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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. We would like to add today as a range option for the Enrollment Report under Student/Office/Reports

    We would like to add today as a range option for the Enrollment Report under Student/Office/Attendance/Reports in order to run it as a scheduled tasks. I run this report everyday and I have to change the date range.

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  2. Allow Change of Font in Check Printing in SBAA

    Our bank has recommended a change in font on our checks in order to avoid exceptions (due to the check being misread) when the check clears the bank. Would Skyward ever consider giving District's the ability to change font size and type?

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  3. Allow Time Off Requests to be entered on Time Clocks. Posted 8/26/2022

    Allow Time Off requests to be entered on Time Clocks. This would be useful for those that are not comfortable using computers or if mobile device is not available.

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  4. Inventory Receiving Approval Chain

    Have an approval chain for inventory items received to verify PO Units to Receive, PO Received Unit Cost, PO Received Total Cost agrees with Stock Received Units, Stock Received Unit Cost and Stock Total Cost and that the Stock Units per PO Unit Received are correct so there are no large quantities received in the hundreds, or thousands that are not correct and result in large cost to district by having to account for large amount of dollars not in inventory and/or having to write off.

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  5. Requesting Time Off for a Specific Fiscal Year/From that Specific Year's Allocations

    We would like to suggest that Time Off can be requested for a specified fiscal year. Example: current school year is 2022-2023 and the employee has a scheduled trip during the 2023-2024 (following) school year. We would like the employee to have the option to select the calendar year to submit their request from 'that fiscal year's time off allocations' (not the current year's allocations).

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.

    Thank you!

  6. search for specific dates and dollar amounts

    add search function to find specific dollar amounts or dates

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.  

    Can you help me understand this idea better?

    Where in the system would you like to be able to search for specific dollar amounts or dates?

    How would you expect this search to work?

    Could you help me understand the full process, and how being able to search on dollar amounts or dates will improve your day to day?

    Thank you!

  7. language

    Could we add Language in Employee Access as a field that connects to the Language field in Profile? And, also make it a field that an employee can request to change?

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.  

    Can you help me understand this idea better?  

    Where do you expect to see the Language Field in Employee Access?

    Can you help me understand the benefit of adding a Language Field to Employee Access?

    Thank you!

  8. Time Off Options

    Since I have to do the calculation manually I take the number of days worked divided by the total days available to work that month and multiply the number of leave hours to be awarded for sick leave.
    IE 10 days worked/23 days available to be worked that month = .4347826086956522 / 11 sick hours leave available for accrual for an 8 hr employee = 4.78 or rounded to 4.75 Sick Leave Hours for that month.

    • I know that is a complex calculation as we have paras that only work 7.5 hrs and only earn 10 Sick Leave Hours.

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.

    Can you help me understand this idea better? 

    How often are you doing these manual calculations? Is there periods during the school year that you need to run these calculations more often than others?

    Could you explain what would you expect the system to do differently to help with your calculations?

    Thank you!

  9. TImesheet Approvals

    It would be helpful for timesheet approvers to be able to mass approve timesheets even if they are over or under the scheduled hours. It is time consuming to have to look at each time sheet if required to approve it.

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. 

    It would be helpful for us to know what Timekeeping Rules you currently have set up at your district. There may be some adjustments you can make that would no longer require approvers to review each one that is over or under scheduled hours. 

    We suggest reviewing the options highlighted in the attached screenshot. If these options are set at your district it will prevent mass approval of timesheets. 

  10. True Time Exception Report

    On the True Time Exception Report it would be helpful to have an option for employees who are not clocking in/out for lunch. We have quite a few number of employees who are doing this and we need to correct the issue with them.

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    Thank you for submitting this product idea.

    Have you tried creating a Data Mining Report where the Total Hours worked are greater than a certain amount, but the lunch hour duration is less than a certain amount? 

    It could looks something like the attached example.

  11. Under SBAA it would be nice to be able to print a group of check detail reports individually

    Currently I can print a report under check request report. But it prints all of the checks in the range on one sheet. It would be SO HELPFUL if it gave us the option to print each check report separately rather than as a group

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.

    Thank you!

  12. TRS ED45 able to enter Multiple records in the same month

    TRS TX ED45 able to enter Multiple records in the same reporting month. For example is for subs that the ED45 records is created for each month. If an error is made and I need to delete multiple months I have to do an ED45 record for each month. Skyward only allows one ED45 record per month. I have to submit the record in the TRS portal. Then go into the ED45 change the information to the next month submit the record.

