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Ability to split the cover period into two and assign different teachers

We have hourly timetable periods but sometimes we need to split the period into two half hourly cover periods and assign different staff. This facility ensures that the relevant people are aware that they need to cover a class. Some of our staff a...
Guest 3 months ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Suspend Timetable for part days

We often have events which need the Timetable to be suspended for part of a day, e.g. One year group for the afternoon. We can then use 'spare' teachers to cover lessons.
Guest about 1 year ago in Cover Manager 7 In Discovery

Notifications to staff of cancelled cover arrangements and to staff and students of cancelled room closures

Staff currently only know if cover is cancelled when it falls off their timeline - a formal notification confirming that cover is no longer required would be extremely helpful. Ditto when a room closure takes place and staff and students are notif...
Guest 3 months ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Room cover functionality

It is sometimes necessary to move lessons from one place to another. This does not seem to be possible as to move a lesson from a room, the room needs to be "closed" which then means it cannot be used to house another lesson. This seems to me to b...
Guest 8 months ago in Cover Manager 1 In Discovery

Add a time selector for timetable suspensions to cover manager

We have situations where whole Year levels will be gone for a certain time for example all Grade level 6 will be out for a local trip from 11am until 3pm. Right now the timetable suspension will only allow to mark a whole day, it would be really h...
Guest 7 months ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Cover Manager - ability to select range of periods/times within a day (e.g. p1, 3 and 5) rather than having to enter them all as separate absences

If a teacher is busy period 1, 3 and 5, for example, I have to enter three 'absences' separately, with start and end times all manually input. This is a waste of time. The manage cover sheet shows all parts of the day to allow you to set cover: if...
Guest 11 months ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Link between unavailable staff and cover needed

It would be useful if when you added a member of staff as unavailable they system checked if they were already allocated to cover and alerted or removed the cover.
Guest 3 months ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery

Lesson Room Swap

We frequently need to switch one-off lessons between classrooms but this cannot be achieved through cover as the room needs to be closed to move the lesson out and the venue is then not available to receive the swapped lesson. It would be benefici...
Guest 9 months ago in Cover Manager 1 In Discovery

COVER of Cover. Subject Teacher to take Specialism and be covered for 'Other' subjects same period

We call this Daisy Chaining. All our teachers, on top of a specialism take interest or social classes (e.g. PSE, Citizenship) and when a Teacher is absent in their own department, They take the cover as a priority which means the "Other" class nee...
Guest 4 months ago in Cover Manager 4 In Discovery

Integrate staff meetings in Timetable

When creating staff meetings, it would be good if it reflects on the cover manager.
Guest 3 months ago in Cover Manager 0 In Discovery