Administration

In this day and age, it would be far more appropriate for the House Master title to be changed to House Parent. I am sure we are not the only school to have female house parents.

We are constantly sending emails to multiple parents that require different information for a particular student. Doing a mail merge in Outlook is time-consuming because we first have to gather the data from iSAMS, transfer it to Excel, and then u...

Although we are a girls’ school, we have a number of pupils here who identify as male or gender neutral. As a result, we are increasingly being asked to use preferred gender pronouns rather than she, her and hers. At present there is a field for ‘...

The current OOS process uses a time scale e.g. 9am to 1pm, I think it should be possible to have the choice to choose between a timescale or on a Period based scaled e.g. P1 OOS. Similar to the choice in cover manager. This will help with slight o...

Over the years, iSAMS users in my school have created & shared various custom reports in Student Manager (i.e. select the pupils > pink drop-down on the top right > Exporting & Reports > Export Wizard). A lot of the custom reports...

When creating a CTF if more than one School is listed with the same name it would be helpful if the DFE numbers appeared so the correct school could be selected

Registration present code is not displaying in Student Quick View details in Wizard bar -> Student Manager. Similar to day/week view it just shows as present. Usages of the code is to monitor students and it is not helpful if it is not displaye...

When contacting a pupil's teachers via the wizard bar it would be great if there was an option to email only the teacher that is currently scheduled to be teaching the pupil. This would be particularly useful for our learning support team.

A staff member has recently been awarded a PhD. I changed the title from Mr to Dr in HR manager, and it reset the gender to unknown without any kind of prompt or warning message. This doesn't really seem in keeping with GDPR because it's an inappr...

Being able to enter university destinations for leavers is a good feature, but it is not a field that is available to pull out on any export, nor is that a standard report. It would be useful to have it as part of student export, but also searchab...