Review of iSAMS by IRIS
Oct 2025
This program does not seem to translate well to American schools. The coding is so rigid that we couldn't even adjust dates/times to our format. The terminology and needs of our school is so different than what was available in this program. We would not have selected this if we, as a school, were given the option.
Reply from iSAMS by IRIS:Thank you Meredith for sharing your experience with iSAMS. We’re sorry to hear that the system hasn’t aligned well with your school’s needs so far, and we truly appreciate your candid feedback.
We understand that adapting to a platform originally built for UK schools can present challenges for American institutions, especially around formatting, terminology, and workflow expectations. Your insights are incredibly valuable as we continue to evolve iSAMS to better support American schools.
We’re actively working on enhancements to improve regional formatting, terminology flexibility, and streamline workflows. These updates are part of our broader commitment to evolving iSAMS to better support diverse school needs for all our schools globally.
To hear more about these updates, we warmly invite you to register for our upcoming Product Roadmap Update webinar, available via iCommunity. This session will showcase our latest releases and give you a preview of what’s coming next - including features aimed at improving automation, parent communication, and teacher workload.
We hope you’ll join us and see how iSAMS is evolving to better meet the needs of schools like yours.
Meredith Galvin found iSAMS by IRIS:
- Improves parent engagement“The only parent engagement would be the Parent Portal. We are primarily only using it for billing.”
- Improves school processes“Any process we try to do through iSAMS takes so many steps, it often feels not worth it. As an administrator, I like it for storing and accessing our data, but it is not time-effective for teachers to use the iSAMS system at all.”
- Provides school data“I am able to gather student info and produce reports. That's the extent of how we've used it so far.”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“We are tracking injuries in Medical Center, but that's it. Even that is hard because notices are not sent home to parents immediately, but at some designated time at the end of the day.”
- Reduces teacher workload“We are not having our teachers use it because it was clear that it would increase teacher workload and not meet our needs for grading/reporting.”
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