IRIS Parentmail

It would be useful to allow us to change the settings in parentmail to make email the default format of message as this is the only messaging service we use.

We are overwhelmed by emails generally so to now have every absence reported sent to all the admin team and the head individually is really annoying. We would like to have the option to turn this feature off.

We used to be able to be able to forward emails to different recipients with the old Parentmail system, however I understand we cannot do this with the new Parentmail. It would be useful if this function could be added on.

With the old system we used to be able to forward e-mails. This was a very handy feature. Could you please bring it back.

Before the upgrade we would send out lots of forms to staff in the September via ParentMail, such as Declaration of Business Interests, Safeguarding declarations. Our templates are still there but we are unable to send them to staff as that featur...

The old system used to show the exact date and time that the e-mail was read. This is very useful when parents say they haven't received a message.

In the new ParentMail you cannot have your school logo in the header. This was great in the old version and is disappointing it has been removed.

When an absence comes through, with being a larger school, it is adding time to check which class they are in. Also, we have a few pupils with the same name in different year groups so having their class/year show when sending messages home would ...

In the previous version of ParentMail, when parents notified school of an absence, the absence report showed the child's class which was incredibly useful when you have 420 pupils. The new version no longer shows the pupils registration group whic...

Following the upgrade, only 18 months worth of sent messages are able to view. In our school we find it useful to look back and copy communications sent to parents for previous message wording and pattern of events. It would be helpful for us to s...