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Hi jmak! It's primarily done for the Primary pupils, but on occasion for Secondary as well. It also happens that a parent comes to school to collect a child, but they have gone home on the bus by accident (last minute changes or instances where the teacher was informed of the change, but not the bus monitor), or where parents have signed students up for the bus and an after-school activity on the same day. Partially it's for safeguarding and partially it's to record how many students are taking the bus so that the bus service can be subsidized by the government.

Great idea, thank you!!

Good idea Katy, thanks!! Do you use iSAMS to keep bus registers at all?

Hi there! In light of GDPR I am trying to map out who has access to what on 3Sys...no easy task, as the user rights on PASS, the 3Sys Profile, Field Access and Page Layout rights all apply. In my opinion it's a complete mess, with no clear way to easily determine what users can see. According to WCBS there are no tables in which field access data is held in the database, and they have not produced any reports to make this easier. They have said I should launch an enhancement request, but we all know what happens with those... Has anyone tried to accomplish this feat? Any tips? Many thanks!

Our school is looking for a new MIS and we've narrowed things down to School Base and iSAMS (I hope). One of the issues we're looking to address is the chaos at pickup time - the reception desk, bus monitors and club supervisors should ideally be on the same page regarding if a child is absent for the day, signed up for the bus or a club, etc. (in other words, we're trying to avoid holding up buses for absent students, or looking around everywhere for a student who just left on the bus!). As I'm sure you know, this is not an easy issue to solve, as bus registrations and absences change by the minute. Our Finance Manager would like the MIS to be able to combine attendance data, transport data and activities data to possibly show monitors where there have been changes, absences, etc. I'm of the opinion that an MIS can't really cope with this sort of dynamic change and that we will have to come up with a hybrid solution (possibly a list of absences, then a platform where we could chat to communicate ad-hoc changes?). I would love to know what your schools are doing to organise the end-of-day madness...do any of you have a software solution in place, or perhaps a custom module on the MIS, or custom reports? Thank you so much for your feedback!