Ideas

The ability to add exact times (e. g. 1pm-4pm) when adding a timetable suspension for a year group in Cover Manager would be really useful, for example when all students in a year are on a trip in the afternoon but are present in the morning.

When we suspend lessons by year group (not by set), it also effects other year groups if we have a student out of their year in that class/set. Example: I have suspended Upper 6 lessons for study leave. A Lower 6 lesson showing as suspended in cov...

When a timetable is suspended e.g. Y11 go on leave on exams, it marks the room allocated to their lessons as avaliable so that these show up when allocating room changes.

HI, It would be helpful if spell check was available when typing in School Spider. Even with AI turned on it still doesn't highlight spelling errors.

To be able to run a report on a parent to see what messages they have opened and what they haven't as currently we can only do it by individual message or see the last 3 messages sent to them.

Sometimes we use Operations staff for cover. The only way I can find to include them in the list of available staff in the cover module is to mark them as teaching staff within the HR module. It would be helpful if staff could be filtered in a mor...

Allow split parents to book separate parents evening appts where the school deems it appropriate.

Currently all covers are weighted the same, whether a 5 minute registration or a 55 minute lesson. It would help to create a fairer picture of 'load' if some periods could be scored with a different (sometimes zero) wieghting. This is how other so...

I need the ability to enter a member of staff absent for the same period for a number of weeks rahter than having to enter the absence infividually. Ie Monday p3 for 6 weeks.