Ideas

We have all kinds of families at our school as I imagine most schools around the world do. In 2025, in Education (and most other sectors) diversity and inclusion are highly valued, all families deserve to be represented. Same gender families and b...

It would be quicker if you could directly move files between pages rather than having to upload them again.

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.

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...

An attachment could be use to supplement an email body's content like include further instructions. Having to attach an identical file each time a particular e-mail template is used limits e-mail template usability and appeal.

There are some fields within the system that are either not relevant to our setting (e.g. Boarding House) or that we do not use (e.g. School Age) that we would like to be able to hide/remove from the user interface to make the system easier to use...

Currently there is no option in student manager or Parent Portal module to send the reminders to the parents who have not activated their iParent app or parent portal account yet. Administrators only can see who has activated the account who has n...

If the Document emailer was accessible to Purchase Order raisers they could then send their emails to their suppliers instead of creating a PDF then emailing it from their Outlook (as an example) accounts or asking Finance who have the Accounting ...

We have more situations where students have two parents of the same sex. Currently the only function within the Student Manager/Contacts and Family Tree is to have a mother and a father. It would be excellent if this could be made changeable to se...

As general good practice for GDPR, staff should only see the pupil data that they need to see. It would be nice if we could restrict access to pupil data by division. For example, a teacher who only teaches in the sixth form does not need to see p...