Given the recent position of the DfE no longer collecting Proficient in English (1.4.3.2), Pupil Country of Birth (1.4.3.3) and Pupil Nationality (1.4.3.4), Capita SIMS have released the following three patches in SOLUS3 to delete this data: Patch 24423 – Deletes all records for Proficiency in English information for all past, present and future students….
Current use of Sims ID:- SIMS Next Generation SIMS Parent Lite & SIMS Parent SIMS Activities (part of SIMS Parent Full) SIMS Agora (online payments) SIMS Options
The Web address to sign in with Sims ID is: https://id.sims.co.uk
Sims ID – On-boarding If you are looking to use SIMS ID or SIMS ID-AD you will need to contact the Capita Software Sales team and request a SIMS ID or SIMS-AD subscription. Their telephone number is 01234 832100. The SIMS ID process starts with an agreement to cover the terms of use. This allows Capita to then give the school…
What are the benefits of auto-provisioning through Sims ID? Schools start using SIMS ID for a variety of reasons. Some use SIMS ID to manage their Active Directories and Office 365 provisioning. Others start with SIMS ID only providing access for parents using Parent App. or students using SIMS Options. Schools that start using SIMS…
Once parents have updated the Data Collection information and submitted it the administrator may access it from their Sims .net Home Page. In order to do this the SLG Alerts panel must be configured onto the Home Page Click on the Alert Type – Data Collection Sheets (it will show how many are available to…
A new (not converting) school had no staff on the reports. There was no actual previous URN to enter as the school didn’t exist. The software doesn’t allow the same number to be entered. It was resolved, however, by entering a zero in the ‘Previous URN Number’ field and the ‘Date Number Changed’ being when the…
In order to Publish an Assessment Individual Report or Profile Report that has been uploaded to the students linked documents the user will require one of the following: – Senior Management Team – Assessment Coordinator (Assessment Reports Only) – Profiles Coordinator (Profiles Reports Only)
Assessment individual reports and Profile reports can be published to the SIMS Parent app providing they have been created and uploaded to the Students linked documents first. Once they are uploaded to the Students linked documents they can be published through Routines | SLG & SIMS Online | Publish Documents.
(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…
This example is for enabling scheduled reports. Go to Focus>System Manager>Manage Groups – Click on New Section 1 – enter a Code and Description eg RepSched and Report Scheduler Section 2 – click the green + to add the required users Section 3 – click on the + to expand Core System>Core>Home Page>Report Execution Manager>execute Scheduled…
From version v6.10 of the Scomis Hosted connector, it is possible for an administrator to set a registry key that will force the Scomis Hosted Applications connector not to use Pre-Authentication web service. This is done by setting a registry key in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key. The Pre-authentication service is used to validate a username…
If a pupil is showing in the take register screen but is not in the pupil search and is not on roll at school, they may be sat in the admissions area of SIMS. Go to Focus – Admission – Application and change the group filter to ‘Any’ Search for the pupil name and…
From version v6.10 of the Scomis Hosted connector, it is possible for an administrator to set a registry key that will force the Scomis Hosted Applications connector to always use a gateway Server when connecting to the Scomis Service. This is done by setting a registry key in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key. This option should…
The Scomis Hosted Applications version 6.08 is a major change in the technology that Scomis use for connecting schools to the Scomis Hosted Applications platform. This page contains information about Upgrade Troubleshooting. The new application is written using the Microsoft .net framework, this allows the application to function as a single application removing the need…
To setup attendance letters to send to parents for certain attendance categories, you can do the following. Go to Tools – Setups -Attendance Setup – Letter Definition Click ‘New’ and enter a name for the letter and choose a field to base it on. A word document will then open where you can write…
After upgrading to version 6 of the Scomis Hosted Apps connector (to access your hosted SIMS account) you may wonder what has changed… Scomis Hosted Connector v6 release: Version 6 has been built around Microsoft’s .Net Framework and contains all of the previous features and functionality of the v5.42 client (the last main release). **IMPORTANT** Because…
When a user is invited to use SIMS Online Services, it keeps the original email that was invited and doesn’t update when the email is changed in SIMS. There doesn’t appear to be a way to cancel the invitation so what you need to do is to go to https://admin.sims.co.uk and browse to Manage Users…
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…