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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Sick leave bank check box in Employee Access

    Add the option to display the sick leave bank check box in Employee Access

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea request. We have a clarifying question before we can proceed reviewing it:

    We need to better understand what you want the checkbox to do. Do you this checkbox to pull from the sick bank profile with the HR side? Or, do you want to donate time to the sick bank?

    Thank you!

  2. Add a "Select All" option to the Invoice Approval screen.

    I sometimes have to approve 50+ invoices, and it's very time consuming to click each and every box.

    4 votes

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  3. Increase number of entries in the Employment History in Fast Track

    Our district is in great need of having the number of entries in the Employment History in the Fast Trak application open to additional entries as needed by the applicant. Currently, there are only four entries possible, and this forces applicants to decide which four, of the many they may have, to post for the position application. Additionally, this forces the use of an external form that can be difficult for the applicant to locate. Although a field is designated in the Attachments area, there is no guarantee the applicant will upload the needed document as opposed to any document…

    2 votes

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    We recommend this alternative solution:
    (1) Add a new attachment for “Full Employment History” [WH\AD\FT\PP\PS\CO\AD]

    (2) Add it to the necessary attachment lists used in job listings. Note it will automagically alert all of the current applicants that they need to update their open applications [ WH\AD\FT\PP\PS\CO\AL]

    (3) To avoid confusion (optional), turn off the normal Employment History in the affected job listings [WH\AD\FT\PP\PB]

    (4) Other Skyward districts have done something similar. They’ve added a Fast Track Config with attachments where they link attachments through JavaScript [WH\AD\FT\MC\PS\CF\DM]

    (5) So that required attachments display at the footer for every applicant (If a district wants a specific Full Employment History Template, they could provide one to their applicants here).

    (6) An additional benefit to setting up Fast Track this way is that if attachments are used for employment history, that gets moved over to profile from Fast Track. Be sure to set…

  4. Journal Entry-Back button

    Please consider moving the location of the back button on the Submit Journal Entry Screen. It is right below the Save and Finish Later and can accidentally be selected in error. Also, a warning screen to ask you are you sure you want to go back and not save!

    7 votes

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  5. Invoice Entry Filter Button

    In the invoice entry screen when you are in the "Add Accounts" pop-up it would be very helpful to have an account filter button. This would allow you to figure out account numbers that you don't know the full string of numbers. For example you know that it is for the high school (location 400) and that it is for volleyball (162121) but you are not sure about the object then it will let you filter the things you do know and help you narrow down to the account you need. At this time I need to open a separate…

    7 votes

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  6. Employee Access, Check Estimator

    It would be helpful if the Check Estimator did not include deductions that have termed /expired. There is no use in putting an end date in the profile if we have to delete it from their profile for them not to show up on the check estimator. Most times, employees have no idea what benefits they have. It's nice for us to see past codes. But we have to delete them for the employee not to see them.

    7 votes

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  7. Payroll department needs to be able to change pay codes without denying timesheet

    Payroll really needs to be able to change the pay code when they are processing True Time. Too many people select the wrong pay when clocking in on the app which then reduces the annualized pay amount and charges the funds to another, incorrect, account number.
    The process of having to go in deny it, wait for the employee to change, then get re-approved is not efficient whatsoever!

    6 votes

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    Have you tried any of the following suggestions?

    (1) Have you tried excluding pay codes that you don’t want? There is the ability to exclude pay codes that you don’t want employees tracking time against from True Time. This can be done with district wide or by timekeeping rule.

    (2) You mentioned the app. Does that mean that the employees are having the biggest issue on the mobile app? When employees have multiple pay codes to track time against. the primary pay code is indicated in pretenses. This should happen automatically.

    (3) Is it a business practice to deny the Time Sheet, wait for the employee to change it, re-approve and re-submit? HR should have the ability to update the pay code from the Employee Profile in the Web.

    Thank you!

  8. Remove limit of 100 lines per journal entry on the web

    Currently, there is a limit of 100 lines per journal entry when importing on the web. Often times, we import journal entries in PaC because there is no limit on the number of lines in a journal entry when using PaC. It would be great to use the web to import larger journal entries.

