iParent App

iSAMS Limited

About this app

Similar in nature to the iStudent app, the iParent app offers parents quick access to real-time school information about their child. This includes everything from attendance records to exam results, reward and detention notifications, access to reports and assessments, teaching groups, timetables and more.

The official iSAMS Parent app links directly with the iSAMS Parent Portal. It has been designed to offer parents a quick and easy channel for keeping up-to-date with their son or daughter's performance and any relevant school information, including last minute calendar notifications or event invites. It is aimed at enhancing the information flow from your school/teachers to parents ensuring greater engagement between all parties.

The iParent app offers parents a useful and configurable dashboard where they are able to view information and activities about all children at the school. Quick links are provided for:

The timetable of each child
Information about any sanctions and rewards
School news and bulletins
The school calendar
The photo galleries

More detailed information can then be located about the following:

Teaching groups
The school timetable
Internal exam details (entries, timetables, results)
External exam details (entries, timetables, arrangements, candidate details, results)
School reports and assessments
Attendance
Activities
Detentions
Reward and conduct details

Parents can use the app to view and subscribe to your school communications including emails, SMS messages and push notifications to the app. Push notifications will advise parents about any timely updates for each child, including information such as recently released reports or exam results, any rewards or detentions and pastoral records.

They can also view the contacts linked with their child and request changes to any contact details, thereby ensuring the data is accurate and up-to-date.

As with the iStudent app, there is full access to all school news and bulletins (both current and archived news), the school calendar and the school directory.

The data used by the iSAMS Parent app is encrypted to ensure that confidential information cannot be accessed by unauthorised personnel. Your school also controls the level of visibility of information and communication subscriptions offered to parents.

Please note: The iSAMS Parent app must be installed by your school in order for it to be accessible to parents. It will only work as part of the iSAMS management informations system and Parent Portal.

Ratings and reviews

Nice enough app, however, text overlaps in certain pages, like the Assessments and reports page, where if a line of text reaches the edge of the screen, the marks for assessments just overlay onto the text, making the whole thing unreadable. You can't even turn your device to landscape mode to give the text more space. Also, different teachers mark assessments in different ways, either as a percentage, "marks out of" (8/10 for example), or just a random number. A standard should be set for all.

This app is in desperate need for an upgrade. It's not user-friendly at all! Please contact me if you need help with designs, I will gladly assist with better ease of use. As a parent, I always struggle, and the colours don't feel like a school at all. It's so weird. Anyway, my suggestion is a new user-friendly design that meets accessibility guidelines.

Seriously this app is completely and utterly non user friendly. Truly awful. Avoid at all costs of you possibly can. Hateful. Ghastly. Can't rate it low enough

What's new

FIX - fixed an issue that caused push notifications to not be recieved for some devices.