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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Allow approvers to edit exp accts

    Allow invoice approvers to edit expense accounts. This would let them make any changes without having to send it back and forth multiple times. Something that would also be helpful is if the expense accounts could be shown as part of the "grid" that you can see without having to do a drop down.

    12 votes

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  2. Ability to Data Mine Employee Profile list of Attachments

    We need the ability to Data Mine the list of attachments that are on an employee's profile.

    12 votes

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  3. Edit time off hours

    I would like the ability to edit time off hours in True Time. For example, we have had employees who went home sick midday. They worked 5 of their 8 hours and then put in for 1/2 sick day which added an additional 4 hours. Per policy, employees using paid time off cannot be paid for more than their scheduled hours. With the current system, I have to change the time off request to 0 days, manually add the time off hours in True Time, then go back and change the time off request back to the correct increment after…

    12 votes

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  4. We are having a problem with the Credit Card Vendor Cross Reference and specifically Amazon.

    We are having a problem with the Credit Card Vendor Cross Reference and specifically Amazon. Amazon must have changed something because each transaction now has its own version of an Amazon vendor. Last month I had to match-up 40 separate transactions to our Skyward Amazon vendor. My suggestion would be to give users the option to match the first 6 or 8 characters and have the vendor match not have to be an exact match for vendors that they choose.

    12 votes

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  5. Open Enrollment

    Open Enrollment Email Notifications for submissions and approvals

    Currently the only email options available in Open Enrollment are for unsubmitted and denials.

    Create email notifications to advise the employee when their plans have been successfully submitted. Right now the only indication is the Submit to HR button changes color. We find employees to not see the Status column.
    An email should also be generated when their plans have been approved. We get numerous calls from employees asking for their plan status.

    12 votes

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  6. Blocking Individual Vendors

    I would love to have the ability to block access to individual vendors - invoice history and/or attachments. For example I would like to block the ability to see legal vendors for most of the employees who have vendor view securities. We scan in invoices and I believe the details contained in some legal invoices should not be seen by everyone.
    Without this ability we will most likely stop scanning in legal invoices.

    12 votes

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  7. Need to Customize Widgets in Employee Access

    We have many tasks processes employees need to complete and would like to be able to customize the widgets that are on the Home screen by default in Employee Access when a new employee is added by HR, rather than having to teach them to select other widgets or click on task manager in order to get to the tasks they need to complete.

    11 votes

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  8. Add "Select All" option when deactivating an employee

    When deactivating an employee, I'd like to see a "Select All" option on the screen where you have to select each record you want to deactivate. Now you have to click on each thing (Contracts, Pay Records, Time off set up, Employee Access, Security, Vendor Master, Org Charts). It could mean saving up to 7 clicks when deactivating a person if you had one "Select All" button that would place a check in each field and then deactivate.
    Menu Path HR\PR\PE\PE

    What the screen currently says...
    "Employee has been made inactive.
    Please select all other records that should be made…

    11 votes

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  9. We would like to prohibit employees from submitting timesheets before all hours are accounted for based on the scheduled hours.

    Employees are submitting timesheets either before all time off hours are imported or are forgetting to input time off or enter it correctly for various reasons; they may leave in an emergency situation, they don't account for lunch times, etc. They then submit their time sheet short of what their scheduled weekly hours should be. It would be great to prohibit employees from submitting until all hours are accounted for. It would allow it to be corrected much much sooner than when it has reached the payroll department and very close to when the payroll needs to be processed and…

    11 votes

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    Hello!


    We have a few options that you can try to resolve some of these scenarios you have listed. 


    We cannot prohibit employees from submitting timesheets before all hours are accounted for, but you can set a requirement for the employee to select a reason why their timesheet is short on hours when the timesheet is at least X less than their weekly schedule time.


    For your approvers, there is a setting where you can display timesheets in a different color when they are under a certain # of hours of their schedule. 


    If your employees have an annualized rule, you could have a time off record created for any hours you are short.


    Thank you,


    Caitlin Barton

    Product Manager

  10. Dependent report from insurance tracking enrollment data

    PLEASE include gender of the dependents in the report data. Names are not necessarily indicative of gender of the dependents and we need the data for other information / reports we create.

    11 votes

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  11. Offer Void Process in Middle of A Check Run WF\AP\PP\CR\CR

    If you are doing a multiple check check run (20 checks as an example) & the last 3 (or any) jam or print wrong, you should have an option within the process to pick checks that need to be voided & reprinted with new check #'s. Not having to finalize the check run & then going to Quick Void.

    11 votes

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  12. Ability to Look Up PO's y Vendor Name

    Currently the only way to search for a PO is by the PO#. There are many times we don't know the PO# and only the vendor name. So it would be helpful to be able to search for a PO by the vendor name in each PO group.

    11 votes

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  13. Cash Receipt Look Up

    Currently you can only search for a receipt by the post date or sort by the batch number. It would be nice to have a choice to search by the receipt number and not just the batch number.

    11 votes

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  14. W2 message text

    On the Options for Receiving my 202x From W2 screen, consider adding more text to the second option. We'd like reminder to staff to make sure we have their correct address. Perhaps something like: "I want to receive a printed copy of my 202x Form W2 from my employer. My address is up-to-date in Skyward."

    11 votes

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  15. Add security levels to attachments tab in employee profile

    Please add security levels to the attachment tab in employee profile. This will assist us in becoming paperless without having to contract with an outside vendor. We are currently attaching payroll items for the employee to see, current/new TSA election forms, WRS enrollments & terminations, insurance enrollment changes. The current level is wide open so anyone with full access to employee profile can see. Not great but the employees like to see that changes were received and completed. We would love to have security levels added so I could have 4 separate files, Payroll, Human Resources, Medical, and General. Payroll…

    11 votes

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  16. Tie 403B Roth and Pre-Tax Deduction Amounts and Percentages Together

    Our District allows staff to make pre-tax and post tax contributions to their 403B account. These are currently separate codes with their own contribution limit. However, in the real world, employees are allowed to contribute X amount/percent to each, but each counts toward ONE contribution limit. Our plan allows staff to make changes to their contributions anytime in the year, so the code-specific limits aren't doing us any good. It's not as simple as splitting the limit evenly between the two codes.

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  17. Is there a way to mark a position/assignment in EM as the primary assignment? Pulls in coach job not teacher job when I want primary job onl

    Is there a way to mark a position/assignment in EM as the primary assignment, like you can mark a pay record as primary? When I run Data Mining reports data being pulled in is all their assignments (coaching, extra duty) and not just the primary (teacher) when I want primary job only. I have to always pull in multiple assignments and then edit the excel document so I only have their primary assignment and not all the extras. I do not want to create multiple plans, I like to view all of an employee's assignments for a year at once.…

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  18. Ability to ADD zip code when adding new employee contact - KANSAS

    When adding a new emergency contract in employee profile - it will not automatically add a new zip code - you have to open another window (it used to do this when adding a new employee as well - but now you have the option of adding a new zip code from employee profile - but that option is NOT available when you are adding an emergency contract to employee profile and need to add a new zip code.

    11 votes

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  19. Would like the option to drag and drop people around in the Org Charts.

    It would be really nice to drag and drop names around in the Org charts instead of going through all the menu options

    11 votes

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  20. Option for set amount during payroll accounting adjustment

    We would like the option to select a set amount during a payroll accounting adjustment instead of percentage only. The system could calculate the percentage in the background and move the associated benefits that way. It would be much quicker. We have tried calculating the percentage, but it never seems to be the correct amount so it takes multiple trial-and-errors to get the correct amount to adjust.

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