Ideas

In the Export Wizard there is a useful feature that allows us to filter an export depending upon whether the selected field has a value. This feature tests for whether a field is NULL. However, if a field has an empty string as a value, the filter...

We have been sent a Unique Learner Number (ULN) for a pupil joining Year 9. We are obliged to pass on this number if he later leaves to go to another state school so it needs to be stored on iSAMS now. But that would require him to be made into an...

It would be useful to have the option to link custom groups to student registers so that we only need to update any pupil changes in one place and can still contact everyone. Alternative on the registers tab it would be useful to have a "or" optio...

The sender of the Email Batch Report uses the staff members Forename and not the Preferred Name. This is inconsistent with how the name is displayed to the recipients of the email which uses the Preferred Name. Our staff would prefer to see their ...

As the family tree function is no longer in use, we have no way of recording the relationship of one parent to another (eg divorced, separated) - this information can be useful in dealing sensitively with pupils and their families. Please can we e...

Option to change or delete a message after it is sent (20-30 seconds delay)

The notes area of HR lacks any security permission at an individual note level. Something similar to the category based security permissions as found in Pupil Managers Documents would work well here. It feels like a bit of a large oversight as the...

This would be useful for admissions and exams staff as pupils will often come to a new setting with a UCI in existence which we have to use to enable linking of results wherever the pupil may move to. It would help if the UCI number could be added...

It would be very useful if the registration alerts included the room a pupil is 'missing' from in the body of the notification email. Subject and teacher would be useful too.

For example. parents should default to all correspondence, but guardians/agents should not. It would save emails being sent to those that shouldn't get because someone forgot to untick a box