It would be helpful if a Report Cycle could run across academic years. This would be beneficial to our UCAS reference procedure where references are completed in the Summer Term of Year 12 and edited / amended in the Autumn Term of Year 13.
As we can upload personalised Student files to the document section of the Parent Portal if we identify each file naming them with the school code, it would be great to do the same when emailing parents, attaching a personalised file to each email.
The ability to select/deselect which candidate results are published to Parent Portal
As per ICOs guidelines, pupils can request that their results are not published to parents if there is a good reason not to. Unfortunately, publishing results to PP in iSAMS is an 'all or nothing' button click. You cannot even manually remove a pu...
When booking meetings the ability to duplicate over both weeks and also create meetings that span multiple periods to be entered in one go instead of manually doing a meeting over 2-3 periods which is prone to errors and time consuming.
Display a warning if portal publishing will not show to parents
Most of our report cycles start in Online Assessment and move to Report Wizard for proof reading and publishing to the portal. For Y12, they only get grades and I forgot to switch it to Report Wizard before publishing. While the process ran succes...
Allow staff members i.e. teachers to enter their students into exams on a marksheet for this to be signed / amended by the exams officer in a digital way such as a workflow within the system. Currently only the exams officer can enter students int...
Ability to add teaching staff even if they haven't been assigned a timetable
We are unable to create any absences for our Cover Supervisors because they don't have any timetabled lessons. Would it be possible to include such staff when we 'create an absence' please?
Personalising a large amount of emails with unique information like prizes via a spreadsheet
At the moment we have to mailmerge and sent out over 120 separate emails to prize students. It would be really helpful if we could use a spreadsheet and then personalise each email within the normal email wizard by choosing the spreadsheet fields
Include generative AI throughout all of MIS rather than just in Central
I am looking into using generative AI to speed up the process of report writing for our staff. I know other MIS (such as Arbor) have added the functionality for reporting written by AI and I was wondering if that is possible/planned for ISAMs. I k...