A grading system used by many students, teachers, and parents will create a new experience for the upcoming 2024-25 school year. Skyward technology features a revolutionary update that was created in 2014 called the Qmlativ Education Management System and the Prosper Independent School District (PISD) is now adopting it. 

This is a renovated Student Information System (SIS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology solution that will include a new design for PISD. It offers innovative user interface, proactive assistance, and an emphasis on each user’s progress and success. 

“Prosper ISD has just completed an ERP conversion to Skyward Qmlativ,” Director of Payroll at PISD Keri Croy said. “Because of their amazing employee, Danielle Coleman, we had the absolute BEST experience! Her knowledge, guidance, and leadership has set up our District for years of success.”

The new version encompasses several beneficial functions for administrators and teachers including the Global Search, Payroll, and the built-in report writer. Additionally, there is a Help Center in case someone requires assistance navigating Qmlativ. 

“This has always been the plan for Prosper ISD to switch over to Qmlativ because it does offer additional features for teachers in terms of grading purposes, pulling reports, or working with the students within the system,” RHHS Testing Coordinator Antony Park said. “I believe that we were just waiting for them to finalize updates and do some trial runs at other school districts to make sure that it works out. It will help make things more efficient and effective for the teachers.”

Many schools in Texas are currently using this type of modern technology to improve their software efficiency for grading. Lake Travis ISD states that the “support” from Skyward and the “flexibility” of Qmlativ shows to be a “big update.”  

“For us, coming to Qmlativ was a positive experience,” Kelly Smith, database systems administrator for Lake Travis ISD said. “We should’ve moved earlier!”

With much anticipation, Qmlativ will include a color scheme with small icons for each category when a student or a teacher signs into their account. The new update will also generate graphs, charts, and data points using personal information that only the user or their family can access. 

“From what I’ve seen with the features that they have shown us in the previews, I think it would be really beneficial for teachers and students once they get an understanding of all the different features and accessibilities that it offers,” Park said. “If they utilize it to its full potential, it will make things a lot more efficient and a lot easier for them to use.”

On top of that, students in specific may struggle with comprehending a new system that is unfamiliar to them. The Help Center and Tool Kit videos that Qmlativ has on the student sign-in screen will teach them how to navigate all of the necessary buttons.

The video shows all of the new pages that students will be able view at any given time while signed into Qmlativ.

“This is my first year at Prosper, so initially it was pretty hard but then once I got the hang of it, it got easy,” freshman member of the Advanced Placement (AP) Student Organization Shreya Sanil said. “I hope this new program can calculate a ‘what if’ scoring process, so if I get a 60 on a test it would tell me what grade I need to get so I can pass the class. I really hope they do that.”

Upon moving from Frisco ISD, Sanil navigated the transition from grading system Home Access Center (HAC) to Skyward and now switching to Qmlativ for next year. Skyward’s current layout is divided by different rows on one column on either the left or right side of the screen.

“I do not foresee any sort of major impacts for students or their families,” Park said. “If anything, this may just improve their use of the mobile app for Skyward and help them look at their grades a little bit more easily. It will make things a little bit smoother for everyone.”

There are also many videos and articles on skyward.com that help instruct teachers and families how to use Qmlativ and the new functions it offers.  

“For however long they have been using Skyward in its current state, I do foresee PISD using Qmlativ for several years and at least giving it a trial to see how it’s going to work giving teachers and students time to get used to it for a few years,” Park said. “I do foresee it being implace with all of our schools especially through Richland’s opening in a few years that they don’t plan on changing it any time soon.”