Add "Family Code" & "Nationality" of student as a search option on the Student Manager
Searching by Family Code is an easy way to find sibling students by family code when parents visit the Finance Office for payments. Searching by Nationality will be helpful when we need quick statistical data.
Phonetic spelling of a student's name to appear within the quick view screen
The phonetic spelling would ensure that staff are all able to pronounce student names correctly. For example, ahead of teaching a new class, assembly where they may be called to the front.This would help avoid any potential 'micro aggressions' for...
Modify the absence code when aproving a LEAVE REQUEST
When aproving a Leave Request it takes the absence code from the default option set in the Configuration options for "Leave Request Settings". It does not take the code selected by the parents and the person that aproves it can't modify or change ...
Future absences - enable students to be absent for part of a lesson
Currently no mark is visible in the register if a student is marked out part way through a lesson (e.g for a peri music lesson or leaving early for a sports fixture). The mark should go in the box for the whole period to alert the staff member tak...
It would be useful to be able to select students from activities when marking students out of school. Currently able to do this via School Structure, Pastoral, Academic and Custom Groups but not via activities.
Send Automatic Email Notifications to Parents of Students Marked Absent during AM Registration
We get complaints from parents that their child has been marked absent when in fact their child was only late during the AM Registration. Upon receiving this absent notification, the parent can immediately inform the tutor or the reception to amen...
Future Absences Should Be Included in the Audit Trail
Registers on iSAMS are generated in the early hours, e.g. 3am. Within the Registration Manager module is a future absence system. Using this, we can instruct registers to be pre-populated with absence codes and notes.
So, when the register is gen...
Student/Pupil Manager - enable paragraphs in Notes
Could you please enable paragraphs when adding Notes to a pupil in Student/Pupil Manager. At the moment, all sentences were combined so hard to read/understand.
Bring 'Future School Name' field to Query Builder search
We found that the 'Future School Name' field is not available in the Query Builder Search in the Student Manager. We can find the intFutureSchool ID field but not the Future School Name field. This is one of the helpful field to quick track the fo...
Add a Preferred Gender Field and change the current Gender field to Gender At Birth
To get around the issue of Non-Binary pupils and use of gender neutral pronouns, our suggestion would be for iSAMS to create a new field in the Student Manager module called ‘Preferred Gender’ which can have 3 or more options. Then rename the exis...