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…
You can create custom date ranges in SIMS for use in Academic Management by browsing to Tools > Setups > Curriculum Setup > Curriculum and then click the New button on the menu bar. You need to enter the name and the from and to dates. Once saved, this will apply for all users in…
Click HERE for the Managing Classroom Staff QRS Reviewed on 24/05/2019
Click HERE for a list of 2014 to 2021 qualifications and discount codes Reviewed 24/5/20
There is a number of patches which can be run to resolve this issue Please contact the Service Desk and quote KB111255 requesting patches 14265, 11669,12879 Reviewed 24/5/2019
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
This FAQ is no longer relevant. Reviewed 29/10/2015
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….
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…
Hints and Tips for Using Course Manager. Hints_and_Tips_for_Using_Course_Manager Reviewed on 26/08/2015
If results are added in Edit PI in Exams Organiser they will not show in Course Manager or in the Post 16 Learning Aims Panel of the School Census. The school will have to manually put them in the school census. Reviewed on 24/05/2019
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…
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…