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Request to Merge Exam Cycles for Management Purposes

We are currently using two External Exam cycles, each associated with a different exam board: Pearson AQA We would like to have the option to merge these two cycles so that we can manage both together more efficiently — for example, when cre...
Guest 2 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Awaiting Review

Seating Plans

It would be good if withdrawn candidates were removed automatically from seating plans.
Guest over 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 1 Good Feature

More options in seating plans

We need more optons when creating seating plans. i.e. the option to select Access Arrangement Students only (not just unticking and ticking) a box at the top of the list to untick all, so that you just select certain students would help the option...
Guest almost 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 3 In Discovery

Add an additional option to the Exams Manager Candidate Special Arrangements called 'Coloured Paper

Students may have Exam Special Arrangements which specify that they need coloured paper. It would be helpful to have this added as a check box option that can be viewed alongside the others as it does not currently appear.
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 3 Now

The ability to allocate extra time for particular subjects for a candidate so this is displayed on their exam timetable

If extra time is only relevant for particular subjects, the candidates exam timetable would only reflect the actual subjects they are entitled to extra time for rather than showing extra time for all subjects which can lead to some confusion.
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 1 Now

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 over 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

BULK DELETE SEATING PLANS

When deleting an exam cycle, you must first delete all the seating plans associated with that exam cycle. Sometimes there are over 100 seating plans which currently need to be deleted individually. Please can I suggest there is a bulk delete optio...
Guest 3 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 2

Greying out exams that have already been seated

I'm sure it used to do this hoever I have been told by your team that it hasn't. If when the seating plans for that exam time and session have been completed ie. all students have been allocated a seat, if the exam was greyed out, it would be easi...
Guest almost 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Good Feature

Special Arrangements subject specific

When we have a candidate who has subject specific access arrangements eg extra time for maths currently we have to add the arrangement to each paper. In SQA arrangements we can add based on the subject It would save much time to have the choice of...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Now

Manually add exam duration in External Exams Manager

Some external assessments eg BTEC Level 3 Nationals external units do not have the date, time and duration on the exam board base data as they are centre timetabled (within a window). I can add the date and start time manually in the Programme Tim...
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery