Ideas

We cannot currently do a room swap because presently a closed room cannot be re-roomed into. If closed rooms went into the scheduled list, for example, this would be possible.

There is a Housekeeping tool to remove parents/carers not linked to students. It would be beneficial to see who these people are beforehand in case they should be linked and not deleted. As the action can not be undone it's not something I am will...

Stop general absences that require changes filtering into the Trust overview task area to save so they can be resent out for approval, it would make more sense for the task to look at the changes to be sent back to the requester or absence approver.

Due to the Support staff pay award being settled at 3.2% from September I used this function to update all 10 properties. I then discovered that this only increased the FTE salary and not the hourly rates. In order for me to increase those I was d...

It would be great if when cover was allocated and the cover published, that it shows as pending and requires confirmation of receipt and acceptance by the covering teacher, then it can change to confirmed status. At the moment, you can publish cov...

Some schools prefer to not allow parents to make wrap around register bookings, preferring to book them in via View/Take Register, with plenty of notice so that they can allocate the appropriate number of staff. The Acorn Education Trust want to m...

When generating cover, it sends an email to staff with the period details, but no actual time. When the school day has many periods, staff have to review the timetable to find out the actual time of the cover lesson. There are lots of options to i...

e.g. We have a supply teacher from and agency called 'Gillian Sabino' who has an email address 'smh.supply1@ldst.org.uk' - ideally when I publish cover, she would receive, vai email, the cover lessons relevant to her. Thanks Nigel

Our suppliers are regularly changing the sizing of items and the price. Please could we be able to edit each item and option to annotate pricing and sizing changes without having to make note of stock numbers, archiving and then re-create the item...

We use this option for our Afterschool activity clubs and it would be helpful to be able to see the number of children who have purchased each club at a glance.