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Able to track pupils in different sets/forms - historical and current

Pupils move from one Set to another over the academic year. Some move form group as well. I can't find a way in iSAMS that can easily track pupils movement. At the moment, we can kind of find the info in Teaching Manager > History, but it's not...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Teaching Manager 2 Next

Spell Checker - Allow us to add words to ignore

Every time the word "Maths" is used it gets flagged by the spell checker. We would like to be able to add it to a list of words that we don't want the spell checker to flag. Currently we have to raise a ticket for the iSAMS Technical Support team ...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Reports Wizard 0 Good Feature

Increase the character limit

Our exams officer is trying to enter information for students sitting examinations this summer. As an international school in Dubai, we are unable to input the full official names of many of our Arabic students due to the character limit being set...
Guest 4 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Internal Exams Manager 2 Good Feature

Manually add exam duration in External Exams Manager

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...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

The ability to allocate extra time for particular subjects for a candidate so this is displayed on their exam timetable

If extra time is only relevant for particular subjects, the candidates exam timetable would only reflect the actual subjects they are entitled to extra time for rather than showing extra time for all subjects which can lead to some confusion.
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Now

Separate Read Aloud/Reading Pen provisions, and add Speech To Text

SENCOs constantly tell me that the practical requirements of students needing the access arrangements Reading Aloud and Reading Pen are very different, and therefore should not be lumped together as the same category in Special Arrangements. Pleas...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Now

Multiple teachers per set for PE for example

We want to be able to have more than one teacher marked for a set for example PE and Sports. Then the additional teachers can see the lesson in their timetable and also be marked as unavailable for Cover. This is different to associated teachers w...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Teaching Manager 1 Good Feature

Pulling data from Gradebooks to Central

In any school, your biggest data entry point is arguably academic grades and grading. Therefore it is imperative that that academic data (either from gradebooks or reports wizard) is pulled through to Central for PowerBI and analytics. MS Teams do...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Gradebooks 1 Later

Ability to Locate a Student or combination of Students free

It would be good if you could use the 'Locate Free Objects & Periods', 'By Object' to find when a student or combination of students are free in the same way you can for rooms and / or teachers.
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Timetable Manager 2 Good Feature

Making gradebooks, current and historic, available/published onto pupil profiles

We only use Gradebooks for academic progress and performance. We are battling to find a meaningful way of viewing a particular student's progress on their pupil profiles. Currently, it seems as though the Gradebook integration into pupil profiles ...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Gradebooks 0 Good Feature