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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Start and End Date in Contract Codes

    Addendum 9 included a change to Purchasing Contract Codes. Now, Start and End Dates are included in the codes. Purchasing staff would like the option to turn this off.

    2 votes

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  2. Cooperative contract auto send the PO to the cooperative

    Vendors who have a cooperative contract tied to them to auto send a copy of the PO to the cooperative for verification. Much like we are able to auto send a copy of the PO to the vendor we could auto send a copy of the PO to the cooperative based on the contract used.

    7 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Purchasing  ·  Admin →
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  3. EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT

    When the pre-verifer is selected on the first screen of entry it does not hold. After the expense details are added and saved it either defaults back to no pre-verification is needed or a previously selected pre-verifier. In addition, the optional pre-verifier field should default to no pre-verification needed. If the user had a previously selected pre-verifier it holds that data on their next entry. This is not always going to be that same person so the chance of this getting routed to the wrong person is high.

    5 votes

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  4. Swap the position of Hire Date and Birth Date on Employee Profile Screen

    Birth Date should follow age on Employee profile screen. I look at age and assume the date following it is birth date. Swap the position of Hire Date and Birth Date.

    5 votes

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  5. Add district option to hide Credit Card number from Credit Card Trans Rpt

    Currently there is a option on the Credit Card Transaction Report screen to show the card number as a Full Number, Last Four Digits or Do Not Display. We'd like a district option to remove the choice of displaying the Full Number on the Credit Card Transaction Report. We instruct staff, with access to this, to choose either "last four digits" or "do not display", but they can select the "full number" option. To add a layer of security we would like to remove this option for all users in our district. WP\AP\CC\RE\CT

    1 vote

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  6. Credit Card approvals

    I know the final approval has the option to "select all" transactions for approval. Why can't the Accounts Payable person have the same option? I am clicking on 200-250 transactions. Thank you.

    10 votes

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  7. Language Preference

    Allowing the End User a language preference would be extremely helpful. Especially in Employee Access when an employee speaks and reads in a different language. This would be a huge benefit for those having to use Time Off and True Time.

    2 votes

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  8. Include Building Location Column under Employees on the Advanced Employee Lookup screen

    On the Advanced Employee Lookup screen, it would be helpful to have the Building location column under the Employees Section where you select from the filtered list. So if I am looking for a person and only know their first name, employee type and building, it would be easier to find the person in Skyward.

    2 votes

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  9. Account Clearance Groups - Add Mass Delete option for users

    Skyward currently offers a Mass Add option to add users to Account Clearance Groups. I would like to see an option to Mass Delete user option? We currently have to manually remove users one at a time.

    8 votes

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  10. changes to time off transactions

    It would be helpful to be able to expand changes that can be made to a time off transaction after it's been approved to include all fields. Sometimes since the Time Off field defaults to a certain code, employees forget to change that, but enter the correct reason code. In order to change it to the correct code (that actually goes against their balances), the entry needs to be deleted and reentered. If I were able to simply change the time off code, that would be a lot more efficent.

    10 votes

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  11. 11 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Time Off  ·  Admin →
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  12. Edit time off hours

    I would like the ability to edit time off hours in True Time. For example, we have had employees who went home sick midday. They worked 5 of their 8 hours and then put in for 1/2 sick day which added an additional 4 hours. Per policy, employees using paid time off cannot be paid for more than their scheduled hours. With the current system, I have to change the time off request to 0 days, manually add the time off hours in True Time, then go back and change the time off request back to the correct increment after…

    12 votes

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  13. Add Automated Emails to HR/Finance database

    We would really like to be able to use Automated Emails in our HR/Finance database like we do with our Student database. For example we would like to send an automated email when new hires are added and be able to filter on their employee type. It is already in place on the Student side. We are hoping it can be added to the HR/Finance side too. It will increase efficiency by automating notifications.

    10 votes

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  14. We are having a problem with the Credit Card Vendor Cross Reference and specifically Amazon.

    We are having a problem with the Credit Card Vendor Cross Reference and specifically Amazon. Amazon must have changed something because each transaction now has its own version of an Amazon vendor. Last month I had to match-up 40 separate transactions to our Skyward Amazon vendor. My suggestion would be to give users the option to match the first 6 or 8 characters and have the vendor match not have to be an exact match for vendors that they choose.

    12 votes

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  15. 1 vote

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  16. Add ability to save parameters in Web reporting

    Please add the ability to save parameters in Web Data mining and reporting. Very frustrating to have to continually have to go back and recreate them each time.

    1 vote

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  17. Educator Effectiveness - Track history of rating each year

    Educator Effectiveness - Track history of rating each year. I would like the history of what an employee was rated on their evaluation each year. It is nice to have the history. For MI, if a teacher is rated Highly Effective for 3 consecutive years, they do not have to be evaluated for a year. We are tracking that on a spreadsheet since Skyward doesn't track the history.

    5 votes

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  18. Mass Process - Pay Records

    PAC Mass Process - Clone/Add needs the additional option to create the pay records with an hourly rate. Creating just by daily rate does nothing for payment of extra duty assignments which are paid based on the employee normal hourly rate.

    3 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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  19. Fixed Assets

    Fixed Asset Attachments

    Our AP person scans invoices in for each check. However, when we go to create Fixed Assets from the invoices, the attachments do not come with. Therefore, we still have to look up individual vendors to print off invoices for our auditors. It would be nice to have the invoice attached to a specific asset and it is double work to scan and attach it to the Fixed Asset if you already do so for the check payments.

    6 votes

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  20. Detailed Reports by GLN

    In the past, I have always manually reclassed my liablities from GLN 206 to GLN 210 (due to other districts), 212 (due to other govn) and 220 (contracts payable). This year, I thought I would set the system up to book automatically to the correct GLN's. I was able to successfully do so, but then for the life of me, could not get a report to show the detail I booked to each liability account. I was on the phone with support for one full hour to no avail. I now have to manually go back through the list to…

    1 vote

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