Ideas

It would be really useful on School Spider if you could schedule the same message for the same day and time on multiple weeks. We would use this to remind parents to book their child's dinners in advance.

We often have events which need the Timetable to be suspended for part of a day, e.g. One year group for the afternoon. We can then use 'spare' teachers to cover lessons.

I need to credit staff with a cover period when supervising a room cover. We use classrooms for school activities where pupils need to be supervised by staff. Staff who are free of lessons are used to supervise these activities, but there is no fu...

I would like to propose implementing a school-specific, AI-powered answer bot on our webpage to improve communication and accessibility. This tool would be useful to new and current families because it acts as a 24/7 virtual assistant, giving accu...

It would be really useful if the cover reports allowed you to select the current cycles as a filter. We have two junior schools also using cover and each will only want their staff.

In parentmail you can amend parental responses if a parent has selected the wrong response or you can update if you’ve spoke to parent! This saves time as only have to use on document to collate data

Frequently when cover is required due to part of a year group being out on a trip, we may combine classes. We couldn’t find an obvious way of combining classes and notifying teachers that this has happened. We found that we could get the same memb...

Can staff unavailabilities be entered for less than a full day in Cover Manager (i.e. Sessions 4–6 only), and can those sessions automatically flow through to the Cover Timetable as requiring cover? Additionally, could you please confirm whether t...

It'd be useful if Cover Manager retained the ability to view a teacher’s timetable with a "View Timetable" button after they've been selected as the cover teacher. Currently, once a teacher is selected for a cover lesson, the option to view their ...

We would benefit from a quick add option in the cover module. I would have the opportunity to create an "absence" add a name and the time required. It would be great for invigilation and random duties we need to cover. It would generate a cover sl...