In some cases, school would like to block access of Parents from accessing Reports section but not to block them from accessing Parent Portal's other features like School News or Announcements. Ideal place to have this option would be Pupil Manage...
Have a Way of Viewing Component Results within iSAMS
It is possible to pull out component results using an SSRS report. However, there are no screens directly within the Exams Manager module to view these results. Almost all exam boards are now releasing component results and staff need an easy way ...
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 ...
The ability to select/deselect which candidate results are published to Parent Portal
As per ICOs guidelines, pupils can request that their results are not published to parents if there is a good reason not to. Unfortunately, publishing results to PP in iSAMS is an 'all or nothing' button click. You cannot even manually remove a pu...
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...
Allow staff members i.e. teachers to enter their students into exams on a marksheet for this to be signed / amended by the exams officer in a digital way such as a workflow within the system. Currently only the exams officer can enter students int...
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...
Display a warning if portal publishing will not show to parents
Most of our report cycles start in Online Assessment and move to Report Wizard for proof reading and publishing to the portal. For Y12, they only get grades and I forgot to switch it to Report Wizard before publishing. While the process ran succes...