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…
If you have previously created a report within SIMS and made it private but would now like to make it public, you will need to do the following. 1 – Go to Reports – Design Report – Open Existing Report 2 – Open up the Private Report that you want to make public. Click Save…
When adding dietary needs including allergies to a pupil record, the options you need to enter may not be available. You can add in any extra options in here by following these instructions. 1 – Go to Tools – Lookups – Maintain 2 – Press ‘Search’ and scroll to find ‘Dietary Needs‘ and double…
The Individual Session Summary Report (Reports/Attendance/Individual Pupil Reports/Individual Session Summary Report) will only display one student’s attendance details per page. Unfortunately it is not possible to change this. As a workaround, please follow the instructions below: Open File Manager Choose a destination (Eg: F:/Public/Updates) Right click on the white background and select New/Microsoft Word Document. …
In order for the EYFS results to appear in the CTF for submission to your LA, you will need to make sure that you “Calculate” the marksheet and save.
Adding Non EDI Results In SIMS select Tools | Examinations | Edit PI Data and click OK to confirm an up-to-date download. The system will collate then calculate the PI data. In the YTI drop-down list select Curriculum Year 11 and then click Search. Click the left-hand checkbox for the students required. Notice that the…
Importing data from a “Formatted” spreadsheet will import back into the original aspects and result sets that were contained when the data was previously exported. Importing data from an “Un-formatted” spreadsheet will require user input to map the columns of the spreadsheet to the aspects and result sets in SIMS. If the spreadsheets are exported…
Yes, select the paragraph you wish to be copied in Word, press CTRL + C to copy the comments from Word, then press CTRL + V to paste the Word comments into the marksheet. Please note, Assessment Manager 7 will allow exactly 1000 characters to be entered into a Comment Aspect.
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In order for approved qualifications to count in the PI reports in Sims they should be in Sims – Tools / Exams / Manage Performance. It is the school’s responsibility to make sure that the qualifications they are offering which count in the Performance Tables are added in Manage Performance in Sims. Here’s a reminder of…
The Summer Release (2018) introduced a new Discounting Family field for 16-18 Qualifications in compliance with DfE specifications announced in January this year. The field must be populated for all 16-18 qualifications in order to be included in KS5 PI reporting. Tools / Exams / Manage Qualifications the field will show in red for all…
When adding colours within a cell in a marksheet, (right clicking on the cell “Select colour to a cell”) the colour will NOT pull into individual reports. If you want the colour to pull into an individual report along with the result, it will need to be coloured using a Nested If Then Else formula…
When exporting a Supplier List from FMS Reports, it shows all suppliers including the ones that are no longer ‘In Use’. A workaround for this, is to go into the supplier list and use the export button in the top right corner of the screen. Once you have saved the file, navigate to it and…