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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Insurance Tracking: a mass utility process to merge sub plan history from one plan to another.

    We'd like to request a mass utility process to merge sub plan history from one plan to another. (Premiums collected to date on the old plan to the new plan history). You can only do it person by person.

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  2. Insurance Tracking: Ability to clone dependents into new plan (can clone existing members, but not dependents now)

    We recently built a new plan for our dental coverage based on changes that will be coming down the pike. I cloned all existing members from the old plan set up to the new plan set up. That was easy. What doesn't happen, however, is the dependents that were on the prior plan don't also move to the new plan with the cloned employees. Therefore, I had to go into each employee's insurance tracking record and re-clone their dependents into the new plan. It took a lot of time.

    1 vote

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  3. Total HOURS = wrs or worked hours

    Employees would like a way/ to view track worked hours (mostly for WRS). HR/Payroll is able to see total WRS hours. HR/Payroll can use the retirement custom tab (retirement tab- retirement detail hours)to view total WRS/Worked hours and employee has had. Is this something that an employee would be able to see easily on their employee access portal?

    I don't see in the employee access portal (skyward web), where employees has a total worked hours or total WRS hours listed for them to view. Our bus drivers have asked for this option - to help track WRS hours - since…

    4 votes

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  4. Add Position Control information to data mining fields

    Because Position Control information could differ from the Assignment information, we would like to be able to add Position Control fields to either data mining, or run some type of other reporting option, to be able to review and compare the data fields between Position Control and Assignment.

    We would need to be able to run this report for both Employee Management and for Salary Negotiations, including vacancies.

    Thank you!

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.  

    Can you help me understand this idea better?  

    Which specific fields from Position Control would you expect to pull in Data Mining?

    Are there differences in the fields you would expect depending on whether you come from Employee Management or from Salary Negotiations? 

     Thank you!

  5. Ability to make the Time Sheet Approve/Deny notes field required

    When a supervisor is approving Time Sheets, we would like the ability to make the Notes field for approval or denial reasons required. This would be a toggle for the district to choose if they require the supervisor to enter some sort of note or not.

    1 vote

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  6. Add an eCommerce "flag" when approving requisitions.

    Add a column to flag eCommerce requisitions in the approval process just like there's an option when initially adding a requisition? I've attached screen shots.

    6 votes

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  7. Default tax election

    When you are setting up a new employee, in the "Tax-W4" tab there is a checkbox that says "2020 or After W-4". It should now default to having that checkbox check since all new employees that are added should be with the new form at this point.

    8 votes

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  8. Add E-Commerce to SBAA

    Our district would LOVE to see E-Commerce added to SBAA.

    1 vote

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  9. Credit Card Maintenance Screen Needs the Recieved Quanity

    'Assign Po Detail to Credit Card Detail' screen needs Received Quantity. So the end user can verify the receipt of items.

    2 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.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.

    Thank you!

  10. 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.

    2 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.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.

    Thank you!

  11. 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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    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.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.

    Thank you!

  12. 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.

    1 vote

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  13. 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.

    2 votes

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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.

    Thank you!

  19. 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.

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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?

    Thank you!

  20. 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

    5 votes

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