When we suspend lessons by year group (not by set), it also effects other year groups if we have a student out of their year in that class/set. Example: I have suspended Upper 6 lessons for study leave. A Lower 6 lesson showing as suspended in cov...
It is not currently possible to stop staff from editing authorised calendar events without removing their ability to create them. This causes issues for the events/ops teams. We want staff to submit events for authorisation, but for edits it would...
Personalising a large amount of emails with unique information like prizes via a spreadsheet
At the moment we have to mailmerge and sent out over 120 separate emails to prize students. It would be really helpful if we could use a spreadsheet and then personalise each email within the normal email wizard by choosing the spreadsheet fields
We are able to mark a leave request as approved or rejected but if it is for a family holiday we want to explain to the parent that this has been logged but is an unapproved absence. Also rejected seems to not go down well with parents - are we ab...
The ability to run a report to see what has been posted by an individual user. Useful to compare staff workload. Currently the only way to get something similar is to run a document enquiry for the document type but then you're limited to the last...
Show staff's photo in Parent Portal School Directory
We've received feedback from a parent suggesting that it would be helpful for them to see the teacher's photo during parent-teacher conferences. Since we already have staff photos in the HR Manager module, it would be great if we could have the op...
Always Able to See Download/Upload Tab in Reports Wizard
Within the Reports Wizard module there is a very helpful Download/Upload feature that allows staff to work with spreadsheets. When you first enter a report cycle, you will see tabs as follows: Overview [Individual tabs for each subject you need to...
A way to make ‘complete’ a whole class in ONE CLICK rather than having to go through each pupil individually?
Our old system was set up so that a teacher marked the whole class as complete, so if they had nothing to say about students they still recorded the fact that they had finished entering data for the class. Some teachers will have over 150 students...
We currently have a few subjects (e.g. Philosophy of Religion and PSHE) which we rotate each half-term or term. At the moment to keep timetables correct and so registers correctly auto-default for staff we are adding/removing the lessons from the ...