2010/11 Enhancements List as at 19 July 2010
SEEMIS Feedback to
Rank Submitted by Brief Description Comments Agreed
REFERENCE group
Room available report - this report would show which rooms do not have timetabled
Released, but awaiting fix. Can be used with minor
1 PKC + ? MJ0301 classes at a specified time - very useful when the schools is trying to find a free room. DONE Y
workaround
Please can Print Timetables - Staff be amended so that when there is a "correct" conflict
the list of conflicting classes appears in the timetable period rather than "*Conflict*". Maximum of 2 codes to be displayed. Possible conflict
2 DCC MJ0302 Happy with the list of conflicts that follows but it would be nice to see the class Codes in Y with MJ0328. 24 June Agreed ability to print is Y
the timetable. required. MJ0328 dropped.
3 Dundee MJ0303 Letters - complete rewrite OVER n/a
Ability to export from the Print Class List Menu to produce class lists which can be saved Confirmation of fields required - sample ouput in Excel
East as a workable file in an excel spreadsheet .
4
Renfrewshire
MJ0304 John format. Awaiting response from Andy Sinclair. 25 Y
June Email received.
To save time navigating between 2 screens - retain details of last pupil in selector
Functionality will be added to Web Services selector &
5 West Lothian MJ0305 John n/a
rolled out asap. Expect availability Aug/Sept
To populate the estimates column on the Ministacs Subject Report, which is a column that Initial proposal to be taken from On Track, suggestion
already exists but is currently blank. Schools want the estimates information on the now that this comes from the SQA estimate. 24 June -
6 Edinburgh MJ0306 Ministacs Subject Report. James Y
Agree take from estimates. Note single value taken
thro' - not component parts.
Period by period registration - Attendance - Attendance Check - Anomalies Report. Period
box shows whether registration taken by teacher or not. Teacher has to confirm registration
7 West Lothian MJ0307 done rather than blank by default. To save time by quickly having the means to answer OVER Will be picked up as part of Attendance Project n/a
pupil attendance queries from parents and staff.
It would be useful if mini Stacs could have an option to lift the individual pupils UPS report.
8 South Ayrshire MJ0308 This will allow us to analyse their grades better. John Which UPS scale should be used? No Spec.
To have the ability to send letters to 'away guardians' i.e. Guardians not living with the child
Spec updated. Review SEEMIS analysis of
9 Edinburgh MJ0309 John Y
requirements 24 June - agreed
Curricular class lists should show all pupils who have entered for an exam, including those
Inconsistent spec. JS arranging to meet Dave Glasby,
10 Edinburgh MJ0310 who have subsequently been withdrawn. For those withdrawn, it should still show any units John
Craigmount High to discuss. 24 June No update
they have passed.
Name, Age and Date of Birth report - this report would give both the date of birth and age
on a certain date of the selected pupils. It should be possible to sort the report by age. Group to consider 2 options available (a) Fixed Report -
This would be especially useful in primary schools when composite classes are being user specifies date only or (b) Introduce wider date
11 ML MJ0311 OK Y
created. functionality in custom reports. Note option (b) may
be a large task. 24 June agreed to go with option (a).
Add a Personal button on the Pupil profile screen with drill down restricted to SMT etc
Control via Data Utilities? What should the drill down
12 Dundee MJ0312 OK connect to - confidential pastoral notes ? Spec Y
suggests pupil personal info i.e. IEP etc
Standard Letters Default as Mr or Mrs without initial with more flexibility with format/style.
(Overtaken) Ability to preload school letter headed paper (Overtaken) To improved ease of
13 West Lothian MJ0313 presentation. To save time changing paper with use of MFDs within West Lothian N Overtaken by other developments n/a
Address Report which lists all selected pupils with their Name, Reg Group, Date of Birth,
[Phone Number, Name, Address, Postcode] of Main Contact, plus on the line below Jacquie to check Shetland ok with revised spec. 24
14 Midlothian? MJ0314 [Phone Number, Name, Address, Postcode] of any absent parent who lives at another John Y
June Anna Hutcheon confirmed ok by email.
address.
