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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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Jennifer Carstens

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  1. 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.

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  2. 27 votes

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  3. 17 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Hello! Thank you for submitting this idea. We are looking for more feedback – is your idea only relating to True Time?

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    Jennifer Carstens commented  · 

    I'm not entirely sure. Currently, only our hourly employees use True Time, but this would be beneficial for anyone whether they're in True Time or not (if Skyward could make it work without True Time). When they submit their time off, it populates their timesheet with whatever form of time off they use. However, when the timesheets are brought into payroll, the information is "lost" in that it only records their time as "Hourly". It doesn't specify whether sick, personal, or vacation time was used. Only the time from those codes flows into payroll, assigning it all to the same pay code.

    It would be nice if Vacation flowed into payroll as Vacation, Sick as Sick, Personal as Personal. This way we could assign a specific time off code to a specific pay code. In the event 2/3 EPSL pay is ever mandated, we could assign and link a 2/3 pay code to the specific 2/3 pay time off code.
    This would allow documentation on pay stubs of all sick, vacation, personal time paid to each employee each pay period.
    This would remove any and all manual work once all employees have those time off and pay codes assigned.
    Additionally, it would also be helpful if there was a utility that would allow us to mass assign a % of pay to a new pay code, based on the rate assigned on another pay code. (Again, helpful for the 2/3 pay situation we had last year.)

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  5. 7 votes

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  6. 9 votes

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  7. 6 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    Custom Forms are a great option to store this information currently within Skyward.  As the custom forms have their own tab within profile, you have the ability to send this out through Online Forms as well for them to complete in Employee Access and can then easily access the information.  


    You can also secure these online forms so only users with proper security are able to access this information and keep the medical history confidential.


    Erik O.

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  8. 20 votes

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  9. 1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this idea.

    We have the Payroll Import/Export and Generic Imports/Exports that should allow for you to import employee insurance deduction/benefit changes in Skyward. You do not need to be using Insurance Tracking in order to access this functionality. We suggest submitting a Service Call for assistance in getting started. Please have the format you are using available so the rep is get started with you right away.

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