EASTERN YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT
SKYWARD FAMILY ACCESS
BACK-TO-SCHOOL STUDENT INFORMATION UPDATE
Welcome to Back-To-School Student Information Update, a process available in Skyward Family Access to verify and update student and family information for currently enrolled students and students that have preregistered for the upcoiming school year, as well as complete important back to school forms.
From the Eastern York School District website, http://www.easternyork.com/, on the Home page, locate the Parents tab, click SkyPort Parents and click Skyward SkyPort Login to access the login page. If you have forgotten your Login ID or Password, you can click on the Forgot your Login/Password? link below the Sign-In button. You will need the e-mail address you have registered in Skyward for this process. Please note that this feature is not available through the Skyward Mobile App.
From the SkyPort Dashboard, select Open Family Access, and from Family Access home page, look for the Back-To-School Student Information Update section in the menu on the left and select the student's name to begin the process. You will have to complete a separate information update for each student. Navigate through the steps listed in the column on the far right. If you are unable to complete all steps during one sitting, click the "Close and Finish Later" button at the bottom of the step list on the right. You may resume the process the next time you log into Family Access. You will find that some of the steps contain forms that have responses that are required in order to save entries and move forward to the next step. Please read the instructions at the top of the screen to guide you through options for completing the form.
In Step 1, please review and update student and family information. Verification of this data is crucial to keep student information up to date and accurate. Emergency Cards will not be sent home.
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Read any directions that appear at the top of the screen directly below the step heading. You will find that some of the steps contain forms that have responses that are required in order to save entries and move forward to the next step. Please read the instructions at the top of the screen to guide you through options for completing the form.
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Click the "Complete Step # and Move to Step#" button at the bottom of each screen to mark that step as completed. This button must be clicked for each step, even if no changes were made to any of the information. In the step list, you will see a check mark next to each step completed. If you do not see the check mark, return to that step for completion. If you do not mark each step as completed, the Back-To-School Student Information Update process will not registered as being completed for a student, even if you have reviewed all steps. Documents will be sent home with your student on the first day of school for manual completion.
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When completing forms, use all available scroll bars to access all fields for completion. Click the "Complete Step # and Move to Step#" button at the bottom of a form to save all data entries.
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The final step listed is "Complete Back-To-School Student Information Update". This screen will also show you a summary of the process including any steps that that have not been completed. Be sure to click the button "Submit Back-To-School Student Information Update" to confirm that all steps have been finished. If you do not complete the final step and submit the information, the process will not register as being completed for the student.
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As long as the update process is open, you may select "Mark Back-To-School Student Information Update as not completed and make changes" if you need to return to a step to update or change your information. To make changes, select the desired step from the step list, click the "Edit Step" button at the bottom of the screen, enter information changes, and then Click the "Complete Step # and Move to Step #" button at the bottom of a form. Once again, return to the final step of the process to complete and submit the Back-To-School Information Update. To access this for a completed student after you have navigated away from the screen, click on the "Back to School Student Information Update" section in the navigation menu on the left and select the student indicated as completed from the notice for each school.
If you have more than one student, click on the Back-To-School Student Information Update section in the menu and select the next student not indicated as completed from the notice for each school.