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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Clone Substitute as part of Time Off Trans Clone

    It would be great to have the option of cloning the Substitute as part of the Time Off transaction clone process. I most often use the clone process for FMLA or long-term situations and many times the substitute is the same for the whole period. As it is right now I can clone the time off but then have to edit each transaction any way to update the sub field. Although it would add a step it would be great if a preview screen would pop up showing the dates time off type reason and sub for the days you…

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

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    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  2. Clone Reimbursement Expense Codes

    The ability to clone reimbursement expense codes so we do not have to keep updating account codes that were used in the previous years mileage.

    3 votes

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    Ashley Prinsen
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  3. I'd like the Expense Reimbursement Org Chart to show in Employee Profile>Org Cart.

    Right now the only org chart that shows on the employee profile is the time off org chart. We don't use time off in Skyward. It would be more helpful for us if there was a choice on which org charts show on the profile.

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    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.


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  4. It would be nice to have the option of lockbox under the address tab in vendor profile.

    It would be nice to have the option of lockbox under the address tab in vendor profile.

    2 votes

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  5. Add Position Control information to data mining fields

    Because Position Control information could differ from the Assignment information, we would like to be able to add Position Control fields to either data mining, or run some type of other reporting option, to be able to review and compare the data fields between Position Control and Assignment.

    We would need to be able to run this report for both Employee Management and for Salary Negotiations, including vacancies.

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    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.  


    Can you help me understand this idea better?  


    Which specific fields from Position Control would you expect to pull in Data Mining?


    Are there differences in the fields you would expect depending on whether you come from Employee Management or from Salary Negotiations? 


     Thank you!

  6. Last Date Modified on Picture Import Utilities

    Update the picture import utilities for both Student and Employee to look at the last date modified on the picture file and give the option to only import pictures that have been modified in the last “X” number of days. As part of the integration with IDImage we schedule this importer to run multiple times a day and every time it runs it reimports all pictures. We only need it to import pictures that have been recently updated.

    2 votes

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  7. View Time off for same department employees and supervisors

    Supervisor wants everyone in the department to be able to see time off for everyone in the department at any level, but not to be able to see how they are using their time off. Another words, he want employees to be able to see the name of the other employees taking off, but not if they were NCD, sick, etc. This would be a great help to the department, because employees never know when supervisors are going to be off.

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    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.


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  8. SBAA - Create Export to Positive Pay feature in SBAA for checks similiar to that in Financial

    SBAA - Create Export to Positive Pay feature in SBAA for checks similiar to that in Financial

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  9. Please add ability to mass change position amount in Position Assignments Mass Change Utility.

    We use an amount on our stipend positions because they are the same for everyone that gets that stipend. This year we raised the amounts for some stipends. I had to manually edit each position for each campus in order to update the amount on the position because on the position-mass change utility, there is no place to update the amount. I would like a field to be added to the position -mass change utility that will update the amount on positions selected.

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  10. Pull primary staff type from Skybuild

    It is not possible for us to pull primary staff type using skybuild. Please add this.

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  11. Pulling Reports on Historical Data when an Employee has changed Employee Type

    I would like to see some enhancements on historical payroll data reports.
    I want to pull a report showing the total payroll amounts by Employee Type and pay code type. HOWEVER, I want the report to show those that were in that employee type during the time frame of the payrolls.
    For example, in 2020-21, Susie Smith was a paraprofessional. In 2021-2022, she became a teacher. I want to be able to pull a report for 2020-21 showing employees that were paras at the time. Right now, the system only pulls current employee types. So if I need to pull…

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  12. Moving Bank Rec Notes to Page 1

    Move the Bank Reconciliation Notes from last page to first page. I don't know about anyone else but our district uses the Notes to explain manual adjustments.

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  13. Add edit option in WEB to allow User Defined Tables for Miscellaneous HR Information fields to be edited. Currently only editable in PAC

    Add edit option in WEB to allow User Defined Tables for Miscellaneous HR Information fields to be edited. Currently only editable in PAC

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  14. FastTrack Email Notifications for Custom Status Codes

    I would like to request a product enhancement that would allow us to send email notifications from Skyward to district staff when certain custom status codes are used in FastTrack – this is different than the screener, payroll, and HR notifications, but a custom option in the same area of setup - Message Center -> Configuration. An example of this would be a status code that is set up for salary review by a specific executive prior to proceeding with making an offer. This would help greatly with efficiency as these custom codes are generally used by executive leaders in…

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  15. Invoice Entry Enter through all sections

    When going through the data entry in the invoice add screen on web, you can hit "Enter" to go to the next option EXCEPT the "Status" option. Then if you want to continue keying, you have to switch to TAB to the next option. I would just like to continue to "Enter" through all the options for ease of use using the numberpad.

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  16. Sick leave bank check box in Employee Access

    Add the option to display the sick leave bank check box in Employee Access

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    Thank you for submitting this idea request. We have a clarifying question before we can proceed reviewing it:

    We need to better understand what you want the checkbox to do. Do you this checkbox to pull from the sick bank profile with the HR side? Or, do you want to donate time to the sick bank?

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  17. GTL - Hourly Employees - Need UPLOAD CAPABILITY

    GTL - Hourly Employees (w/o Contracts), need Upload Capability for GTL, not manually updating one-by-one.

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  18. Life Long Counter - Sub Tracking

    Our district would like to offer an incentive every 45 days a sub works. This does not have to be consecutive. I can set this is up using the Life Long Counter section in Rate Tables, however, it only allows me so many "lines" to create the structure. As of now, I can only go up to 135 days. We've run reports from previous years and we've had subs that have worked up to 171 days in a school year. That being said, if we had just two more "lines" in the Life Long Counter, I could get this set…

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. We need your feedback!

    The Rate Table is structured to put in the “Last Unit at Rate”, so you’ll just see the high number in Skyward.

    Example (visual also attached):
    0-44 $100
    45 BONUS RATE
    46-89 $125
    90 BONUS RATE
    91-134 $150
    135 BONUS RATE
    136-179 $175

    In the above example, you can see that I got to 179 days of subbing.

    Does this work or is there additional set up not mentioned in the Product Idea that would need to be taken into consideration?

    Thank you!

  19. Screener Access

    Have the ability to assign multiple screener groups to postings. Your group would be determined by your assignment/location. Part I - If you are an administrator you have xyz rights. If you are a secretary you have abc rights. Part II - then your access would only be to the site that your assignment is at.

    We have the ability of filtering by pay type in the access view. So part of the resources is there. In addition, we would like to keep the ability to manually add and remove access as deemed by the district per individual

    We also…

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. We’d love to see more support from the Skyward user community before we consider it for development.

    This idea consists of several ideas within a single process and we are reviewing and considering each one.

    This idea will remain open for continued voting and comments from the Skyward user community.

    Thank you!

  20. Add additional colums to the view.

    In using the Status Code view when looking at applications, the system will only allow you to view 10 columns. In addition, it will only allow you to dump into Excel 10 columns. Several of our applications have as many as 16 status codes assigned. We need either to see it in the view or at least be able to dump it to see the overall picture of the workflow processes on a grand scale.

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