iSAMS Information for Nexus Users

As the next academic year approaches we want to give you a chance to prepare for a common task you will be carrying from the first day of next term - registration. This includes the daily morning session attendance as well as your class registers. To help you get started there are some resources below we would like you to use.
(you may need to sign in to the identity portal  - instructions for doing this are on the right)

iUniversity Courses
iSAMS QuickStart: Take a Register
Registration Manager - Deliver Important Notes to Students
Registration Manager - Attendance Reports and Analysis
Registration Manager - Out of School and Future Absence

Support Articles and Guides
Take a School Register
Using the School Register Tab
Registration Manager

Practical Exercise
Now log into iSAMS and have a go at taking attendance for some of your classes.
PLEASE NOTE NOT ALL CLASSES ARE AVAILABLE  AT THE MOMENT
Feedback any issues or observations to ict@nexus.edu.sg

To access the iSAMS Identity Portal use this link: https://identity.isams.com

The iSAMS Identity Portal is a one-stop-shop for all you iSAMS support needs featuring quick start guides, training videos, user guides, a support portal as well as the iUniversity e-learning platform that houses a catalogue of online courses that let you learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere. You can also access the iCommunity platform, a friendly, worldwide online knowledge-sharing forum that gives you access to registered users from hundreds of iSAMS schools allowing you to conect and ask and answer questions in a more informal setting available to you 24/7.

To register for the Identity Portal follow the steps below:

1. Go to https://identity.isams.com

2. Select > Not a member

3. Select > iSAMS Client

4. Fill in the form and complete all the fields:

• Use your Nexus email account

• Your Nexus iSAMS Client Code is CLI41557

• Allow for 24 hrs for the request to be prcoessed

• Identity Portal FAQs

To access iSAMS use this link: https://isams.nexus.edu.sg

1. You will need an authenticator app on your phone, if you have one already this will most likely work but you can download from the Play Store or App Store - options include Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator or Authy (more info on Authenticator Apps).

2. Make sure you are logged into your Nexus Google account (nexus.edu.sg)

3. Access the iSAMS Portal using https://isams.nexus.edu.sg. A message about pop-ups will appear - acknowledge this and then choose the option at the end of the URL address to add it to your trusted sites  - permanently allowing popups for this address. Once you have done that, refresh the iSAMS page.

4. Choose the "Sign in via Google Workspace" Login option on the page and a message will appear asking you to check your email for a verification code - this may take a minute or two to arrive. Once received, type in to the space provided. A MFA instruction window will appear.

5. Use your Authenticator App to scan the QR code which will add an entry in the app (that you can rename to something appropriate - like isams or isams-niss). Type in the code into the verification box and verify - at which point iSAMS should open.
   
   For now you will need to do that each time you open iSAMS but there is an option on the login page that allows you to defer this on a 7 day cycle.

Please make sure you have logged into iSAMS before Session 1 (instructions below)

GROUPINGS
Groups for Session 1 and Session 2
Facilitators for Session 2

SESSION 1 - Getting Started with iSAMS
Locations
L12 IB Common Room - Secondary  Year Group Teams - with Lincy
L07 Staff Lounge - Primary Year group Teams  - with Raj
L01 MPH - Teachers without Homerooms - with David

SESSION 2 - iSAMS  - How to... Breakout Sessions
Locations
Follow your Group Facilitator to the classroom of their choice.
Activities | Primary Questions | Secondary Questions | Others Questions

SESSION 3 -  iSAMS Update, Upskill with iUniversity and Q&A
Locations
L01 Auditorium
Recomended iUniversity Courses

Please bring your laptop and your phone to the training sessions this week. There are three main objectives for the training. 

1. Learning how to carry out tasks related to your role. 

2. To make you aware of range of functionality and featurs of the system and how its setup impacts the school - it is unlikely that you will be carrying out all the tasks demonstrated, however it is important for you to understand how the underlying structure of the school is mirrored by the base settings in the MIS and fundamental to access, security and groupings with the system.  You will investigate features of the system to understand if they are relevant to our current practices and how the control and oversight you might gain with iSAMS is different from Engage. and thus may inform changes to our existing processes. We ask that you approach this with a spirit of inquiry, exploration and enthusiasm. 

3. There are subsequent training sessions in Term 4 and we will be asking for assistance during these sessions from those involved in this stage of the training to help deliver or assist the trainers and to help other to troubleshoot issues that might arise. This means that some of the features you will be learning in these sessions, you may be asked to teach others.

We hope that the sessions will be informative and interesting for you. Details of what training is happening each day is shown in the Training Schedule.

Throughout the sessions there may be questions that you think of or issues tha t you see with the data - please add them to this sheet: Questions & Data Issues.