    25 votes

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  9. Adding a note option on a pay record

    When paying for an Extra Duty it would be amazing to be able to put a note in for what the payment is for. I.E. Class Sponsor, Morning Bus Duty, Basketball Coach Stipend, etc. If Skyward could put this note option on the select screen through payroll, we could manually enter the information when paying out for these different stipends.

    12 votes

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  10. Invoice approval - payment type

    Would it be possible to add the payment type field to the invoice master field on the invoice approval screen? We use various payment methods - wire, ACH and checks. It would be helpful in our approval process to see that the correct payment method has been selected.

    1 vote

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  11. Employee Access

    When employees leave it would be great to have one place to update their personal email and check a box that all communication goes to that personal email. Instead right now, I have to update the first email in employee profile AND go and update the email in employee access and then send them another account reset link just for them to keep access. In addition, it would be awesome to have a box for departing staff that says "grant employee access until......" we could then fill in a date and forget it. Instead right now, I have to somehow…

    8 votes

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  12. Street Names

    Please add a way to clean up the "Street Name" list for addresses. It would be ideal to be able to merge the existing street name when someone has entered many varieties and spellings of the same street name.

    12 votes

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  13. Attachments Added to Receiving should follow into AP and show attached to invoice as well

    If an invoice is attached in the Receiving Record, then once you update Pending Receiving in Accounts Payable then the attachment should follow. This way you can see the attachment if you are looking at the invoices or the PO. Right now it's just seen as an attachment to the PO. If you attach the invoice into Invoice Entry and not Receiving then you only see the attachment when looking at the invoices and it's not attached to the PO. We need it seen in both places.

    17 votes

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  14. Data Mining True Time

    Need Time Sheet History, specifically Time sheet status to be available in data mining. This could then be used to compare with the Missing Timesheet report. The Timesheet History field should automatically pull the available statuses from Payroll > True Time > History. Specifically looking for Submitted/Unsubmitted/Denied, but others would be good as well.

    3 votes

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  15. Wellness screeining visible to employee supervisors

    We would like supervisors to have the right to see only their employees wellness screening and print (or extract) an excel with the information.

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  16. Add Ability to Schedule Direct Deposit Email Processing

    Currently there is no option to schedule the Direct Deposit Email that goes out on pay day. The ability to schedule this a few days before would be beneficial so staff who are on vacation and or out sick do not have to log in to send the email the morning of payroll.

    16 votes

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    Hello! Scheduling Direct Deposit emails is current functionality. You can set this up two different ways. If you just sent your Direct Deposit emails recently, you can go into “My Print Queue” (upper right hand corner of your screen). You will see a Report Description with “Send Direct Deposit Emails”. Highlight the row by clicking on it and then click on Tasks on the right hand side. You will then click on Schedule This, which will prompt you to choose which days of the week, months of the year, etc. to run the scheduled task. Once you are finished click Save. If you do not have any recent Direct Deposit Emails sent, once you run your next Payroll and you send the notification you will have the same record in your Print Queue which will allow you to setup your scheduled task with the same steps above. Thank you and…

  17. My Employee's Time Off Per Week - Widget

    It looks like currently the My Employee's TIme Off Per Week widget is only programmed to look at individuals directly under the current supervisor and not the individuals underneath the people below the individuals.

    Our time off requests in Skyward first go the Payroll Secretary, then the Administrator. At this time, only the Secretary has access to see all staff in their building via a quick glance of My Employee's Time Off Per Week. It would be helpful if Administrators could see all staff that they complete an approval for within the My Employee's Time Off Per Week widget (not…

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  18. Data Mining Cleanup Utility

    Can we add a utility to cleanup data mining reports in the Business Suite (i.e. Employee, Budget, etc.) The Student database has this utility, already, in Skyward Contact Access/Security/Setup/Utilities.

    13 votes

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  19. SBAA Report for Today

    Be able use the Today report at the entity level in Reports for Account Ledger and Account Activity using the Today (current day) in the Date Selection box to pull reports for any Cash Receipts or Journal Entries.
    Or can a report template be created for that information?

    1 vote

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  20. Web Invoice Processing retention field

    Have the ability to retain an account number in the Web invoice entry. PAC would automatically pop up the last used number so if I am entering 20 food service invoices I don't have to re-type the same account number 20 times.

    7 votes

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