Currently all covers are weighted the same, whether a 5 minute registration or a 55 minute lesson. It would help to create a fairer picture of 'load' if some periods could be scored with a different (sometimes zero) wieghting. This is how other so...
Remove top 5 absent teachers or give the module granular permissions
Granular permissions for Cover manager widgets. Currently all staff who have access get to see the "Top 5 absent teachers" this goes against the ICO guidance that "An employer must not publish ‘league tables’ of sickness absences of individual wor...
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...
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...
Mark teachers unavailable during Absent and Free periods
It would be helpful to be able block times when staff are unavailable (due to ad hoc meetings etc) during their non-teaching periods. This would prevent them from being allocated cover.
I have just spoken to Ben and he suggested I submit a feature request. We have changed to a Multi Divisional Timetable and we are requesting that during a Room Closure, Edgen display both school divisions in one screen if when the division is to I...
Show room name instead of room code on the master cover timetable and master spreadsheet
This year we had to assign codes to our rooms which are different than their original names, but our students and staff are used to using the original names. When I publish cover and room closure cover it displays the code instead of the name whic...
Show Room Closures in Room Cover for non timetabled periods
Currently when to add a Room closure in the Cover Manager for a period that is FREE in ISAMS, the room is effectively Booked, but it doesnt appear anywhere in for staff to see this other than in the Cover Module itself. The issue is then if staff ...
Adding non-teaching staff specifically the librarian to the Cover Manager so we can cover her when absent.
Our students who are on reduced timetables go to the library to work. Usually this is supervised by the dedicated librarian but when she is absent, it would be useful to add her absence to the Cover Manager to allocate the staff covering her. She ...