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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Add a field to employee data mining

    I want to add the "comments" field that is under the employee profile, personnel tab, under additional information; to employee data mining.

    I thought any field could be added to data mining, and I noticed this particular field is not an option to choose from when building data mining reports.

    9 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Employee  ·  Admin →
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  2. Add Active Flag to All Codes

    As districts grow and change many times old codes are no longer relevant. From a system stand point, you really never should delete codes that have been used anywhere but leaving them in the system means they show up and can be selected by users even if the district decides they don't want to use the code any longer. I'd like to see on all codes in the system an Active checkbox. When the Active flag is unchecked then the code could no longer be selected from drop-downs in the system. This would prevent improper use of codes the district…

    6 votes

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  3. 2020 W4 box display on the PAC side without having to "edit" to see it.

    It would be nice to see the 2020 W4 box on the PAC side displayed without having to "edit". On the Web side you can see it clearly without editing. They should be the same.

    1 vote

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  4. Purchase Requisitions

    When doing purchasing for next fiscal/school year (budget orders), would like to have the next fiscal year in the master either be an editable field after submitted or have the default be for the next fiscal year.

    10 votes

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  5. Add Fields to Data Mining

    When Data Mining fields from Personnel, can you please add Employment Type and SOC code as fields. They do not exist as fields now.

    3 votes

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  6. ACA 1095-C Tracker

    When the 1095-C tracker is run, changes are highlighted. However, once the report is exported to excel these highlights do not export. Please add the settings to export the highlighted fields as they appear in Skyward.

    2 votes

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  7. DPI now requires background check every 5 years. Need field to report when last background check was done, so we can datamine a report

    DPI now requires background check every 5 years for Teachers/Administrators. We need a field to enter when their last background check was done so we can create a data mining report to show these dates and know who to contact when the 5 years is getting close. It would make the most sense to put this field in the "Employee Certification Detail area". Thank you for your consideration!

    13 votes

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  8. To be able to import from excel into a worksheet for payroll processing rather than having to manually enter

    To be able to import data from excel into a worksheet for payroll processing rather than having to manually enter each separate person - rate of pay - #of hours and account # - currently 3-6 day process because there are hundreds of line items

    39 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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  9. Expense Reimbursement Reports

    The Expense Reimbursement area currently doesn't have any reports. It would be nice if similar to Credit Cards we could run transaction reports by status such as Waiting for Approval. There currently is not a great way for District to play big brother and make sure everyone across the district is staying on top of their approvals.

    6 votes

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  10. Wire Payment Check Number

    Need check number for wire payments assigned during the check register process instead of invoice created. Invoices in batch status currently have check numbers when payment method is wire. This is causing check numbers to be out of sequence when including the check date. Wire payments created on the first and paid on the last day have check numbers before wire payments entered and paid on the 15th.

    5 votes

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  11. Data Mining

    Data mining reports need to have the option added to print all on one line. This will make it easier to manipulate the data in Excel.

    9 votes

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  12. Position Control Groups FTE

    We would like to have an additional EM config option for the verification of FTE's available on Position Control Groups. Our current config is set up to verify new hire requests based on the Working FTE of the group, but the problem is the system looks at the Working FTE for the entire date range on the Position Control Record. This gives us fits for positions were there is overlap at some point during the year because it looks like there is an FTE available but if you try to enter a request it is blocked

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    10 votes

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  13. Add options on a requisition for "credit card purchase", or "does not need to be submitted to vendor"

    We would like the ability for staff to select whether they are making the purchase on a credit card, or if the purchase order does not need to be sent to the vendor. This would allow the business office to skip having to email the staff member to get these questions answered.

    11 votes

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  14. W-2 address

    An employee can request changes to their address and their mailing address. We mistakenly thought that by changing the mailing address, it would change their W-2 address, but it does not. Several employees did not receive their W-2 because it had an old address.

    I am requesting that the employee be able to submit a W-2 address change as well. This would be great customer service for those that want a paper copy!

    20 votes

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  15. Total on Screen

    It would be helpful if when we are on the chart of accounts or any screen with rows of data that we would get totals for the rows viewed on the screen. For example, if I filtered salaries on chart of accounts, I would have a total for the budget, debits, credit, remaining budget. these figures would pertain to the rows/accounts I would view on the screen based upon my filters.

    2 votes

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  16. Credit Card: Allow a download to pdf of backup documentation for multiple transactions.

    When the auditors request a specific employee's credit card statement for a specific month (i.e. June) it would be very helpful to be able to select that cardholder and download all the documents that were upload for a certain date range. Currently, you have to download one document at a time. If that statement has a lot of transactions it will be very time-consuming.

    2 votes

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  17. User Security Reports

    Historical Change Audit and Group Change reports need an option to select changes that were only made by a specific person. When investigating what one person did you have to work thru hundreds of pages of user failed login and additional security changes that have no value to the inquiry.

    4 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

    This is the platform for Skyward users to show support for ideas they like. It’s also the perfect place to share your thoughts and start a conversation about the idea.

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    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  18. Exclude Employees from Vendor Mass Inactivate

    Mass inactivate allows districts to clear out no longer used vendors based on inactivity. Currently this process will also inactive the vendor records setup for employee expense reimbursement. I would like to see a radio button that allows a district to include or exclude active employee records from the Vendor Mass Inactivate process.

    9 votes

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  19. KS WebIZ import

    The opportunity to import Immunization information into Skyward from WebIZ. Currently nurses hand enter Immunization information and it takes hours, as well as provides an opportunity for error.

    This would be especially helpful for our Foster Care students as often times, they receive multiples of the same immunizations due to lack of records by the parents and foster care system.

    I know not all medical offices utilize the service but that would be on the nursing staff to pull reports to confirm if student data was imported or if they need to follow up with families. Any automation of this…

    10 votes

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  20. Asset Key Search

    When searching for an Asset I currently need to enter all the zeros preceding the asset key. Please make it possible to enter just the actual asset key digit. Example my whole asset key is 0000000995 I have to key all the zeros rather than just 995.

    9 votes

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