Ideas

It would be useful to see in the cover manager audit, the record details that the audit refers to. Currently it is just listed with the changes to an entry number( ie XXX editied #175) but with no way of matching which teacher/lesson etc this reco...

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...

When we send out a reminder about previous communication sent via Iris Reach, there are a number of ‘lazy’ parents that say they didn’t receive it. But when you search their child’s Email Log you can see it has been sent. I am requesting that ther...

The ability to add exact times (e. g. 1pm-4pm) when adding a timetable suspension for a year group in Cover Manager would be really useful, for example when all students in a year are on a trip in the afternoon but are present in the morning.

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...

System should look at 'gender identification field' on SIMS and not 'sex' field to ensure the correct pronouns are used.

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...

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.

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...

I need the ability to enter a member of staff absent for the same period for a number of weeks rahter than having to enter the absence infividually. Ie Monday p3 for 6 weeks.