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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. How to change cash account to be an ACH origin

    We are in the process of centralizing activity funds and have set up a new bank account to process and pay purchase orders called Activity Funds. I attempted to ACH pay a vendor in AP and received the message The selected cash Account is not set up to be an ACH origin bank. Message attached. How do we change this cash account to be an ACH origin bank?

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  16. Expected Levels of Performance

    After a recent update the expected level of performance moved to having ELP sets. Each teacher needs to set up their own sets for each class. However many teachers in my district are setting their ELP sets to the exact same settings. This seems redundant to me. It would be nice if there were a way to create ELP sets at an Entity level for each grading scale that are then available to all teachers for use in all classes using that grading scale. From there the Entity could then have the power to decide whether teachers are able to…

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  17. ER 27 for Retirees based on calendar month not pay period

    System is creating an ER27 adjusting the days and hours worked based on sub tracking (which is pay period) when retirees have to be reported by calendar month. We are submitting ER20's every month with the correct hours and days for the calendar month and the next month an ER 27 is adjusting it and it shouldn't be. We are deleting the ER27 prior to submitting them.

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  18. ELP and Family Access

    When parents login to Family Access and look at the Grade Marks screen the red yellow green color coding we have set up in Expected Levels of Performance does not appear. For parents to be able to see the color coding they have to click on the book icon for the grading period and then click show all events. We would like for our parents to not have to go through so many steps. Also I have been informed the color coding does not show up on the mobile app at all. We have been encouraging teachers to use ELP…

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  19. Data Retention on Add

    After updating with addendum 3 and 4 the data retention on add is not working when it previously did. On invoice input the fiscal year will not stay what was previously entered. Data retention on add to function again.

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  20. Correct Reimbursement Report Totals

    The goal of this enhancement is to accurately show the reimbursement total in the various fields within the Expense Reimbursement process and on the printed report. Currently the totals include the Direct Bill Amounts which is not made clear to the users/approvers. We would like to see a grand total for all expenses incurred by the employee less the Direct Bill items and then a final balance for the actual Reimbursement amount. It appears that Skyward is already capturing the reimbursement amounts separately in the activity screens but not clearly reporting them throughout the process.

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