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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Pre-populate pay period/payroll dates

    When doing the payroll processing, you need to enter the payroll date, posting date, pay period, etc all manually. These dates could easily be automatically filled in. the way I would suggest to do this is to use the "Run Numbers" that are currently in the payroll system and just add some additional settings that would like you select the frequency (weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc). Based on the frequency selected and a calendar the system could determine what the dates would be. This would help everyone that does payroll to be more efficient and less likely to have a typing…

    4 votes

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  2. Ability to RE-NAME rate table codes in Sub Tracking

    We would like to RE-NAME some of our rate table codes in Sub Tracking. In other areas of the software I rename deduction/benefit/pay codes/Employee Management Plans with a "Z" in front of it, so that it doesn't even appear in my browse. Thank you for your consideration. I submitted SC 4911174 and it's not available and they suggested submitting an idea.

    5 votes

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  3. Under SBAA it would be nice to be able to print a group of check detail reports individually

    Currently I can print a report under check request report. But it prints all of the checks in the range on one sheet. It would be SO HELPFUL if it gave us the option to print each check report separately rather than as a group

    1 vote

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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.


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  4. Project/Grant Code

    It would be great to be able to go back and add a Project/Grant to an invoice once in history.

    2 votes

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  5. Limit TO by code and employee type

    Our teacher’s group has contractual cap for personal days. No more than 3% from this group can use a personal leave on any given day. Right now I need to pull a time tracker report and manually crosscheck the number of requests. It is very time consuming and it would be helpful to have the system prevent entering requests when the limit is reached.

    3 votes

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  6. TRS ED45 able to enter Multiple records in the same month

    TRS TX ED45 able to enter Multiple records in the same reporting month. For example is for subs that the ED45 records is created for each month. If an error is made and I need to delete multiple months I have to do an ED45 record for each month. Skyward only allows one ED45 record per month. I have to submit the record in the TRS portal. Then go into the ED45 change the information to the next month submit the record.

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. How often do you find you need to make multiple adjustments in a single month?


    It has been passed on to our State and Federal Compliance Department to review. 


    This idea will remain open for the Skyward Community and other TX districts to show their support. 


    Thank you!

  7. Unsubmitted Timesheet - Notification should also send email to employee.

    With the new enhancement in the TT Timekeeping Rule > Timesheet submission, if we check 'Display Notification Alert to Employee' and set a threshold (for us we entered '2 weeks'), it places the yellow-circle+exlclamation point on the employee's Employee Access toolbar, but in our district, no one is seeing this very small notification. It is basically meaningless. Can this same functionality be taken one step further and have the system auto-generate an email to the employee stating they have unsubmitted timesheets? Thank you

    42 votes

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    Planned  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Hello! This idea is planned to be worked on. Stayed tuned for more updates on this idea as we get into development! Thank you and have a great day!

  8. Moving Bank Rec Notes to Page 1

    Move the Bank Reconciliation Notes from last page to first page. I don't know about anyone else but our district uses the Notes to explain manual adjustments.

    3 votes

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  9. Employee Pseudo Approval Email Confirmations

    When approving or denying items in the Employee Pseudo Approval section, it would be great if an email was sent to the employee confirming the approval or showing them the reason for denial. The email could go to the employee's email address(es) on file.

    8 votes

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  10. For "Notification of new hire" tasks: Is it possible to add the FTE to this notification?

    Project Description:
    Notification of new hire: Is it possible to add the FTE to this notification?

    2 votes

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  11. 3 votes

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  12. allow to override sending an email to employee and approver in True Time

    We have it set up that approvers receive email notification when a timesheet, TS, has been submitted and employee receives email notification when a TS is denied.
    Sometimes Payroll has to deny sheets to make corrections such as a pay code used or deny and resubmit so it catches the time off because employee submitted before the TO pulled in.
    In these cases we make all the changes, mostly because by the time we get to them there isn't a lot of time to wait for the employee to fix, resubmit, and have them re-approved. When the email goes out…

    7 votes

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  13. Direct Deposit Notification Change Emails Causing Alarm

    We have enabled the auto email notification to send to employees when their direct deposit has changed.
    However, the system sends an email when you
    1. Are setting up a new employee (they had no direct deposit in the system, and now they do since you just got their direct deposit set up)
    2. When you change their direct deposit to print instead of "Do not print direct deposit on check run." We commonly change this when the employee is leaving as we cut off their access to employee access.

    This causes a lot of undue alarm in people. Is…

    17 votes

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    After researching the two issues detailed in the
    Product Idea we have some feedback.

    We will not be considering #1 for development. Best practices in security are constantly changing and bad actors become more resourceful and creative. This is a valid valid email event to me. If a Bad Actor adds a direct deposit number when there wasn’t supposed to be one, that would be something our users would want to be notified about. Even if it does cause alarm, better to be safe then sorry.

    We looked into #2 and are not able to duplicate this issue in any environment. We will need to know the exact steps you took to recreate the event.

    Thank you.

  14. Comments section - Personnel Tab

    The comments section under Employee - Personnel should be separate from the Vendor Comment section. This is a security issue.

    4 votes

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  15. Utility to mass change License Status

    Add a utility to change License Status from Current to Expired based on the expiration date.

    4 votes

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  16. 3rd party time off import dates

    During the 3rd party import for substitute tracking/time off, you have the "Acquire Data Using Web Services" button. The dates in this section default to 01/01/1900 and 12/31/2999. I have no problem typing in the dates, but I have seen several people struggle trying to use the calendar and scroll through to the correct date....which could take a while since it is a long ways off. It would be nice if it just defaulted to the current date and let people change the dates as they need it.

    5 votes

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  17. Have TT recognize non scheduled days from empoyee Manangement calendar

    Please have TT look at the employees Employee Management calendar for all of the days...paid holiday (as it does now) AND non scheduled days. It is double the work to build individual calendars in EM and edit schedules for non-scheduled work days.

    2 votes

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  18. Expand Pay Record Import to include Benefits/Deductions for Existing Pay plus Funding Allocation for the New Assignment

    Within Human Resources > Payroll > Assignment Export/Payroll Import (WH\PA\AE), On the export/import screen there are 2 options for importing pay records. There is an issue when exporting/importing multiple assignments with the same pay code during the same fiscal year. The first option imports the correct funding but drops most of the benefits and deductions. The second option imports the benefits and deductions assigned to the existing pay records, but prorates the funding allocations from both assignments and creates split funding. I would like to request a combination of the two:

    Import the benefits and deductions assigned to the existing…

    1 vote

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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. Add School Year to Requests Waiting for Approval View

    I would like to request that a column be added to the Requests Waiting for Approval screen to show the School Year that the approval is for. The data is available on the request, but users need to drill into the details currently in order to see it. Having it on the main view screen would allow our users to be more efficient.

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support 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.


    Thank you!

  20. Add a TRS step field on Salary Hourly Mass Change to be able to give different amounts to different years of experience

    We are beginning to give raises based on years experience since HB3. We are giving teachers with 0-5 years experience one dollar amount and anyone 6-25 years experience a different amount. I am doing an export and import so I don't have to individually give every teacher a raise but it would be so much easier to just be able to filter this on the Salary/Hourly mass change and add the dollar amounts to the specific years of experience.

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support 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.


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