changes to expect, why we were making the switch, and the benefits that would come with switching.”

"Before using Skyward we had to create a lot of our own reports to meet the requirements, which on average took us 8-16 hours a day for one to two days. With our new system the reports already exist—we are able to just hit a button and go. And without …

“A single solution was important versus a separate enrollment software that had to use an export/import or API to get the data into our SIS. We were also looking to get away from a paper enrollment system. Up until that time our district used packets of paper forms that the …

"Our campus registration staff could review what the parents entered during the online registration process and verify the data for accuracy prior to saving it in our system, New Student Online Enrollment ensured all paperwork was accurate and complete."

"Skyward has been a tool that has saved us much time and effort, especially in the area of term-end grades. Checkout used to be a nightmare, having to reconcile two different systems, but Skyward's grading processes have made it extremely simple."

"The consultant finds out how procedures are currently being done, what works, what doesn't work, and then uses that information to build the program to fit our needs!"

"The biggest change in our experience with Skyward was moving from the PAC version to the web version,” said Sample. “Like anyone, I didn’t like having to make this change at first, but now the web version is so much better."

“I can see Skyward expanding into even more districts and states, The growing applications between Skyward and other third-party integrations are immense and aid us, and other districts, in intertwining student achievement and behavior, spending, and historical data.”

"I feel as time goes on and new [enhancements] are introduced we will see more and more of an impact concerning efficiencies, Skyward has great potential in that the possibilities of things that can be accomplished within the software seem almost limitless."

"We selected Skyward because of what we see as the benefits from the efficiency. It brought us into the 21st century as far as software goes."