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Rolling Skill and Ability Checks to the GM

Does anyone know if I can set my players character sheets to roll their ability checks and skill checks as a whispered roll to the GM?  I would also be willing to create macros for this purpose, if that is possible, in lieu of adjusting the character sheet. I find that player metagame way too much when everyone sees the roles> I have tried penalizing the offenders but that impedes game play and is often a pain in the back side for others in the group.  Any help you all can provide would be greatly appreciated.  We play DnD 5E and utilize the 5th Edition Shaped template.  Cheers.
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Scott C.
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Short of using something like Powercards' whisper commands, there's no way inherent to Roll20 to roll a check without the person initiating the roll seeing it. If all you want is to make it so that other players can't see the roll result (to limit the "oh, Jerry failed; I also insight/perception/bluff check this guy/place/etc" problem) you can either put /w gm at the front of the sheet generated macros (if your sheet exposes the macros like the Pathfinder sheet does for most things) or make new macros using /w gm or /gmroll to accomplish this.
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Jakob
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To expand on Scott's answer in the specific case of the Shaped sheet, if it's okay for you that the rolling player and the GM, but no one else, see the check, they can change their output option ("sheet" at the top left of the settings tab on the sheet) to "Whispered to the GM" for their roll, and change it back later. Or set it to "ask when rolling" to ask for every roll (last option may only be there on the latest version that's not yet on roll20).
Thanks Jakob, that is exactly the issue I am attempting to create.  I will try your suggestion.