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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. On screens where I have to Select a Payroll (like 3rd Party Retirement Plan), please add a Select All button.

    On screens where I have to Select a Payroll (like 3rd Party Retirement Plan), please add a Select All button.

    4 votes

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  2. Total on Screen

    It would be helpful if when we are on the chart of accounts or any screen with rows of data that we would get totals for the rows viewed on the screen. For example, if I filtered salaries on chart of accounts, I would have a total for the budget, debits, credit, remaining budget. these figures would pertain to the rows/accounts I would view on the screen based upon my filters.

    2 votes

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  3. Filter on all screens

    It would be very helpful if you are on any screen (i.e. - chart of account) where you can right-click and filter out certain information. For example, If I am looking at chart of accounts and filter on salary accounts, but I want to exclude overtime in my view. I would be able to right-click and either exclude every account that has the word "overtime" or exclude the object code for overtime. Instead of download the chart of account to excel and doing this filter through excel.

    4 votes

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  4. Credit Card: Allow access to view "Quick Key" & "Account Description" on Review/Submit Transaction and Approve Transaction screen

    It would be very helpful to all the "Quick Key" & "Account Description" columns to be an option on the Review/Submit transactions and Approve Transactions screen. This would be very similar to the option given for "Account 2" in the approve transactions screen.

    1 vote

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  5. Credit Card: Select All Approval button only selects the transactions being viewed

    We have filters set up for each cardholder on the approval screen. It would be helpful if the "Select All" button only allowed to select all the transactions the approver views on the screen.

    1 vote

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  6. Move columns are in all screens.

    It would be very helpful to be able to reorganize columns in all screens in order to get the information your district is looking for in order of importance to us. Another system I used was able to drag the columns around.

    2 votes

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  7. Credit Card: Allow a download to pdf of backup documentation for multiple transactions.

    When the auditors request a specific employee's credit card statement for a specific month (i.e. June) it would be very helpful to be able to select that cardholder and download all the documents that were upload for a certain date range. Currently, you have to download one document at a time. If that statement has a lot of transactions it will be very time-consuming.

    2 votes

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  8. Employee Locator - Limit viewing to ORG Chart structure

    Employee Locator - Limit viewing to ORG Chart structure

    Employee locator is a great feature under employee access. It is currently an OFF/ON feature. We do have it turned ON. However, aides and teachers can currently see Superintendent, Principals, and the personal time off and reasons listed for every employee in Skyward. This is information that we feel everyone should not be able to see. Having viewing access limited based upon the ORG Chart would be a great addition to Employee Locator in Skyward. I recently found out that Skyward employees already have something similar to this hard-coded into your…

    4 votes

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  9. Add option to add charter school employees to all formats for State Reporting

    In the State reporting maintain area there is an option to Add Charter Demographic Info but not to any of the other formats. It would be so helpful to be able to add charter school staff in all of the formats and be able to clone them year to year with the ability to edit and update fields. I find it hard at the moment to only add charter staff demographic information if we have to manually create files for all the other formats since they are not on our payroll.

    1 vote

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  10. Time Off Request in Excess of Hours Scheduled

    Is there a way or could you implement a way for employees to not be able to request time off when they have already worked their scheduled hours? For instance: Jane is schedule to work 40 hours per week. She leave 2 hours early on Tuesday, but ends up working an additional 2 hours through out the course of the week. Therefore she did not need to enter a time off request. Since she has entered one and it was approved she will now earn 3 hours of comp time.

    3 votes

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  11. Crosswalks for Form 9 for Indiana

    It would be helpful if we could view only accounts without crosswalks when we are working on the Indiana Form 9. It takes such a long time to go through every account in PaC and each year the list gets bigger and bigger. If inactive accounts didn't show up (unless there was activity within a 6 month period), that would lessen the amount of accounts we have to go through each time.

    1 vote

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  12. Ability to Import Budget Descriptions

    We would like the ability to import a file for account descriptions if you forgot to check the box to carry forward the descriptions for your yearly rollover.

    1 vote

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  13. Cash Receipts Need to Show Bank Code

    It would be helpful to have the Bank Code print on the Cash Receipts. Especially when you are reconciling your bank statement, verifying daily deposits, or when the SBOA auditors are reviewing your receipts.

    1 vote

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  14. Choose a date span for Summary Reports

    Currently we can only choose a date span when running a data mining report if it is a Detailed Report. We need to be able to run a Summary Report by date span too.

    10 votes

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  15. Don't allow payroll to be posted to a prior date

    Currently payroll can post anything (PR, Corrections, Quick Voids, Etc.) to ANY date. Even if it is in a prior 6 month period. This really messes up our IN Form 9, our reimbursement requests, etc.. Instead of allowing them to just proceed through with a small warning, we should be able to set up an override by an administrator only if they want to post anything to a prior date.

    1 vote

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  16. Add a warning flag to requisitions that do not have an attachment and to the approver

    We would like a warning flag to pop up when an employee submits a requisition and does not have an attachment(quote/invoice). We would like another warning for the approver if they approve a requisition without an attachment (quote/invoice). Our staff are to attach the quote/invoice and our admin are supposed to look at the quote/invoice, but that doesn't always happen. Thank you!

    20 votes

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  17. Allow Journal Entries to link to vendor profiles

    Create a tab under the vendor profile that will allow journal entries to be linked to specific vendors. This would greatly simplify being able to look at edits that were made after posting and help communication

    5 votes

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  18. Is there a way to mark a position/assignment in EM as the primary assignment? Pulls in coach job not teacher job when I want primary job onl

    Is there a way to mark a position/assignment in EM as the primary assignment, like you can mark a pay record as primary? When I run Data Mining reports data being pulled in is all their assignments (coaching, extra duty) and not just the primary (teacher) when I want primary job only. I have to always pull in multiple assignments and then edit the excel document so I only have their primary assignment and not all the extras. I do not want to create multiple plans, I like to view all of an employee's assignments for a year at once.…

    11 votes

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  19. Print PO's with signature from PU/VO

    It takes far too many clicks to print a signature on just one PO. Right now the only way to do it without needing a signature password is to try from Mass Print PO's. If it has been approved there should be a way that when your print your purchase orders from View My Purchase Orders (PU/VO) that it shows the signature on them

    3 votes

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  20. Add the Developmental Kindergarten field to Skybuild

    Add the Developmental Kindergarten field to Skybuild. It is required for Michigan districts to report this to the State via KReady.org.

    1 vote

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