There are so many inadequacies with the module that one wonders if new modules are tested with real school staff before being rolled out. It doesn't pick up data from Tracking Manager or Report Manager to make it easy to show historic grades/score...
Ability to copy a tracking model with all the subjects etc then point to a different gradebook to pull the data through
At the moment it is not possible to re-configure the data set element once it has been created so that it targets a different data set.This means creating a new model from scratch every term.
Ability to re-use tracking models - for e.g. by allowing a different reporting cycle to be selected and re-use the model
Tracking model data is based on reporting cycles. For new reporting cycles, the whole time-consuming process of creating the model needs to be repeated.Please include the ability of re-using models by changing the reporting cycles.
Sorting the dropdown in reporting cycle to the latest report as opposed to the oldest report
When you are adding a reporting cycle to a model the dropdown for the Report Cycle orders from the earliest report within the category as opposed to the latest report in the category. This is not the end of the world but it does involve scrolling ...
Currently it only include subject reports. School may have other reports such as head of subject reports which need to be included in tracking as well.
Simple options like SUM are missing. I have 69 columns I want to add. It has already taken half a day to add the columns and get them setup, it feels like it will take that long again to create a formula to add each of the columns individually!
It would be great if iSAMS can provide an option to download the imported data from External data Tab. This option will be really helpful when an ex-employee has imported the data but hasn't left any clue which data has been imported.