Ideas

We have hourly timetable periods but sometimes we need to split the period into two half hourly cover periods and assign different staff. This facility ensures that the relevant people are aware that they need to cover a class. Some of our staff a...

If a parent has submitted a Leave Request for, say, a medical appointment and this has been approved by the school, there is currently no option in the Portal for the parent to cancel the LR should the student's appointment be cancelled or resched...

We're just starting the process of moving from the old Parent Portal to the new Cloud Parent Portal. Having just completed the iUniversity course I noted that some features will be controlled in both the Cloud Portal Manager and the Parent Portal ...

Currently if a parent uses communication/leave-requests to submit a leave request they get times and an area to leave a note. We should be able to toggle this note field as being required. Also, if a parent uses the Quick Action from the dashboard...

It doesn't seem possible to display recent School News and Documents on the Dashboard of the new Cloud Parent Portal. This is currently available on the old Parent Portal. please could it be added to the Cloud portal.

It would be very useful if, on the new Cloud Parent Portal, we were able to make small tweaks to customise it for our school. Example 1 - on the Dashboard page after logging on there are widgets for the children showing attendance, timetable and d...

It would be more useful to be able to exclude individual sets from report cycles if they are not needed. This would make it easier for staff as they would only see the ones that they actually need to write, and also for admin to keep check on whic...

If a teacher is busy period 1, 3 and 5, for example, I have to enter three 'absences' separately, with start and end times all manually input. This is a waste of time. The manage cover sheet shows all parts of the day to allow you to set cover: if...

Some external assessments eg BTEC Level 3 Nationals external units do not have the date, time and duration on the exam board base data as they are centre timetabled (within a window). I can add the date and start time manually in the Programme Tim...

We frequently need to switch one-off lessons between classrooms but this cannot be achieved through cover as the room needs to be closed to move the lesson out and the venue is then not available to receive the swapped lesson. It would be benefici...