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Session 1: 10:40am - 11:30am
Student State Reporting Overview - Ohio Room

Overview of Qmlativ Student State Reporting

Want to learn more about Qmlativ Student? This session is for you! The Solutions Engineers will focus on the Qmlativ solution, providing the audience with a general overview of key features, including navigation and user experience within Student Management. The overview will preview the Administrative, Teacher, and Family Access Portals, and audience members will be guided to additional resources to help learn more about the exciting Qmlativ solutions.

Join us as we explore our product roadmap, outlining Skyward’s strategic vision and plans for future growth. In this session, we’ll showcase recent achievements, highlight ongoing developments, and offer a glimpse into what’s on the horizon for you and your team!

Review the important components of setting up your gradebook for Qmlativ.  Whether the desired setup is Standards or Secondary, there are a number of settings such as grading scale and how grades calculate for different grades or classes that will need to be correct to ensure that your teachers’ gradebooks are set up to meet your district’s specific rules.  This session is intended for current Qmlativ users.

This session is for Business Qmlativ & SMS 2.0 users! Come and learn about widgets and the new chart building features in the Qmlativ Dashboard. Explore in detail the new Widgets, the Dashboard Manager & Library and hear some tips and tricks for making your job easier! Share your advice for additional Widgets and influence the future of the Qmlativ Dashboard.

Learn how to easily start/stop assignments, track history, use state labels, and more!

Are you looking for some general tips and tricks for navigating your system most effectively? This session will cover the options on your Dashboard and help you learn tricks to quickly access your most-visited areas and view information more easily.

Get an introduction to the employee position area of Qmlativ. Overview what positions, assignments, and FTEs are.

This is an interactive discussino from a district perspective regarding what we are doing to prepare for the conversion from Skyward SMS (student) to Qmlativ, the everyday questions that come up, and tips to stay “chill” about everything from configuration settings to custom reports and letters. We are converting in 2026 so we are just starting the process. However, I am in contact with and documenting info from other districts.

Qmlativ Comparison: Demographics - Ohio Room

This session will demonstrate common features and tasks found in and around the Student Profile in Qmlativ, including but not limited to: Custom List Screens, Family Changes, Enrollment Changes, Data Mining, Live Tiles, Family/Student Access

Review of Grad Pathyways/Act 158 in both SMS and Qmlativ

You can create an Online Form to collect or verify information for students who will return/continue attending in the next school year. Prior to this session, the student year end process would have been run to create the next school year and students would have been Mass Enrolled into the next school year.

Explore how to use Quick Report from various list screens of the system and Data Mining as a means to start the foundation of a Report Manager report to use for exports. Alternatively, you may choose to clone an existing report to modify it. The chosen starting point will greatly impact what data you may be able to add to the report and how the data will build within the report.

Topics include key considerations when selecting a go-live date, factors that contribute to a successful migration, available resources such as the Knowledge Hub and Professional Development Center and steps teams can take now before the purchase

Come learn helpful tips and tricks that can save you time when running payroll.

Let the Account list work for you. Learn helpful columns to add to your Account list and other tips and tricks to help you gather the information you need.

This session will cover some basic scenarios including employee termination, work location changes, changing hours per day worked, and increasing pay.

ParentSquare is proud to be the preferred family and parent engagement partner of Skyward! In this session, we will share more about how ParentSquare and Skyward’s partnership helps to improve the way schools connect and engage with students and parents. We’ll focus on how the partnership provides seamless integration and saves time, while ensuring privacy, security and high family contactability. Attendees will leave with modern tips to build family engagement, and learn how one platform can have everything you need to communicate, involve, and collaborate with families.

Qmlativ Comparison: Attendance - Ohio Room

This sessions will demonstrate common features and tasks found within the Attendance module in Qmlativ, including but not limited to: Various Attendance Entry, Seating Charts, Recorded/Unrecorded Attendance, Attendance Letter Options, Calendar Changes, Bell Schedules

Cleaning up SMS 2.0 before migrating to Qmlativ

Explore the various means that course requests can be added to students for the future scheduling process and see common reports and/or browses that can be used to verify all requests are entered.

