multiple select period feature when assigning cover
Saves time to select multiple periods simultaneously in Cover Manager to assign cover for example double lessons, or multiple select periods where cover are not required
Please can we have a warning when our session is about to timeout, providing the ability to be able to stay logged in (like Biostore). It's frustrating for schools to be actively using the system, for it to suddenly time out.
We frequently need to switch one-off lessons between classrooms but this cannot be achieved through cover as the room needs to be closed to move the lesson out and the venue is then not available to receive the swapped lesson. It would be benefici...
Report for removing unlinked parent/carer as per housekeeping tool
There is a Housekeeping tool to remove parents/carers not linked to students. It would be beneficial to see who these people are beforehand in case they should be linked and not deleted. As the action can not be undone it's not something I am will...
Allow "Cover Note" to be able to be added to the email template for emailing out cover
It would be really helpful if additional information about the cover (that we currently include in Cover Note) could be one of the fields we can add to our email template for emailing out cover to staff. Currently this field is only viewable in th...
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...
Publishing cover printouts automatically to Daily Bulletin Manager
I would like to be able to publish from Cover Manager directly to the Daily Bulletin rather than saving a PDF printout and manually creating a new bulletin post each day. Rather than staff just seeing their own cover, they can see the cover overvi...
We use Cover Manager in iSAMS to allocate teachers for cover lessons. All our teachers use Google Calendars. They export the timetable from iSAMS to create their Google Calendar. They then add any meetings, or events in to Google Calendar as and w...
Cover an absent teacher with a scheduled teacher and cover their lesson with a free teacher
When a teacher is absent we would like to be able to use a scheduled teacher to cover their lesson and then cover the scheduled teacher's lesson with another staff member