Skyward Mobile Access

Skyward, Inc.

About this app

Skyward Mobile Access provides intuitive access for students, parents, and school staff that currently use Skyward’s Family Access, Student Access, Educator Access, or Employee Access. Skyward Mobile Access will automatically locate your district and take you instantly to your vital information such as grades, attendance, discipline, payroll, time off, and more!

Please contact your school district with questions, comments or concerns about the app.

Note: Your school district must activate Skyward Mobile Access Automatic Setup in order for this application to locate your school district and connect to it.

Ratings and reviews

It is indeed how it is advertised. At first I was greeted with a tedious log in process, which was super aggravating. Afterwards, the only cons I had was the irritating scrolling side to side to view your most recent grades. However, I also argue that this app 100% helps you. The app allows notifications when assignments are graded, missing, or removed from the gradebook! Unlike the browser, no notifications were given. Difficult to manage, but it totally helped me. Overall, 3 stars.

Latest version is awful. Notifications do not take you directly to the alert. For example I get a notification for a grade and I click on it. It takes me to the last place I was in the app, I then have to manually go to the grades for that child, but I have no way of knowing what that grade was for without going through every single class until I find a grade that matches and assume it's the right one. In the past it was a direct link to the grade and was highlighted in the list to easily find.

The app preforms as advertised. However, it is one of the worst implementions for a mobile application I have ever experienced. Once you are able to sign into your district through their tedious process, the entire interface is quite honestly a web browser. The app is not optimized for mobile users at all. You would need to scroll from side to side to be able to access all the information. If they can't optimize it, I recommend allowing users to at least be able to "set" their district default.