External Exams Manager

A significant number of our students have Ear Defenders and a few need coloured paper / overlays (which is different from colour naming) as part of their access arrangements. While we can detail these additional needs in the Arrangement Notes free...

When setting up seating plans you can either simply number each seat or use a combination of row and column orderings. However, it is only with the simple numbering of seats that you get the snaked layout. The snaked layout is a JCQ requirement, b...

Why must we add each arrangement one by one per student? There should be an add arrangement box when you are in editing for one student to add all their arrangements.

I am currently building a custom basedata for our upcoming Mock exams in the External exams manager. The reason for this is that I find that the internal exam manager does not provide enough functionality. My question is can I use an xlsx template...

It would be great if the system could check to the exam entries, and if the exam has students eligible for extra time, that this be added on to the total time requirements for the exam. It is great just being able to drag the exam times around on ...

SQA results cannot be view on Pupil Profile module, or through Pupil or Parent Portals. This is really important for staff to access in terms of tracking, and for our parents and students to have access to for applications. More work needs to be d...

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...

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...

Access arrangements for many pupils are different on a subject by subject basis. For example, a student may be allocated extra time for Maths exams only. Currently, we need to identify each exam code that would be a Maths exam and add them as addi...

We had a case where students were allocated to a subject and then the subject got archived. The students did not appear on ANY built in iSAMS report in Exams Manager, but they did appear on EDI file that has been sent to exam boards. Very costly m...