we would like to be able to take a Register of our Sixth Form students when they have a free lesson, we work on lesson based registers and this would be really helpful.
Thank you
Admin
Lyndsey Whittington
Oct 16, 2025
Thank you for your suggestion. This is already possible - please see more details on how to do this here https://support.isams.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018096774-Registration-Rules. If you need any support for this, please contact the support desk. You can also request training with the training team via your customer account manager to show you how to set this up.
The 'grouping' parts of a register rule are like an ordered series of filters, pupils are 'captured' by the first grouping that they match to, so you can register 'free' students in lesson slots by including a second grouping to the rule that will capture them, so, for example you could have...
Sets
Years
In the Take A Register wizard for a lesson you will then have both a sets drop-down and a years drop-down, but the Years groups will only show the pupils who are not in any of the Sets with lessons at that time.
Thank you for your suggestion. This is already possible - please see more details on how to do this here https://support.isams.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018096774-Registration-Rules. If you need any support for this, please contact the support desk. You can also request training with the training team via your customer account manager to show you how to set this up.
You can already do this.
The 'grouping' parts of a register rule are like an ordered series of filters, pupils are 'captured' by the first grouping that they match to, so you can register 'free' students in lesson slots by including a second grouping to the rule that will capture them, so, for example you could have...
Sets
Years
In the Take A Register wizard for a lesson you will then have both a sets drop-down and a years drop-down, but the Years groups will only show the pupils who are not in any of the Sets with lessons at that time.