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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Leave Without Pay allowing for approval without denying timesheet once switched from used to unpaid

    This is a timing issue with Leave Without Pay that is put in as used and when TRS Reporting is done the LWOP is switched to unpaid, in the mean time the employee has submitted the timesheet with used LWOP and when the approver tries to approve it will not let the approver approve because it has been switched to unpaid. The only way is for the approver to deny the timesheet and have the employee resubmit. I feel if the employee is submitting LWOP that it should allow for an approver to approve without having to deny. This takes…

    4 votes

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  2. WF\AM\GI\CA\RE Cash Receipt Report

    Can you offer more reports for Cash Receipts? Something like the PaC version which allows you to select the batches and not have you enter receipt numbers. The Report for cash receipts is very basic.

    4 votes

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  3. Adding a note option on a pay record

    When paying for an Extra Duty it would be amazing to be able to put a note in for what the payment is for. I.E. Class Sponsor, Morning Bus Duty, Basketball Coach Stipend, etc. If Skyward could put this note option on the select screen through payroll, we could manually enter the information when paying out for these different stipends.

    12 votes

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  4. Submit Journal Entry restricted to 100 lines

    We would like to do electronic approvals for Journal Entries. We often have JEs with over 100 lines. Although the Journal Entry screen allows thousands of lines, the "Submit Journal Entry" screen (which allows for electronic approvals), has a cap of 100 lines.

    I'm not sure why there would be a cap of 100 lines since I can import thousands of lines to the 'regular' Journal Entry screen.

    I'd like the ability to remove this limit, or at least increase the limit.

    See attached document for error message regarding 100 line maximum.

    7 votes

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  5. Allow Mass Deletion in Print Queue

    Allow for the Mass Deletion of Reports either in the District or Users Print Queue based on the Filtered Selection. We have thousands of Error Reports in our District Queue from users who no longer work here. Deleting one at a time is not be feasible.

    3 votes

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  6. Make Expense Reimbursement Group

    Would it be possible to get expense reimbursement a setup for groups like you have for purchase order groups would make setting up easier

    3 votes

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  7. Add column to the time-off transactions to show the day of the week.

    When adding a time-off transaction and when viewing the employee time-off transaction data, it would be nice to also see the day of the week requested. It would possibly help employees entering an incorrect date by being another reminder of the day they are entering. It would also be nice for historical purposes when reviewing patterns in time-off requests (for example, an employee who is always sick on Friday).

    9 votes

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  8. Add Columns to Retirement Detailed Hours

    On the employee profile, the Retirement section has a part called "Detail Hrs". This section should show all things that pull into Annual report. I would add a a column that would track what WRS benefit and another column that shows the WRS deduction and another column to show what category they were recorded in. This would help that you could quickly see where an error was made and how log it was going on.

    4 votes

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  9. Update Retirement Hour Totals Automatically

    If you make changes in the Retirement "Details Hours" for an employee it should automatically update the "Monthly Info" and the "Annual Info". If you update at a higher level, for example the monthly tab, then it should automatically update the Annual and then give you a warning reminding you to fix it in the "Detailed Hours" section. This would really help with keeping the data consistent and stop redundancies in entering corrections.

    8 votes

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  10. UID Mass Update

    Being able to have a mass delete UID utility with parameter options would be very helpful. Currently only way to update employees in TSDS is the delete UID one by one and then be able to extract to upload to TSDS. With a UID in the profile record will not extract. The majority of our staff is still showing location from initial upload to TSDS. Or sometimes when staff return after resigning but were employed in another location, UID is still in profile due to being needed on service records. Having this type of utility would be very helpful to…

    2 votes

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  11. Customizable Assignment Category

    It would be helpful to have a customizable category in assignments so I can name it what I want.

    Example, we have core components that have to be passed at 80% or better. If they were color coded and labeled by my terms, it would be super easy to see who I need to work with for that category in my gradebook and in reports.

    2 votes

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  12. Custom Form Lookup Warning

    It would be great if there was a warning when you try to modify/rename a Custom Field for a custom form. I forgot that the fielc on Custom Form does not update, so it appears orphaned.

    2 votes

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  13. Date Range Time Off Request for Partial Hours

    When an employee wants to enter a date range for time off requests and only is taking 2.5 hours per day, the date range feature cannot be used. It automatically assumes 8.0 hours are being taken. The employee must enter each day individually. Can the number of hours be added when choosing a date range for time off?

    4 votes

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  14. Street Names

    Please add a way to clean up the "Street Name" list for addresses. It would be ideal to be able to merge the existing street name when someone has entered many varieties and spellings of the same street name.

    12 votes

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  15. Allow applicants to change their references with every new application.

    Right now applicants can only change their references after so many days ( a year I believe) but many request to be able to change them for each application they submit. I get that request often and I can see where if they are applying for different types of jobs they may want to use different references or they may have gotten a better reference since their last application. The applicant should be able to change - update references whenever they want to.

    6 votes

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  16. Employee Time Off Org Chart

    Org Chart in Skyward desperately needs report features and Utilities. We discovered an employee had been selected as a Self Approval and Final Approval on Time Off Org Chart, therefore bypassing the Supervisor and was allowed to enter negative time off for time they did not have. I did a service call and was told there are no reports to find out if other employees had this issue. I clicked on 900+ employees to discover 2 additional employees had this same issue. There truly needs to be better support for Org Chart.

    10 votes

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  17. Limit custom reports under Employee Profile to those assigned to that employee

    Currently under Employee Profile, the Custom Forms tab shows all active forms, rather than the forms assigned to that particular employee. It is my understanding that under Skyward Student, there is a setting that when selected, only shows custom forms applicable to that person. It would be very helpful if we had the same option for Employee Profile.

    7 votes

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  18. SBAA - Display "Payee Name as it Appeared" on the Check Reconciliation Screen

    Add the "Display Payee Name as it Appeared on Check" field to the SBAA Check Reconciliation screen. This will allow a more efficient workaround for creating a Positive Pay file for SBAA accounts, until SBAA functionality starts catching up with regular accounting. The user can use the Excel export to get the correct name for a full-match on their Positive Pay file.

    3 votes

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  19. Purchase Order Printing in the Vendor Profile Section

    It would be nice if you could print a Purchase Order right in the Vendor Profile Section instead of having to go to the Purchase Order Section.

    7 votes

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  20. SBAA Outstanding Check List

    Create the same reports in SBAA for Account and Check Reconciliation as are available for the District level (Accounts Payable). Currently in SBAA the check reconciliation report will not pull in the correct data if you are trying to generate an Outstanding Check list either for a month in the past or if ANY checks have been cleared in the current month prior to running the Bank Reconciliation. This functionality is available in Accounts Payable.

    4 votes

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