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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Being able to see time sheets for former employees without having to put them back on the org chart

    Often times for audits we have to pull reports for former employees showing hours worked during a specific time. I've found that if the person is a former employee, they will not get pulled into the report, nor can I see the time sheet if they are not listed on the org chart.
    I'd like to be able to have former employees pulled in to reports without having to add them to the org chart again.

    13 votes

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  9. Need a field for Tenured with a simple Y/N checkbox.

    Need a field in Employee Profile for Tenured - with a simple Y/N checkbox. We are always trying to find a current list of tenured teachers.

    16 votes

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  10. Ability to adjust vendor name font size when printing checks

    We need the ability to adjust font size for the vendor name printed for both A/P and Payroll checks. Our bank has indicated that increasing the font size would make the check more friendly to machine reading for increased security. This issue was raised by our bank as they reviewed our checks for a fraud prevention program.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. Nelco is the authorized partner of compatible paper forms for the Skyward software. All W-2 and 1099 forms, checks, and school forms are guaranteed 100% compatible. Any issues with the check layout will need to be handled by Nelco as Skyward is unable to alter the format in anyway.

  11. Password Hidden/Encrypted

    As normal security protocol, ALL passwords used anywhere in the system should be hidden as masked fields and stored as encrypted values in the database.

    2 votes

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  12. Utility to Purge Applicants that have not activity for a set date range

    We would like to be able to purge not only old applications but to purge Applicants that have become dormant. A utility to that allow any applicants that has not made any updates for a period of time to be purged. We currently have more than 30k applicants in our database. Trying to maintain this on an individual level does not seem effective.

    3 votes

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  13. Reprint Accounts Payable checks

    Would like to be able to reprint checks, currently no way to save the check file if there is a print malfunction and have to void and reissue all the checks if you close out.

    13 votes

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  14. Payroll Deposit Statements

    Payroll Deposit Statements - Allow the individual PDF Deposit statements to be posted into Employee access for each payroll, similar to W2's. It would be nice for employees to see the time off and YTD totals for each payroll. The current view in employee access both Show Check and Show Check with YTD totals are not as clean as the PAC Payroll: Deposits for each payroll.

    4 votes

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  15. PO Atatched to Multiple Credit Card Transactions

    It would be a huge time saving message if we were able to attach a PO to multiple transactions at one time.

    6 votes

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  16. Electronic Survey for Year End Special Payroll in Employee Access

    We would like to provide an electronic delivery option for the year end teacher payroll where teachers have the option to select lump sum or monthly payroll for summer payroll.

    Currently we use a form to collect that information and then use that information to create two payrolls (lump or monthly).

    We would like a delivery option similar to the W2 option asking employee to choose between paper or electronic delivery. In this case, they would select payroll for lump or monthly and then that collection of data would create two separate payrolls.

    5 votes

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  17. Have an option to export service records to Word.

    Have an option to export service records to Word.

    2 votes

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  18. True Time Worksheet Import Verification

    I would like to see dates beside each week's entries for Regular hours/Overtime hours. It is very hard to determine which line on the report matches up to which work week.

    21 votes

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  19. PSERS Demographic Address Reporting

    For the PSERS reporting--- when entering an employee into the system you add in their home address information. The address then auto-fills into the retirement- demograph tab but in address 1 but then require manual entry to Address 3. According to a service call with Skyward, this is the only option as it has to be in address 3 for the PSERs reporting. It would be helpful if Skyward could reroute from Address 1 to Address 3 automatically if that is where the information is required.

    4 votes

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    When you run the PSERS Member Demographic Record submission, the system takes the Address 1 in the profile and reports it in Address 3 in the maintain and the file. No manual edits need to be done in the Employee Profile to move the address to Address 3. The system takes care of that during processing for the Member Demographic submission.

    If assistance is required, please submit a Service Call and our State Reporting Rep will be able to assist you.

    Thank you!

  20. Check History Printing multiple checks at a time

    It would be nice to be able to print multiple checks at one time instead of having to do one at a time. Maybe a date range of checks to be printed?

    13 votes

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