Consistency and Clarity Between Managing Absences and Unavailable Staff
The consistency of screens across iSAMS makes a huge difference to its useability. Likewise, providing on-screen cues as to default or currently-selected settings also makes a difference to useability. We were finding that staff marked unavailable...
Make the Cover Rota Available via the Batch or REST API
The Cover Rota is an important part of teacher timetables, but is currently unavailable via either Batch or REST API. Including it would help with being able to use the API to pull through a teacher's complete set of timetabled commitments, e.g. w...
We use Cover Manager in iSAMS to allocate teachers for cover lessons. All our teachers use Google Calendars. They export the timetable from iSAMS to create their Google Calendar. They then add any meetings, or events in to Google Calendar as and w...
Allow the same grade to be mapped multiple times to different year groups in ManageBac
Currently, the system does not allow a single grade (e.g., Grade 9) to be mapped more than once across different year groups in ManageBac. This limitation is restrictive for schools like ours that run more than one program (e.g., MYP & Elites)...
ISAMS Form for staff to apply/inform for planned absence
Currently for planned absences (CPD etc) staff have to complete a paper form with all the necessary information which then gets manually entered into the Cover Manager module. It would be useful if there was functionality on ISAMS for staff to sub...
Curricular Assignment - assigning students to sets / classes
It would be great to be able to see all student ion a selected cohort and then add them into math sets for example in a tick grid or be able to export set list by subject with all classes in and then correct these and re-import them in SIMS this c...
Enabling operations staff to appear available for cover
Sometimes we use Operations staff for cover. The only way I can find to include them in the list of available staff in the cover module is to mark them as teaching staff within the HR module. It would be helpful if staff could be filtered in a mor...
Incorrect "Register Flag" values from Student Registers API
Dear iSAMS Support Team, I am encountering an issue with the iSAMS REST API when trying to retrieve the "Register Flag" value from the "Pupil Registers -> Registers" screen. I am using the following endpoint: [GET] https://isams.local/Main/api/...
We would like to use Cover Manager but we require a function, that is the ability to put more teachers down to one lesson a create a priority of who could cover right away and in they are absent who is the next one to be put in.