In the gradebook --> workbook view; we are able to pull the gender, form, year, house details next to the learner’s name but unable to pull through any another information a teacher may require while grading a learner. Eg: EAL, Gifted and Talen...
Sending room cover notification to staff and students by default
When publishing cover, the teacher cover boxes are ticked for 'Send to covering teachers / Send to covered teachers' by default but with room cover you have to remember to tick the box for 'Send to coverering rooms / Send to covered rooms' every d...
Bulk uploading of photocopier scans into 'Documents'
SIMS integrates with Sharp photocopiers via software called DMS which allows office staff to bulk scan lots of documents such as consent forms, intake forms, etc., and automatically upload them into the Documents area of the MIS. It would be usefu...
If the ability to bulk update pupil records exists, then there should also be an ability to bulk update contact records. Currently, schools have to painstakingly update contacts records individually which is very time consuming.
Transfer all transactions to one account when suppliers are merged
Look to add a facility where we can merge accounts. This would mean that if an account was duplicated or a supplier merged, we could pull all the transactions over to the active account and make the other inactive. This facility is available in Xe...
To be able to add a new student to multiple teaching sets at the same time
If a new student arrives, we have to open the teaching sets and click on "add students" one by one. It would be easier if I could go to the student's profile somewhere and add a list of the sets she/he would join as we do it when importing sets at...
I've just discovered that in the HR Manager you can't search on DEPARTMENT. This is yet another absolutely VITAL search function that must be needed by a lot of schools and should be a simple fix to add this field to the Custom Search Screen. Ther...
Able to track pupils in different sets/forms - historical and current
Pupils move from one Set to another over the academic year. Some move form group as well. I can't find a way in iSAMS that can easily track pupils movement. At the moment, we can kind of find the info in Teaching Manager > History, but it's not...