Ideas

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.

When entering absences for staff or entering room closures, you can enter the absence/closure by period or time range. Selecting by period is currently only available when selecting a single date of closure. Week allocations are defined within the...

We really need an app-only calendar of school events (like platforms such as class dojo offer). We removed the calendar from our website as it is not secure (it is open to the public) and for safeguarding reasons, events in schools should not be m...

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...

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...

This would be helpful for safeguarding reasons. Some parents may not be allowed contact with their child but, via the public calendar, could find out if their child will be on a trip outside of school. Also, general members of the public can view ...

This is particularly important if various staff are checking messages and all need to be updated. We have times where a parent tells us they have replied to a message but staff do not know as they are not alerted to this on the parent communicatio...

It would be really helpful to parents and carers to have the facility to add re-occurring appointments onto the school spider system. At our school all of our pupils have behavioural or SEN Needs and therefore have a lot of therapy appointments an...

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...

We hold sponsored events to raise money for school - but there is no way of parents being able to just drop any amount of money to the school via the payment system. If tere could be a donate section on the payment tab that would be amazing.