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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Add Commodity Codes to Vendors

    Add an option to assigned commodity codes to vendors to help shorten the list of codes the user has to see during requisition entry

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  2. Email Group for New Positions posted in FastTrack

    We're wanting to determine if it's possible to set up notifications for this use case. The idea is to set up a mailing group (to which people can add themselves) that receives email notifications any time a job is posted, thus preventing people from being unaware of a job offering without manually checking FastTrack.

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  3. Leave Without Pay allowing for approval without denying timesheet once switched from used to unpaid

    This is a timing issue with Leave Without Pay that is put in as used and when TRS Reporting is done the LWOP is switched to unpaid, in the mean time the employee has submitted the timesheet with used LWOP and when the approver tries to approve it will not let the approver approve because it has been switched to unpaid. The only way is for the approver to deny the timesheet and have the employee resubmit. I feel if the employee is submitting LWOP that it should allow for an approver to approve without having to deny. This takes…

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  4. WF\AM\GI\CA\RE Cash Receipt Report

    Can you offer more reports for Cash Receipts? Something like the PaC version which allows you to select the batches and not have you enter receipt numbers. The Report for cash receipts is very basic.

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  5. Add Columns to Retirement Detailed Hours

    On the employee profile, the Retirement section has a part called "Detail Hrs". This section should show all things that pull into Annual report. I would add a a column that would track what WRS benefit and another column that shows the WRS deduction and another column to show what category they were recorded in. This would help that you could quickly see where an error was made and how log it was going on.

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  6. Date Range Time Off Request for Partial Hours

    When an employee wants to enter a date range for time off requests and only is taking 2.5 hours per day, the date range feature cannot be used. It automatically assumes 8.0 hours are being taken. The employee must enter each day individually. Can the number of hours be added when choosing a date range for time off?

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  7. SBAA Outstanding Check List

    Create the same reports in SBAA for Account and Check Reconciliation as are available for the District level (Accounts Payable). Currently in SBAA the check reconciliation report will not pull in the correct data if you are trying to generate an Outstanding Check list either for a month in the past or if ANY checks have been cleared in the current month prior to running the Bank Reconciliation. This functionality is available in Accounts Payable.

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  8. Ability to edit the description line once posted.

    In auditing reports, an A/P entry may have been entered correctly with the correct account number, but the description may not have gotten changed from a prior entry and was missed when checking the entries before posting. It would be nice to be given access to just this area (the description) to be able to edit the descripton after the fact so that the entry would not have to be voided and re-entered to be fixed or to have to use a 'note' which does not show on the main screen or reports.

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  9. FMLA Tracking - Third Party TO import

    FMLA tracking is more important that ever. FMLA tracking is tied to absence reasons which is perfect. The problem is that when using the third party import, you can only link to TO code and not TO code/Reason combo. This would be desirable.

    The simple work-a-round would be to add the reason code on the edit form to add the reason on this step of the import process. This would require manual intervention, but much easier than currently we need to go to each employee and edited each day from the profile.

    We have web services configured with Frontline, which…

    4 votes

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  10. Mass Change Bank Code

    We would like to have the ability to change the bank code for batch status invoices. Each time we run our payroll, it creates over 20 invoices with specific batch numbers. I have to manually go into each invoice and change the bank code to the correct bank. If we could mass change the bank code based upon both a batch number and the invoice date(s), it would free up a lot of time in our department.

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  11. Bank Code Printing on Checks

    It would be helpful to have the Bank Code print on the check and when looking at the Check History. If someone has made an error, you don't see the bank code on the check so you have to look it up in the check history and open each check to view which bank code was used. This would help in bank reconciling and check look up/sort/search.

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  12. Track vaccinations in employee access

    We would like to track vaccinations for employees. It would be great if employees could enter type and dates along with an upload of proof (vaccination card)

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  13. Wellness Screening in Employee Access

    Allow users to see their own Wellness Screening previous entries in Employee Access.

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  14. Allow all/any field to be used in Skybuild data export.

    For example only a few of the many special programs data can not be exported. I am in need of exporting Foster Care Begin Sts and begin-End Date and it is not a selectable field

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  15. Fixed Asset Reporting

    Please also add the Format tab like you have in Human Resources with the option to "Print all Information on one line per item" This would save a lot of time on the manipulation of the Current Value report. Please also add the ability to send all Fixed asset reports and Data Mining directly to Excel

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  16. Vendor Payments Report > 1099 by SSN/EIN

    Allow us to sort the report in alphabetical order to match the 1099 report for more efficient double checking. Also, bold out the individual total amount lines for easier viewing. I understand we can send it to Excel, but it is harder to print everything we want to see on one page which means we need to format the report and when we do this the individual line item for invoice totals do not show up. Just make the original report user friendly in an efficient manner.

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  17. SBAA Check Reconciliation

    We upload our SBAA checks into our banks Positive Pay system. One problem is the vendor name for individuals is not the same as the payee name. We have to manually convert the names as shown on the check.
    Could Skyward add an additional column in SBAA check reconciliation to show the "Payee Name"? The Payee Name column is in the check reconciliation for AP and Payroll checks.

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  18. Student side talk to the AP Side

    We do lots of refunds to parents - especially this year when meals were free. It would be so much easier if you could pull up the parent name and address and add it to AP like do an employee.

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    Thank you for submitting this idea request. We have two suggestions to help assist with paying parents and guardians via AP.

    First option: If you’re looking to pay a few parents or guardians, you can navigate to Financial Management > Vendor > Add a Vendor. When using a name that is already set up on the student side as an emergency contact and guardian, the system will find that person and allow you to add them as a vendor directly from that guardian.

    Second option: If you’re looking to pay many parents or guardians, we suggest using the Vendor Import. This can be found by navigating to Financial Management > Vendor > Product Setup > Utilities. The import file has a predefined import format and is tab delimited. It is a traditional import with a preview browse and verification report.

    Once the parents or guardians are entered as vendors it…

  19. Personnel Change Request Approval Process

    Personnel Change Request Approval Process:

    1. Building Administrator submits a change request for a staff member (ex: pay, assignment, stipend, position, grade level, building, etc.)
    2. Human Resources receives change request
    3. Human Resources approves request
    4. Human Resources updates information in Employee Management
    5. Building Administrator and employee receives email notification regarding the change request with an effective date
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    Thank you for submitting this idea request.

    It looks like you’re looking to set up a new Task workflow. We suggest using Task Manager to accomplish this.

    If you need assistance with setting up a new task in Task Manager, please submit a Service Call and one of our Skyward representatives will be able to assist you with the set up.

    Thank you!

  20. Requisition Notification Option for Selected Individiuals

    I would like the ability to select certain purchase order/requisition groups to be set-up to receive notifications of when there are approvals waiting for them. This capability would be much better as an individual option instead of a district-wide option.

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