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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Account Clearance Groups - Add Mass Delete option for users

    Skyward currently offers a Mass Add option to add users to Account Clearance Groups. I would like to see an option to Mass Delete user option? We currently have to manually remove users one at a time.

    8 votes

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  2. Reocurring Invoices and purchse orders

    It would be nice on the reoccurring purchase orders is there was a mass update for the fiscal year. The way it is now you have to log into PAC and then you have to update each vendor separately with the new fiscal year. It is very time consuming when you have a lot of reoccurring vendors set up for payments. It would be nice on the reoccurring purchase orders is there was a mass update for the fiscal year. The way it is now you have to log into PAC and then you have to update each vendor separately…

    8 votes

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  3. Denial reason shown in email sent to originator

    If a check request is denied the denial reason is not shown in the email that is sent to the originator. This causes inefficiencies because then the person has to call the business office to find out why their check request was denied. Further confusion is caused by the fact that a Notes field is in the email that the employee receives it's just left blank. Therefore they don't think to go into Skyward to check if there is a denial reason because the field in the email is blank. It's currently confusing to people in our District because we…

    8 votes

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  4. Be able to enter state codes for certifications instead of having to start typing out.

    Be able to enter state codes for certifications instead of having to start typing out.

    8 votes

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  5. 7 votes

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  6. direct deposit email notification

    It would be nice to have the ability to schedule the direct deposit email notification for later in the day. I have to process my payroll by noon, but I don't want the email to be sent until after 5pm. Right now, it either gets sent at noon, when the check hasn't been deposited to their account yet, or it doesn't get sent at all. I know I can schedule it as a task, but that means that the email goes out first, and I don't want it to go out until the check has been deposited in their account…

    7 votes

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  7. Allow a timeframe for references to review and update responses

    It would be beneficial for Skyward's Fast Track module to allow applicant references a window of opportunity to update their responses, especially since the system has great limitations on choosing references and/or allowing HR the ability to manage the references in any way. We often receive calls from users who accidentally pressed enter and submitted the reference several questions short of completion, and currently have no solution, as once submitted, we cannot purge the reference. Quite often, if the applicant really wanted that person as reference, we have to walk the applicant through submitting another reference out to the same…

    7 votes

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  8. Clone a Check Request

    Please make it available to clone a check request that is in History. This would be helpful for reoccurring monthly bills that need to be paid.

    7 votes

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  9. allow to override sending an email to employee and approver in True Time

    We have it set up that approvers receive email notification when a timesheet, TS, has been submitted and employee receives email notification when a TS is denied.
    Sometimes Payroll has to deny sheets to make corrections such as a pay code used or deny and resubmit so it catches the time off because employee submitted before the TO pulled in.
    In these cases we make all the changes, mostly because by the time we get to them there isn't a lot of time to wait for the employee to fix, resubmit, and have them re-approved. When the email goes out…

    7 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea.

    We would like to see more support from the Skyward user community. We’d like to see user collaboration prior to considering it for development.

    Thank you!

  10. Please do not get rid of the PAC, FM, AP invoice process.

    Using the PAC is much more efficient than using the web for running the weekly check run. Each of the reports within the AP process, you are able to save them in one spot in the PAC, where as running this in the web, you have to save the reports outside of Skyward which creates issues on our end.

    7 votes

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  11. Journal Entry-Back button

    Please consider moving the location of the back button on the Submit Journal Entry Screen. It is right below the Save and Finish Later and can accidentally be selected in error. Also, a warning screen to ask you are you sure you want to go back and not save!

    7 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea.

    We are evaluating it and would like to see more support from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.

    This idea remains open for continued skyward user community comment and support.

  12. Invoice Entry Filter Button

    In the invoice entry screen when you are in the "Add Accounts" pop-up it would be very helpful to have an account filter button. This would allow you to figure out account numbers that you don't know the full string of numbers. For example you know that it is for the high school (location 400) and that it is for volleyball (162121) but you are not sure about the object then it will let you filter the things you do know and help you narrow down to the account you need. At this time I need to open a separate…

    7 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea.

    We’d love to see more support from the Skyward User Community for considering it for development.

    This idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to vote and comment on it.

    Thank you!

  13. Employee Access, Check Estimator

    It would be helpful if the Check Estimator did not include deductions that have termed /expired. There is no use in putting an end date in the profile if we have to delete it from their profile for them not to show up on the check estimator. Most times, employees have no idea what benefits they have. It's nice for us to see past codes. But we have to delete them for the employee not to see them.

    7 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We’d like to see more support from the Skyward user community.

    Please continue to vote and comment on this idea!

  14. Web Invoice Processing retention field

    Have the ability to retain an account number in the Web invoice entry. PAC would automatically pop up the last used number so if I am entering 20 food service invoices I don't have to re-type the same account number 20 times.

    7 votes

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    In Discovery  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this product idea. We are reviewing it.

    We’d like to see more support for this idea prior to considering it for development.

    This idea remains open for continued voting and user commentary.

    Thank you!

  15. Time Off Detail Summary Report - remove GROUP subtotal from report

    Districts need the ability to just see the totals by Time Off Code. Summary allows that, but it automatically add a GROUP SUB TOTAL to the report. When dropped to Excel this extra sub totals has to be removed before the report is useful. Add a option to Detail Transactions Report to REMOVE the GROUP Sub Totals from the report.

    7 votes

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  16. Submit Journal Entry restricted to 100 lines

    We would like to do electronic approvals for Journal Entries. We often have JEs with over 100 lines. Although the Journal Entry screen allows thousands of lines, the "Submit Journal Entry" screen (which allows for electronic approvals), has a cap of 100 lines.

    I'm not sure why there would be a cap of 100 lines since I can import thousands of lines to the 'regular' Journal Entry screen.

    I'd like the ability to remove this limit, or at least increase the limit.

    See attached document for error message regarding 100 line maximum.

    7 votes

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  17. Allow applicants to change their references with every new application.

    Right now applicants can only change their references after so many days ( a year I believe) but many request to be able to change them for each application they submit. I get that request often and I can see where if they are applying for different types of jobs they may want to use different references or they may have gotten a better reference since their last application. The applicant should be able to change - update references whenever they want to.

    7 votes

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  18. Limit custom reports under Employee Profile to those assigned to that employee

    Currently under Employee Profile, the Custom Forms tab shows all active forms, rather than the forms assigned to that particular employee. It is my understanding that under Skyward Student, there is a setting that when selected, only shows custom forms applicable to that person. It would be very helpful if we had the same option for Employee Profile.

    7 votes

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  19. Purchase Order Printing in the Vendor Profile Section

    It would be nice if you could print a Purchase Order right in the Vendor Profile Section instead of having to go to the Purchase Order Section.

    7 votes

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  20. I want to run a report based on the Notes section in the Employee Profile

    I add notes under the Notes button in the Employee Profile as there is nowhere else to put extra information and, within the notes, you have to choose a category. I would like to be able to run a report based on the category. Example: We put our employees 5-year, 10-year, etc. recognition in there under a category of Recognition but I can't find a way to pull a report based on the Recognition category so I can see who has been recognized in the past and should be again in the future. I also put in a category for…

    7 votes

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