Posting this as discussed at the Northern User Group. Could there be an easier way to do the data collection from staff, please? Can we share with them what data we hold for them and they could then respond with any changes. Thank you!
A pupil was marked as "off Games" in error. Would now like to remove the record completely. Reinstate doesn't work as it has already been logged as "archived"
We use My School Portal, not Parent Portal, owever we use Rewards and Conduct, so any parent that hasn't got a Parent Portal account will not receive the notification. Therefore we have to add them individually to PP. Please automate this process.
Default VAT codes on BankReceipts/Payments from the Automatic Bank Feeds
When posting direct from the bank feeds for a bank receipt /payment the VAT code has to be selected at the bottom from a dropdown list (which can be easily missed), can this be made a compulsory field to fill in or can the default VAT codes linked...
'Update Data' button on the page rather than sections
Would it be possible to have the Update Data or Save Data button on the page rather than on the different sections in Student Manager and HR Manager? For example - we have 5 sections in Student Manager > School tab, including custom fields/sect...
Hide/Delete fields in Student Manager Contact Details screen
As part of the recent update on 10 January 2025, new fields have been added to the Contact Details screen to capture contacts nationalities, languages and preferred language. We do not collect or store this information, and would like the option t...
Exam Cycle display name to be more meaningful on the Parent Cloud
The Exam Cycle display name c urrently appears as dates, such as ‘July 2025’ x 5 times. Can this be changed on the portal so it shows the board number or name as well as the date, therefore it doesn't appear on glance as duplicate cycles.
Improve Daily Bulletin formatting, consistency and feed
The RSS Specification notes that the within the <item><description> element entity-encoded HTML is allowed, so it would be preferrable for it to be possible to add basic HTML formatting tags like <b>, <i>, tables with <t...
The ISI inspection requires us to keep childrens' previous addresses. It would be helpful to have a field in Student Manager where these could be added rather than having to create additional 'dummy' contacts to hold these.
Student Manager Search Results - allow for individual user preference to set to P/S - ALL by default
iSAMS recently made a change to limit the default search results so that it did not always display "P/S - ALL", which we find the most frustrating change. We appreciate that we can change this as we need it, but it doesn't store that as a preferen...
