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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Pay multiple invoices on one check in SBAA

    It would be fantastic if we could pay multiple purchase orders with one check in SBAA..... similar to what we can do on the Financial Management side. Currently, if I have 20 open purchase orders to Cardmember Services, I am writing 20 individual checks. Time-consuming and a waste of check stock. Thanks for your consideration.

    11 votes

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  2. Add options on a requisition for "credit card purchase", or "does not need to be submitted to vendor"

    We would like the ability for staff to select whether they are making the purchase on a credit card, or if the purchase order does not need to be sent to the vendor. This would allow the business office to skip having to email the staff member to get these questions answered.

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  3. Shift Differential

    Please make it possible to have skyward automatically calculate shift differential for second shift staff. In the timekeeping rule under the shift differential section Hourly Pay option a box to select the pay code to pay needs to be added to allow the shift differential pay code to be added. Similar to how it is in the annualized option. For example staff who start work at 3 pm and work until midnight. Anyone in a certain employee group is paid an additional $.60 per hour for any hours they work between 3:30 pm - 03:00 am. This is for hourly…

    11 votes

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  5. Account Code on Check

    Would like to see an account code field added to the check stub. This would be very helpful to see on the check and eliminate the check voucher.

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  6. Add Phone Category Codes in Employee Access

    Need Employees to be able to select a phone category code when entering their phone numbers in employee access. The category codes are available on Employee Profile/Phone/Email tab. This will allow the district to create category codes that will identify the phone number that employees want to use for third party software list, i.e. school messenger.

    11 votes

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  7. Org chart history tab

    On the org chart history tab, it would be greatly beneficial tohave the namekey of the person who made the change.

    10 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    We currently have PR 5398430 created to address this change.  Keep an eye out for updates on this in the near future!


    Thank you!


    Erik O.

  8. True Time Reports/History for Inactive Employees

    When a Classified Employee resigns, we deactivate them so they no longer have access to Employee Access. This includes removing them from org charts, deactivating pay records, time off, etc. However, there are times that we'd like to go back and see time sheets. At this point, we have to reactivate them and put them back on an org chart to be able to see anything in True Time. Is there any way to have them inactive, but be able to keep the time sheet history active and easy to get to?

    10 votes

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    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!

  9. Re-open Credit Card transaction in batch status

    It would be nice if at the district office level, we could re-open/unlock a credit card transaction that someone has hit the "approved" button on. There are many times when someone makes a mistake and would like to fix, but only one of us in the district offices can do it through PAC on the back end. I would like to be able to open it back up for them to fix on the web side.

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  10. Implement wildcard search capability

    Implement a "wildcard" search feature when using Filters in Data Mining and basically throughout the entire system. I'd like to be able to find any Student Fees records with a Billing Description that "contains" the word "child" - upper/lower/mixed case.

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  11. Creating a Full-Time/Part-Time checkbox

    If we could add a full-time and part-time checkbox next to the "Faculty" checkbox on the personnel tab under the employee profile, this would help with reporting.

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    Tell us More  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Hello! Thank you for submitting this idea. Could you elaborate more on how this helps with reporting? What are the current issues you are running into?

  12. Eligible for Rehire Tab

    We would like to enter in Skyward if a person is eligible for rehire. Is it possible to add a Eligible for Rehire Tab with the option to select Yes or No. Kind of the like the Leave Information Tab. Right now we have to go to our scanned documents to see if a person is eligible rehire.

    10 votes

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  13. Have the ability to print my check stubs in Alphabetical order.

    I would like to have the ability to print my direct deposit pay check stubs in alphabetical order. At this time, they will only print in order of check location. I am surprised that this is not an option. Thank you for your consideration.

    10 votes

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  14. Check Image and ACH Advice of Deposit Image Attached to AP Transactions

    With the goal of going paperless, we would like to see the Check and ACH Advice of Deposit Images attached to each payment as part of AP process. (Similar to the way that employee letters are posted to each employee's record.)

    The image of the check and advice of deposit is requested frequently by our auditors and as part of the grant reporting process.

    Currently, we print the check image and file it, but with the transition to paperless we are saving the PDF file for each check run. However, this still involves searching through the PDF file to obtain…

    10 votes

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  15. Inactivate Pay Codes

    A way to inactivate old pay codes no longer in use, delete would be great but just inactive so they can't be chosen would be perfect.

    10 votes

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    We suggest using the Pay Record Audit, which can inactivate pay records that do not fall in line with an entered control date. To access the Pay Record Audit, navigate to PaC, Human Resources, Payroll, Utilities, and Pay Record Audit.

    Skydoc is available at: https://support.skyward.com/DeptDocs/Corporate/Documentation/Public%20Website/Tutorials/Software/HR_PA_UT_PA_AU_PR_548071_120_220_T.pdf

    If additional assistance is needed, please submit a Service Call so that one of our Customer Service Representatives can assist you.

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  16. Calculate retirement hours based on number of checks remaining

    Currently an employee who joins us after the first payroll period applicable to their position the retirement hours on their pay code are populated based on the 20 or 24 checks. ie: employee works 90 days at 6 hpd=540 total hrs. The retirement hours on the pay code populates as 27 (divided by 20 checks) versus 54 based on 10 checks left.
    I find that since the information we used to use to see the number of days on the position tab in PAC was removed (grrrr) we now have to go to WEB open that employee, choose assignment and…

    10 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea to the Ideas Portal.

    This is the platform for Skyward users to show support for ideas they like. It’s also the perfect place to share your thoughts and start a conversation about the idea.

    If you like this idea, and you want it considered for development, then we need to see your support!

    If you like this idea, please vote and comment. You can track it as it rises to the top of the list.

    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  17. Print W2's for anyone that does not reply to Electronic

    Print W2's for everyone again that does not choose electronic in the current year. Do not override the system and go back and look at previous years and not print their W2 if they ever chose the electronic option. It was a great idea, BUT if I have a retired teacher who is now subbing, they do not have access to Employee Access. Therefore they can not change their election from a previous year from electronic to paper. And the Electronic holds, even though the sub no longer has employee access.

    10 votes

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  18. W4 and WT4 fillable PDFs in Employee Access

    Similar to being able to change your direct deposit, allow the ability to change your withholdings, even if it is just a fillable pdf.

    10 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!  We have some additional information we would like to know about this -


    1. How does your district currently handle the adjusting of W4s and WT4s?

    2. Are custom forms utilized at all for this where you can link documents?

    3. How often are users changing their withholdings?

    4. Is there an approval process involved before these changes can be made on the Employee Profile?


    This idea will remain open for the Skyward Community to continue voting and commenting on.


    Thank you!


    Erik O.

  19. Choose a date span for Summary Reports

    Currently we can only choose a date span when running a data mining report if it is a Detailed Report. We need to be able to run a Summary Report by date span too.

    10 votes

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  20. Accounting Adjustment- Pull all pay instead of strip by strip

    We would like to see the accounting adjustment process have an option to pull all pay and change the distribution. We currently have to pull each "wrong" accounting strip one by one and correct it. In the case of an employee paid by multiple projects who is also at multiple centers this can be very time consuming.

    10 votes

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