Ideas

Often when searching for a free room in a specific period, we have an idea of which building we would prefer. It would be great if we could have the option to search in a specific building, or perhaps just to see the search results sorted by build...

Currently, we have set up the positive comment to be sent to the parent email address when recorded in iSAMS. This has been a great addition, however, we have noticed a massive drop in responses back from parents. Normally, teachers would email ho...

Some external assessments eg BTEC Level 3 Nationals external units do not have the date, time and duration on the exam board base data as they are centre timetabled (within a window). I can add the date and start time manually in the Programme Tim...

Track Approval Details for Future Leave Requests Submitted via the Parent Portal It would be very helpful if future leave requests submitted by parents through the Parent Portal showed clear information on who approved or rejected each request. Th...

It appears that it is not possible to create a calculated column using formula builder, e.g. for a term grade, that uses weightings that ignores empty cells (e.g. if a student missed an assessment). "Unfortunately AVERAGEIF function is not availab...

Having a 'Staff out of school' section would be very useful to make staff aware of any other staff which are off site on any particular day at a glance when first opening iSAMS. This section could operate similarly to the 'out of school' list whic...

The Exam Cycle display name c urrently appears as dates, such as ‘July 2025’ x 5 times. Can this be changed on the portal so it shows the board number or name as well as the date, therefore it doesn't appear on glance as duplicate cycles.

Let parents reply to a message with photo/document attached.

Currently, editing the staff/room timetables and Managing Availability Schedule are done separately. It will be beneficial to be able to perform both tasks on one screen/page.

We were able to make the Parent Portal simple and objective with only a few pages in the older version - customizing names, menus, their order, etc. This was a huge loss from the previous one, and now we will have to share a longer version and rec...