Include parental responsibility status in the contacts fields of a student on the iTeacher app
Important information such as who has parental responsibility (if this is listed) for a student is not included in the iTeacher app. This can lead to (and has led to) serious issues for schools who have sections that use the iTeacher app regularly.
Move Mobile & Tablet Manager out of Control Panel, or allow Push Notifications via Parent Portal Manager
We want our Communications team to manage the Portals and push notifications, but access to the Mobile and Tablet Manager is via Control Panel - thus giving users the 'keys to the kingdom' of iSAMS control. Please can Mobile and Tablet Manager App...
Mandatory a.m. & p.m. registrations included in the Cover manager module
At present, a.m. and p.m. registrations can only be covered using the Cover Manager module by creating registration lessons in Timetable manager. This is time-consuming and having attempted it, the timetable went out of synch. Given the mandatory ...
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.
We really need a way of easily reporting on not just children who are currently On the Free School Meals (FSM) register, but also children who are Off Register (previously eligible) as these are counted as 'Ever 6' children which is a very common ...
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...
I'm continually asked to provide a statistics on how many parents read the reports generated through the Portal Publishing section of the Report Printing module, honestly it would even be useful to tell which parents have download reports but we c...
List identities alphabetically on the permissions page
It is impossible to keep track of which profiles have had permissions attached, as they are not shown in a logical order. Listing identities alphabetically on the permissions page would help. When 'add identity' is selected, all profiles continue ...
Suspended Lesson Indicator Displayed in Timetables
It would be very helpful if suspended lessons e.g. we suspend a whole subject in Yr 13 for the Summer Term, could have some sort of indicator/flag/text displayed when viewing teacher/pupil/set etc timetables to allow users to see that particular l...