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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
Guest almost 5 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 3 In Discovery

Consistency and Clarity Between Managing Absences and Unavailable Staff

The consistency of screens across iSAMS makes a huge difference to its useability. Likewise, providing on-screen cues as to default or currently-selected settings also makes a difference to useability. We were finding that staff marked unavailable...
Sarah Kattau 3 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 Awaiting Review

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.
Guest 9 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 1 In Discovery

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...
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Sync Cover Manager with Google Calendar

We use Cover Manager in iSAMS to allocate teachers for cover lessons. All our teachers use Google Calendars. They export the timetable from iSAMS to create their Google Calendar. They then add any meetings, or events in to Google Calendar as and w...
Guest 4 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 Awaiting Review

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...
Guest 11 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

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...
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 4 In Discovery

Suspend for a period

It is amazing to be able to suspend a year group who are out on a trip as it means their lessons don't need covering and staff who are teaching those lessons are freed for cover. However, it would be AMAZING if this could also be applied to parts ...
Guest about 1 year ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 1 Good Feature

Enabling operations staff to appear available for cover

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...
Guest 6 months ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 Awaiting Review

Teacher meetings aren't shown on cover manager.

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.
Guest almost 2 years ago in IRIS Ed:gen & iSAMS / Cover Manager 0 In Discovery