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    In Discovery  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. How often do you find you need to make multiple adjustments in a single month?

    It has been passed on to our State and Federal Compliance Department to review. 

    This idea will remain open for the Skyward Community and other TX districts to show their support. 

    Thank you!

  13. Requisition/Purchase Order comparison

    We need a report to compare the prior year's purchase order totals by group to the current year's requisition totals by by group. For example, you can see that 1st grade spent $1,200 this year and then you can see that they have requisitioned $1,300 for next year. This would greatly help to be able to compare the information for reasonableness from year to year. It would be ideal for the information to be available to the approvers in the requisition approval screen. Attached are excel versions of a report that I created

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea and the example files. 

    Have you tried using the requisition/PO listing report? This report can sequence by group and run by Fiscal Year to review comparisons. 

    Thank you.

  14. Adding a Room field within Skyward Business

    I think it would be great to have a room number field within Skyward Business. Our IAM system syncs with Skyward and it would be great to pull the room number from one central source and push out all of this to our other downstream systems.

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    Have you tried creating a Custom Form with a new Field for Room Number? You could use Skycoder from Human Resources to attach the Custom Form to Screens and collect the Room Number.

  15. Expand Pay Record Import to include Benefits/Deductions for Existing Pay plus Funding Allocation for the New Assignment

    Within Human Resources > Payroll > Assignment Export/Payroll Import (WH\PA\AE), On the export/import screen there are 2 options for importing pay records. There is an issue when exporting/importing multiple assignments with the same pay code during the same fiscal year. The first option imports the correct funding but drops most of the benefits and deductions. The second option imports the benefits and deductions assigned to the existing pay records, but prorates the funding allocations from both assignments and creates split funding. I would like to request a combination of the two:

    Import the benefits and deductions assigned to the existing…

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.

    Thank you!

  16. pseudo approval

    When looking at historical pseudo approvals , we would be nice to know if the employee requested for a set amount or a percentage. We can see that they requested a deduction amount but we can't confirm if they wanted a set amount or a percentage withheld. (checking to see if we set it up correctly) Just a letter like "P" for percentage next to the word deduction - would be helpful.

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. 

    Could you attach a screenshot of the area you are referring to in your product idea? There are several areas that fall under "pseudo approvals" and we want to make sure we fully understand your request.

    Thank you!

  17. Add School Year to Requests Waiting for Approval View

    I would like to request that a column be added to the Requests Waiting for Approval screen to show the School Year that the approval is for. The data is available on the request, but users need to drill into the details currently in order to see it. Having it on the main view screen would allow our users to be more efficient.

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Thank you!

  18. Add a TRS step field on Salary Hourly Mass Change to be able to give different amounts to different years of experience

    We are beginning to give raises based on years experience since HB3. We are giving teachers with 0-5 years experience one dollar amount and anyone 6-25 years experience a different amount. I am doing an export and import so I don't have to individually give every teacher a raise but it would be so much easier to just be able to filter this on the Salary/Hourly mass change and add the dollar amounts to the specific years of experience.

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.

    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.

    Thank you!

  19. Add Class and Course grade to the Skyward API

    Add Class and Course grade levels to the Skyward API for pickup by third party extracts such as Classlink.
    Currently the Course and Class Grade level fields are not exposed.

    Here are the fields available from the Skyward API:
    Course:
    {
    "CourseId": 59002,
    "SchoolId": "0031",
    "SchoolYear": 2022,
    "CourseKey": "5020040",
    "CourseShortDesc": "SCIENCE GRADE 3",
    "CourseLongDesc": "Science - Grade Three",
    "DepartmentCode": "",
    "SubjectCode": "AFN",
    "CourseStatus": "active",
    "IsStandards": false
    }
    Sections:
    {
    "Periods": [
    "05"
    ],
    "GradingPeriodIds": [
    "0031.2022.0.1",
    "0031.2022.0.2",
    "0031.2022.0.3",
    "0031.2022.0.4"
    ],
    "SectionId": "59002.0.30",
    "CourseId": 59002,
    "SchoolId": "0031",
    "SchoolYear": 2022,
    "SectionCode": "30",
    "DisplayName": "5020040/30 - Science - Grade Three",
    "SectionStatus": "active",
    "GradingCategoryWeightType":…

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  20. Please add a message after updating Purchase Orders

    I would like to see a message after running a Batch to Open for Purchase Orders. Something that says "You have finished Updating your Batch to Open Purchase Orders". I am often interrupted during the process and not sure I have started it. So I run it again and of course get and error at that time.

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