On the Parent Portal, if parents “Create Leave Request” from the Dashboard they can select a reason but they are not given the option to give “notes” aka additional explanation for the absence. However, if they choose Communication > Absence Re...
We're just about to go live with the Cloud Parent Portal and have been preparing notes for parents. In looking at the Medical > Parental Consents area I was concerned at the pale grey colour of the tick and cross to say whether consent had been...
Calendar Events - Allow Parents to sign up to events
For some events we ask parents to sign up to say they're attending. Currently something we do via SchoolPost or Microsoft Forms. When creating events it would be great if we could have a signup/booking option we could utilise, so we don't need sep...
Would it be possible to manage/configure access to https://identity.isams.com/ from the User Accounts part of Control Panel? Currently accounts for iSAMS and accounts for https://identity.isams.com/ are created separately, and then removed separat...
Calendar Manager - Parent Portal / Year Group filtering
Adding a calendar event to the Parent Portal doesn't allow filtering by Year Group so that only parents of students in the selected Year Group do see the event. Currently, all parents do see all events, and many are not related to them so it creat...
Adding a 0 option to the number of vaccinations field.
We have a child at our school who's parents do not want their child to be vaccinated. We need to make a note of this in iSAMS so we do not accidentally book him in for vaccinations in the future. To do this, we are trying to use the vaccination fi...
With the old parent portal you could mimic being a particular parent which made it really easy to troubleshoot issues. It doesn't look like it's possible the new cloud portal which means we are having to go back to parents and ask them for screens...
Rollover - Controlled release of timetable to pupils
We like to do the rollover as early in the Summer holidays as possible, but do not want to release the next academic year's timetable and form information to pupils prior to September (but do want staff to have access to it). To keep the timetable...
Hi, I am creating a new school calendar for teachers, and some events run every day for an entire week or month. Is it possible to add an event with a start and end date—so it spans multiple days—rather than entering the same event multiple times?...
It would be great to have a way of seeing who is currently logged into the system. I regularly have to open closed period to post journals etc but don't want anything else posting while the periods are open. I currently have to guess who might be ...