Program is Incorrect
When I open up my grade book, my grades appear as F’s. I am hoping that this bug will be fixed sooner or later, and every time I bring up this situation with someone of higher power (Ex: Principal, Teacher, Tech Guy) they always say that it is my doing which doesn't make since because I didn’t program the app. Anyway I just want to warn people that if your grades appear as a “F” don’t worry about it, it is just a bug and will hopefully be fixed soon. Thank you for your time.
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A parent’s necessity!
Update: I regretfully updated to the newest version and now can’t log in at all. I should have read the reviews like I usually do before updating. School ends in a week so hopefully it will be fixed by the start of the next school year.
As a parent, I have used this app to keep up to date with my kids grades as well as school events through the messaging section. It is great except using on the iPhone. Messages are cut off and links embedded into them always crashes the app when clicked onto them. I rarely if ever use my desktop or laptop, so please fix this app to work on the iPhone 8 and up.
As a parent, I have used this app to keep up to date with my kids grades as well as school events through the messaging section. It is great except using on the iPhone. Messages are cut off and links embedded into them always crashes the app when clicked onto them. I rarely if ever use my desktop or laptop, so please fix this app to work on the iPhone 8 and up.
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Late Notifications
I check skyward regularly and often notice what grades are new and what are not. However, long after I confirm my grade I get a notification that the same assignment was graded. It’s useless! It doesn’t notify me before I even check it, so what’s the point of even having alerts. The setup is pretty old and glitchy itself too. I think the design needs an update, as it’s been the same for the past five or so years.
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Poor quality
This app rarely works. It’s great when it works correctly but it often won’t connect. Sometimes when it finally connects it keeps the password keyboard up that you can’t exit out of and you can’t view your grades. Sometimes it glitches and stops working altogether. Every once in awhile it will say something along the lines of mobile access won’t work. Sometimes it won’t let me view my grades because it won’t switch off of my sisters account no matter how many times I click the arrow to switch people. Over all it just isn’t that great of an app.
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Current Grades Won’t Show up
I use this app all the time and it’s been pretty good but for the past couple of weeks it hasn’t been updating my grades. If I log in through the website it works and I can see my current grades but on the app it’s not up to date. Some may not realize this and it will make them think they’re grades are still the same when that’s not actually the case.
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Malfunctions
I’ve been using the app since 2014 and it’s been fine. I loved when they updated the whole mobile system in May of 2015 it looks so much cleaner now than it did 4 years ago. However, sometimes when I go to get on the system, it loads while it says authorizing and nothing more. It typically starts working again the next day. It’ll do this maybe a couple times a week.
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Not Updating
This app has been very helpful in the past to be able to quickly check grades and to check food balance and other info. Recently the grading doesn’t update and it hasn’t updated in over a month. It will update on the online desktop version but not the apps. It also is frustrating to have the link for app support take you directly to a page not found website. On top of this, the program is buggy and there hasn’t been an update released for a while to fix any of this. I hope an update will be released soon. This app has a lot of potential to be very helpful and to introduce new features to Skyward. I hope the app developers can fix this!
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So good!!
This app is so well done!! At first I hated it because it wouldn’t let me type in my school district or anything. But then the next day, I decided to give it a try. It worked!! And now, I can check my grades whenever I want to. This app is so good, and for the people who had the same problem typing in your district or something, wait 1 or 2 days and it should work perfectly!
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Notification Problems
I obviously love being able to take attendance for my classes from my phone, and I love being able to know when my own child’s grades change and see how he’s doing. However, if you unlock your phone, the notification is gone; you can only see it once. Also, with the most recent update, I no longer receive notifications at all, and I am NOT happy with this. I checked my phone settings and the settings within the app, and they’re both set to receive all notifications. This needs to be addressed.
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It just... doesn’t work
It worked sort of well before, but -after accidentally logging out of my account- I cannot login. I examined the problem, and, as it turns out, a core service that Skyward should provide to the app is not being provided: the ability to search for a school district. No matter what WiFi configuration I use, the app throws an error saying I have a bad WiFi or network issue, when, in reality, the service they programmed the app to use to search for a school district is unavailable. Go figure. The app is completely unusable due to this; I cannot login at all.
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