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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Payroll - Direct Deposit Entry

    When staff enter in Routing Numbers and Banking information - This should ONLY be a numbers field and the system should error out if there is letters typed within this field.

    Our bank will not accept bank accounts with letters listed within the account string.... Not sure if other Banks allow letters within their account string...?

    2 votes

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  2. Adding a Room field within Skyward Business

    I think it would be great to have a room number field within Skyward Business. Our IAM system syncs with Skyward and it would be great to pull the room number from one central source and push out all of this to our other downstream systems.

    1 vote

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  3. Email Direct Deposit

    Ability to email print deposit advices to employees who do not have employee access.

    Current process is we print them and mail to employee as they do not have employee access. Having the ability to email them would save paper and money on postage. Email address is already tied to their profile.

    5 votes

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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. We'd also like to see a conversation about security of employee information. 


    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.


    Thank you!

  4. 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.

    2 votes

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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.


    Thank you!

  5. For "Notification of new hire" tasks: Is it possible to add the FTE to this notification?

    Project Description:
    Notification of new hire: Is it possible to add the FTE to this notification?

    2 votes

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  6. Need Another Option in Pseudo Approval

    When approving employee submitted address changes, if someone else is living at the same address, a window pops up asking if you want to change the address for all people at the current address. The only option is OK or cancel. We need an option to say NO, do not update other occupants of the address so we can approve just that person, not other household members.

    17 votes

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  7. Default tax election

    When you are setting up a new employee, in the "Tax-W4" tab there is a checkbox that says "2020 or After W-4". It should now default to having that checkbox check since all new employees that are added should be with the new form at this point.

    8 votes

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  8. Wellness screeining visible to employee supervisors

    We would like supervisors to have the right to see only their employees wellness screening and print (or extract) an excel with the information.

    1 vote

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  9. Comments section - Personnel Tab

    The comments section under Employee - Personnel should be separate from the Vendor Comment section. This is a security issue.

    4 votes

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  10. Utility to mass change License Status

    Add a utility to change License Status from Current to Expired based on the expiration date.

    4 votes

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  11. Employee Pseudo Approval Email Confirmations

    When approving or denying items in the Employee Pseudo Approval section, it would be great if an email was sent to the employee confirming the approval or showing them the reason for denial. The email could go to the employee's email address(es) on file.

    8 votes

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  12. Add a number of User Defined Fields to Personnel Tab that are Reportable.

    There are a couple of fields we would get great use out of that we would like added to Skyward, but we realize that each district is different, so it would be great if each district could define those fields themselves, and report on them.

    Example: We very much would benefit from an Insurance Eligibility Date, an OPEB Eligibility Date (would be even better if this one had history similar to Leave History, but also with an FTE field linked to it), and an OPEB Eligible field with Yes/No as drop-drop down or radio button.

    Reporting on the OPEB eligibility…

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We suggest using a Custom Form to capture and report on this information.

    Here is a link to the SkyDoc: https://support.skyward.com/DeptDocs/Corporate/Documentation/Public%20Website/Tutorials/Software/WH_EP_PS_CF_CF_1368567_100_T.pdf

    If you need additional assistance setting up this Custom Form, please submit a Service Call to Skyward and one of our Customer Consulting and Support Representatives will be able to assist you.

    Thank you!

  13. Create a utility to mass add/change building loc, check location and other building & add a supervisor field.

    In the Human Resources =>Employee tab=> Employee=> Personnel, create a utility to mass add/change the building location, check location and other building. Also to add a supervisor field in the employee profile with mass add/change utilities.

    8 votes

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  14. Scan employee file into profile but make it confidential

    Our district is thinking of going paperless. We know that there is an "attach" option in profile, where we can scan in paperwork, but the employee can see what we scan in. Would it be possible to add a feature where we can scan in the employee's entire file but make it confidential to where only HR or Admin could access it?

    27 votes

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  15. Employee Profile in the credit section. It would be nice to see a dollar amount for tuition reimbursement so we can data mine and track.

    A extra field to add the tuition reimbursement amount to track and monitor if the employee owes us back if they leave and other uses.

    1 vote

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  16. 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.

    10 votes

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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?

  17. Enhancing the "I" View of an Employee's Profile

    Currently the "I" view of an employee's profile does not match what the employee sees through Employee Access. This makes it difficult for our staff to assist employees in locating add-ons attached to their assignment.

    The only other way to see exactly what the employee sees is by Super Using in as the employee in Web Product Setup area.

    We would like the Add-On area to be added in the "I" view of employee profile. We would like it to match, word for word.

    8 votes

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  18. 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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  20. Org Chart

    Add a utility to Org Chart to remove Inactive employees from the selected org chart.

    20 votes

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