When a school purchases SIMS Dinner Money they will need to request the Dinner Money License patch 12370. We will require a copy of the confirmation purchase order from Capita. Hosted Schools – Send the email confirmation to Scomis also requesting the patch is applied to your hosted SIMS. Non Hosted Schools – Send email…
These data items will no longer be required by DfE as part of the school census from September 2018 and there is no DfE requirement for the data to be stored, or retained, within school management information systems. Each school therefore has the responsibility as data controllers to decide whether they should continue to collect, process or retain…
The Country of Birth and Nationality fields have been removed from this version of the Data Collection Sheet for those schools who no longer wish to collect the data. To download and import the amended Data Collection Sheet Save the file Data Collection Sheet amended into a folder on your computer. Unzip it and save the Data…
This report will show the name and address of the pupil with blank boxes for the collection of Contact Details. It has been designed to re-collect contact details and should be used if Check 99 in database diagnostics reveals some contacts whose details need to be checked but the school does not have any manual…
Please find a report to show all current pupil premium pupils below. This report is based on the tick box within ‘Additional Information’ within the student records. Pupil Premium To import the report, download and save this file in a location you can get to from within SIMS make sure you unzip the file when…
Background :Local authorities use Capita ONE to receive attendance and student data from schools through B2B. The next upgrade (version 3.66) to Capita ONE will require the TLS settings in Sims and in Sims Online services to be on either 1.1 or 1.2 otherwise the transfers will fail. By default the TLS settings are at 1.0. It is advised that all…
Below are the instructions to investigate any contacts identified on Check 99 of system diagnostics. Please note: Running database diagnostics Check99 again after taking remedial action will continue to highlight the records previously identified even though these items have been resolved. Possible Missing Address, telephone and email addresses Check in Focus > Person > Contacts for…
Due to the current CTF issues Capita have disabled all of their online services as a proactive precautionary step. This will affect: SIMS Parent & Parent Lite SIMS Activities SIMS Student SIMS Options SIMS Agora** To re-enable the services you will need to log on to your Online Services Admin Portal. This can be accessed…
Bacs run can be cancelled via PRL614Q Step 1 – Navigate Menus>SIMS Finance>PRL Options>BACS Processing or you can type PRL614Q n the filter screen. Please note: PRL at this stage does not know that a bacs payment has been reconciled so it is possible to cancel a payment even if it has been reconciled. If…
You can cancel a whole delivery note with the status of “Entered” using RSS320Q Step 1 – Navigate Menus>SIMS Finance> RSS Options> Deliveries or you can type RSS320Q In the filter screen Step 2: Click the “Deliveries” button above, which will display the below screen: Step 3: You can either complete the above fields, add…
You can cancel a journal by taking the following route: Step 1: Navigate Menus>SIMS Finance> General Ledger> Journal Date Entry> Journal Reversal Facility or you can NML350 in the Filter box as displayed below: Step 2 Click the Journal reversal button which will then display the below window, click the Journal referance spy glass to…
Every ledger code has access to all datasets: Dataset 1 Actuals Dataset 2 Original budget Dataset 3 Revised budget Dataset 4 Commitments Dataset 5 GRN not invoiced Dataset 6 GRN accumulated Dataset 7 Transaction consolidation Modules SIM Finance is module based with a work flow pattern between the modules: PRL Purchase Ledger…
You can cancel an individual Line Order with a status of “Entered” Step 1: Navigate to Menus>SIMS Finance>RSS Options> Purchase Orders>RSS310Q or you can type RSS310Q in the filter box as detailed below Click the purchase order button to display the following: Remove the ticks that are not relevant for your search i.e leave a…
All Schools: If you would like the site specific patch please log a service request with Scomis. Hosted Schools: After you have logged a service request the patch (script) will be run on your data and the results will be placed in the F:\Public\Updates folder. You will be emailed when this step is complete. Please Skip to Step…
Purchase orders that have not been Authorised You can cancel a purchase order with a status as “Entered” by selecting the following route: Step 1: Navigate Menus>SIMS Finance>RSS Options> Purchase Orders>RSS310Q or you can type RSS310Q in the filter box as detailed below Step 2: The Header Restrictions screen is displayed, All check boxes show…
Scenario 1 – Invoices That Have Not Been Authorised You can cancel an invoice if the status is not showing as “awaiting certification” i.e awaiting authorisation. The Finance officer that has permissions to authorise an invoice can cancel the invoice. Step 1 Navigate Menus>SIMS Finance>PRL Options and drill down to PRL300Q or you…
Please do the following Make sure the qualification is added into Tools / Examinations / Manage Performance Indicator Check that the points values are correct. Check that the Size Equivalence column is updated correctly (if the size equivalence is 0 the calculation will not calculate the point value). Run the CKD or CRD routine to…
Collating PI Data (Resetting Discounting) Click the CRD button on the Edit PI Data page. If this option is selected, all manual Discounting ticks recorded in the Performance Results grid are discarded on collation. Only the automatic Discounting rules are applied. Collating PI Data (Keeping Discounting) Click the CKD button on the Edit PI Data…
Schools will need to download the June copy of the basedata and edit the results file. Details on the process can be found on the OCR website.
Routines | Pupil (or Student) | Bulk Delete Pupil Data Following the Sims Summer 2018 Upgrade to assist schools in being GDPR compliant, it is now possible for a school to bulk delete pupil/student data in line with the Schools own data retention policies. The following data areas can now be deleted: Alerts Attendance…
What is the Science Trilogy Double Award? Where students don’t want to take separate individual science qualifications, they can choose to combine all three science areas (trilogy) into a single GCSE which covers the content equivalent to two GCSEs (double award). What QNs cover this Qualification? Referring to the DfE KS4 2022 Performance Points spreadsheet,…
This section works itself out and cannot be added to manually. To force an item (eg Edit Marks) go to Focus>Attendance>Edit Marks – then close it – a few times and then click the refresh button top right of the Favourite Panel and it will appear kb22125
These instructions will take you through creating a Company Bill Payer and linking the Company to a student. 1 A Company Bill Payer should be created and the student added to the financial details area of the Company Record 2. The Company Bill Payer will be visible in the Pupil Fees Details screen, 3….
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If you are entering the leaving date for a pupil, you may get an error message such as “Invalid DOL” or “Invalid Scenario” If you get any sort of error message, make sure the leaving date you are entering and any of the previous leaving dates in School History are all on school days and…
You can now run reports in SIMS that will show staff and what permissions they have within SIMS. 1 – Go to Reports – Run Report. 2 – Select Staff from under focus and scroll down to System Manager. 3 – The two reports shown at the bottom can show you what staff are…
The way to double up teachers in SIMS is to go to the class timetable. This can be done via Timetable > New > Group and selecting the year, block and group. This will show you the classes under the group. When you right click the class you can select the option to Add Staff….
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.
The HCSS Web Companion has been redeployed to all Hosted schools following an update from HCSS. The companion is now running version 5.1.7 The first change is the name of the shortcut that appears under Launcher and FMS. Rather than the FPS Web Companion you should now have the FPS Budget Companion. If you do…
Non Hosted schools will need to re-download the HCSS Web Companion due to changes that HCSS have implemented. In order to download the companion you will need to log into the HCSS Web Portal and go to the School tab. From here you should be able to select “Download Web Companion” as shown in the…