Ideas

The ability for a member of staff to cancel their own holiday request when it is still pending within the self service portal.

The ability to add balances of 'general leave' in addition to holiday balances, where a HR manager can make the decision if this type of leave is allowed i.e. compassionate and if the member of staff has used up their paid for 'compassionate leave'

When seating for internal and external exams we often have the same subject but with several components ( multiple papers) these are held of different dates and times. The students need to be seated in the same seat for all of these exams so would...

improve visibility of absences by enabling integration between the absence calendar in the HR platform and Microsoft Outlook. This would allow approved absences to automatically appear in users’ Outlook calendars (i.e. a line manager), streamlinin...

Request to toggle if the automatic self-certification email is sent to employees following sickness absence. This may not be a required process for some schools.

Request to introduce more granular permission settings for my portal/ View all employees that allow separation of visibility between personal details (e.g. contact info, ethnicity) and contractual/salary information. Currently, visibility is all-o...

Request for automatic email notifications to be sent to a staff member’s line manager when a leave of absence is approved. This ensures awareness for operational planning and cover arrangements. This would be useful if line managers are not a part...

Can we please have the ability to enlarge the font on the iSAMS seating plan so that a human being can read it. Currently we have to export it onto Excel to enlarge it, however, that loses the colour codes for each exam.

A better way for employees to request training from a list of available courses either online or offline for this to go through an approval process, with an approval process to be signed off once the course has been completed.

The CIE awarding body have supplied component results in spreadsheet form for the June 2025 exams. It would be useful if we could import these into isams so that we can include them in the results information we provide to pupils and staff.