Export to Excel in Edge – Scomis Hosted Platform

Now that Internet Explorer 11 has gone end of life (see here) we have had to deploy Microsoft’s new Edge Chromium browser across the Scomis Hosted Platform. Many websites had stopped working fully in IE11 and had compatibility issues, which resulted in pages not showing fully and some functionality not working. Whilst Edge is now…

How to amend Work Email address to Home Email on Data Collection Sheet

The standard Data Collection Sheet only displays the Work Email address of a contact. This can be amended in several ways, the most stress-free approach is to update the field in the report so that the main email address takes the place of the work email address. This can be done as shown below. 1….

Where can I find the SPS Safety Reports?

Capita have recently released a new suite of reports called the SPS Safety Reports. The SPS Safety Reports are a suite of reports which simply imports into SIMS and will allow detailed analysis on any key group, subject, class and individual for attendance, behaviour, achievements, staff absence and homework. For both primary and secondary schools….

How do I add reports to the favourites panel on the SIMS homepage?

There are two ways to get your favourite report(s) to show on the SIMS homepage favourites panel. Option 1 Reports > Design Reports > Open Existing Report > right click over the report you want to add and select Add to favourites. Option 2 Reports > Run reports > locate the report from the report…

How to run a career attendance report for leavers

This report will run for any students but the effective date must be one when they were on roll at the school. Reports>Attendance (or Lesson Monitor)>Whole Group Pupil (student) Reports>Pupil’s (student’s)School Career Attendance Report Change the Date if necessary, choose the required Group Type and click Search Highlight required pupils and click Print   kb22716

* Updated 8th July 2019* Primary School SIP (School Improvement Programme) Statutory Key Stage Analysis Resources

(Updated 7th July 2019) Capita have developed a series of reports to assist primary school leaders, governors and any other relevant stake holders to analyse statutory Key Stage data in line with the DfE Primary Accountability Measures 2018 updated September 2018 and Provisional 2018 National Figures from Statistics at DfE – Department for Education. These…

Discover – Can you filter graphs to show data between a date range?

Unfortunately, this feature is currently not available within Discover (a change request has been logged with Capita). However ‘Termly graphs’ have been included in the Autumn 2013 release of Discover. These will include reports to show termly Behaviour points, Achievement points and Percentage Session Attendance.

RTF report not saving changes

When amending an RTF formatted report within SIMS, you may find that the changes you have made haven’t saved. This is due to an RTF report needing to be saved in a different way. Under the ‘Add-ins‘ tab within the toolbar at the top of the page within Microsoft Word, there is an option for…

Creating a Medical Report

This FAQ is to assist in creating a report containing Medical Information of students in SIMS. There are several pre-designed reports on this subject, which can be found via Reports > Run Report > Open Existing Report, then under: Focus > Student. If these reports do not contain the information you require, you will be…

Attendance reports for Vulnerable children – Pupil Premium, SEN, FSM or EAL.

The following Attendance/Lesson monitor reports can be run/created in order to show vulnerable groups of children and their attendance figures. This can include Pupil Premium, Special Educational Needs, Free School Meals, Ever6, English Additional Language and others. In order to get a ‘Whole group figure’ for these groups, go to: Reports > Attendance/Lesson Monitor >…

User Defined Group not pulling through to reports

When running a report eg. Group Session Summary Report – a user defined group that has been set up is not showing in the drop down to base the report on when changing the date range filter. This is because, when you set up a user defined group, you need to set the date range…

Troubleshooting KS4 Performance Indicator Reports

Click below for the sample report output. This is only a guide and will likely not be representative of a school’s true data.   KS4 Cohort Information Number of Students at end of KS4 Candidates are identified as being at the end of Key Stage 4 if they were on roll at the school and…

Generating Performance Indicator (PI) reports

Running the PI reports Select Tools | Examinations | PI Reports – the default selections are for a Key Stage 4 summary report for the default season. Click the Group Filter browser and expand the Exam Performance Cohort option by clicking on the  + Select PI Cohort 2022 KS4 and click Apply. When you run…

Advanced Attendance Reports from User Groups

Scomis have produced a variety of reports which allow more detailed analysis of attendance data. The attached files will need to be imported into SIMS Reports and will be accessible through the Reports Menu, which will be under the Student Focus. Please download and unzip the compressed file and then import the individual .repdef files…

Deleting SIMS Reports created by another user.

As you know, when a user creates a report within SIMS, only that user can amend or delete the report. Other users can use this as a base for their own report but the original report remains in effect. Therefore when a person leaves or changes role, their reports were orphaned within SIMS in previous…

Running reports for a User Defined Group

Before starting the report, make sure you make a note of the Short Name of your User Defined Group as this will be required. After selecting the data fields that you require for your report press Next, this will take you to the Define Filter screen. Click on New, a screen will pop up which…

Report output exceeds maximum width

Error: This exceeds the maximum width when running a report in SIMS.     This is because the report is running as a Word List Report. It would need to be changed to a Form Report (RTF)  output on the Define Presentations screen. Ensure that Form Report (RTF) is selected. Sometimes it will show as…

Swap between timetable reports within SIMS

Within Reports – Timetables it is now possible to switch between timetable reports from a report output by clicking a component on the timetable. For example, from the Staff Timetable(s) report, clicking the room name on the output displays in a separate window that room’s timetable for the timetable cycle.  This functionality was previously available…

Creating New Mail Merge Templates for Printing Labels

          Create your report as normal, including any fields that you want to include and any filters that are necessary.           Go through the report wizard until you get to ‘Report Output’ and select Word Mailmerge. Click ‘New’ to create a new template.          …

How do I bulk print the teacher timetables?

Teacher timetables cannot be bulk printed from Nova-T6. Bulk printing of teacher timetables can be done from SIMS .net  using route Reports |  Timetables |  Staff Timetables. Indvidual staff timetables can be printed from Nova-T6 and an all staff timetable can be printed. Timetables for different groups of teachers can be printed using Timetable |…

How to format dates in Excel reports.

When report is run the date of birth will show i.e 21st January 2001 would like the format to be 21/01/01. To format the date in the report as required after export to excel, please follow the below mentioned steps: 1. Select the ‘DOB’ column in the Excel report output. 2. Go to Menu Data…

Unable to run report – document management server not installed

If you are working on the main admin PC in school and get the above message please check the service is running Go to Start | Run | then type services.msc and enter. Scroll down list to find Sims.net Document Server Double click to open and check the service is ‘started’ If you are on…

Import SIMS .net Reports after an Upgrade

Hosted Service (Terminal Server) School  & Upgrade Service School please follow Reports > Import > Click Open and if neccessary browse to F/Public/Sims.net Browse to the latest version of the pre-defined report.rptdef file  – e.g. ‘Predefined Reports_v7.162.rptdef’ where 7.162 is the version of the SIMS .net you are now on.  Click Open Click Check All and…