Cover Manager

I was emailing Reece about this Currently you can suspend a class for one day. but if a class is on a trip e.g. 9am to 1pm it would be great to set this up. then i can suspend class and use these teachers for cover...

Morning I often find that staff within departments will cover a colleague because it is an exam class, but they then need cover for their own lesson. This has come up a few times but I am unable to do the cover on iSAMS as that person is not showi...

We have situations where whole Year levels will be gone for a certain time for example all Grade level 6 will be out for a local trip from 11am until 3pm. Right now the timetable suspension will only allow to mark a whole day, it would be really h...

It would be useful if we could produce the register (list of students) for a covered lesson directly in Cover Manager, to print and give to agency staff - an equivalent of the Produce Paper Register option in the Wizard Bar, but done directly from...

Changes can come in last minute, post publication. Should a cover be deleted then it would be really useful to have the covering teacher emailed about it.

It would be good to have automatic allocation of cover while once absence can be logged. Of course this can be set while with a proper algorithm which will first choose teachers in the same department and also assign cover based on the number of t...

We have hourly timetable periods but sometimes we need to split the period into two half hourly cover periods and assign different staff. This facility ensures that the relevant people are aware that they need to cover a class. Some of our staff a...

We switch timetables during our academic year (as many schools do e.g. during exam periods). When we do that, it wipes out any historical data from the cover module, rendering the statistics meaningless. Is there a way we could retain the stats of...

We have many classes where we have to create two seperate sets but for all intents and purposes are one class taught at the same time by the same teacher. The best example of this are High Level and Standard Level IB Diploma classes. When re-roomi...

If a teacher is busy period 1, 3 and 5, for example, I have to enter three 'absences' separately, with start and end times all manually input. This is a waste of time. The manage cover sheet shows all parts of the day to allow you to set cover: if...