Cover Manager - ability to select range of periods/times within a day (e.g. p1, 3 and 5) rather than having to enter them all as separate absences
If a teacher is busy period 1, 3 and 5, for example, I have to enter three 'absences' separately, with start and end times all manually input. This is a waste of time. The manage cover sheet shows all parts of the day to allow you to set cover: if...
Change the wording used in the email generated when a form is sent so it does not read Dear (surname)
Currently when a form is sent the parents are sent an email which begins: Dear (surname). This looks quite unprofessional and we would like to either change it to include the salutation first or change it to parent/carer.
Period Selection in Cover Manager (Cover and Room Closures) Should Be Consistent for Date
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...
We want to be able to have more than one teacher marked for a set for example PE and Sports. Then the additional teachers can see the lesson in their timetable and also be marked as unavailable for Cover. This is different to associated teachers w...
When downloading the report template excel spreadsheet, it does not include the students' preferred names. This makes it extremely tough for teachers to fill in the students' reports as they do not know whose reports they are filling in!
We frequently need to switch one-off lessons between classrooms but this cannot be achieved through cover as the room needs to be closed to move the lesson out and the venue is then not available to receive the swapped lesson. It would be benefici...
Ability to change Parental Email address without needing approval from previous email
We often have a Parent whose email address is their work one. Once they change job they remember to update their email on ParentMail but not longer have access to their old email address to approve the change. We also have this where parents have ...
In the gradebook --> workbook view; we are able to pull the gender, form, year, house details next to the learner’s name but unable to pull through any another information a teacher may require while grading a learner. Eg: EAL, Gifted and Talen...
We currently use "98" for Cambridge (because they don't supply base data to international schools) and "99" for MOCKS. We would like to include data for other custom qualifications (e.g. SATs, IELTS). Could we please have the option to create addi...
Sending room cover notification to staff and students by default
When publishing cover, the teacher cover boxes are ticked for 'Send to covering teachers / Send to covered teachers' by default but with room cover you have to remember to tick the box for 'Send to coverering rooms / Send to covered rooms' every d...