It would be useful when sending emails via the portal to be able to select or create varied recipient groups. Currently you can only select the whole school or by year group, but we often find a need to send emails to a class or specific group.
SSO with Microsoft Azure B2C for Parent accounts in iSAMS
We found that Microsoft's Azure B2C could be an excellent Single Sign On-Solution for our parents to login to the different platforms. The process to create an account in B2C is straight forward, and self explaining. It allows the parents to use t...
Ability to add drop-down fields and ability to link these to global and built in fields. In theory you can achieve this with radio field but it takes a long time with longer lists and looks extremely messy. (Eg. Nationality, Language, etc.)
Ability to see COMMUNICATION HISTORY via the iParent App
Literally the entire point of the iParent app is to have everything you get with Parent Portal, but mobile. I actually assumed this was already built-in, but when some users complained that they weren't receiving emails I took a look for myself. T...
Placement of Electronic Form 'successful completion' messaging
We have received some feedback from parents regarding the messages that appear upon the successful completion of an online form. If the form is lengthy, which is the case with a couple of recent forms sent out to collate health information, they c...
sometimes parents send us emails without mentioning their child's names or their names. It would be great to have an option to search them by their emails.
At the moment when we create a form using the auto pupil selector only one student can be selected. however, we have some parents/guardians who then need to complete exactly the same information several times for multiple students eg a family with...
Parent portal- Electronic form- data merge fields for pupil selector
When a parent selects Child A, will the associated form name, yeargroup and tutor names be auto populate, so that the parent does not input here or cause mistakes while inputting these info. The reason being, the parents do not enter the correct d...
Show staff's photo in Parent Portal School Directory
We've received feedback from a parent suggesting that it would be helpful for them to see the teacher's photo during parent-teacher conferences. Since we already have staff photos in the HR Manager module, it would be great if we could have the op...
Have Feature Parity between the parent portal and iParent app.
The iParent app and parent portal should have the same experience. For example. currently parents can't request absence via the iParent app, they have to sign in via the web browser. May people only have mobile phones these days and are used to us...
