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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Print PO's with signature from PU/VO

    It takes far too many clicks to print a signature on just one PO. Right now the only way to do it without needing a signature password is to try from Mass Print PO's. If it has been approved there should be a way that when your print your purchase orders from View My Purchase Orders (PU/VO) that it shows the signature on them

    3 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Purchasing  ·  Admin →
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  2. Add User ID to the "blue bar" at the top of reports

    We share a printer between 8-12 people in our office. We could be printing anything from GL lines in Data Mining to Check Registers in AP to Journal Entries or Cash Receipts, etc. When we print, if we don't make it to the printer in the next 5 seconds, our 'job' might end up mixed with someone else's. It would be helpful if there was a "User ID", much like there is a Date, Page number, Time, etc in the blue area at the top of the report. If we use the "Print Title Page" option in Data Mining, we're…

    2 votes

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  3. Please add a "Inactivate All" button

    Please add a "Inactivate All" button when terminating and inactivating records instead of having to check each individual box

    4 votes

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  4. Column for e-mail address in "My Employees Unsubmitted Time Sheets" screen

    Add a column for e-mail to the "My Employees Unsubmitted Time Sheets" screen for TT, so a Supervisor/Approver can e-mail an employee directly from this screen when they have an unsubmitted time sheet. This would make these notifications much quicker and helpful to be able to look back and see who received the reminder(s) when they fail to submit and don't get paid on time.

    38 votes

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  5. Reformat our Personnel Dates Section in Skyward Web

    Our District would like to reformat our Personnel Dates Section to meet our tenure tracking. Attached is the how we would like to have it formatted. Would these fields still meet EIS and ACA reports? Thank you so much! Chris Martin, Danville CCSD 118

    2 votes

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  6. 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!

    14 votes

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  7. Disable the ability to delete time off/leave request after submitting.

    It would be helpful if there was an option that would keep employees from deleting their requests after they have submitted them, or give me a notice that they did delete it. If they submit and then delete, the system gives no notification that it was deleted. As the person who arranges subs for the district, this is not good because I have already received the notice they need a sub, but no notice they no longer need one, which will result in a sub showing up for work when not needed. (I am aware they can't delete it after…

    4 votes

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  8. Check Estimator on Employee Profile!!!

    Having a check estimator option somewhere on the employee profile screen to show what that employee's check will be based on pay/ded/ben BEFORE we run payroll. I'm surprised this isn't an option.

    17 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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    Good Morning! Thanks for all the feedback, we appreciate it! There is a great option right now to get to the Check Estimator from Employee Profile. If you login to Skyward > Web Human Resources > Employee Profile and search for the employee you are looking to run the Check Estimator for, you can then click on the Blue Information Icon (i) next to the search bar and Ranges button. This will take you out to Employee Access, where you can click on the Check Estimator tab and run the Check Estimator process for that employee.

  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    While we currently do not reports available for Expense Reimbursements, the History menu does offer a lot of the same information which can be narrowed down by filters to sort by things such as an Work in Progress or Waiting for Approval status reimbursements. These browses are all also able to be downloaded to Excel and printed as reports.


    Could you try this browse and adding some custom filters to see how this works?


    Thank you!

  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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