Ideas

We need the ability to send messages to only males or females, depending on the message. This was available previously and was very useful.

When the Year 11s come off roll we still have reasons to contact them, ie collect art work, collect certificates, post-secondary education, etc. We used to be able to make a report from SIMS and export to Iris Reach and use this to send messages. ...

We have a parents consultation meetings which can be held on the same day. One in the morning and then meetings in the evening. At the moment to set this up you have to set up two separate parents evening sessions. It would be beneficial to be abl...

When an absence comes through, with being a larger school, it is adding time to check which class they are in. Also, we have a few pupils with the same name in different year groups so having their class/year show when sending messages home would ...

It would be useful if staff that know they are absent on a day due to leave or a trip can request this in cover manager and then if it gets approved it automatically updates cover manager to cover that member of staff on that day or days. This wou...

It would be so useful to have the ability to make class changes in advance of the event so that it doesn't have to be done on the day. I know other IMS systems allow this and the change automatically applies on the date selected. Class lists can t...

Before the upgrade we would send out lots of forms to staff in the September via ParentMail, such as Declaration of Business Interests, Safeguarding declarations. Our templates are still there but we are unable to send them to staff as that featur...

Currently one can only make changes to sets and classes to take effect immediately. Allowing one to make changes in advance would be very beneficial. Or to allow class/set enrolments for specific date ranges would also help.

The Survey's and Forms are headed Answers from .....(parent name). It would be better for filing against the child's record if the Survey or Form was headed Answers for and child's name. The children do not always have the same surname as the pare...

SO tedious to add one set and then another one using the painful dropdown menu. You need to at least be able to multiple select the sets from the huge dropdown (which also needs to be able to be filtered by year group).