Ideas

Although we are a girls’ school, we have a number of pupils here who identify as male or gender neutral. As a result, we are increasingly being asked to use preferred gender pronouns rather than she, her and hers. At present there is a field for ‘...

Allow staff to be able to filter the Daily Bulletin so that they can only see the announcements that are relevant to them. Also only show posts by default that are relevant to certain staff. Eg if a post is selected to be for Year 11, only show it...

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...

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 possible to record conflicting attendance codes for a pupil for the same session and this affects reporting. It happens when an out of school record is created with a start date/time in the past. For example, a pupil not in registration is g...

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...

The Census Manager allows you to see validation errors and warnings, and it is currently not possible to export these from the system, or even span multiple pages. It would be great if this data validation could be produced in an excel report, so ...

It would be useful to have the ability to upload data for Custom Fields for pupils. Currently if we wanted to update custom fields that have data such as, GCSE subject option choices, so that we can email parents the confirmed choices, we have to ...

It would be helpful if disabled accounts do not show in the profile 'count' of how many people are using that profile. We do not delete some users who have done a lot of work within iSAMS, as then you lose the audit - it simply shows Unknown. The ...

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...