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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. I'd like the Expense Reimbursement Org Chart to show in Employee Profile>Org Cart.

    Right now the only org chart that shows on the employee profile is the time off org chart. We don't use time off in Skyward. It would be more helpful for us if there was a choice on which org charts show on the profile.

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


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  2. Journal Entry POST DATE

    Could you add a Post Date to the Journal Entry Screens in Web? All I can find is Create Date, which is insignificant. Thank you.

    2 votes

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  3. Expense Reimbursement

    One improvement we see is if Skyward would tie this in Time Off transaction(s) and let us choose an existing time off request as one of the steps so we aren't having to duplicate some of the info and attachments. Adding this step may help in the decision to use the process.

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  4. It would be nice to have the option of lockbox under the address tab in vendor profile.

    It would be nice to have the option of lockbox under the address tab in vendor profile.

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  5. transfer purchase order to new

    Bookkeepers sometimes change from one school/facility to another during the school year. A purchase order created by a bookkeeper in August, might be received by a new bookkeeper who now occupies that position in September. When the new bookkeeper receives the PO, the old bookkeeper gets the receiving email notification, which the old bookkeeper does not need. In HR there is the clone/replace utility. That utility needs an option to updated the "Entered by" field on purchase orders to the new bookkeeper. The only solution our districts have found is to use the Advanced DB Fix utility for what should…

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  6. We would like to add today as a range option for the Enrollment Report under Student/Office/Reports

    We would like to add today as a range option for the Enrollment Report under Student/Office/Attendance/Reports in order to run it as a scheduled tasks. I run this report everyday and I have to change the date range.

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  7. Allow Change of Font in Check Printing in SBAA

    Our bank has recommended a change in font on our checks in order to avoid exceptions (due to the check being misread) when the check clears the bank. Would Skyward ever consider giving District's the ability to change font size and type?

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  8. Allow Time Off Requests to be entered on Time Clocks. Posted 8/26/2022

    Allow Time Off requests to be entered on Time Clocks. This would be useful for those that are not comfortable using computers or if mobile device is not available.

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  9. Utility to mass assign approvers to PO groups

    A utility to mass assign approvers would be awesome. There is currently a utility to mass reassign approval groups to another person but no utility to mass add a new approver to a selection list of groups. Need the option to select the level and then set that same level of approval to all groups selected in a list.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


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  10. Time Off Options

    Since I have to do the calculation manually I take the number of days worked divided by the total days available to work that month and multiply the number of leave hours to be awarded for sick leave.
    IE 10 days worked/23 days available to be worked that month = .4347826086956522 / 11 sick hours leave available for accrual for an 8 hr employee = 4.78 or rounded to 4.75 Sick Leave Hours for that month.

    • I know that is a complex calculation as we have paras that only work 7.5 hrs and only earn 10 Sick Leave Hours.

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.


    Can you help me understand this idea better? 

    How often are you doing these manual calculations? Is there periods during the school year that you need to run these calculations more often than others?


    Could you explain what would you expect the system to do differently to help with your calculations?


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  11. Last Date Modified on Picture Import Utilities

    Update the picture import utilities for both Student and Employee to look at the last date modified on the picture file and give the option to only import pictures that have been modified in the last “X” number of days. As part of the integration with IDImage we schedule this importer to run multiple times a day and every time it runs it reimports all pictures. We only need it to import pictures that have been recently updated.

    2 votes

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  12. Inventory Receiving Approval Chain

    Have an approval chain for inventory items received to verify PO Units to Receive, PO Received Unit Cost, PO Received Total Cost agrees with Stock Received Units, Stock Received Unit Cost and Stock Total Cost and that the Stock Units per PO Unit Received are correct so there are no large quantities received in the hundreds, or thousands that are not correct and result in large cost to district by having to account for large amount of dollars not in inventory and/or having to write off.

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  13. Receiving Option to Mark Completely Received

    Currently, the only reportable way for AP staff to know that an order is completely received is for them to go through each order and check for all items received, then they can manually mark it as completely received.

    In order for staff in AP to know when an order has been completely received, there should be a checkbox for the person checking in the order (that may have been received over multiple days/weeks) to check when the last item has been received and the PO is completely received.

    2 votes

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    We are assuming you have separate employees doing the PO and receiving entry versus the invoice entry? If this is true, then the invoice entry staff do not know when the PO/receiving staff have fully received the items?


    Our suggestion is that whoever is entering in the receiving records should go out to the PO and change it to fully received when they have received all the items. Then when the AP employee adds the invoice in using that PO it comes in as fully received and the AP employee does not have to look at any of the receiving records.


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  14. SBAA - Create Export to Positive Pay feature in SBAA for checks similiar to that in Financial

    SBAA - Create Export to Positive Pay feature in SBAA for checks similiar to that in Financial

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  15. Reset All in Account Management

    The ability to "Reset All" filters in the accounts screens instead of resetting each individually. I have to scroll back and forth to make sure there are no other items with a filter on when I want to do a new search.

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  16. Pull primary staff type from Skybuild

    It is not possible for us to pull primary staff type using skybuild. Please add this.

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  17. Please consider an "Auto approval" option for E-commerce POs.

    Being that Ecommerce POs go through the approval process, please consider providing an option to "auto approve" these orders so that someone isn't relied on to "push" them thru to the vendor manually. Thank you

    4 votes

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  18. Requisition/Purchase Order comparison

    We need a report to compare the prior year's purchase order totals by group to the current year's requisition totals by by group. For example, you can see that 1st grade spent $1,200 this year and then you can see that they have requisitioned $1,300 for next year. This would greatly help to be able to compare the information for reasonableness from year to year. It would be ideal for the information to be available to the approvers in the requisition approval screen. Attached are excel versions of a report that I created

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  19. Identify Teaching Postings with Subject Specificity

    We would like to be able to add the subject area to the position in a posting. For example, a math position would also have "Algebra I" or "Geometry" included in the name of the position, not just the body of the posting.

    5 votes

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  20. Dependent report from insurance tracking enrollment data

    PLEASE include gender of the dependents in the report data. Names are not necessarily indicative of gender of the dependents and we need the data for other information / reports we create.

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