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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. 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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  2. Add a Disposal Date to an Asset record for accurate depreciation calculations

    Currently, Skyward will not calculate any depreciation for the year once an assets is tagged as disposed. A disposal date needs to be added to the asset record and Skyward needs to calculate the partial depreciation in the disposal year based on that the disposal date.

    7 votes

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  3. Exclude Employees from Vendor Mass Inactivate

    Mass inactivate allows districts to clear out no longer used vendors based on inactivity. Currently this process will also inactive the vendor records setup for employee expense reimbursement. I would like to see a radio button that allows a district to include or exclude active employee records from the Vendor Mass Inactivate process.

    9 votes

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  4. Ability to adjust vendor name font size when printing checks

    We need the ability to adjust font size for the vendor name printed for both A/P and Payroll checks. Our bank has indicated that increasing the font size would make the check more friendly to machine reading for increased security. This issue was raised by our bank as they reviewed our checks for a fraud prevention program.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. Nelco is the authorized partner of compatible paper forms for the Skyward software. All W-2 and 1099 forms, checks, and school forms are guaranteed 100% compatible. Any issues with the check layout will need to be handled by Nelco as Skyward is unable to alter the format in anyway.

  5. Ability to Data Mine Employee Profile list of Attachments

    We need the ability to Data Mine the list of attachments that are on an employee's profile.

    12 votes

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  6. Give employee an error if they try to submit a time sheet before their time off is approved

    Currently an employee can submit their time sheet before their time off request has been approved. This causes the time sheet to error out when we are trying to import time sheets and we have to denie the time sheet and call the the supervisor or employee to get this fixed before we can continue with payroll.

    30 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea.

    This functionality already exists in Skyward. If an employee submits their time sheets from web, mobile, and reader when an unapproved time off request is out there for that week validation exists to prevent the user from submitting the time sheet.

    There is also validation when the time sheet is being approved to catch any unapproved time off requests at that point.

    Is the situation that the time off requests are being put in after the time sheet has been submitted/approved?

    Thank you!

  7. Position Control Groups FTE

    We would like to have an additional EM config option for the verification of FTE's available on Position Control Groups. Our current config is set up to verify new hire requests based on the Working FTE of the group, but the problem is the system looks at the Working FTE for the entire date range on the Position Control Record. This gives us fits for positions were there is overlap at some point during the year because it looks like there is an FTE available but if you try to enter a request it is blocked

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    10 votes

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  8. Add "Job Type" to ADDITIONAL CODES AND SETTINGS option for sorting, breaking down selection parameters.

    Please add "job type" to ADDITIONAL CODES AND SETTINGS, so that it can be used as a selection parameter for printing. I use this field to note temporary jobs that I don't want to print or roll.

    2 votes

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  9. Date Range for FMLA coding

    Would be helpful to have a date range option under Limited Access Processing for when we code FMLA absences.

    2 votes

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  10. True Time VIEW OPTION only

    It would be helpful to add a VIEW ONLY option in True Time.

    4 votes

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  11. Org Chart & Employee Management

    Employee Management & Org Charts

    Can you please code the Org Charts to automatically add employees in the org chart under the correct supervisor, when a change is made in their Employee Management? The current method is inefficient. What is the point of creating a Org Chart using Employee Management if it doesn't automatically add the employee under the supervisor? It is extremely tasking to have to continuously make changes when an employee changes building (supervisors).

    22 votes

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  12. Online Form Status by Employee

    Show the employee's response here instead of having to create a DM Report to pull the answer

    5 votes

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  13. Expand the Submit JE and Submit Transfer Functionality

    Expand the capabilities of the Submit Journal Entry and Submit Transfer functions to be able to add more than 20 lines to a transfer or journal entry. Also, add the ability to import large sets of data within this function.

    This would allow us to move to a digital format by attaching all backup to the journal entry or transfer and then submitting it to the final approver within Skyward. The journal entry report or transfer report, and accounting registers could then be saved electronically. This would eliminate all paper filing.

    Unlimited lines and importing is currently available in the…

    5 votes

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  14. Add Generic Date Field in Data Mining

    Add a 'Date/Date Range' field that can be added to all data mining reports regardless of the data being pulled. It would be helpful to be able to narrow down the data based on a date or date range for ALL reports. Currently you can only add a date/date range for a few, very specific, fields.

    5 votes

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  15. PSERS Demographic Address Reporting

    For the PSERS reporting--- when entering an employee into the system you add in their home address information. The address then auto-fills into the retirement- demograph tab but in address 1 but then require manual entry to Address 3. According to a service call with Skyward, this is the only option as it has to be in address 3 for the PSERs reporting. It would be helpful if Skyward could reroute from Address 1 to Address 3 automatically if that is where the information is required.

    4 votes

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    When you run the PSERS Member Demographic Record submission, the system takes the Address 1 in the profile and reports it in Address 3 in the maintain and the file. No manual edits need to be done in the Employee Profile to move the address to Address 3. The system takes care of that during processing for the Member Demographic submission.

    If assistance is required, please submit a Service Call and our State Reporting Rep will be able to assist you.

    Thank you!

  16. Would like to see the "Description" field in the requisitions be much smaller

    The "Description" field needs to be a smaller field since this is what prints on checks and in reports. With is being such a large field, staff enter many, many things in this field; they enter items that should be on the requisition lines, notes, etc. If the field were smaller I think it might deter them from writing a novel, and we wouldn't have to re-enter information in the correct fields.

    5 votes

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  17. Mass Process - Pay Records

    PAC Mass Process - Clone/Add needs the additional option to create the pay records with an hourly rate. Creating just by daily rate does nothing for payment of extra duty assignments which are paid based on the employee normal hourly rate.

    3 votes

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  18. Report transfer

    Need a utility/function that allows for the transfer of reports to a new owner. When an employee leaves they have hundreds of reports that need to be transferred to their replacement instead of having to clone each report individually. This transfer should process datamines from all areas (emplyee, budget, vendor, etc.).

    17 votes

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  19. Asset Source Expense Account search

    When manually entering an asset, Skyward does not recognize the "5" as a a shortcut for the expense type in the Source Expense Account Allocation screen. An "E" has to be entered. When doing a lot of data entry this is inefficient. Please correct.

    6 votes

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  20. Asset Key Search

    When searching for an Asset I currently need to enter all the zeros preceding the asset key. Please make it possible to enter just the actual asset key digit. Example my whole asset key is 0000000995 I have to key all the zeros rather than just 995.

    9 votes

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