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External Exams Manager

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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 10 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

Seating Plan Wizard - order candidates by extra-time, deselect all.

It would be useful in the seating plan wizard Step 2 to be able to deselect all candidates and also to be able to sort by extra/access arrangement. Then all typists could easily be found for allocating to a different room for example. Rather than ...
Guest about 7 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 1 Now

Seating Plans links to Room cover in Cover Manager

When doing seating plans, the room that is being used should be linked with the cover manager. This was when doing cover that room can be re-roomed. Otherwise this is double work and if you forget to add it, chaos on the day of the exam.
Guest over 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager / External Exams Manager 0 Good Feature

Option to add additional data to the external exams wizard candidates page

Is it possible to add additional columns to the External Exams Manager for other candidate numbers. We have learners who take qualifications in Dance, Singing, Acting, and a whole host of other things that all have their own unique candidate numbe...
Guest 6 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Good Feature

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

Ability to specify where exam arrangements comes from

SEN info in Pupil Registers flows through to Exams, which is great. But EAL info in Pupil Registers does not. We would want things like extra time and dictionaries recorded in either Register to populate Exams. Otherwise, what is the point of bein...
Guest 6 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Now

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 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

Teacher Access to Forecasts

It would be VERY beneficial for teachers to be able to put their own pupil forecasts in, but have no access to the any other part of the External Exam Manager. It would be even better to lock it down so that teachers only have access to their subj...
Guest 12 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / External Exams Manager 0 Good Feature