Currently every member of staff with the permissions enabled on School Spider can send a message to parents/carers. There are three admin members of staff with the permissions enabled, alongside SLT. I would like the functionality to add the requi...
Calendar - return to date for date the event was added for.
When a calendar item is added and saved on either the staff or website calendar, the page defaults back to the current date on the calendar (today). It would be helpful and reassuring for the screen to default to the date that the calendar item wa...
It would be helpful for the child's class to be displayed on the 'absence request' screen, alongside the child's name, parents name and reason for absence. This data is fed through from Wonde, so I assume that it would be easy to display.
Include Associate Teachers when using Contact Pupil Teachers Wizard
Using the contact pupil's teachers wizard via the wizard bar will only contact primary teachers of a set. It would be useful to include a checkbox OR by default include marked associated teachers of teaching sets as important emails are being miss...
Warning for Schools when importing DfE CTFs not to update Basic details so case of names not changes in the system
When importing Assessment files from DfE if a school forgets to change the field to not update basic details it changes all the Pupil names to capital letters in Ed:gen. A warning message would be helpful.
It would be very useful to have the bold/italics fonts available, as well as emojis for when creating surveys in School Spider, also the bullet points from the paragraph section.
Student Manager Wizard Bar - Contact Pupils' Teachers - allow group selection
When using the "Contact Pupils' Teachers" from the Student Manager section of the Wizard bar, you have to add each pupil individually. There are times when we need to get a message to all of the teachers of a group, whether that's a year group, re...
To automatically update the status of a present student when it is put Out of School.
When we put a student "out of school", the system could automatically update the status of present students as it does for non-present students. Also in the menu: "Students listed below are already marked as being 'out of school/absent', we can no...
Allow staff to update their own contact information and emergency contacts
This will reduce the need for our administration team to compile all of their existing information and ask for people to update them. Instead, they can just send our a reminder periodically with instructions on how to do this.