Sending room cover notification to staff and students by default
When publishing cover, the teacher cover boxes are ticked for 'Send to covering teachers / Send to covered teachers' by default but with room cover you have to remember to tick the box for 'Send to coverering rooms / Send to covered rooms' every d...
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...
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
COVER of Cover. Subject Teacher to take Specialism and be covered for 'Other' subjects same period
We call this Daisy Chaining. All our teachers, on top of a specialism take interest or social classes (e.g. PSE, Citizenship) and when a Teacher is absent in their own department, They take the cover as a priority which means the "Other" class nee...
Administering room cover across a long period of time
The cover manager has the ability to close rooms for specific time periods each day. If the closure is for just one day, the administrative work is relatively minimal. However, when closures extend over a longer period, the administrative workload...
It would be useful to be able to determine the colour of cover sessions as shown in staff timetables. Currently, the colour is very similar to meetings and so isn't very clear.
Teachers show as available on cover manager although they have a meeting. There are regular meetings that teachers have with other teachers or parents, yet, they are placed for cover because the meetings do not show as a lesson. Please fix this.
Email sent when Cover is cancelled after publication
Currently if yu cancel a cover, there is no email, so colleagues still think they have a cover to do, or there is confusion. If a cover is cancelled after publication, could an email be triggered?
View Teacher Cover screen display the assigned user's division only or user's preferences' division
Currently, when a teacher open the View Teacher Cover page from the wizard bar, it show all divisions and default on the first division. As we have 9 different divisions and the Cover manager mostly used for Secondary division only. While the defa...
Room Cover to include meetings scheduled to the room
Currently Room Cover Timetable in Cover Manager does not include meetings scheduled to the room being closed. It would be useful to see meetings booked into the room and then to enable rescheduling the meeting elsewhere.