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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Need to Customize Widgets in Employee Access

    We have many tasks processes employees need to complete and would like to be able to customize the widgets that are on the Home screen by default in Employee Access when a new employee is added by HR, rather than having to teach them to select other widgets or click on task manager in order to get to the tasks they need to complete.

    11 votes

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  2. Vendor- New Vendor Report

    I would like a Vendor Report that you can choose a range of dates to
    create a list of New Vendors for the month or Year. (like a New Hire report)

    2 votes

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  3. Allow For Email/Notifications for Budget Revisions

    Allow in the Revisions setup area a notifications option where individuals can be selected to be notified via email when a Budget Revision is entered into the system.

    1 vote

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  4. Enable the COMMENTS field on the PERSONNEL screen to be viewed in PAC

    We need to be able to see the Comments field on Personnel in PAC. Our Payroll and Beneefits department work primarily from PAC alone, and they cannot see that field, which shows notes for an employee who has resigned, retired, or been rehired multiple times. When checking benefit and employment information, it is very time consuming to change back and forth. Additionally, it would be great to be able to pull this field in PAC data mining reports.

    1 vote

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  5. Fiscal year as default

    We do not close our Fiscal year until the budget is approved by our BOE in October. In invoice entry, there is a way to set the Fiscal year you want as a default. In Cash receipt entry there is currently no way to do this. could this be an added field on the Data Retention on Add of Cash Receipts? Since GASB 84 all of our schools enter cash receipts daily for credit card payments received and this is a missed entry often. See the attachment for the screen I would like to see this added to.
    Thank you

    5 votes

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  6. TRS Base Gross totals tie out to Check Register

    When working on the per pay period Gemini report to submit to TRS (Illinois)
    I click the Summary Report and checked it against the check register's Base Gross under the Retirement deductions.

    I'm usually off by the non-contributory earnings and the retiree earnings. These two types of pay are included in the earnings totals in the TRS Gemini Summary Report.
    I think the non-contributory earnings and retiree earnings should be listed separately!
    This would be helpful because we can then tie it back to the check register Base Gross!!!

    Currently there no way I can modify the TRS Gemini Summary…

    3 votes

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  7. Mass CHANGE Transaction utility needed (HR\TO\UT)

    There is currently a utility within time off that you can Mass Add/Delete Time Off transactions. However, there is no Mass CHANGE time off transactions. This would be extremely helpful when dealing with emergency school closures. For example: A number of employees had sick leave approved for January 12. January 12 ended up being a snow day for staff. I would like to see a utility where I could go in and Mass CHANGE the hours for a time off code on a certain date to zero. That way no one is charged for taking the day off since the…

    1 vote

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  8. Org chart history tab

    On the org chart history tab, it would be greatly beneficial tohave the namekey of the person who made the change.

    10 votes

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  9. Please add a preferred name field for parents/guadians for #1-4. Allow it print in place of entered first name. Please add a third option t

    Please add a preferred name field for parents/guadians for #1-4. Allow it print in place of entered first name.
    Please add a third option to parent/guardian gender for transgender/non-binary identified adults.
    RI DMV http://www.dmv.ri.gov/documents/forms/license/LI-1.pdf, RI Dept of Helath https://health.ri.gov/records/about/changes/sex/ and Social Security Administration allow this change https://www.ssa.gov/people/lgbtq/gender-identity.html#:~:text=To%20change%20the%20sex%20identification,sometimes%20citizenship%20or%20immigration%20status.

    1 vote

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  10. Allow Remote Login without System Wide Access

    Some district have payroll staff they need to be able to see what an employee sees in Employee Access but are unable to do so unless they are a System Wide User or have System Wide Access to WEB Product Set. They do not need system wide access but need to be able to do this to verify information when troubleshooting an issue. The ability to use Web Login with look up only security would be ideal.

    1 vote

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  11. Allow for Data Mining of Profile Notes

    Districts use Profile Note for many things based on a category type. It would be helpful if they could Data Mine for that information in Employee Profile by Category and/or Date, Protected or not.

    1 vote

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  12. Default setting in Position Control Maintenance to not update assignments

    We would like to see a default the setting when changing FTE in Position Control to be “Do NOT update any information on the Assignments”.

    When changing # POS in Position Control (WH\AD\EM\PC) a screen appears with "assignment Processing Options".

    We are wanting the system to default the setting to be “Do NOT update any information on the Assignments” so that there is less chance of making an errors to the current assignments.

    17 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support from the Skyward user community.


    There are a few questions which we would like a better understanding on with this product idea:


    1.  Would a user preferences area be helpful so the user can decide how they want the option defaulted on how to update assignments?

    2. Are you only looking for when FTE is changed or when any area on the position control is changed?


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Thank you!

  13. Indicate previously denied CC transactions and decline multiple with same comments

    This is a two part/related question related to credit card transaction approvals.
    1)We're wondering if there's a way to indicate that a credit card transaction had been previously denied when it comes back for approval. The goal would be that when the approval comes back through, it would somehow show that it had previously been submitted and denied. I don't know if that would mean creating a new option besides app or deny (maybe review or something similar) or maybe some time if asterisk indicator?
    2) Is there a way to deny several transactions at the same time with the…

    2 votes

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  14. Inactive employees in red in all areas like in HR portion of the system

    I would like to see inactive employees highlighted in red like in the HR portion of the system. When looking at security or groups it would be very helpful to see a color differential for inactive employees.

    5 votes

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  15. Time Off Liability Report

    There is not a report that calculates the financial liability related to accumulated time off balances. If the Employee Data Mining available fields included the accumulated time off hours by code, users could add the appropriate pay code, export to Excel and do a quick calculation of the accrued financial obligation per employee.

    1 vote

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  16. In Fast Track: Once application and reference checks are complete there is no email/notification prompting applicants to log in and submit

    In Fast Track: Once application and reference checks are complete there is no email/notification prompting applicants to log in and submit their application.

    2 votes

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  17. Combine Employee Contact Information

    Format employee data so that address and phone/email can be viewed on one "contact information" page. Clicking from one area to the other to get this information is very cumbersome.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    On the Employee Profile screen, towards the top of the screen there is a customize button - with this you can choose to have specific employee information pinned onto the screen for easier viewing of the data you wish to see.

    I have included an attachment of the button on Employee Profile with the options available to you.

    I hope this helps and is an alternative you can use!


    Erik O.

  18. Why, Why, Why is there not a way to save the adjustments that we make

    Why, why ,why can we not save the adjustments that we make to get our columns the size and stuff that we want (like the clone option)??!! I make the adjustments to the columns to fit my needs and then as soon as you leave the page they disappear. The idea that I have to redo it EVERYTIME I come back to that page is RIDICULOUS! I know it can happen because I have them saved in some areas (they say "clone). Why not offer that on all the pages that we can already make adjustments...ie the add requisition accounts…

    5 votes

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  19. Data Mine for Detail Item in an invoice

    It would be nice to be able to Data Mine for a Detail Line Item on an invoice rather just an account code. Example Carpet.
    Or be able to data mine for like a catalog item.

    2 votes

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  20. 'Unselect All' is needed in Clone/Replace Securities utility

    When cloning/replacing securities, an 'Unselect All' option is needed in the Budgetary Data Mining area. The default is to have every BDM report selected. Some employees have hundreds of BDM reports, and each one has to be unselected if they aren't wanted to be cloned.

    8 votes

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