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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Add Individual Select

    In the substitute tracking under the Third Party Import cross references for Absent Amounts add the option to do individual selection.

    Situation: I have part time employees (custodians, aides, cooks) who are using TrueTime. This import brings in their time off, but is bringing in it wrong because the absent amount is cross referenced to their employee type. We use the same employee type (Custodians) for both part time and full time staff.

    What is wrong: because it does not have an individual selection it is going to force me to create multiple employee types that are unnecessary (part time…

    1 vote

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  2. Add filter option in toolbar under Fast Track - Position Processing - Positions

    The option to create an Excel is in the toolbar. However, there are several columns that may not be used or would like to prioritize into the view. It does have a dump to excel option but to dump and organize it every time is time consuming where a filter can be created, saved and used multiple times. The toolbars should be consistent throughout Skyward.

    1 vote

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  3. allow for sorts and filters in unapproved absences

    Please create sort options that can be saved in reports for unapproved absences. To be able to sort by date, approver etc would be very helpful and approve efficiency by not having to drop all down to excel and then sort.

    9 votes

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  4. Schedule Mass Assign of a Status Code

    When Volunteers apply we assign them a separate status code for processing on a daily basis. HR will manually run this utility daily to move the applications into the view of the coordinators at the schools for processing. We would like to have the ability to schedule this utility to automatically run twice a day. Currently we have been advised by Skyward that is not available.

    2 votes

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  5. Email Customization of Submitted Time Sheets

    Ability to customize the email that gets sent to supervisors when employees submit their time sheet for approval so it would include link to log into Skyward.

    5 votes

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  6. Change positive/negative sign for Revenue/Expense.

    It would be nice to give users the option to "flip the signs" so Revenues would show as a positive and Expenses would show as a negative. This would make the Data Mining reports easier for "non-accountants" to understand. We recently moved from a different software program to Skyward, and some of our users (building secretaries) are confused by the way revenues and expenses are reflected.

    4 votes

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  7. mass change for employee type

    Mass change employee types and in-activate via processing list. Rather than have to manually change 100+ terms at the end of a school year it would be helpful to select employees based on term dates that have been entered and change from active to inactive and to change the employee type to an XTCH etc.

    9 votes

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  8. Import/Create Vendors into SBAA & Order From Vendors.

    We would like to have the ability import and create vendors from a CVS/excel file within SBAA and Order From (VENDOR) side.

    1 vote

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  9. Org Chart & Employee Management

    Employee Management & Org Charts

    Can you please code the Org Charts to automatically add employees in the org chart under the correct supervisor, when a change is made in their Employee Management? The current method is inefficient. What is the point of creating a Org Chart using Employee Management if it doesn't automatically add the employee under the supervisor? It is extremely tasking to have to continuously make changes when an employee changes building (supervisors).

    22 votes

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  10. Not display Inactive Bank Cash Account for Cash Receipts

    When entering Cash Receipts, it would be helpful to not see the inactive bank cash accounts. If we could have one of the following it would be helpful.

    1. On the bank cash account, add a checkbox to 'not use for cash receipts'
    2. Or just have the inactive cash accounts not display as an option.

    7 votes

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  11. Account Number & Account Distributions From Employee Management Available to Employee Letters

    We would like to be able to pull Account Numbers and Account Distributions from Employee Management into the employee contracts that we provide to employees through Employee Letters.

    Account Numbers/Distribution are currently available in EM, but are not allowable to be pulled into document produced and posted through Employee Letters.

    1 vote

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  12. Ranges in Employee Profile screen on web

    would like to see an option to filter by term date in the employee profile screen under WH\EP\TB\AF. would be very helpful at the end of year for 1095 reporting, W-2 reporting and for end of school year for people leaving and people coming. for example, right now I only want to see all staff with a term date of 1/1/2019 or greater. I know I can pull a list, but I need to check each person's ACA report and edit so I would rather do it from the screen itself.

    2 votes

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  13. Add a Preferred Name Field in the Employee Profile

    Would like to see in the Name Information section of the Employee Profile a field that we can populate with the employee's preferred name

    63 votes

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  14. Print Commodity Codes on Purchase Orders (EDGAR "Like-Type" Items)

    The TEA letter from November 2018 regarding micro purchase thresholds under EDGAR have made it more important than ever to accurately measure our purchasing levels in like-type categories. Because of this, more districts will begin utilizing the Commodity Code feature in Skyward. Having the ability to print commodity codes on POs will greatly assist our end users with determining which commodity code to use on new requisitions.

    4 votes

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  15. True Time - Premium Pay during COVID-19 Shut-down

    Exploring options to continue paying our Hourly Staff regardless of clocking in/out, but additionally paying at a Premium rate for those who do clock in/out during the closure.

    1 vote

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  16. Add header option to display on Invoice Import

    It would be nice to be able to keep your headers in the invoice import spreadsheet rather than deleting it to do the import.

    1 vote

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  17. Would like the option to drag and drop people around in the Org Charts.

    It would be really nice to drag and drop names around in the Org charts instead of going through all the menu options

    11 votes

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  18. Email notification to HR for more than one status code on an applicant. (490 and 495)

    I would like to be able to set it up in Skyward so that I, as an HR Director, receive an email when an applicant's status code is changed to a 490. I already receive one for the 495 but would prefer to have both.

    2 votes

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  19. Purchasing Reports

    When running a Purchasing Report (specifically PO Payment History and Account Number Sequence reports - I would like to see the option to select a Fiscal Year so that when you have opened your new fiscal year you can run reports of purchase orders for the current fiscal year only instead of getting both fiscal year's PO's.

    13 votes

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  20. Time Off Request in Excess of Hours Scheduled

    Is there a way or could you implement a way for employees to not be able to request time off when they have already worked their scheduled hours? For instance: Jane is schedule to work 40 hours per week. She leave 2 hours early on Tuesday, but ends up working an additional 2 hours through out the course of the week. Therefore she did not need to enter a time off request. Since she has entered one and it was approved she will now earn 3 hours of comp time.

    3 votes

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