Ideas

Before the upgrade we would send out lots of forms to staff in the September via ParentMail, such as Declaration of Business Interests, Safeguarding declarations. Our templates are still there but we are unable to send them to staff as that featur...

Similar to the Master Spreadsheet available for teachers, it would be highly beneficial to have a Master Spreadsheet for students, organized by class or year group. Currently, Heads of Department frequently request this information, and I have to ...

I know this has been mentioned before but it would be really useful to be able to assign multiple teachers to a single lesson. Our timetable includes a number of lessons which are taught by 2 (or more) teachers. This is not limited to games lesson...

This would save time when sending timetables to all pupils

The old system used to show the exact date and time that the e-mail was read. This is very useful when parents say they haven't received a message.

We like to do the rollover as early in the Summer holidays as possible, but do not want to release the next academic year's timetable and form information to pupils prior to September (but do want staff to have access to it). To keep the timetable...

In the previous version of ParentMail, when parents notified school of an absence, the absence report showed the child's class which was incredibly useful when you have 420 pupils. The new version no longer shows the pupils registration group whic...

In the new ParentMail you cannot have your school logo in the header. This was great in the old version and is disappointing it has been removed.

Following the upgrade, only 18 months worth of sent messages are able to view. In our school we find it useful to look back and copy communications sent to parents for previous message wording and pattern of events. It would be helpful for us to s...

When an absence comes through, with being a larger school, it is adding time to check which class they are in. Also, we have a few pupils with the same name in different year groups so having their class/year show when sending messages home would ...