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

Search Field for Contact Email in Student Manager

Please could iSAMS add a search field for Email Address in the Contact Information section of Student Manager. We frequently have to search for contact email addresses due to SendGrid suppressions and/or emails received from parents without identi...
Guest about 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 6 Good Feature

Ability to bulk update contact records

If the ability to bulk update pupil records exists, then there should also be an ability to bulk update contact records. Currently, schools have to painstakingly update contacts records individually which is very time consuming.
Guest 11 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 2 In Discovery

Letter mail merge data field

To make Passport expiry dates, visa expiry dates available to be included in letter mail merge. Needed to create mail merge for standard letters to the MOE or parents.
Guest 19 days ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 0 Awaiting Review

Pupil Registers fields avaialble in Email Wizard

If we could do an email wizrd and use Pupil Registers fields - this would be a huge time saver. We have Academic Interventions stored in the Registers Module - and if we want to send that information home in a letter- we currently have export them...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 2 Good Feature

CSV Import for pupil data

We have entrance exam results for each pupil in spreadsheets for each yeargroup, which we are considering adding to the Entrance Exams section on the pupil records. We can either enter all the results manually (which would take some time...), or s...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 3 Awaiting Review

Allow us to use shorter student ID numbers to avoid Excel's Scientific Notation issue

Becuase our student ID numbers in iSAMS are longer than 11 digits, when we export them to use in other systems like PowerBI, etc., Excel always insists on converting them to Scientific Notation format, which cannot be prevented, which leads to unn...
Guest about 1 month ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 0 Awaiting Review

Re-using Contacts in different families with different realtionship

What if a father of one student is the stepfather of another one? or an emergency contact for one student is just a friend of the parents but she is also a mother of another student? We have contacts that are related to other families in a way tha...
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 3 In Discovery

Communicating lates to parents

We are trying to set up an email template to share with parents when students have been late to lessons in the previous week. The current function only enables us to send it for the current week. This leaves us with a very small window to be able ...
Guest 2 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 0 Good Feature

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 6 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Student Manager 0 Good Feature