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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Credit Card vendor match

    Yesterday when doing the vendor match a few of the vendors looked very familiar but they weren't available when I looked further the vendors were inactive. Could inactive vendors at least show up to let you know that they are in the system? If I wouldn't have been here so long those names wouldn't have been familiar and may have added a new vendor.

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  2. budget attachments lilnked to actual account

    Would it be possible to have the attachment be linked to the actual account? I would like to attach an Excel file to a specific account which would tie back to the budget. Currently the attachment is link to the description on the Budget Entry screen. As part of this the attachment would also have to available in the Account Profile Budget tab.

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  3. Add TERM DATE field to Extra Information

    The additional field option allows the user to create a quick view of employee's status without digging into the Employee Profile menus.The additional field option allows the user to create a quick view of employee's status without digging into the Employee Profile menus.

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

    This is the platform for Skyward users to show support for ideas they like. It’s also the perfect place to share your thoughts and start a conversation about the idea.

    If you like this idea, and you want it considered for development, then we need to see your support!

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    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  4. Add Mass Change Assignment Breakdown utility to SN

    Employee Management has a utility Mass Change Assignment Breakdown Fields but it is missing from the Salary Negotiations utility menu. It would be very helpful to add this utility here since we rely on SN for the KS Licensed Personnel Report.

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

    This is the platform for Skyward users to show support for ideas they like. It’s also the perfect place to share your thoughts and start a conversation about the idea.

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    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  5. ACA employee selection parameters

    When adding an employee to the ACA workfile I would like to have the ability to select multiple employees similar to other selection parameters in the software. This would save a lot of time if I have a list of specific employees to add. Time is money $.

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    Thank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We suggest you try this instead:

    During webinars our State and Federal Reporting Department recommend using an import process in this same Method to select employees quickly. You can do this using the 1095 tracker and exporting the browse of employees with an employee identifier at the time of running the report. You can run the 1095 tracker with an employee identifier of (employee id for example) and then export that browse to excel, save it and import it during year end using method 3.

    Thank you!

  6. Absence Count for Substitute Tracking

    In our Substitute Handbook we give a substitute a $10.00 bump up in pay after they sub (in any capacity) 30 days. Substitutes will receive an increase of $10 to their daily rate ($5 for half day rate) after completing 30 substitute assignments in the school year. (Long term assignments are not eligible for this rate increase.) Skyward can track per sub type ie teacher sub para sub secretary sub etc. Our language states any day subbed counts in the 30 day count. This causes us to dump the Sub days from Aesop into an Excel spreadsheet and then calculate…

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  7. Allow Export of Employee Data

    Allow export of employee data that can be scheduled similar to how skybuild works in student mgmt. allow export to a CSV file that will allow the file to retain any leading zeros in the ssn or other codes. data mining does not accomplish this as it will only export to excel, and it changes the formatting.

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  8. SBAA-Ability to mark Purchase Requisitions as Pending

    It would be great to have the same capability in SBAA to mark purchase requisitions as Pending.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

    This is the platform for Skyward users to show support for ideas they like. It’s also the perfect place to share your thoughts and start a conversation about the idea.

    If you like this idea, and you want it considered for development, then we need to see your support!

    If you like this idea, please vote and comment. You can track it as it rises to the top of the list.

    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  9. Check Request Approval

    Immediately see account code & overage alert for check request on the bottom of screen like we currently do for POs. Also make check request approval available in mobile app in same area as POs.

    2 votes

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  10. Add the ability to default the state and Highly Qualified in the Certification area.

    Add the ability to default the state and Highly Qualified in the Certification area.

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  11. DEPENDENT REPORT ENHANCEMENT REQUEST

    Elimination of dependent data for employees who are no longer active in insurance tracking. I have employees who have left employment do not have an active insurance tracking record and they and their dependents still appear on the dependent report.
    No need for them to continue appearing on the report.

    2 votes

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  12. employee browse - add retirement fields

    Can you add a couple of fields to the employee browse for retirement
    Employment type - so I can filter on active and occasional active
    job category
    begin date

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  13. Inactivate Payors in Accounts Receivable

    We need the ability to inactivate payors in accounts receivable.
    To clean up the list of payors.

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

    This is the platform for Skyward users to show support for ideas they like. It’s also the perfect place to share your thoughts and start a conversation about the idea.

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    If you like this idea, please vote and comment. You can track it as it rises to the top of the list.

    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  14. User Backup Options

    In other systems (like ASCENDER) when you run "major" processes the system will prompt the user to create and download a backup. If a user made a mistake or the system did not perform a process as intended the user could import the backup through a system utility and it would only revert that specific user's data. The user could then re-attempt the process. Currently, if a backup is needed it reverts all users data back to a specific point and time. Because our organization is so massive and there's lots of daily data entry/processes run, we could not expect…

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  15. Employee Access / Address / Request Changes

    Could there be an option to select which addresses employees would like to change when an Address Request Change is entered? Possibly check boxes beside all available Addresses for them to select the ones to update upon approval? Thanks!

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  16. Would love the ability to mass add add-ons by individual names as an option to choosing, for us, generic parameters.

    We use the mass add of add-ons utility every year. It's quite cumbersome to get a preview and have to go and delete every record off the preview that should not receive the particular add-on. It would be nice to have the option to choose specific names to receive the add-on.

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  17. Add a place on the Standard Report card to add a name instead of all the same "Standard Report Card" with the date they were posted.

    Add a place on the Standard Report card to add a name instead of all the same "Standard Report Card" with the date they were posted. Example 2025 1st 6 weeks report card.

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea! This seems to be aimed at the Student Management Suite and not the Business Suite. I would suggest re-posting the idea to the Student Suite Portal for our product owners to review.


    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  18. AP attached to Payroll Check

    Currently if you have an employee who is being reimbursed for anything it goes through AP, to post through payroll it would need to do a negative reimbursement. You lose history and there is no place to enter what that reimbursement is. In SMART you are able to attach and AP reimbursement to a paycheck. I know in my past job I had a lot of reimbursement's and they were added to my paycheck as well.

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  19. Time Off Requests - No more than 1 day per request

    We use calendars on employee profiles and would like the option to turn off the Time Off Date Range so employees could not ask for more than one day per request.

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea! This is actually already a feature - the option you are looking for is located through Web Product Setup > Employee Access > Configurations > Time Off Setup.


    Under the Request options tab there is a checkbox option "Prevent Employees from requesting more than one day off with a single Time Off transaction" which you will just want to make sure is checked.

  20. 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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