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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Check for duplicate Employee Expense Reimbursement requests

    Would like to be able to check for duplicate payment history of expense reimbursements within the expense reimbursement itself instead of having to perform a lookup in the vendor area.

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  2. Fix the programming so we can get 1/1-6/30 retirement hours to be reported

    When running a retirement report in data mining the 1/1-6/30 hours are not populating. The monies for that time frame come in and the calendar hours come in but not the 1st half of the year hours.
    I worked with a tech 2 years ago and he realized the problem and was going to write up a report for programming but after that and 3 other requests it still has not been fixed. This is essential when doing the annual retirement reporting.
    I don't think this should be an RFE but it should be addressed by programming. It would be…

    5 votes

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  3. Employee Letter/Task Mgr - Add digital signature & template to be able to add one by one without creating new every time

    We want to be able to create an agreement for our coaches/advisors that allow us to pull data from Employee Management into an Employee Letter that the coach would digitally sign. We would then embed the letter into a Task Manager process that allows us to have a building admin or secretary initiate a request in Task Manager, that first goes to HR for review/approval, then HR generates the employee letter that is e-mailed to the coach in the next step. Once the coach digitally signs and completes their step, the form comes back to HR/Payroll for processing. Right now,…

    5 votes

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  4. Auto -generated e-mail to teacher when student punches the tardy kiosk.

    Auto-generated e-mail to teacher when student punches the tardy kiosk. This would let the teacher know that the student was coming and the teacher could notify the office if the student did not arrive. This would eliminate students punching the kiosk and then not going to class.

    5 votes

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  5. Control Check Number Printing Order

    Please add the option to print checks in reverse number order during the payroll process. Some of our printers don't print in the same order that our checks are shipped. During large paper check runs the stack of checks have to be manually re-sorted.
    A single option to print in the normal 1-10 order or in the reverse 10-1 order. This is a common feature in most bookkeeping software that I've used including my own personal finance software at home.

    5 votes

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  6. Browse option on Card User's screen

    As a credit card user they don't have the "Description or Account number" available in the browse (as the approvers do). These 2 fields are imperative to have for some of our end users (secretaries that are responsible for reconciling several cards and various accounts numbers are being used). By having these 2 fields they could dump to excel which will help them extensively to be able to sort by account number or description to assign the correct account number (example if it's all "musical supplies" she knows all of them will have the same account number etc...). Now she…

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  7. Mass Clone AP Invoice Does Not Clone Check Type

    When doing a mass clone of an accounts payable invoice the check type comes through as Regular. The invoice entered that is being cloned is ACH. All invoices are payments to employees that are all set up on ACH. We would like the check type to populate correctly with ACH as a true clone of the original invoice rather than needing to edit each invoice. Thank you.

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  8. Create a widget for supervisors to see who has not submitted their timesheets.

    It would be nice to have a dashboard widget for supervisors to see which of their employees under them in the org chart has not submitted their timesheet. Currently they would have to take several steps to see who hasn't submitted but there are supervisors that don't want to get into the weeds and take those extra steps. At this this time it takes me (payroll) telling them who has not submitted.

    4 votes

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  9. Ed FI - send data for “individual students” and/or for a “processing list” of students

    In the old XML days, we had the ability to extract data for “individual students” and for a “processing list” of students. Clearly you all had previously recognized the need for us to have this option.

    In our current Ed Fi world, we do not have these options. We can limit the sending of data based on "entity" or based on certain Ed Fi tables. But as we get closer to the end of a submission or collection, it is SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT and allows us MORE CONTROL or PRECISION, if we can only send the data we want…

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  10. Update Daily Register Template to Allow for Current Date Logic

    Update the Daily Register processing template with "Today - XX Days" logic as in many of the report templates, and apply this as a 'cut-off' date for building attendance records.

    Rationale: Skyward does not recommend building future attendance records, which requires LEAs to specify a cutoff date within the current term so that the Daily Register stops processing records after that date and does not build future attendance records. EdFi best practices are to run a scheduled task to update records every night.

    Concern: The only method currently available to an LEA to meet both best practices is to update…

    4 votes

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  11. True Time Submission Exception Reasons

    We are wanting to utilize the exception reasons for when Employees submit their timesheet with less or extra scheduled hours. However, we have noticed that when we create the reasons, then it takes away the note field that allows them to type their own comment when they submit. We were hoping to have an option that is "Other-leave comment" as it would be hard to capture everything that could happen as an individual reason. Is there a way to have both?

    4 votes

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  12. Utility to remove Old WIP status Expense Reimbursement requests

    Clean up utility to remove WIP status expense reimbursement requests for former employees or for prior years. When you use the "Print WIP Report" you have a list of outstanding requests from all years and termed employees.
    To remove these request you need to make the employee active again and add them to the org chart. Then login as the employee to remove the request, remove them from the org chart, make account inactive again.

    4 votes

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  13. Would like to be able to MASS allocate SNOW DAY hours for all hourly employees for their contracted day by employee type.

    would like for an option in the calendar that allows the creation of hours added to a timesheet for a snow day similarly to the holiday hours.

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  14. Create a utility to mass change accounts in the chart of accounts. For example, one could mass inactivate accounts that hadn't been used i

    Create a utility to mass change accounts in the chart of accounts. For example, one could mass inactivate accounts that hadn't been used in years.

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  15. FastTrack Applicant Reference Update

    Would like an update for applicants to be able to change their references. The 1 year configuration in position set up is not working. We have applicants that originally applied for Aide positions 3-4 years ago that now have teacher certifications. They would like to update reference for their teaching experience. Even after purging the application the references still came back after their social was reentered. The old references are not valid for the position currently applying for. Please consider adding an update for applicants to change their references.

    4 votes

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  16. Emergency Contact Information upload & manipulation of fields

    Before "Emergency Contacts" was an option in Web H/R, we developed a "Custom Form" that H/R entered the information on the employee.....Years later the "Emergency Contact" was released, we've been utilizing that. Our H/R dept is manually entering information into the "Emergency Contact? We asked Skyward if there was an upload (and there is not). We also asked if we could "downsize/manipulate" all the various fields in the "Emergency Contact" area, since we don't need to know where the contact works etc... (we're trying to make this as easy on our employees as possible). After our data is entered, H/R…

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  17. Add Employment Type "Temporary" to FastTrack

    Add Employment Type "Temporary" to FastTrack since this is different from permanent Part-Time/Full-Time positions. Temporary is also not the same as on-call and needs to be added.

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  18. Vendor - Receiving records

    Would like the ability to see receiving on a PO from the vendor profile.

    4 votes

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  19. Allow account merge for a specific prior fiscal year #TSUG

    We would like to have the capability to do an account merge for a specific prior fiscal year. #TSUG

    4 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!

    1. Could you expand more upon the use case for this requested change?

    a. What would be an instance where you only want to merge a specific prior fiscal year?

    2. Where would you expect to select the fiscal year? Would a single account be merged at a time or multiple?

    This idea will remain open for the Skyward Community to continue voting on and sharing their thoughts.

    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  20. Add Commodity Code as Budgetary Data Mining field.

    Add COMMODITY CODE field to Budgetary Data Mining.

    More and more districts are using Commodity Codes but there is only 1 report that includes Commodity Codes but it does not include account distribution information.

    Add Commodity Code so that users can include on their BDM reports.

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