Ideas

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.

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...

There is a teacher MWZ who will be on absent(maternity leave) from 19th Aug 2024 to 15th Nov 2024. For her lesson ENG07E/B, teacher MRA will always cover her. Is there a button that can let teacher MRA always cover MWZ’s lesson ENG07E/B automati...

When a teacher is put on cover, the cover lesson should appear on their timetable so that the cover teacher can take register as they normally would.

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 ...

We cannot currently do a room swap because presently a closed room cannot be re-roomed into. If closed rooms went into the scheduled list, for example, this would be possible.

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...

Some schools prefer to not allow parents to make wrap around register bookings, preferring to book them in via View/Take Register, with plenty of notice so that they can allocate the appropriate number of staff. The Acorn Education Trust want to m...

We are unable to create any absences for our Cover Supervisors because they don't have any timetabled lessons. Would it be possible to include such staff when we 'create an absence' please?

When generating cover, it sends an email to staff with the period details, but no actual time. When the school day has many periods, staff have to review the timetable to find out the actual time of the cover lesson. There are lots of options to i...