Ideas

Sometimes we use Operations staff for cover. The only way I can find to include them in the list of available staff in the cover module is to mark them as teaching staff within the HR module. It would be helpful if staff could be filtered in a mor...

Ability to print cover/re-rooming reports in advance.Usually, when I close rooms for exams, I organise this in advance and circulate in case staff need equipment etc prior to their lesson, this info is also on the board in advance for students.But...

Is there a way to export the following statistics from the Cover Manager? The total number of days absent per staff member over a selected period of time?

We had a teacher that was sick for a while and covered their lessons for several weeks. Recently, we employed a new teacher, who is taking over that teacher's classes. When we assigned this new teacher to the sets, the cover records for the previo...

Currently if yu cancel a cover, there is no email, so colleagues still think they have a cover to do, or there is confusion. If a cover is cancelled after publication, could an email be triggered?

The ability to assign invigilators to the exams on both modules, and this linked to Cover Manager so it can be assigned there and shows up on teachers timetables on iSAMs.

It would be useful to see in the cover manager audit, the record details that the audit refers to. Currently it is just listed with the changes to an entry number( ie XXX editied #175) but with no way of matching which teacher/lesson etc this reco...

Cover Module - we understand that you can select and "manage timetable suspensions" to collapse a year and free up teachers and rooms. However we would like to be able to collapse a year, free up the rooms - but not free up the teachers. This is n...

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...

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...