Ideas

It would be a good if employee working patterns were visible in the directory. This would allow staff to quickly check who is scheduled to be in on a given day, if they have the right permissions.

In the previous version before migration, we relied on the visibility of Notes to ensure we provided the correct arrangements specific to the candidate and the subject being examined. If we only see RA/R we cannot tell they mean Reader pen and Com...

We recently imported some CAT4 data into iSAMS which will shortly be used in reports going home. The data was imported in Tracking Manager and then pulled through into a new gradebook. One pupil missed the original CAT4 tests and we've just receiv...

Being able to set a limit on the number of general absences requested based on the absence reason. EG - 4 dental appointments in year, 5 child care days a year. etc, with an alert once this limit is met. And perhaps automatically overriding the "P...

It may be worth reviewing a colleague’s absence record, as time off for antenatal appointments has been recorded as General Absence – Pregnancy Related Absence, which appears to have reduced her overall attendance percentage. As these are authoris...

We are coming up against a problematic feature when it comes to rooms in iSAMS. We often have to swap timetabled classes around, but need to use the space we are moving one class from for another timetabled class to move into. This often occurs fo...

The approval process for Teaching, Non-Teaching and Prep School general absences differs so we have had to triplicate the reasons. Because the list is not alphabetically sorted (I'm pretty sure they used to be), staff have to trawl through a list ...

When you have a large number of exams to manage, it is easy to miss one out when putting a seating plan together. Once a seating plan has been created, the only editing you can do is with adding or removing candidates for the exams *already* assoc...

After a while, schools end up with a long list of templates in the Reports Manager module. There are icons for editing/archiving/deleting these templates which are to the far right-hand side of the template names. The distance between these icons ...

I am not sure if this issue is unique to our setup; however, we link classes for automation purposes (for example, KS4 Biology, Chemistry, and Physics). When a class change is made, the email notification is only sent to one teacher (in this case,...