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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Allow Users to Attach Documents to Return Request

    Users should be able to attach documents and pictures to their return requests so that they can take a picture of a damaged item and include it as backup on the return request. Add an Attach button to this screen and allow users to upload documents and pictures.

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  2. Adding Subject Profile Building Location

    Currently we have a group of Assignee's for Finance PayRoll and Benefits where any one two or more people can address the Task but they would know according to the entity they are assigned to. We have over 48+ entities and each person is assigned to a school. This would keep me from having to create 30+ organization charts for each type of form to achieve my goal. If they can see the entity then the person assigned to the school could open and then close the Task. The expected out come would be to include the entity location. TO…

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  3. Adding cascading groups to time off limited access

    We need the ability to set up cascading groups for time off limited access for rated leave. So a Secretary adds a sick transaction to someone that is an administrator the system would pull from admin rated cap and last sick. Clerk would enter a sick transaction and the system would pull from the correct cascading group based on the rules from cascading rule.

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  4. Add comparative columns for amended budget

    When I do an amended budget I am limited on comparative columns (customize column 1 and 2) that would be meaningful (see attached Word doc). I am only able to select data from the prior two years. For an amended budget the current year activity and budget would be much more meaningful and should be added as an option for an amended budget. The negative impact of not making the change is the frustration that the budget entry isn't meaningful for an amended budget. Without the fix it is necessary to print reports to compare manually or dump reports into…

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  5. Add an information line to CCd Time Off requests

    Employees requesting time off can choose to notify other employees of that request and the result is that the selected employees are CCd on the full email chain of that request often with subject lines like New Time Off Request for Your Approval. When they read the body they can see that they are not actually an approver but employees get confused about why they are receiving these notifications. I would like to help eliminate some of this confusing by adding a one line information sentence to the start of these emails when employees are CCd. For employees receiving carbon…

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  6. Account Code Attached to Rate Code

    Be able to attach account codes to a Rate Code in subtracking rather than having to manually change each account code for a specific rate code. That way the correct account code will post automatically when using a particular rate code with no manual change necessary. This would save our district hours each month in manual changes.

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  7. Identify Tier 2 TRS like IMRF

    We need to have a check box to identify Tier 2 plan in TRS just like there is one for IMRF. We also need a an additional box to put in the wage limit because it changes every year. Currently we have 3 TRS employees that are tier2 over the wage limit and it caused problems in reporting.

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  8. SBAA - PCARD system

    We have SBAA and would like to push out PCARDS to staff. This option is NOT currently available. To allow advisers to have pcards for student based activity accounting.

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  9. Requisition Batch Number Message

    I would like at add a Requisition Entry Option to not display the message The batch number on the requisition being cloned does not meet the district specification set in the configuration. The batch number has been set to today's date. Our specification is that the batch be today's date. The system automatically sets this and the person entering the requisition does not need to know they did not create the new requisition on the same day as the last PO. This message creates confusion and the user stops entering the requisition because the believe they have done something wrong.

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  10. Breakdown of paycodes

    The change that I would like to have occur is during the payroll process when pulling hourly data from True Time into payroll. Instead of hours being lumped together with one total I would like to see the breakdown of all pay codes listed individually with hours associated with those codes without having to log into Employee Access to see the breakdown. For example if an employee worked 160 hours for the month and there was a holiday granted and paid time off the totals would look like: hourly 144hrs holiday 8hrs vacation 8hrs. I currently am manually entering data…

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  11. Request the ability to Reset an Online Assignment

    Currently a teacher can allow a student to Resume an On-line Assignment to finish an assignment they started. However if the teacher would like them to retake the assignment Resume leaves all the previous answers in place so the student just needs to correct the wrong answers rather than answer all the questions again. In order to allow the student to truly retake the on-line assignment it has to be cloned and then set to excused for all other students. This clutters the gradebook over the term of the course. We would like to see a Reset button added in…

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  12. Report to verify Wisconsin Retirement Hours

    To be able to verify per payroll; WRS hours WRS earnings WRS deduction & WRS benefit. The negative impact was the $16000+ we had to pay in back earnings interest & penalties for not deducting WRS on various employees with multiple pay codes plus our time finding those numbers and submitting them to WRS every 6 months for the last 8 years. A report would have been helpful to catch that error years ago and a report would have helped to find the prior year's data vs looking at every single check for every single employee affected. See attachment -…

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  13. Read Receipts for Message Center

    The ability to be able to see read receipts for messages that have been sent out in Educator access plus and under Student Management. This would assist staff in knowing what parents and/or students are reading their messages. This would also assist in documentation when dealing with issues with a student. Implement anywhere emails are sent out. Educator Access Plus under message center and emailing of progress reports. Also under the Student management message center. reporting would be helpful as well. By student by specific message by user ect...

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  14. Paying an employee without a contract

    Would there be a way to have an exception show up when you are paying an employee without a contract? For instance having a teacher contract. The teacher has termed but the factor is not taken out so they are pulled into payroll. Paid an employee 4 extra times before she said anything. I removed it from payroll but forgot to take out the factor. This would help with that problem. Expected outcome would be that the employee with the exception should/would not get a paycheck. Being able to choose the type of contract would be helpful. CSC CSC10 C12…

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  15. ORS option default from PP2 to DC

    It would be nice if skyward could come up with something to help convert people when they choose DC after having to be set up as pension plus 2 like how to change all the deductions from one plan to another the adjustments that have to be entered on ORS etc

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  16. Option to perform rollback prior to incrementing

    Rollback/move of balance overage is based on the years of service at the time of rollback/move. As currently configured employee is allowed to roll/move balances based on a higher experience value because years are incremented for an anniversary which may not occur for 8 months after the year-end process is performed. Employee rollback and move rules should be checked prior to incrementing years of service.

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  17. Need 3rd Party Vendor Added

    I am not sure my original sent (I didn't get a copy so I am sending one more time). We need to have a 3rd Pary Vendor Added. Our Retirement Company RHI (Charls Schwab) has a biweekly required file we needs to creat every payroll. We need an excel file from each payroll with the following in each column in this order A) SSN B) First C) Mid Initial D) Last E) Address 1 F) Address 2 G) City H) State I) Zip J) DOB K) Hire Date L) The amount deducted for R403P M) The amount deducted for RREPY…

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  18. Mass assign the missing without the zero

    When mass entering scores in EA+/Gradebook if left blank can missing be mass added? Right now it will mass add a zero and missing. We want to get rid of the zero being mass added.

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  19. Link Employee Absences into Outlook Calendar

    Our District is interested in having the ability to incorporate the employee absences approved in EA to an Outlook Calendar. This would allow the Supervisors to import the approved absences into their Outlook calendar rather than re-typing the information in on a person by person basis. This would be extremely helpful to those in the Administrative Offices. It would be nice if the option was there to sync the Employee Time Off Calendars in EA with Calendars in Outlook. If there could be a box that could be checked to allow the user the option of syncing or not as…

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  20. Language Spoken at Home

    Wondering if the language spoken at home can be added to the Profile screen teachers see in addition to the home/native language. Many of our teachers require this information when scheduling conferences and/or meetings that require a translator.

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