Ideas

having the students forename makes it easier for invigilators to identify them. Surnames are quite long in some circumstances. A forename is easier to find when looking or calling out a seating plan.

It will be very useful to be able to upload documents to a pupil's record in the fee billing module. For example, we have Direct debit mandates or parent's communications with account's information that we would like to upload in this module which...

Parents should be made aware whenever a new grade is entered via a notification, this way they don't have to remember to log in and they don't have to wait until report cards are released until receiving a notification. It makes them a lot more ac...

It would be great to be able to see all student ion a selected cohort and then add them into math sets for example in a tick grid or be able to export set list by subject with all classes in and then correct these and re-import them in SIMS this c...

It would be useful to have an audit trail of by whom and when such things like VAT codes have been amended. It would assist in determining what it may have impacted etc

There is no option to add drop-down lists in the electronic forms. This makes the forms difficult to configure or very long when there are many options in the same section.

It would be useful to be able to change the terminology from "detention" to "reflection". We prefer to make it clear that this time is a period for mindfulness and reflection after a negative behaviour incident. Additionally, most of our students ...

Schools need to be able to allocate the same National Curriculum (NC) year in School Manager, more than once. This is particularly true of multi campus schools on one iSAMS instance. They will have, for example, several year groups across campuses...

SENCOs constantly tell me that the practical requirements of students needing the access arrangements Reading Aloud and Reading Pen are very different, and therefore should not be lumped together as the same category in Special Arrangements. Pleas...

After a while, schools end up with a long list of templates in the Reports Manager module. There are icons for editing/archiving/deleting these templates which are to the far right-hand side of the template names. The distance between these icons ...