The Admissions Statuses used by a school can change over time. For historic reasons, we would not want to delete statuses no longer in use (since these will be attached to existing applicant records). However, we would no longer want them displaye...
Allow more than 10 display fields in record collection
When we are trying to store lines of information, we often find we can compress to 12-14 fields, but as the limit is 10, we are using the 10th as an ID so that we can then store more data on a separate record collection and link them. Having more ...
When downloading the report template excel spreadsheet, it does not include the students' preferred names. This makes it extremely tough for teachers to fill in the students' reports as they do not know whose reports they are filling in!
Students missing lessons due to other events in the school
We have a numerous occasion students missing academic lessons due various reasons such as for example: drama will be putting on a workshop for students to attend, there may be a debating competition, thus usual sport fixtures, music exams and trip...
Display Preferred Names in Reward & Conduct Manager Notifications
Dear iSAMS, On the Reward and Conduct Manager, teachers have been feedback whether the pupil name can be displayed as Preferred Forename and Surname rather than Forename and Surname when they are given a merit ticket etc. As always, pupils are kno...
We suggested to make an update for th, e Staff Roles in HR Manager. At the moment we can just create or delete a Staff Role but we can't rename/update one create before.
Consistency and Clarity Between Managing Absences and Unavailable Staff
The consistency of screens across iSAMS makes a huge difference to its useability. Likewise, providing on-screen cues as to default or currently-selected settings also makes a difference to useability. We were finding that staff marked unavailable...
Incomplete reports to be included in Grading Matrix
I am sure there used to be a tick box that allowed us to include Incomplete reports in the grading matrix? Has that been taken away? For example, we are now collecting end of year reports. There was an earlier deadline for teachers to complete the...
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)...
Reward and Conduct - Reports | Incl Pastoral Tutor
The Report feature in Reward and Conduct manager is helpful for staff. The inclusion of Pastoral tutor would be very helpful since filters already exisit for Grade, Form, Subject and Houses.