Explore the different screens and browses that can be utilized and manipulated by staff to enter student health records. This may include the Office Visit Queue, Student Profile Office Visit and Medication/Procedure sub-tabs, Scheduled Medication and Scheduled Procedure browses, Schedule Medication and Scheduled Procedure Quick Entry screens, etc.

Learn how to secure your SMS 2.o environment.

Check out the multiple methods for handling Summer Payrolls and their differences with processes like Payroll Payables, Lump Sum Payments, and Contract Payout.

Get your feet wet with adding a budget and adopting it within your system.

Comp time has been added to time tracking. Learn how to set up the rules for comp time and overtime. This session will cover setup and how the end user requests comp time upon submission of the timesheet.

Have ideas and suggestions to help improve Data Mining in Qmlativ? Join us in this session to see what we have planned and share your voice to shape Data Mining features that will work best for you!

Qmlativ Comparison: Grading - Ohio Room

This session will demonstrate common features and tasks found within the Grading module in Qmlativ, including but not limited to: Report Cards, Transcripts, Transfer Grades, Honor Roll, Rank, Grading Entity Setup

In this session, we will review the notifications available in Qmlativ, the setup options you control as well as how your end users can set their preferences.

Discuss best practices and timelines for creating your master schedule through various means.

We will look at the most commonly used health reports and how data mining or browses in the system can be used to support creation of reports not already created.

Do you maintain security for your system in SMS 2.0? Is your district looking to move to Qmlativ? If yes, please join us for an overview on desiging security in Qmlativ. We will share the differences between SMS 2.0 and Qmlativ security, review some security tips and best practices to help you prepare for the move and discuss the tools available to help keep users updated in the Qmlativ system.

Learn about the preparation and processing required to successfully roll your Time Off balances.

This session will provide an overview of Skyward’s Activity Accounting module and discuss how the Activity module can help streamline your district’s Student Activity Accounting.

Your Job Board is customizable! Learn how to upload images, change the color, and attach links to the Job Board. You’ll also explore how to generate links and QR codes for specific types of Job Postings.

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Qmlativ Comparison: Scheduling - Ohio Room

This session will demonstrate common features and tasks found within the Scheduling module in Qmlativ, including but not limited to: Adding Courses and Sections, Student Schedule Generation, Student Schedule Changes, Course Requests and Avilability Lists, Scheduling Board, Scheduling Codes

Are you a new Qmlativ Student user? Stop in for some tips, tricks, and recommendations to make the system work for you. This will include using Live Tiles and Chart Tiles to monitor common data points in the system and setting up personalized Docks and Favorites.

Get a high-level overview of the direct certification process: running the utility en masse with a file and adding manual records.

Delve into the various tabs and subtabs related to Grading and GPA in the Student Profile. Special attention will be paid to the Grade Bucket Status, Grade History, and override potential within a Student Section.

Want to be a part of the Skyward community? Learn how to network with other Qmlativ users in the Community. Also learn how to compare, create, and vote for your favorite ideas for improving Qmlativ in the Product Ideas Portal.

Come enjoy an open forum to discuss questions and bounce ideas off of other users and an expert Skyward employee on any and all aspects of the Payroll System.

Coming soon

This session is meant for the user who has been with the software for a few months and could benefit from a refresher on some of the extra features Payroll has to offer: from Payroll utilities, filters, and reports, to making corrections during the payroll process.

Ever wondered how other districts overcome challenges and streamline processes for student fees? Learn from the experience of others, including the effective use of RevTrak’s seamless Skyward integrations, like Qmlativ. Uncover more ways to leverage the Web Store to make operations smoother in your district. Benefit from the wisdom gained by districts just like yours. It’s time to learn, adapt and excel!