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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Our phone extensions are 6 digits but Skyward only allows 5 digits to be entered. Our Administration is quite adamant that we need this.

    We need the phone extension field to be extended to 6 digits from the 5 digits it currently holds.

    2 votes

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  2. Employee Cost by Account Report

    Please, please, please add this report to current plans so it is not only available in Salary Negotiations. This is an amazing, incredible report and not being able to pull it from our current plan is so frustrating. I am having to keep up the current plan with new changes of course, but then have to keep my sal neg plan up to date all year so that we can pull that report.

    1 vote

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  3. Add an auto generated email in FastTrack.

    Add an auto generated email feature to candidates that apply for similarly posted positions in FastTrack to alert them of the new similar posting.

    2 votes

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  4. Calendar Access to all

    I create all position calendars in the system each year for EM access. I would like for my directors, building principlas, managers to have access to thier subordinates calendars; this way they can plan trainings/PD's/etc around their staff members working days and they can better help to answer staff questions around working days.

    2 votes

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  5. NACHA file format option

    We have a vendor, Alliant Energy, that only accepts ACH payments if the format is CCD+ and CTX.

    Alliant Energy mentioned that they have a lot of schools that can't sent payments via ACH so we are all limited to sending paper checks.
    Could you please develop a CCD+ and CTX format for ACH payments?
    As a follow up from the last user group, this is a step we are trying to take to prevent fraud. There have been districts that have had paper checks white washed and cashed with zero recourse.
    Thanks!

    1 vote

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  6. Account Purge for Accounts Never Used

    Please consider adding a purge option for accounts that have never been used. The accounts are currently inactive in our system but have never been used and are set up with dimensions that were not set up.

    1 vote

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  7. It would be nice if there was a feature in history where you can edit your descriptions, especially if you have spelled something wrong.

    It would be nice if there was a feature in history where you can edit your descriptions, especially if you have spelled something wrong.

    1 vote

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  8. Cash Receipts-It would be nice on a generate recourring entry if once you cloned it and hit enter that quick edit feature was available

    Cash Receipts--It would be nice if on a generate reoccurring entry if once you cloned it and hit enter that quick edit feature was available, otherwise you have to select each line item and it takes longer

    1 vote

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  9. Ability to see job code on pay record view

    Our district requires a job code on all pay records. It would we great to be able to see what the job codes are when you are looking at the pay records. You have the ability to show the account distribution, which is great, but if we could also see the job code too would be the BEST. When someone changes jobs our payroll department needs jto go in and update most pay records that don't get changed with the assignment import to match the new job code. If they could see the ones they have missed we wouldn't have…

    9 votes

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  10. Under employee selection parameters, adding a date field would allow users to quickly see new or termed employee's in certain employee type

    Under employee selection parameters, adding a date field would allow users to quickly see new or termed employee's in certain employee type

    1 vote

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  11. Increase Receiving PO Line Item Dollar Amounts

    We need to receive large dollar amounts on blanket POs, the maximum amount of digits in the "Qty Received" field is 6. We need this to be increased to 9.

    1 vote

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  12. Expense Reimbursement Attachments

    When entering in an expense reimbursement it would be helpful if a warning showed up when attachments are not included before they can submit the reimbursement for certain expense codes. This would help employees understand they need to submit receipts for certain expenses.

    5 votes

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  13. Entry Error - Invalid Transaction

    Entry Error - Invalid Transaction! A transaction record exists for WORTHJAC000 and class 527/1 on a later date.
    You must change the current Effective Date or update the existing transaction(s) before this transaction an be completed. And any date we enter won't work.

    1 vote

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  14. Keyword Search in Vendor Names

    Add the ability to search for key words in vendor names. Some vendors have DBAs or abbreviations in their names. Searching for a vendor means you have to know the exact way it exists. We have many duplicate vendors that could have been prevented if there was a way to search for a portion of the name

    1 vote

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  15. Have Auto Approval available for Credit Card transactions (similar to Requisition Auto Approval) so

    Create Auto Approval for Credit Card transactions (similar to Requisition Auto Approval) that would allow managers to automatically approve transactions under a specific dollar amount.

    1 vote

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  16. Add option to have building limits on specific time off request. Especially for personal days for teachers and aides.

    Add option to have building limits on specific time off request. Especially for personal days for teachers and aides.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!

    Could you expand on the use case for this?

    Would this be used for employees who work in multiple buildings and have different supervisors, so they would be submitting time off requests to different supervisors based on their building they are working at?

    Thank you for your input!

    Erik O.

  17. Separate SSO settings for True Time & Employee Access. We needs the option to remove the "Login using Google" SSO button for True Time only

    Mulvane USD 263 is a Google district which is working to use Google SSO as much as possible. We use kiosk machines for True Time. Having the Google SSO button on the True Time screen is creating issues because a variety of staff members use these kiosk machines, and many users have limited technology skills. Please make the needed programing changes to allow only the "Access Code" field/button on the True Time login/home screen. Certifies (salary) and classified (hourly) staff have different Skyward needs.

    1 vote

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  18. Alternate/Back Up Approvers for Time Off and Time Sheets

    It would be useful if there was an option within Time Off Overseer to allow an overseer to not only see a specific supervisor's employees' time off but also be able to approve/deny time off requests when a supervisor is out for reasons such as illness, vacation or personal emergencies. I would also like to see an Overseer option in True Time with this same option. For example School Principals are the supervisors for their respective buildings. It would be quite useful if their Assistant Principal could approve time off and time sheets when Principal is out.

    2 votes

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  19. Mass Populate Parapro Cert

    There should be a way to mass populate the Parapro Cert screen with information from the Certification tab.

    1 vote

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  20. Field pertaining to certification status on service record.

    Would like a certification field in the Service Record Information data. With changes pertaining to Texas service records, we need to designate whether the employee was certified for the reported year.

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