Please list saved reports in ALPHABETICAL order. This is for both school Click+Go and
15 North Ayrshire MJ0315 Warehouse New Custom Reports OK Y
In Reporting, make it possible to spell check a whole report as a single action. Options to be considered: (a) Spell check single
South report; (b) PT level checking; c) Year Grp or House
16
Lanarkshire
MJ0316 Y Y
Grp level checking. May need to split into 2
enhancements. 24 June Option (a) agreed.
Staged Intervention. The Guidance department would like to have Staged Intervention
added as an option on the Personal tab for pupils alongside the part where it currently Need option of using 3 levels, 5 levels or No levels.
contains 3 check boxes for CSP/IEP/RON.Staged Intervention, this is split into 4 stages Question on spec re ASP tick box & custom reports.
17 Inverclyde MJ0317 where CSP is part of Stage 4.(I think the whole classification system has changed in any John
24 June Could ASN other be used? Await revised
case so CSP or RON is no longer valid and is replaced by Stage of Intervention. ) guidleines Aug 2010.
To print copies of letters. Reports / Standard Letters / Letter template editor
Will be picked up as part of rewrite relating to
18 Borders MJ0318 X n/a
Document Management. No Spec.
Can classes be timetabled in This Year in a similar manner to Time Table by class in Next
South
19
Lanarkshire
MJ0319 Year in addition to the Set up Classes option X Major job. Hope to be overtaken by timetabling rewrite. n/a
Assign Individual Options – is it possible to add another column beside the class name,
giving the name of the teacher. Not that this will pull in the first teachers for the class
East
20
Dunbartonshire
MJ0320 John after today - most reasonable work around to deal with Y
shared classes etc. 24 June - Agreed this approach.
Add a button to Refresh Planning to include Leavers in the Primary Planning Wizard, to Consider that there may be problems depending on
21 Angus Council MJ0321 ensure accurate class lists. John the leaving date. 24 June Discussed possible
limitations. Programmers will investigate.
Merits/Demerits – PTs would like to access their own department, individual teachers
East within their dept, as well as the full school, this would save them having to filter for the
22
Dunbartonshire
MJ0322 James James to provide estimate.
information
In New Custom Reports, add printing and label printing direct from the report without any Report Name Header ok. Clarification required on how
other steps, and show the Report Heading in the title bar while using a report. pagination would work on large reports & also how
23 Angus Council MJ0323 John labels would be formatted. Which sizes of label would
be supported. 24 June Nora to confirm pagination
rules.
Ability to Assign more than one Guidance teacher to a caseload. We need the ability to
24 ERC MJ0324 assign two guidance teachers to one year group for job share. James James to provide estimate.
Basically I want to be able to run a new custom report that provides me with all the staff
fte’s without having to check every single staff record individually. The staff custom reports
25 SA MJ0325 has not been updated to use the new FTE method, the FTE can be obtained through Edit X Overtaken n/a
Staff or the finance application.
In Please Take > Assign Teachers it would be helpful if we could use the Ctrl key to assign
27 MLC MJ0326 a teacher to more than one period at a time. Currently we have to assign a teacher, come Y James to provide estimate.
out, go into the next period and assign again.
Print Preview for Standard Letters Reports / Standard Letters / Letter template editor Print
preview does not show what is actually printed. It does not show page breaks/end OVER- Overtaken by new letter writer and Doocument
28 ERC MJ0327 n/a
of printable page (useful for longer letters) TAKEN Management
Set up classes Increase limit of 6 characters (to 8-9 characters) to allow more detailed
Potential conflict with MJ0302. 24 June - Dropped,
29 West Lothian MJ0328 description DROPPED n/a
MJ0302 going ahead.
Activate the ‘Due report’ button to produce labels for parental contacts that do not live at
Already addressed as part of 2009/10 enhancements
30 East Ayrshire MJ0329 the same address. N n/a
. If not picked up under MJ0309?
Add a social conditions flag to pupil profile.
Originally part of MJ0305, this part split out. Linked
with attendance project. 24 June Suggest may be type
31 West Lothian MJ0330 JS
of pastoral note which is then highlighted on Register
screens etc.. Pick up via attendance project.
n/a