In some cases, school would like to block access of Parents from accessing Reports section but not to block them from accessing Parent Portal's other features like School News or Announcements.
Ideal place to have this option would be Pupil Manager >> Portal Access >> Block Report
This is most useful in case there is outstanding fee is due for a Pupil and school wants to hold the access to report card which is published along with all other students) on Parent Portal users profile linked with a particular child's account.
This is a basic feature in every school MIS except iSAMS. Blocking the report currently works by disabling entire portal or going through Report Manager - Remove Unwanted Reports. Which is a time consuming process. This feature should be part of "Portal Publishing" where users should be able to choose the group of students (Form/Set/Individual) they want to publish/Not publish.
This feature would be very useful for many of our schools in different areas of the world. Specially in regions where direct debit payment is not so common and it is more usual to have families with overdue debt.