Ideas

Currently, the missing report option in Report Manager/Cycle Manager only identifies missing subject or Tutor reports. It would be useful to enable visibility of other report types assigned e.g. Activity, HoH, Headteacher etc. Currently gaps can o...

When we sync the gradebooks to Reports using the "Sync Gradebook Data" button in the report cycle, we get 3 options to select the report status, Complete, Draft, or Incomplete and we get the option to update all the existing reports. Often, when I...

At present it is only possible to have a proofreader for the written reports, but it will be handy to have a similar setup for the assessment section, so that Head of Subject and ideally, Head of Department can have an overview of the grades/resul...

After a while, schools end up with a long list of templates in the Reports Manager module. There are icons for editing/archiving/deleting these templates which are to the far right-hand side of the template names. The distance between these icons ...

The spell check routine should use the pupil data to check pupil names. Many teachers make mistakes when writing reports that are not picked up by the spell check or other members of staff. These can easily be caught by checking against the pupil ...

This idea affects Teaching Manager as well as Academic Reports. SOCS is used for managing Visiting Music Teachers (VMTs) in the music module. VMTs write reports for their pupils once per term as a subject report in iSAMS. To allow this I have to m...

Currently, you cannot set a character limit on a generic text, only on a report text. This means that even if we set the character limit on report texts, the text might overrun 2 pages due to the lack of a limit on the generic text applied to the ...

Allow for character limit advice and suggestions within the general comment section of the report template. There's a way of limiting the length of other report comments, so its an anomaly that you cannot do this here.

We write ad hoc short term stay reports for a small group of students across multiple year groups who are leaving at the end of each term. Currently to set a report cycle for this, to avoid confusion for staff, I have to choose which students to e...

I print off the Subject Reports Awaiting Completion sheet to scribble on as I figure out anomalies and check every teacher has completed all reports required - but I'm often reminding myself by looking elsewhere which subject the teacher teaches a...