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Selecting particular seating as starting point for individual exams.

Default to candidate number orderAdd to seating one exam at a timeStart an exam at specific seat numberAllow AA pupils to allocated separatelyCandidate list to be by exam and candidate number.
Guest almost 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

The ability to select/deselect which candidate results are published to Parent Portal

As per ICOs guidelines, pupils can request that their results are not published to parents if there is a good reason not to. Unfortunately, publishing results to PP in iSAMS is an 'all or nothing' button click. You cannot even manually remove a pu...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

Room wizard

1 On the stage when you are able to remove pupils from the seating plan with the green 'tick' to red 'no entry' symbol. If you then change to candidate number rather than surname - the next step - all your work disappears. The stages need to be sw...
Guest over 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

Reports should include all the students who appear on EDI report.

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...
Guest 11 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

Allow non-aphanumeric codes in Custom Basedata

Please allow non-alphanumeric component codes in custom basedata. In exam board basedata, the use of symbols such as "/" are often used. We use custom basedata to run our PPEs (mocks). If we could use the same codes as the exam board, access arran...
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

Deleting Programmes and Options in Exams Manager

When you go to delete an exam programme or option from the Exams Manager module, you get a pop up warning message. (Example attached.) This message appears regardless of whether the programme/option has any entries or results attached to it. In ot...
Sarah Kattau 6 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

print out desk labels by room, not by exam

We are a small school with small rooms. We also have a lot of students with Access Arrangements. As a result, we often have up to 5 different rooms with candidates for one examination.Because it is only possible to print out the desk labels per ex...
Guest over 3 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

SQA Results Upload

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...
Guest 6 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

One Exams Module for External and Internal Exams

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...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery

Duplicate private candidate number

It seems possible to allocate the same candidate number to several private candidates. Please could there be a check to stop this happening? It is currently not possible to sort on candidate number in the private candidate view. It would be helpfu...
Guest 7 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 In Discovery