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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. W4 and WT4 fillable PDFs in Employee Access

    Similar to being able to change your direct deposit, allow the ability to change your withholdings, even if it is just a fillable pdf.

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!  We have some additional information we would like to know about this -


    1. How does your district currently handle the adjusting of W4s and WT4s?

    2. Are custom forms utilized at all for this where you can link documents?

    3. How often are users changing their withholdings?

    4. Is there an approval process involved before these changes can be made on the Employee Profile?


    This idea will remain open for the Skyward Community to continue voting and commenting on.


    Thank you!


    Erik O.

  2. 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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  3. Accounting Adjustment- Pull all pay instead of strip by strip

    We would like to see the accounting adjustment process have an option to pull all pay and change the distribution. We currently have to pull each "wrong" accounting strip one by one and correct it. In the case of an employee paid by multiple projects who is also at multiple centers this can be very time consuming.

    10 votes

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  4. Purchase Requisitions

    When doing purchasing for next fiscal/school year (budget orders), would like to have the next fiscal year in the master either be an editable field after submitted or have the default be for the next fiscal year.

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  5. 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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  6. KS WebIZ import

    The opportunity to import Immunization information into Skyward from WebIZ. Currently nurses hand enter Immunization information and it takes hours, as well as provides an opportunity for error.

    This would be especially helpful for our Foster Care students as often times, they receive multiples of the same immunizations due to lack of records by the parents and foster care system.

    I know not all medical offices utilize the service but that would be on the nursing staff to pull reports to confirm if student data was imported or if they need to follow up with families. Any automation of this…

    10 votes

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  7. Overtime - TrueTime

    School custodians work weekends for building rentals. These hours normally exceed 40 hours and are paid at the overtime rate. Currently all overtime hours are charged to the rental activity account. Under the new True Time import, the overtime hours are prorated between the custodial pay code and the rental pay code as follows:
    40 hours custodial
    10 hours rental
    results is 80% of 10 hours charged to custodial and 20% to rental.
    We are suggesting an option to allow the overtime to remain charged to the rental pay code.

    10 votes

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  8. New Vendor Request - adding attachment

    When staff are requesting a new vendor there isn't an ability to "attach" a W9 to the request. Is that possible?

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  9. Changing PO account numbers

    As the PO processor I would like to be able to change account numbers as needed regardless of the PO group. In PAC I can pick whatever account number is needed for the PO no matter what PO group the requisitioner chose or is a member of. For instance I've got a librarian in my high school who orders a certain program for all of my buildings but she's only got access to the HS library accounts not the accounts for each building. In PAC I can change the accounting to charge all 4 library accounts while I'm batching the…

    10 votes

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  10. Add dates to Budgetary Data Mining

    I honestly thought that these fields were previously available in Budgetary Data Mining. If they were there they are gone now. Notice from my attachments how HR Employee Data Mining can be sorted or found by the creation or last run date. These field are not available in Budgetary Data mining and they should be. This way we can easily sort find use or delete reports based on their creation or last run dates. We have so many data mining reports now it is very difficult to find the one you want without those dates. I've tried to flag them…

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  11. Add Automated Emails to HR/Finance database

    We would really like to be able to use Automated Emails in our HR/Finance database like we do with our Student database. For example we would like to send an automated email when new hires are added and be able to filter on their employee type. It is already in place on the Student side. We are hoping it can be added to the HR/Finance side too. It will increase efficiency by automating notifications.

    10 votes

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  12. Credit Card approvals

    I know the final approval has the option to "select all" transactions for approval. Why can't the Accounts Payable person have the same option? I am clicking on 200-250 transactions. Thank you.

    10 votes

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  13. changes to time off transactions

    It would be helpful to be able to expand changes that can be made to a time off transaction after it's been approved to include all fields. Sometimes since the Time Off field defaults to a certain code, employees forget to change that, but enter the correct reason code. In order to change it to the correct code (that actually goes against their balances), the entry needs to be deleted and reentered. If I were able to simply change the time off code, that would be a lot more efficent.

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  14. Signatures on Employee Letters from signature file

    It would be really great to be able to apply an on file signature (board administrator) to an employee letter. We have specific board and administrator signatures on file for check printing and purchase orders. This would be a great feature on employee letters. With out an authorized signature on the document it really serves very little purpose to create and retain an unsigned document.

    10 votes

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  15. Utility to Mass Delete ACH Information for Inactive Employees

    In the interest of security, and minimizing impacts of a possible data breach, we would like to have a utility that will mass delete ACH information for all employees once they have been inactive for a period of time. It would be great to have the option to run the utility based on the length of time the employee has been inactive, e.g. 6 months or 1 year.

    9 votes

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  16. 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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  17. Add an inactive box on paycodes

    Could you add an inactive box on paycodes so they do not appear in other areas of the software? I have many codes in history that are no longer being used and I don't want staff to use them and I don't want to see them in other areas of the software. I would like to still be able to run a report with the option to select inactive paycodes if needed.

    9 votes

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  18. Allow us to see if an emloyee has the true time button when setting them up

    There are so many things that need to be set up before an employee can see their True Time module. Even though we can see that employees appear in a Timekeeping rule it doesn't mean they have the ability to see/use the TT button . If we could see if they have it when we are in their profile under the blue circled i like we can use check estimator it would avoid having to log in as the employee and ensuring they have the button open to them. There are too many variables that need to align and often…

    9 votes

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  19. Add column to the time-off transactions to show the day of the week.

    When adding a time-off transaction and when viewing the employee time-off transaction data, it would be nice to also see the day of the week requested. It would possibly help employees entering an incorrect date by being another reminder of the day they are entering. It would also be nice for historical purposes when reviewing patterns in time-off requests (for example, an employee who is always sick on Friday).

    9 votes

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  20. Rename Bank Codes

    We have inactive bank codes that are at the top of every list. It is irritating having these banks in the way. If we could rename the code, then they could be forced to the bottom of every list and help save time.

    9 votes

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