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COVER of Cover. Subject Teacher to take Specialism and be covered for 'Other' subjects same period

We call this Daisy Chaining. All our teachers, on top of a specialism take interest or social classes (e.g. PSE, Citizenship) and when a Teacher is absent in their own department, They take the cover as a priority which means the "Other" class nee...
Guest 4 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 4 In Discovery

Integrate staff meetings in Timetable

When creating staff meetings, it would be good if it reflects on the cover manager.
Guest 3 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Email Staff of a Cover Stand Down

Changes can come in last minute, post publication. Should a cover be deleted then it would be really useful to have the covering teacher emailed about it.
Guest 9 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

IMPORT Set NAME in the same template as CODE so they can be different

ALL you need is another column called SET NAME in the import template. It's an excel spreadsheet... A code is NOT a name. This should be very simple to action, the fields are in the same place and negates the need to auto populate the code. IF a s...
Guest 4 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Timetable Manager 0 In Discovery

Add ability to show location of door and invigilation desk to seating plans

Cambridge exam regulations require that seating plans "show the position of each table and chair, and where each candidate will sit. It must also show the position of the invigilator’s desk and the direction the candidates will face.". At the mome...
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

Allow Allocation of Timetable to individual days not only whole weeks

One is currently only able to allocate a timetable to whole weeks rather than individual days. This means when you have half terms etc which run from mid-week or to mid-week you need to create 6 half terms rather than 3 terms. If you have a single...
Guest 2 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Timetable Manager 0 In Discovery

Exporting staff absence stats from the Cover manager

Is there a way to export the following statistics from the Cover Manager? The total number of days absent per staff member over a selected period of time?
Guest 8 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Update academic reports after the printing deadline or portal publishing

In our previous MIS, Administrators could make changes to reports already published/printed. It would be really helpful if iSAMS would allow administrators to edit past reports in a simpler way. Currently we need to re activate a cycle, and change...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Reports Manager 1 In Discovery

Import from KJ's TimeTabler should use the TG year and block information when creating sets

The TimeTabler export file has teaching group lines like:G,10C-Art,10C-Art,Art, ,C,10,N,10ABCDEFGHIJP,IV,10A,10B,10C,10Dwhich in addition to she short and long set names and subject, include the block information (5th field) and year group (6th fi...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Timetable Manager 0 In Discovery

Control-select in Cover Manager

Paticularly useful for the invigiation workaround, I often need to mark multiple periods as cover not required, which is inefficient in terms of 'clicks'. Ctrl-Select works well in timetable and teaching managers and would be really helpful in Cov...
Guest 9 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery