Student Manager Self-Service (SMSS)

• When you are ready to hire a student, make sure you have his or her student ID number to add it into SMSS. Here is a step-by-step guide to Adding an Assignment in Paranssus.

*If you receive an error message while completing this process here are what certain error messages mean:

• "No Social Security Number(SSN) found for student ID:_________. The student must have an SSN in Homer before they can be hired. Please have the student take their social security card to the Office of the Registrar."
  • If you receive the above error, the student must take their social security card to
    the Registrar before they begin working. Since Parnassus is a payroll system,
    student cannot be input without a social security number for tax purposes. This
    only occurs for some students because it depends on the financial aid
    information that they have filled out through Ithaca College.
• "Can not continue. No active or future dated Student Employee found. Although the student ID and SSN exist in Parnassus, there is no current or future Student Employee type set for this student. The Student Employment office has been notified and will contact you on how to proceed."
  • When a student already exists in Parnassus as anything other than a “student
    employee” (ex: “ex-student employee”, “contact” of a current IC member (such
    as a beneficiary, spouse, child, etc…) then the student employment office needs
    to manually change their status from whatever they were listed as to a “student
    employee”. Because they have to change the student over manually in the
    system that does mean that the student will need to attend an NSEP before you
    will be able to try to add them again into the system. As the screen shot
    indicates, the student employment office is automatically notified via an email
    notification as soon as you receive this message so there is no need to email
    student employment when this message appears. They will contact you only
    after all the steps have been completed and then you will be able to proceed to
    add the assignment into SMSS again.

• Once a student is hired in Parnassus, they will be submitting timecards to you every other week. Here is a step-by-step guide to Approving a timecard in Parnassus.
• Payroll deadlines as well as pay dates can be found here.
• You will receive an e-mail notification that the student’s time card is ready for approval. Please DO NOT approve time cards through e-mail as this has caused problems in the past.
• Log in to Parnassus and approve them through the workflow.
• Please make sure you check the dates in the time cards as sometimes students select the wrong time period.
• If you do not agree with the hours on the time card, you may reject it back to the student to correct. If you do reject it, please make sure that you put a note to the student as to why you are rejecting it.

**It is the supervisor's responsibility to view and approve/reject any and all timecards received. Even if a student did not work any hours for you in a specific time period, you will still need to view and approve/reject your student's timecard to make sure they have not logged hours for time they did not work. Students will not be paid until all active supervisors have approved their timecard. If you no longer have a particular student but you are still receiving timecards, you need to go into SMSS and end their assignment in order to be removed as a timecard approver. For an additional 21 days after the assignment has ended you will continue to receive timecards.