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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Insurance Tracking premium calculations

    Would be helpful to have premium calculations round UP to the nearest cent so we don't have a write-off each year or adjustment due to shortage in collection.

    5 votes

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  2. Mass Deny Budget Requests

    Add an option to mass deny budget requests the same way you can mass approve.

    2 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Budgeting  ·  Admin →
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  3. Open Enrollment

    Open Enrollment Email Notifications for submissions and approvals

    Currently the only email options available in Open Enrollment are for unsubmitted and denials.

    Create email notifications to advise the employee when their plans have been successfully submitted. Right now the only indication is the Submit to HR button changes color. We find employees to not see the Status column.
    An email should also be generated when their plans have been approved. We get numerous calls from employees asking for their plan status.

    12 votes

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  4. Shift Differential

    Please make it possible to have skyward automatically calculate shift differential for second shift staff. In the timekeeping rule under the shift differential section Hourly Pay option a box to select the pay code to pay needs to be added to allow the shift differential pay code to be added. Similar to how it is in the annualized option. For example staff who start work at 3 pm and work until midnight. Anyone in a certain employee group is paid an additional $.60 per hour for any hours they work between 3:30 pm - 03:00 am. This is for hourly…

    11 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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  5. Account Code on Check

    Would like to see an account code field added to the check stub. This would be very helpful to see on the check and eliminate the check voucher.

    11 votes

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  6. Mass Change Budget from Prior Year Activity in Qmlativ

    Include an option to mass update budget based off of last year's activity in Qmlativ.

    1 vote

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  7. Better Security options

    Currently we can only restrict users personnel access by building and other building. We have department head that manage several areas and need to be limited to those areas. Currently we need to give them district access which is not acceptable from auditing. The auditors want more controlled access to employees.

    4 votes

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  8. Profile Attachments records to display

    Add the drop down to allow users to select the number of records to display when viewing Attachments in Profile. Currently it is hard coded to 20 records.

    5 votes

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  9. default all data entry fields to ALL CAPS

    Many school districts seem to mandate the use of all CAPS in the software. The suggestion is to default all data entry fields in all parts of the business software to ALL CAPS

    4 votes

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  10. Conference Tracking

    I would like for there to be a tracker for the conferences our employees attend. We currently do this with a Google Form but it would be beneficial to have this in Skyward under Employee Access. This tracker would have fields for the employee to input what conferences they are attending and details about the conference. It would also have a place for the employee to estimated the cost of the conference. There would need to be an approval process after completing the form.

    15 votes

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  11. Remove the link to "Forgot your Login/Password?" link on rwetru09.html (True Time) login page.

    Would it be possible to have the ability to remove the link to "Forgot your Login/Password?" link on rwetru09.html (True Time) login page and keep the link on the regular Skyward login page? Since we are using Access Code Only for login to True Time, the forgot login is a bit confusing for some users.

    1 vote

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  12. Expense Reimbursement - Verify Available Funds

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    The Verify Funds options should be made available in the Expense Reimbursement module. Without this function, reimbursement requests can be made without available funds. The enhancement would eliminate the possibility of processing payments without available funds and provide necessary controls in the software. Like any other process related to budget...purchase orders, check requests, etc....this option should be applied to Expense Reimbursements.

    8 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.

    If you like this idea, and you want it considered for development, then we need to see your support!

    If you like this idea, please vote and comment.

    In the meantime, if you haven’t tried this already, it could be the solution you’re looking for:

    The AP available funds setup in PaC > SA > FM Config > AP will govern Expense Reimbursements. It does so at the AP Processing level, so you won’t necessarily see the verification at the Expense Reimbursement phase. Neither will it verify at the Exp Reimbursement approval phase. Instead, you will noticed an * indicating that the account is over-budget.

    The system will, however, check…

  13. Employee Discipline/Behavior Tracking

    We are looking for a way to track employee discipline/behavior on the HR side of Skyward (for all employee types: teachers & support staff).

    3 votes

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  14. Flag for High Priority Days

    Is there a way to be able to set up High Priority Days that would set a flag when an employee submits for the particular day. At the beginning of the year we would have to set these days to be flagged.

    2 votes

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  15. Mass assigning the Employment Type & SOC Field, allowing datamining of these 2 fields

    Allow mass assigning of the Employment Type and SOC field that was recently added. Also to be able to choose these in a Data Mine Report. Currently there is no way to see if anyone has been missed. This reports as a blank on the Unemployment tab and this would be helpful to see who was missed or didn't have a code.

    2 votes

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  16. Choose Invoice Status to See

    For invoice entry screen change the "status" to have the ability to check a box next to which ones you want to see. You can simplify the choices and allow greater control. For example I would like to be able to see those in batch and those waiting approval at the same time, but I can't because it is not a separate option to select.

    2 votes

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  17. Add an option to void a check using original dates.

    It would be much easier to void a check with the option to void using original dates vs. having to find the dates.

    3 votes

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  18. License expires field or background check field on personnel page

    WI DPI has a lifetime license, however, a background check needs to be done every five years. It would be great to have a field that could be exported to excel so I would know who's license will expire. The paper license from DPI does not have a background check date. We will not know when a license will expire because a teacher forgot to submit a background check.

    2 votes

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  19. sick leave approval settings

    In the time off approver settings, have a setting that allows you to select a primary approver for sick leave using the primary pay code.

    2 votes

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  20. Add Deep Linking into Skyward App

    Linking to the URL from our mobile app is OK (yawn) ... but why not allow linking into the Skyward App?

    2 votes

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