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Maintain report mapping to previous report cycles from archived Gradebooks

We have noticed that once Gradebooks have been archived, which is the reasonable process to do after rolling over every year. The report mapping to previous/historical report cycles are removed. This means that all gradebook data is removed from s...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Gradebooks 11 Next

Room cover functionality

It is sometimes necessary to move lessons from one place to another. This does not seem to be possible as to move a lesson from a room, the room needs to be "closed" which then means it cannot be used to house another lesson. This seems to me to b...
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 1 In Discovery

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...
Guest 9 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

multiple select period feature when assigning cover

Saves time to select multiple periods simultaneously in Cover Manager to assign cover for example double lessons, or multiple select periods where cover are not required
Guest about 1 month ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 Awaiting Review

Mark reports as complete in bulk

When a year tutor for example wants to write one general comment for a set of reports, we tend to hard code it into our printing templates, which is not ideal, as this can change with each cycle. Instead an ideal solution would be to allow the yea...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Reports Wizard 1 Good Feature

Ability to change a student's timetable in advance

It would be so useful to have the ability to make class changes in advance of the event so that it doesn't have to be done on the day. I know other IMS systems allow this and the change automatically applies on the date selected. Class lists can t...
Guest 8 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Teaching Manager 0 Good Feature

Bulk create gradebooks from information in Teaching Manager

The data to create classes and assign teachers already exists in Teaching Manager and the timetable. It seems very labour intensive to have to do it manually.
Guest over 3 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Gradebooks 1 Now

Entry Marksheets

Allow staff members i.e. teachers to enter their students into exams on a marksheet for this to be signed / amended by the exams officer in a digital way such as a workflow within the system. Currently only the exams officer can enter students int...
Bradley Allen 20 days ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Awaiting Review

Add Pupil to MULTIPLE SETS at once

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).
Guest 10 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Teaching Manager 0 Good Feature

Facility to gender check and name check reports

It would be useful to have the facility in reports wizard to 'gender check' for pronoun accuracy and to have a 'name check' that flags incorrect spellings of first/preferred names after a reporting deadline has passed.
Guest 4 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Reports Wizard 0 Good Feature