8 Oct 2019

LA Contacts for School Census – Autumn 2019

Posted by Annabel Tuohy
Please find the LA return dates and contacts below. Cambridgeshire Contact: Maria Clough - Email - maria.clough@cambridgeshire.gov.uk - Phone - 01480 379859 Return Census by: 10th October 2019   Cornwall Contact:  Errika Chew- Email - corestats@cornwall.gov.uk…
25 Sep 2019

Change from Gifted & Talented to More Able and Talented

Posted by Sarah Hart
Following the Sims Summer 2019 upgrade, changes have been made to the Reporting Dictionary Report | Design Reports and the Additional Student Columns in Assessment and Attendance.  The fields previously referred to…
13 Sep 2019

Credentials Store Tidy Up

Posted by admin
Occasionally the Windows Credentials Store will contain cached Scomis credentials which are no longer valid or are no longer relevant.  The Scomis Credentials Store Tidy tool will delete any Scomis Credential from…
9 Sep 2019

Cover notifications/alerts

Posted by Sarah Hart
A notification/alert can be sent to a teacher, who is due to cover a class, to advise them that they are covering a particular class. Unfortunately this is not an automatic process…
2 Sep 2019

Autumn 2019 School Census Bulletin

Posted by emily.stone
This FAQ lists the latest information regarding the School Census. It contains information on the latest filesets, patches and errors. The latest census documentation can be viewed at the bottom of this…
27 Aug 2019

Autumn Census 2019 – Fileset 1306

Posted by emily.stone
Fileset 1306 has been released. Hosted Schools This fileset will be applied by Friday 3rd October Non-hosted Schools will need to download and import the file. Fileset 1306 Click on the above…
13 Aug 2019

Protected: Scomis WebTrain

Posted by emily.stone
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1 Aug 2019

Post 16 Learning Aims and the 2019 Autumn School Census

Posted by janet.demaine
This faq lists the latest information regarding the POST 16 element of the School Autumn Census for 2019 Changes!  In addition to Learning aim planned qualification and non qualification hours for the…
17 Jul 2019

Is it possibe to send out Profile reports via InTouch?

Posted by Sarah Hart
Unfortunately, this is not currently possible within the Sims Software.  A change request has been logged with Capita and will  hopefully be implemented in a future Sims upgrade.
15 Jul 2019

Updated KS2 Wizards – Comparative Report

Posted by Sarah Hart
Capita provides a KS2 Comparative England 2019 report in SIMS that enables schools to provide parents with information on the school’s current Year 6 end of key stage outcomes alongside comparable national…
4 Jul 2019

Sims Attendance – Possible Attendance

Posted by Sarah Hart
When looking at a student’s Individual Registration Attendance report (accessed via links on the right hand side of the student record) you may find that possible attendance varies from one student to…

Setting up B2B Scheduled Tasks – Hosted Schools

Posted by Annabel Tuohy
To setup B2B tasks to send information to your local authority, you can follow these steps: Firstly, you will need to follow this FAQ - to make sure you are configured correctly…
1 Jul 2019

Parent App – Attendance to show for one year group

Posted by Sarah Hart
Unfortunately, it is not possible to push attendance via the Parent App for one year group.  Changes to the SIMS Parent settings, such as enabling certain modules, will affect the whole school.…
25 Jun 2019

Summer 2019 Upgrade to Sims and FMS

Posted by janet.demaine
Documentation: Release notes containing detailed information on what is included in the upgrade can be downloaded here: Summer 2019 Combined Release Note FMS Summer 2019 Release Note The links below show short videos…
19 Jun 2019

ScoLearn – Using Digital Learning

Posted by Verity.Ridge
Home Page The course homepage will display the introduction and all the course modules. Each course will have a different number of modules to complete. Click on each module and work through…

Student School Career Attendance Report

Posted by Verity.Ridge
This report will show you the attendance and % attendance for the student since their date of admission. Reports > Lesson Monitor > Whole Group Student Reports > Student School Career Attendance…

Is there an audit trail in SIMS?

Posted by Verity.Ridge
There is currently no audit trail in SIMS so you will not be able to see which user changed something. If you do know the date and time of when something was…
4 Jun 2019

School Census – Migrating MIS data to Sims

Posted by Sarah Hart
If you have recently migrated your pupil and staff data into a Sims database from another MIS system (e.g. RM Integris) and you do not have sufficient historical information in your Sims…
29 May 2019

How Do I Spoil A cheque?

Posted by Rachel.hill
If you have a cheque that has e.g. been damaged by the printer you will need to spoil the cheque within FMS, in order to re-run the cheque processing for the suppliers…
23 May 2019

Key Stage 2019 – Explanation of P-Scales and Pre-Key Stage

Posted by Sarah Hart
Key Stage 2019 - Explanation of P-Scales and Pre-Key Stage “Pre-Key Stage” and “P- Scales” are different. “P-scale” is lower than “Pre-Key Stage” The result “BLW” (below the standard of the pre-key…