Management of parent (guest) account not in Control Panel
Currently, any account that a parent creates for the Admissions Portal, gets added as a Guest account which can only be managed within User Accounts in Control Panel. We only have a very limited number of people with access to Control Panel. Howev...
Add a Preferred Gender Field and change the current Gender field to Gender At Birth
To get around the issue of Non-Binary pupils and use of gender neutral pronouns, our suggestion would be for iSAMS to create a new field in the Student Manager module called ‘Preferred Gender’ which can have 3 or more options. Then rename the exis...
Ability to add ULN before pupil is made into an exam candidate
We have been sent a Unique Learner Number (ULN) for a pupil joining Year 9. We are obliged to pass on this number if he later leaves to go to another state school so it needs to be stored on iSAMS now. But that would require him to be made into an...
Gender List/Menu for Admissions Manager and Cloud Portal
Currently the Gender options for the Admissions Manager and Admissions Cloud Portal include only two options: Male and Female. We regularly receive applications from students who identify differently. Can you add to the list to include other commo...
We use a third party provider for our Student Portal and they are unable to pull through any non timetabled external exam entries as the Batch API from ISAMS does not allow it.Could the Batch API permissions be increased to allow for the import of...
Ability to change the default page of Cover Manager
Currently the Default cover page is set to "Pre-Prep". We don't use cover manager for Pre-Prep so would like to be able to change this to "Prep" instead
As the family tree function is no longer in use, we have no way of recording the relationship of one parent to another (eg divorced, separated) - this information can be useful in dealing sensitively with pupils and their families. Please can we e...
Mark teachers unavailable during Absent and Free periods
It would be helpful to be able block times when staff are unavailable (due to ad hoc meetings etc) during their non-teaching periods. This would prevent them from being allocated cover.
Calculated columns in Gradebooks available in Tracking Manager
Now that Calculated Columns are sharable across Gradebooks, and able to publish to reports, that data must be being stored somewhere. Would it be possible, therefore, to view those columns in Tracking Manager?