Ideas

As a school with a multidivisional timetable viewing the timetable for a pupil, teacher or room is hugely unfriendly. We have three timetables - Nursery, primary and senior.If you are viewing a primary timteable you have to scroll thorough Nursery...

It would be great if, in addition to importing class data, we could import availability and meetings via the iSAMS spreadsheet method.

I found the "Transfer timetable" in "Useful Timetable Tools" very useful indeed.Although, the new teacher who takes over the whole role, takes over not just lessons, but all duties, meetings etc. of his predecessor, which are marked in the section...

So we wouldn't have to select all included teachers manually, as their division is already indicated on their profile in the HR module.

With the recent removal of the SEN module, we would now like our 'new' SEN Fields hosted in the Student Registers module to be ticked as default. It seems that iSAMS doesn't offer this ability. It would make even more sense if System Admins could ...

The new Delete & Insert process for timetable imports allows us to delete parts of an existing timetable as part of the import process. However, if you select, say, to delete Week B, all of Week B is deleted: class data, availability and meeti...

Under house management it would be useful to view all of the staff that are associated with that house.In HR managed staff can be allocated to a house, but you can not easily see what staff are associated to a house (for non-HR users).

We have added an extra year group to the Nursery (effectively N-3). However, the function does not exist to give it the NC year N-3, meaning we have had to assign it the form year 15. This has had an effect on rollover and register etc..

We have ESOL students who will have a whole morning of individual intensive teaching. We add our ESOL lessons as tutorials as they are usually for individuals or only a few children at a time. It is time consuming adding the same tutorial for 4 di...

It would be good to have students blank spaces on timetables be automatically called "Study Period" or something else. Framing these non-taught periods as study periods would certainly help set the right tone.