Ideas

Is there a way to export the following statistics from the Cover Manager? The total number of days absent per staff member over a selected period of time?

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...

When we suspend lessons by year group (not by set), it also effects other year groups if we have a student out of their year in that class/set. Example: I have suspended Upper 6 lessons for study leave. A Lower 6 lesson showing as suspended in cov...

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...

When a timetable is suspended e.g. Y11 go on leave on exams, it marks the room allocated to their lessons as avaliable so that these show up when allocating room changes.

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...

With the existing add cover rota UI, to add multiple teacher for a timetable week and timetable period combination, we hold down Ctrl to multi select. This however makes it far too easily to deselect selection

We would like to be able to add administrator(s) email addresses to the cover notifications so that staff can reply if they can't do the cover. At the moment, the notifications come from a noreply email address and some staff have tried to reply w...

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 ...

Rota cover does not currently appear in the Master Timetable spreadsheet exported in the Timetable Manager. So these need to be added manually to provide a true picture of staff availability and frees.