Ideas

the ability to upload the cover rota in cover manager (manage teacher cover rotas option) via a spreadsheet - this would save me a massive amount of time!

e.g. We have a supply teacher from and agency called 'Gillian Sabino' who has an email address 'smh.supply1@ldst.org.uk' - ideally when I publish cover, she would receive, vai email, the cover lessons relevant to her. Thanks Nigel

When doing seating plans, the room that is being used should be linked with the cover manager. This was when doing cover that room can be re-roomed. Otherwise this is double work and if you forget to add it, chaos on the day of the exam.

Can we add a scheduled teacher to cover and then cover that lesson instead please. We had a teacher (AW) absent and due to the sensitivity of the lesson, we needed to add a particular teacher to cover (AGC), although they themselves had a lesson t...

When a manual Teacher Cover Rota is in place, it would be beneficial to be able to view this via the iTeacher app in order to be able to email the timetabled teachers directly and arrange last minute cover if away from your desk.

Dear iSAMS When no cover is required in Cover Manager, can the register be done automatically with No lesson code? Currently we have lots of missing regs due to this reason. Thanks!

It will be helpful to allow schools to have the options to assign covers for any free periods throughout each day. Not just the period which are timetabled. As there might be other events or duties that are not found in timetable.

Could the daily cover report to show all entries, regardless of if covered. SLT want to see how many staff in/off site for the day, so not chasing staff who are out.

Default option in cover publication options to send emails to affected staff for room changes (unavailable rooms). This way, when we use auto publish cover, room changes will be automatically sent to affected staff.

When using the locate free objects from the wizard bar to look for free rooms, it would be useful it currently shows rooms that are usually free, but have been reallocated in the room cover module as free. It would be useful if this didn't happen ...