Skyward family access provides parents with real-time, online access to student data. Parents can quickly verify contact details, grade levels, food service balances and schedules. Furthermore, notification settings can also be easily altered in this system.
Families need to provide their email address at their child’s campus in order to obtain login credentials for fort bend isd skyward family access. Click here for a video demonstration on using it.
Student Information
Parents and students alike can access real-time student data through Skyward family access, such as test scores, grades, schedules, food service balances and immunization records. Parents can also verify whether emergency contact details are up-to-date.
Family Access users have the ability to gain access to their students’ records from anywhere with internet access. This system utilizes Secured Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect student records, and additionally, there is a mobile application designed for use on Apple and Android devices.
Family access uses the same login ID and password used for student accounts in Skyward. Parents should keep their username and password confidential to avoid being locked out by hackers; should they forget either, they can call their student’s campus for assistance in getting a new one issued – providing picture ID as proof.
Grades
Every grading period, students receive assignments and grades via Skyward Family Access accounts. Additionally, these accounts serve to monitor attendance and deliver messages from teachers; parents/students should contact their teacher directly with any inquiries about grades.
Staying informed of your child’s progress is easy with our system, with full academic histories and current grades/fees/calendars/messages and communication settings easily accessible from one portal. Furthermore, this portal enables you to update language preferences for district messages.
Skyward gives parents direct access to their student’s state assessment scores such as STAAR 3-8, Alternate STAAR and TELPAS assessments. There are a series of short videos on the site providing quick tutorials for using Skyward.
Attendance
Deer Lakes School District students each have a personalized student account which tracks attendance, grades and in-school behavior records. Parents and guardians have immediate access to this information via Skyward Family/Student Access on any computer or mobile device with internet connectivity – parents/guardians can even report absences online instead of having to call into school’s office! It can be accessed 24/7 either via the Skyward Mobile App.
This application can be found through both Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
Text Messages
Skylert will notify parents/guardians via text message if their child is absent or has low food balance, while Family Access allows for their notification preferences to be managed.
Parents can sign up to be notified of absences and tardies through Family Access’s Message Center, making communication between teachers and administrators and students and guardians easy and quick. A record of this interaction will then remain within Skyward for reporting purposes.
Download the Skyward mobile app (available on both App Store and Google Play) to quickly gain information from your phone or tablet! For instructions, click here. Please be aware that only parent accounts can log into Skyward – please DO NOT log in as your student.
Calendar
Skyward Family Access’ Calendar feature allows parents/guardians to stay up-to-date on upcoming assignments, due dates, grading deadlines and contact preferences for their student. They can also view their student’s schedule – using the drop down menu at the top of the screen they can switch between viewing all or just one student at once; in turn this changes how the calendar view appears depending on which student selection.
Skyward Family Access website and app replace txConnect by giving parents/guardians and students easy access to a range of information such as students’ attendance records, grades, demographic data, graduation plans/requirements and online assignments. Students also can utilize skyward family access to access their Schoology accounts directly.