CTFs from previous school containing attendance not importing into Edgen
We are not meeting our statutory duty if we cannot maintain complete history of attendance within Edgen via CTF file. Interesting how other schools' XML files exports contains complete history of attendance for every academic years (and from different schools, including primary).
This is not even a hard job, it is literally 4 fields from CTF file per year:
(1)Total Sessions Possible, (2) Sessions Attended, (3) Sessions Authorised, (4) Sessions Unauthorised
We worked on a project to rewrite the CTF import a little while ago, but have been unable to release it as we need the Contacts Rewrite Project to be completed first. Once that has been done, this will be looked it. It is on the radar.
I absolutely agree this is statutory and I raised this on 3/10/25 with iSAMS. Here was my iSAMS helpdesk call:
We have noticed a few anomalies when our schools have imported CTFs into iSAMS. Currently we have found these issues:
(1) Previous attendance - data does not show (and nowhere to show this in iSAMS)
(2) Previous assessment - data does not show ( in Assessments and Reports)
(3) Religion - does not show (in Census area)
(4) EAL (English as Additional Lang) tick box does not populate
I am sure you will appreciate that this information is important and used to map over in another MIS, and it is now frustrating to our schools.
Is the CTF import area going to be developed further to show this information in the future?
Their last response on 12/3/25 - a hyperlink on how to import a CTF into iSAMS:
'If you want to import the CTF file, then you can import CTF in Student Manager > Applicants > Import. You can select the CTFs one by one and import these into your database.'
Import CTF-formatted files.
It unfortunately looks like this isn't an area on their roadmap to be developed and I am personally disappointed in their lack of understanding of my actual call, and of the statutory CTF area. iSAMS have now closed my call.