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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. add within data mining for True Time submission status

    Within the True Time section of data mining, be able to pull timesheet status

    2 votes

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  2. export pay stubs

    in check history have the ability to select multiple or all stubs for export/printing

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  3. Inactivate employees who are linked in payroll and accounts payable

    If an employee leaves the district and is linked to the accounts payable side for payments, we cannot inactivate them on the payroll side. When we try to inactivate them on the vendor side, an error comes up stating that this vendor has payments in the current or previous year and cannot be inactivated.

    Please allow districts to inactivate vendors that we no longer wish to use. It was stated that this is because of the 1099 process and ensuring they show up on the 1099 file each year. On the payroll side, inactivated employees show up on the W-2…

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea - for clarification, are you inactivating the pay records or setting a paid end date? This is the recommended route to ensure users are not being pulled into payroll when they are no longer active employees who also have vendor records.

  4. Employee letters and hourly rate

    When I pull in the hourly rate into employee letters for our district's yearly assignment letters, it pulls with 4 decimal points, rather than 2. I would like it to have 2 decimal points so it is consistent with salaried employees.

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  5. There needs to be a way to clone an assignment if the employee is transferring to another location. The employee has 12 add-ons and that num

    There needs to be a way to clone an assignment with the add-ons instead of manually entering the add-ons each time if the employee is transferring to another location. The employee has 12 add-ons and that number will continue to grow each year.

    2 votes

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  6. Online Form Next Tab to be renamed Completed on last Step

    Our Lump Sum Online Form did not progress to Completed because the employee did not select the tab marked Next. It did show when they were in progress status at Step 1 and Step 2. But once both Steps were chosen it reversed back to Status Not Started because the last Step requires the employee to choose the Next Tab. We would like this changed so that the Next Step Tab is not required to be completed or the Tab to be renamed "Submit"

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  7. Text Messaging Authentication

    Staff are upset about installing an authenticator app on their personal devices. Could text messaging be set up as an option?

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    At this time text messaging is not being considered for SMS due to security concerns with text message authentication and spoofing.


    We have found the Authenticator apps are the more secure way to handle MFA logins.


    Thanks!

    Erik O.

  8. Time Off Requests - Sub Needed

    When teachers enter a time off request it would be beneficial that the box for Sub Needed be automatically checked (with no option to uncheck it) and once saved would take them to Aesop to enter the sub request.

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  9. taxable sales

    I would like to propose the addition of a "Taxable Sales" button in our system to automatically calculate and post tax to the liability account. Currently, our bookkeepers have that and now that we will be migrating to Q they will have to manually back out tax and post revenues separately, which is time-consuming and prone to errors.

    Implementing this feature will streamline operations, ensure accuracy, and reduce the workload on our bookkeepers by eliminating multiple steps in the tax reporting process.

    I believe this enhancement will greatly improve our operational efficiency and accuracy. I look forward to your feedback.

    2 votes

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  10. Inactivte vendor at any time

    I used to be able to inactivate a vendor at any time, but now I get a message telling me I cannot inactivate this vendor because they have activity in the current or previous year. This changed sometime in 2022. This makes it hard to stop using bad vendors or inactivate employee vendors who leave. I have a list of vendors from 2022, 2023 & 2024 that I need to inactivate. I was told I could inactivate the one from 2022 in January 2025. That is a long time to leave them active!

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  11. check requests

    Add PO Number to Check Request so that the resulting invoice generated can be applied to an existing PO.

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  12. Background Checks

    Background Checks: Could there be a way to add an expiration on Skyward, as well as add dates to the teachers end? Teachers just see that they have one at some point in the system, whether or not it is expired they cannot see.

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  13. MFA - IP Range option

    Please add the option to exclude our district IP range from MFA requirements. This would allow staff to login without having to authenticate through MFA as long as they are onsite.

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  14. Add an auto generated email in FastTrack.

    Add an auto generated email feature to candidates that apply for similarly posted positions in FastTrack to alert them of the new similar posting.

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  15. Calendar Access to all

    I create all position calendars in the system each year for EM access. I would like for my directors, building principlas, managers to have access to thier subordinates calendars; this way they can plan trainings/PD's/etc around their staff members working days and they can better help to answer staff questions around working days.

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  16. Account Filter in Payroll Reports

    All payroll reports should have the ability to filter by account number.

    For example our auditors asked us to get them a report that showed all employees charged to ESSER (project 165). They wanted this report to show the employee, check date, check number, and at least the gross amount.

    I couldn't do this because the reports that show those things were not able to be filtered by project number. The only one I found able to be filtered by project number was the "Account Distribution" report in Historical Payroll Reports. This report did not have the option of showing…

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  17. Emergency Contact

    Having to enter an emergency contact for an employee into the skyward database is not necessary and time consuming. Could we just have a field for a name and number?

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  18. contract status

    I would like to have the field "Contract Status" from the DOE Reporting screen available as a Skyward Field for Custom Forms. We use task manager to Reappointment our PC and AC Contract teachers and it would be helpful to be able to show the field on the custom form to make sure we do not accidently issue a Reappointment for a PS Contract teacher. See attachments for more information.

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  19. excel reports need to be in a database format

    detail reports downloadable into excel need to be in a database format

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  20. Contract hrs increase if pay code is exported for different time periods. Employee changes school site but same contract, the hrs are double

    Contract hours increase if a pay code is exported for different time periods. Employee changes school site but has same contract, the hours are doubled. Can this be limited to the hours on the employee's assignment? Contract Hours Per Day By Time Contract Active Contract Pay Code
    14:00 Y PARA5
    14:00 Y SG079
    16:00 Y ADM09
    15:00 Y CMM12
    16:00 Y BS254

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