Course Manager – Linking Exam Awards to course in Course Manager

There are two ways that you can link courses to QANs: 1.Adding an Award to the Examination panel in Maintain Course, clicking new here will pull through any Award that has been imported into Exams Organiser. If the award is new and basedata has not yet been imported that contains the specific award, it will…

How to use the Student Carousel Wizard

There might be occasions during the planning of the student curriculum when groups of students need to be transferred from one class to another during the course of the academic year. This is particularly useful if, for example, there are three groups of students attending Expressive Arts classes. At any one time during the academic…

How to handle rotations in the Timetable.

There are two ways to carry out Timetable rotations. The first is if the Students are rotating and the Teacher & Room are staying the same the other is if the students are staying within the same room and the teacher are rotating. If the students are rotating and the teacher is staying the same…

Course Manager – Leaving a Class and then Resuming

If a student has a class membership of a course with a Planned End Date that is more than one day after the start date of another relevant class membership, the course membership will have a gap inserted unless each of the following is true: The gap in working days between the class memberships is…

How do I create a new course in Course Manager?

Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Course | New and is made up of seven panels, you will need to complete Panels. 1. Duration and Tolerance -This panel is a new addition to the SIMS summer 2012 release and displays the course duration, continuity tolerance and completion tolerance. The default settings from…

How do I add a new course with existing classes?

To ensure you get a breakdown of each subject in class or course analysis mode, it is important to have the correct course linked to the award.  Please refer to the flowchart below illustrating the above example:       Reviewed on 08/04/2016

Students in schemes are greyed out and read-only

The problem is caused because: 1. The dates the students are eligible for the selected scheme are different from the ones chosen in Curriculum Assignment 2. The students status is not set to accepted. This can be resolved by clicking on the Relax button on the top right hand corner of the screen. This will…

Can more than one QAN be linked to a course?

A course should not be linked to more than one QAN running concurrently. If a school is changing from one syllabus to another, then a course can be linked to the old QAN with an end date and a new QAN with a start date which follows this end date. If more than one QN…

Exceptions in Course manager

Dealing with Exceptions It is possible to effectively remove a student from a course but still allow them to attend the associated classes by adding an Exception record. When the Exception record is created, the student’s course membership is ended as of yesterday’s date. 1. Click the Members hyperlink to display the Members panel. 2….

Editing the Planned End Date and Status

The planned end date column (P End Date) is filled with the dates from the End Date column. If a planned end date is recorded, a Status must also be recorded. If the student has left the course because they have left the school, the status should be set to Withdrawn, by selecting from the…

Two year courses support enhanced from the 2015-2016 year

Support for 2-year courses has been enhanced from the 2015-2016 year.  Setting the duration for 2 years will automatically set the membership for each student with an end date which reflects the 2 year duration, e.g. start date  …/09/2015 -end date will automatically default to …./07/2017. If the level (e.g. GCE2Y) is always a 2…

Adding a new QAN/Discount Code to an existing course

Care needs to be taken when doing this to avoid backdating the change to previous years, or creating duplicate learning aims.  Please follow the steps below: Check that you are working in the correct academic year in Tools / Academic Management / Set Academic Year Tools / Academic Management / Course Manager / Maintain Courses…