Administering room cover across a long period of time
The cover manager has the ability to close rooms for specific time periods each day. If the closure is for just one day, the administrative work is relatively minimal. However, when closures extend over a longer period, the administrative workload...
COVER of Cover. Subject Teacher to take Specialism and be covered for 'Other' subjects same period
We call this Daisy Chaining. All our teachers, on top of a specialism take interest or social classes (e.g. PSE, Citizenship) and when a Teacher is absent in their own department, They take the cover as a priority which means the "Other" class nee...
Would love to have a data point by subject. This would allow us to filter by subject and not just by department. Example of this is a dashboard for Rewards and Conduct, i am unable to cut the data in this way.
Teachers show as available on cover manager although they have a meeting. There are regular meetings that teachers have with other teachers or parents, yet, they are placed for cover because the meetings do not show as a lesson. Please fix this.
Email sent when Cover is cancelled after publication
Currently if yu cancel a cover, there is no email, so colleagues still think they have a cover to do, or there is confusion. If a cover is cancelled after publication, could an email be triggered?
It is amazing to be able to suspend a year group who are out on a trip as it means their lessons don't need covering and staff who are teaching those lessons are freed for cover. However, it would be AMAZING if this could also be applied to parts ...
Window with column options to move with the columns
When the tracking columns get further across the screen and you right click on a column to edit/delete etc, the window with this option cannot be seen. It is there but stuck right at the beginning of the columns so you have to scroll back to the f...
Following on from what I said at yesterday's Southern User Group: As courses are looking like a main driver within Curriculum Manager, please link the course type to a Global List where we could map courses against the DfE requirements for the SLA...
View Teacher Cover screen display the assigned user's division only or user's preferences' division
Currently, when a teacher open the View Teacher Cover page from the wizard bar, it show all divisions and default on the first division. As we have 9 different divisions and the Cover manager mostly used for Secondary division only. While the defa...
Consistency and Clarity Between Managing Absences and Unavailable Staff
The consistency of screens across iSAMS makes a huge difference to its useability. Likewise, providing on-screen cues as to default or currently-selected settings also makes a difference to useability. We were finding that staff marked unavailable...