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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Vendor profile - viewing inactive vendors

    It would be extremely helpful when pulling up vendors in Vendor Profile if inactive vendors could be differentiated in someway. Maybe make inactive vendors a different color or something easy to spot when typing in the vendor key. In order to see if a vendor is inactive while in profile you have to select that vendor to view the vendor information. This would also be helpful in Vendor Browse. Instead of looking at the columns for a Y or N an easier view would be to make them stand out like in employee browse. In HR all inactive employees show…

    17 votes

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  2. Add the Developmental Kindergarten field to Skybuild

    Add the Developmental Kindergarten field to Skybuild. It is required for Michigan districts to report this to the State via KReady.org.

    1 vote

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  3. Default Description or Account code for specific vendors in purchase order

    It would be nice if we could have a default description or account code given for certain vendors in the PO process. For example, some vendors require certain information that if we automatically included, the end user would not have to enter it in each time or enter it incorrectly. Also, if a vendor is specific to an account code, then it would default to a certain code.

    2 votes

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  4. Option in LPR to have the system remove Year of Service

    Similar to the CRDC, add the option to have the years of service subtract one within the template. We increment at the beginning of the year and always have to back it out. The CRDC has the option to subtract a year or leave as is. It would be nice to not have to manually update the information prior to submission.

    7 votes

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  5. True Time VIEW OPTION only

    It would be helpful to add a VIEW ONLY option in True Time.

    4 votes

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  6. Online Leave Requests-Employee Positions

    It would be great if there was an ability to input employees positions/locations when submitting leave requests. Currently only the employee name shows up and has no other identifying info like if they are a teacher or aide, which school they work at, etc. As the person who finds their subs, I have to have a staff chart handy from year to year now, so I can look up what an employee does, if they haven't told me in the description. IF they remember to tag me on the request and it comes to my inbox, I can see which…

    1 vote

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  7. Datamine the notes area for an assignment

    Be able to data-mine the notes area for an assignment. Periodically our school board will want to know why an employee was reassigned to other assignment. We are needing make notes if it was a district decision or if they chose to move.

    4 votes

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  8. Security Restrictions for Employee management

    Users with access to employee management have access to all employee information, even those that the user may have no responsibility for. This makes confidential employee information available to those who do not need it.

    In our organization, it is critical that this type of information availability be limited. We could do so either by way of either building restrictions or PO/Requisition Groups.

    2 votes

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  9. Online Form Status by Employee

    Show the employee's response here instead of having to create a DM Report to pull the answer

    5 votes

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  10. Expand the Submit JE and Submit Transfer Functionality

    Expand the capabilities of the Submit Journal Entry and Submit Transfer functions to be able to add more than 20 lines to a transfer or journal entry. Also, add the ability to import large sets of data within this function.

    This would allow us to move to a digital format by attaching all backup to the journal entry or transfer and then submitting it to the final approver within Skyward. The journal entry report or transfer report, and accounting registers could then be saved electronically. This would eliminate all paper filing.

    Unlimited lines and importing is currently available in the…

    5 votes

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  11. Add Generic Date Field in Data Mining

    Add a 'Date/Date Range' field that can be added to all data mining reports regardless of the data being pulled. It would be helpful to be able to narrow down the data based on a date or date range for ALL reports. Currently you can only add a date/date range for a few, very specific, fields.

    5 votes

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  12. Mobile App - Would be great to be able to Add Expense reimbursement

    It would be very helpful if in the mobile app you would be able to add expense reimbursement on app and also upload photo of receipts for reimbursement. Could this app also have a request for check option added for other vendor payments?

    9 votes

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  13. All changes need to be marked red

    When running the plan calendar cycle, system does not report values in red correctly. It does not recognize changing 08/01/2018 to 08/01/2019 as a changed marked in red. Appears that changes are only marked if the month and/or the day are different while ignoring the difference in year.

    2 votes

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  14. Assignment hourly rate

    Assignment payroll information does not use the same logic to calculate the hourly rate as it does when calculating the daily rate when you have the condition of a mixture of matrix types. Daily rate includes the base salary information and all add-on records in the calculation. Hourly rate includes only the base salary amounts. Would seem logical that if daily can be calculated with a mixed matrix type the hourly could also be done.

    2 votes

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  15. Allow a fixed asset to be cloned. We purchase the same item for multiple locations and it would save a lot of entry if we could clone .

    Allow a fixed asset to be cloned. We purchase the same item for multiple locations and it would save a lot of entry if we could clone these items and make the necessary changes.

    4 votes

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  16. Add Processing List to Selection Parameters for all PAC payroll mass processes.

    Add Processing List to Selection Parameters for all PAC payroll mass processes. It would save a considerable amount of time if this option was available for all payroll PAC options, but specifically to adding, deleting, or editing pay records. The processing list option is already available for most areas in Skyward Web, it should be in PAC too.

    16 votes

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  17. When "importing benefits from pay records" in SN, is it possible not to wipe out _Vacant employees manually entered benefits?

    I create a Subs & Extra hours plan that I use each year for budgeting purposes in SN. This year I noticed when I combined my EM active plan and my SN Subs & Extra Hours plan into a SN Combined Budget plan and then imported benefits from pay records, it wiped out the _Vacant benefits from the plan. Then when I Generated Plan Detail, no benefit amounts were calculated for _Vacant positions.

    1 vote

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  18. Annual Reimbursement Limits

    Allow for annual reimbursement limits. Example: Each year teacher's can receive up to $50 reimbursed for dues/professional membership fees. In Skyward, you can set a limit on the reimbursement type of $50, however that does not stop a teacher from being able to submit multiple requests of $50.

    1 vote

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  19. When Using the Tardy Kiosk, have option to NOT ALLOW a Tardy Kiosk entry from overwriting Already Entered Attendance

    There's no way to tell the Tardy Kiosk to not overwrite attendance codes already entered in attendance. So if there is an entry in attendance, and a student punches in at the tardy kiosk, that entry overwrites the attendance code already there.

    1 vote

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  20. Accounting adjustment for General Ledger

    We need an accounting adjustment routine for general ledger similar to the accounting adjustment routine we have in the payroll module.

    8 votes

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