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...
Cover an absent teacher with a scheduled teacher and cover their lesson with a free teacher
When a teacher is absent we would like to be able to use a scheduled teacher to cover their lesson and then cover the scheduled teacher's lesson with another staff member
Administering room cover across a long period of time
The cover manager has the ability to close rooms for specific time periods each day. If the closure is for just one day, the administrative work is relatively minimal. However, when closures extend over a longer period, the administrative workload...
Following on from what I said at yesterday's Southern User Group: As courses are looking like a main driver within Curriculum Manager, please link the course type to a Global List where we could map courses against the DfE requirements for the SLA...
Room Cover to include meetings scheduled to the room
Currently Room Cover Timetable in Cover Manager does not include meetings scheduled to the room being closed. It would be useful to see meetings booked into the room and then to enable rescheduling the meeting elsewhere.
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...
View Teacher Cover screen display the assigned user's division only or user's preferences' division
Currently, when a teacher open the View Teacher Cover page from the wizard bar, it show all divisions and default on the first division. As we have 9 different divisions and the Cover manager mostly used for Secondary division only. While the defa...
COVER of Cover. Subject Teacher to take Specialism and be covered for 'Other' subjects same period
We call this Daisy Chaining. All our teachers, on top of a specialism take interest or social classes (e.g. PSE, Citizenship) and when a Teacher is absent in their own department, They take the cover as a priority which means the "Other" class nee...
Teachers show as available on cover manager although they have a meeting. There are regular meetings that teachers have with other teachers or parents, yet, they are placed for cover because the meetings do not show as a lesson. Please fix this.