Ideas

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Extremely useful when ensuring FSM families have booked their meals and if not - I am then able to easily locate them and book for them, rather than having to go through the whole school list to find each FSM pupil

When creating staff meetings, it would be good if it reflects on the cover manager.

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...