Ideas

We used to be able to be able to forward emails to different recipients with the old Parentmail system, however I understand we cannot do this with the new Parentmail. It would be useful if this function could be added on.

The old system used to show the exact date and time that the e-mail was read. This is very useful when parents say they haven't received a message.

As a school, we used to be able to send text messages to external bodies using their mobile phone number, without them being on our system. Eg. we have prospective parents who want to visit the school, we do block bookings and send a reminder text...

We are overwhelmed by emails generally so to now have every absence reported sent to all the admin team and the head individually is really annoying. We would like to have the option to turn this feature off.

In the new ParentMail you cannot have your school logo in the header. This was great in the old version and is disappointing it has been removed.

When an absence comes through, with being a larger school, it is adding time to check which class they are in. Also, we have a few pupils with the same name in different year groups so having their class/year show when sending messages home would ...

On the previous version, we could print letters for parents not on email (we have a small number of parents with no email/access to smart phones) This has gone from the new system - please bring it back. All we can do now is print the letter then ...

Currently, student manager sorts by Surname. Sometimes it can be helpful to sort by First name. Add an option to sort by First Name. This is particularly useful for fire registers where we are probably more familiar with our student's first names ...

We would like the default on messages to be always hide sender. Then we would like any replies to be sent to a generic school email address.

We need the ability to delete emails once they have been sent, if there is an error in them, the function to recall/delete from parents accounts area.