I am posting the following here at the advice of out Account manager. It relates to a number of iSAMS modules and issues we have in applying GDPR principles with the tools provided within iSAMS. Under GDPR good practice we wrote a list of the data...
Enabling more than two contact numbers for parents
Parents often have more than two contact numbers home, personal mobile and work landline/ mobile. At the moment ISAMs limits contact numbers to two per contact which is not enough. When contacting parents for an emergency sometimes it is best to h...
Candidate Number should be the default sort order for all areas of Exams Manager
Exam regulations require all information to be identified by Candidate Numbers. Please set the default order for everything in Exams Manager to be Candidate Number; this is particularly important in the seating part of this module.
Be able to add Leave Request Role entries for indefinite leave periods
Within the Leave Request Settings in Registration Manager it is possible to add one or more 'approver' Roles, each of which has an upper and lower threshold on the number of days leave that can be approved. It is not possible to add a role entry w...
Allow reference data to be edited by use without admin permissions on whole module
Our Head Nurse would like to be able to edit the Reference Data herself rather than asking an iSAMS admin to to this. To allow her to edit would mean giving full permissions to the whole module which I would prefer not to do. It would be helpful i...
Bulk edit Gradebooks: Add columns to many / Add tags to many
There needs to be much more management functionality within the Gradebooks module if the link between those and reports is to be useful. I appreciate the initial thought must have been for each teacher to manage their own gradebooks but this won't...
Client uploaded files are coming across from portal forms to Documents & Files with names in code form. We would find it much more useful to have a way of automatically naming the files based on the upload question.
Cover an absent teacher with a scheduled teacher and cover their lesson with a free teacher
When a teacher is absent we would like to be able to use a scheduled teacher to cover their lesson and then cover the scheduled teacher's lesson with another staff member
Include a simple Status filter on the built-in SEN reports (current/former/applicant)
Include a simple Status filter on the built-in Pupil Registers->Reports->Standard Reports->Special Educational Needs reports, to filter by current/former/applicant status. It's crazy that this isn't already there and, currently, all of th...
