Cover Manager

It would be good to have automatic allocation of cover while once absence can be logged. Of course this can be set while with a proper algorithm which will first choose teachers in the same department and also assign cover based on the number of t...

I was emailing Reece about this Currently you can suspend a class for one day. but if a class is on a trip e.g. 9am to 1pm it would be great to set this up. then i can suspend class and use these teachers for cover...

It would be useful if staff that know they are absent on a day due to leave or a trip can request this in cover manager and then if it gets approved it automatically updates cover manager to cover that member of staff on that day or days. This wou...

It would be very helpful if you change a cover allocation AFTER you have published the cover that it notifiies the allocated cover teacher that they are no longer required, ie the cover has been cancelled (as it currently does not and you have to ...

It would be useful if we could produce the register (list of students) for a covered lesson directly in Cover Manager, to print and give to agency staff - an equivalent of the Produce Paper Register option in the Wizard Bar, but done directly from...

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.

In HR Manager > School tab, we entered the TA settings as follows: Teaching staff = No Teaching Assistant = Yes In doing so, we realized it has a major impact on Cover Manager i.e. they no longer on the free list to do cover! Even when we grant...

It would be useful to have an override feature in cover manager so that we can do double swaps of teachers. We had a scenario where we wanted to take a music teacher off a timetabled supervision class to take a music class that needed cover. In es...

Frequently when cover is required due to part of a year group being out on a trip, we may combine classes. We couldn’t find an obvious way of combining classes and notifying teachers that this has happened. We found that we could get the same memb...

We have a number of lessons on our timetable where there is more than one teacher allocated to a set - e.g. the lesson is team taught, one teacher is shadowing the other, they alternate taking the lesson, or use a breakout room. If one of those te...