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Adding non-teaching staff specifically the librarian to the Cover Manager so we can cover her when absent.

Our students who are on reduced timetables go to the library to work. Usually this is supervised by the dedicated librarian but when she is absent, it would be useful to add her absence to the Cover Manager to allocate the staff covering her. She ...
Guest over 1 year ago in Cover Manager 1 In Discovery

Spell check should check pupil names held in iSAMS.

The spell check routine should use the pupil data to check pupil names. Many teachers make mistakes when writing reports that are not picked up by the spell check or other members of staff. These can easily be caught by checking against the pupil ...
Guest almost 6 years ago in Reports Manager 1 In Discovery

Add exact times to a timetable suspension

The ability to add exact times (e. g. 1pm-4pm) when adding a timetable suspension for a year group in Cover Manager would be really useful, for example when all students in a year are on a trip in the afternoon but are present in the morning.
Guest almost 6 years ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

SQA Results Upload

We are unable to upload component results into iSAMS. Our results are received from the SQA in an Excel spreadsheet and we have to send a screenshot to pupils with their component results, which is not ideal and time consuming. It would be helpful...
Guest 8 months ago in External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

Filters for adding pupils to Teaching Sets - SEN Register Flags

When adding pupils to a subject set, could we see, and/or filter by Register Flag? For school reports, we set up SEND teaching sets, so SEND reports can be included for pupils that get them. The sets are based on the some (not all) of the SEND reg...
Guest 4 months ago in Teaching Manager 0 In Discovery

Ability to export the Whole School Timetable

We would like to be able to export (and view) a timetable for the whole division - and see all a Division's lessons per period per day per week.
Guest about 1 year ago in Timetable Manager 0 In Discovery

Include activities in cover manager

For organising cover this would be exceptionally useful.
Guest 8 months ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Report Cycles across Academic Years

It would be helpful if a Report Cycle could run across academic years. This would be beneficial to our UCAS reference procedure where references are completed in the Summer Term of Year 12 and edited / amended in the Autumn Term of Year 13.
Guest about 2 years ago in Reports Manager 1 In Discovery

Mark teachers unavailable during Absent and Free periods

It would be helpful to be able block times when staff are unavailable (due to ad hoc meetings etc) during their non-teaching periods. This would prevent them from being allocated cover.
Guest 9 months ago in Cover Manager 1 In Discovery

The ability to select/deselect which candidate results are published to Parent Portal

As per ICOs guidelines, pupils can request that their results are not published to parents if there is a good reason not to. Unfortunately, publishing results to PP in iSAMS is an 'all or nothing' button click. You cannot even manually remove a pu...
Guest almost 2 years ago in External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery