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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Provide the ability for users to elect to hide SSN when running the Accumulated Sick Leave & Vacation Report

    With this report being generated and possibly sent to employees with no need to see SSN, it would be great if could to hide SSN when running the Accumulated Sick Leave & Vacation Report. Similar functionality exists elsewhere in the software and it makes sense to add it here as well.

    1 vote

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  2. Employee Access/Ethnicity

    When allowing employees to change their Ethnicity in Employee Access, instead of Hispanic/Latino?, two separate boxes would be most beneficial. One box that states Hispanic Latino and another that states Non Hispanic/Latino

    1 vote

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  3. security in HR for entering new employee-allowing one person to enter a new employee and a email is then sent to the supervisor for approval

    security in HR/profile for entering new employees-allowing one person to enter a new employee and a email is then generated to the supervisor for approval.
    similar to the new vendor approval process in financial management

    2 votes

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  4. Payroll Change History

    Need the History button turned into an audit report. Need the ability to list all changes to payroll records just like you can list changes from the vendor side.

    6 votes

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  5. Time Sheet Adjustments Waiting My Approval

    Supervisors would like a Widget: Time Sheets Adjustments Waiting My Approval. This would allow Supervisors to see adjustments that need to be made, from their dashboard, and then click the link to go straight to making the adjustments. Right now we have to go and find the adjustments.

    3 votes

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  6. Please put the view option back on the position tab for assignments!!

    As a payroll specialist I was consistently/constantly using the Position View button to check information and to be able to answer questions for employees such as is there an add on to the pay base, what is the hourly rate, were the dates correct that were entered in Employee Management etc. The view tab was removed as it was considered an "enhancement" as it was moving all EM parts to the web but this is terrible for anyone in payroll. Please please please put it back until all of payroll is moved to the Web.

    8 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this ideas request.

    We definitely could have gotten in front of this better that these buttons were going to be taken away and we will make sure next time we decide to take any buttons away for data integrity and efficiency, we will make sure we inform our valued customers way ahead of time.

    The reason we committed to this enhancement is because Employee Management is no longer supported in PaC. The system did not handle the new salary calculation method and new scenarios correctly such as additional pay codes and add-ons, which ultimately could have shown inaccurate data for employees.

    There are many efficiencies to using the web. Example: currently if you are running payroll or running a report and want to look at assignment information in PaC you would have to back all the way out of what you were doing to go to…

  7. Download application and all the attachments in one combined manner

    Currently, when my team onboards someone, they have to pull all records out of FastTrack in order to preserve the application, cover letter, etc. by dragging it into the new hire’s OptiView file. For each
    person, I’d estimate this takes about 20 minutes which is very significant when multiplied by the sheer number of hires we have coming through. If we were able to download the application and all the attachments in one combined manner, that would save a huge amount of time over the course of a year. Is there a way that Skyward can facilitate that happening?

    7 votes

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  8. User Security Reports

    Historical Change Audit and Group Change reports need an option to select changes that were only made by a specific person. When investigating what one person did you have to work thru hundreds of pages of user failed login and additional security changes that have no value to the inquiry.

    4 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. You can track it as it rises to the top of the list.

    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  9. 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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  10. Default Description or Account code for specific vendors in purchase order

    It would be nice if we could have a default description or account code given for certain vendors in the PO process. For example, some vendors require certain information that if we automatically included, the end user would not have to enter it in each time or enter it incorrectly. Also, if a vendor is specific to an account code, then it would default to a certain code.

    2 votes

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  11. allow for sorts and filters in unapproved absences

    Please create sort options that can be saved in reports for unapproved absences. To be able to sort by date, approver etc would be very helpful and approve efficiency by not having to drop all down to excel and then sort.

    9 votes

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  12. Security Restrictions for Employee management

    Users with access to employee management have access to all employee information, even those that the user may have no responsibility for. This makes confidential employee information available to those who do not need it.

    In our organization, it is critical that this type of information availability be limited. We could do so either by way of either building restrictions or PO/Requisition Groups.

    2 votes

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  14. 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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  15. mass change for employee type

    Mass change employee types and in-activate via processing list. Rather than have to manually change 100+ terms at the end of a school year it would be helpful to select employees based on term dates that have been entered and change from active to inactive and to change the employee type to an XTCH etc.

    9 votes

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  16. Add ability to search for journal entries and cash receipts by keyword

    When I want to search for an old journal entry or cash receipts, to view or clone it, you can only search by date posted. It would be nice if you could search by keyword in the description of journal entry or cash receipt.

    15 votes

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  17. 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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  18. Insurance Tracking Calc/estimates by employment groups

    Insurance Tracking Calcs/Estimates by employment group, rather than by selecting "individuals"

    4 votes

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  19. Add Spell check

    Adding Spell check would sure help us who's fingers get ahead of their brains.

    3 votes

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  20. Select Check Column Sorting - WF\AP\CR\CR

    Sorry for the repost but, PR 4045393 did not address this issue as the screen is still not sortable. Need the ability to sort by columns that was removed in Addendum 2 (02/25/2019) restored. If there is an issue with maintaining the marks on selected checks you fix the issue instead of removing a function that brings the issue to light. We are talking about the screen "Select Checks to Apply Statement Date" where you complete the checkbox to apply the date to the selected checks.

    2 votes

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