We are unable to upload component results into iSAMS. Our results are received from the SQA in an Excel spreadsheet and we have to send a screenshot to pupils with their component results, which is not ideal and time consuming. It would be helpful...
Notifications to staff of cancelled cover arrangements and to staff and students of cancelled room closures
Staff currently only know if cover is cancelled when it falls off their timeline - a formal notification confirming that cover is no longer required would be extremely helpful. Ditto when a room closure takes place and staff and students are notif...
Ability to specify where exam arrangements comes from
SEN info in Pupil Registers flows through to Exams, which is great. But EAL info in Pupil Registers does not. We would want things like extra time and dictionaries recorded in either Register to populate Exams. Otherwise, what is the point of bein...
View Teacher Cover screen display the assigned user's division only or user's preferences' division
Currently, when a teacher open the View Teacher Cover page from the wizard bar, it show all divisions and default on the first division. As we have 9 different divisions and the Cover manager mostly used for Secondary division only. While the defa...
It would be useful if when you added a member of staff as unavailable they system checked if they were already allocated to cover and alerted or removed the cover.
You should be able to simply email the report created in Exam Manager with basic information to the pupils directly. Timetables in particular. Their own school emails are stored in iSAMS. You should be able to link this to the Exams Managers and s...
Linking Sets should have a CORE set OR You should be able to EDIT what is LINKED
You need to have an edit function in Linked Sets. You should be able to unlink and link sets in ONE place. You have to jump through hoops to make an amendment and a mistake costs you hours in unlinking. If you cannot copy a subject set into anothe...
SO tedious to add one set and then another one using the painful dropdown menu. You need to at least be able to multiple select the sets from the huge dropdown (which also needs to be able to be filtered by year group).
To save iSAMs development, why not have just one exams module that serves for external & internal exams, especially as you can already customise basedata in the external module. That would save set up, time, money etc for schools too. You coul...