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Mail Merge and schedule emails.

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...
Guest 4 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 3 Good Feature

Add a photo field to parent/guardian contact data

It would be useful for teachers and admin staff to be able to access to check that a parent is correctly identifiable when collecting students on campus.
Guest 6 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 1 Awaiting Review

Update report formats - .DOC to .DOCX, .XLS to .XLSX

.DOC and .XLS are old formats. Please can they be updated to the latest versions, which have been around for a while now. Screenshot from Registration - Reports - Individual Register Report. Seems to be the same choice of report formats throughout...
Guest 4 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Registration Manager 2

Keep a history of addresses when changes are made

We are required to keep all current and previous address details for any pupil on a Sponsored Visa. The current suggested way to do this is via the Notes section within Contacts but it should really be possible to either maintain a proper, searcha...
Guest almost 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 2 In Discovery

Hide custom fields

It will be useful to simply hide a custom field instead of having to delete it. I assume by hiding we'll be able to maintain the historical data and also reactivate it if the need arises.
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 0 Good Feature

Census detailed reports

Census Manager only provides a summary report so it is very difficult to validate your data when you cannot see what data the Census has based its summary on. Leavers have a big impact on the data. Could we please have detailed reports for each ar...
Guest about 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Census Manager 9 Now

CTFs from previous school containing attendance not importing into Edgen

CTFs from previous school containing attendance not importing into Edgen We are not meeting our statutory duty if we cannot maintain complete history of attendance within Edgen via CTF file. Interesting how other schools' XML files exports contain...
Guest 3 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 2 In Discovery

Enter one contact as both a parent and a teacher

Allow a teacher contact in HR Manager to be added as a parent contact to a student. Meaning the contact is only entered once into the database. (and vice versa of course).
Guest 3 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / HR Manager 0 Awaiting Review

Search all staff by department

I've just discovered that in the HR Manager you can't search on DEPARTMENT. This is yet another absolutely VITAL search function that must be needed by a lot of schools and should be a simple fix to add this field to the Custom Search Screen. Ther...
Guest 9 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / HR Manager 1 In Discovery

Custom Data Reporting Module

A reporting module that allows a Data Manager to define specific fields for extraction from the database is essential. Such reporting engines are available in other MIS platforms, such as Bromcom and SIMS, and are not limited to assessment data al...
Kevin Clayton about 1 month ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Administration 0 Awaiting Review