Ideas

On the old system, we could send from a list wizard, where we could choose a year group or multiple groups, and sort it by name or reg etc, we could then view all members and tick only those we wanted to send messages to. This was a very valuable ...

Parents are unable to send general messages. This is causing a lot of problems with communications. Parents should be able to message in about things other than absences.

We need the ability to send messages to only males or females, depending on the message. This was available previously and was very useful.

When the Year 11s come off roll we still have reasons to contact them, ie collect art work, collect certificates, post-secondary education, etc. We used to be able to make a report from SIMS and export to Iris Reach and use this to send messages. ...

Sometimes we need to provide proof of when a message was sent to a parent. When opening up the message again it just says "sent three weeks ago". If we hover over that, it does show the date, but if we try to use SNIP or printscreen, it disappears...

We have a parents consultation meetings which can be held on the same day. One in the morning and then meetings in the evening. At the moment to set this up you have to set up two separate parents evening sessions. It would be beneficial to be abl...

When you download a PDF attchment from a message that's been sent, rather than the PDF being called the name of the document, it renames it a long line of random text which is really annoying as you then have to rename it. The old ParentMail used ...

We would like to be able to set a group up for only governors. It is not suitable that they are on the staff group and recieve the staff emails. Before the upgrate these were a group on their own.

Regarding the salutations please can you feed back that not having the option to separate Title, First name and surname in emails is not good. As a school we don’t address parents as Dear John Smith, we would say Dear Mr Smith or Dear John if we k...

we should be able to see the name of the child that a parentmail message has been sent to and not the parents as its far to confusing. Parents do not always have the same surname as the child so this makes it very difficult to see who has received...