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.

Suggestion for Improvement – School Dinner Daily Purchases Register Priority: Important – Request for Additional Filtering Options We would like to suggest an important improvement to the Payments > Purchases > School Dinners > Manage Reg...

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 ...

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...

Could a feature be added where files can be sorted into alphabetical order without the need to physically move each file into alphabetical order

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...

Now that cover manager retains all previous cover data when switching timetables a user would expect iSAMS to be able to continue to show the correct cover per day, cover per week, cover per month and cover per cycle statistics. Having switched ou...

Since the introduction of FSMT (targeted) and FSME (expanded) from 1/9/26 it is necessary to be able to distinguish between the two groups. At present they are pulled into School Spider as one large FSM group combining FSMT and FSME together. Scho...

Staff currently only know if cover is cancelled when it falls off their timeline - a formal notification confirming that cover is no longer required would be extremely helpful. Ditto when a room closure takes place and staff and students are notif...