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...
Seating Plans - Space or "Holding Bay" to Move Candidates When Manually Adjusting Seating
When you have a full room but need to manually adjust seating, for those with access arrangements etc, it would be useful to have space outside the plan to temporarily move students. Otherwise the full room leaves very little room for maneuver.
I know this is not a simple request but it would be great in the future if iSams planned to create a Timetabler module that can plan and organize the school Timetable - I see that there are other School Management Information Systems that have the...
Tracking Manager - ability to control the logic behind the automatic Element Coding
Tracking Manager automatically generates an Element Name and Code based on the reporting data/gradebook data you are pulling in. If you pull in "Effort 1" from a Report Manager template, it will be abbreviated to "Eff AD T1/24". "AD" being the sub...
Currently all covers are weighted the same, whether a 5 minute registration or a 55 minute lesson. It would help to create a fairer picture of 'load' if some periods could be scored with a different (sometimes zero) wieghting. This is how other so...
Subject Reports Awaiting Completion to include the set name as well as the teacher
I print off the Subject Reports Awaiting Completion sheet to scribble on as I figure out anomalies and check every teacher has completed all reports required - but I'm often reminding myself by looking elsewhere which subject the teacher teaches a...
Suspending a timetable also marks rooms as free for room changes
When a timetable is suspended e.g. Y11 go on leave on exams, it marks the room allocated to their lessons as avaliable so that these show up when allocating room changes.