Ideas

A description text box should be available on the Quick Actions - Leave Request for parents to fill in. Most the time we have to reject the leave requests as we have no reason for the absence.

On the previous version, we could print letters for parents not on email (we have a small number of parents with no email/access to smart phones) This has gone from the new system - please bring it back. All we can do now is print the letter then ...

When you download a PDF attchment from a message that's been sent, rather than the PDF being called the name of the document, it renames it a long line of random text which is really annoying as you then have to rename it. The old ParentMail used ...

When you write a message in ParentMal and include a link, it doesn't show this on the screen. On the attachment, the word link is a hyperlink but you can't see it all so you don't know it's actually been added. This is quite confusing for staff as...

Could a feature be added where files can be sorted into alphabetical order without the need to physically move each file into alphabetical order

Regarding the salutations please can you feed back that not having the option to separate Title, First name and surname in emails is not good. As a school we don’t address parents as Dear John Smith, we would say Dear Mr Smith or Dear John if we k...

With the old parent portal you could mimic being a particular parent which made it really easy to troubleshoot issues. It doesn't look like it's possible the new cloud portal which means we are having to go back to parents and ask them for screens...

The current merge tags are quite limited and can make messages difficult to word naturally. For example, when selecting the ‘Pupil Name’ tag, it automatically inserts both the first name and surname, which can make the message read awkwardly. It w...

Ability to bulk upload documents to the student portal. The functionality that allows this in the Parent Portal by naming documents with the student ID and student name is very useful. This functionality is also needed in the Student Manager so th...

The new Parent Portal does not show the class, form or personal tutor of the child in the "My Child" widget, which means parents have to find some other way to see the information. This is a huge issue during the summer or at the beginning of the ...