Making Private Reports Public

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…

Adding new Dietary Needs for use in pupil records

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…

Individual Session Summary Report – Print more than one student on one page

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. …

EYFS Results not showing in CTF

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.  

How to Add Non-EDI Results

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…

Exporting/Importing Key Stage marksheets to Excel and Mapping aspects

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…

Preparation for Summer Exams – Manage Qualifications for PI Reporting

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…

Introduction of Discount Families for 16-18 Qualifications

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…

Colour in Sims Assessment – Individual Reports

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…

Current Supplier List in FMS

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…

Identifying addresses modified by CTF import bug

The report can be downloaded by clicking below, please save as to a suitable location, and extract the file so that it shows in your File Explorer as Address change history.rptdef, ready for import into SIMS. Address change history report.zip download For instructions on how to import a report into SIMS, please see the in-depth…

Patch to fix bug in CTF import for applicants

Non-hosted schools only: Please download patch 23971 if you are planning to import CTF files using the “add new pupils” option and place them in a pre-admission group. Capita have identified a bug in the software which can incorrectly link a pre-admission pupil to an existing contact. In addition it can incorrectly update that existing contact’s address if there…

Who has access or the ability to view SIMS Parent App?

*Updated 05/07/2019*   Which contacts associated on a student record has the ability to access SIMS Parent App? SIMS Parent App/Parent App Lite The current functionality is that any contact or guardian that has Parental Responsibility and no Court Order will be able to access SIMS Parent App, and have the ability to see the…

Trial Balance Comparison – compare greyed out

Usually – check that all the settings in both windows match, if not the files will not compare. Often it is the month or fund which is different so a new file needs to be selected. Rarely – check “Scomis_Apps” database version of the dbo.adopCreateTruncate stored procedure is not out of date (Infrastructure Team will…

Cannot load or display internet web page

Try a different web browser i.e. Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge, Firefox Try pinging the web page i.e. ping scomis.org and see if it gets a response and resolved to an IP address (Reply from 37.128.134.205: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=54). If there is no IP address, there may be a problem with the DNS/Hosts file which is usually…

How to edit seating plan in Exams

This can be found within the Examinations module under Tools>Component Sitting Integrity Check kb21643   Reviewed 24/5/19           Reviewed 24/5/19

Migration Report for Arrivals duplicating entries

This is due to incomplete, duplicated or multiple entry information in the ‘School History’ section of the student record. If incomplete or duplicated then correct the data and run the report again. If genuinely multiple schools then the report will show a line for each, if this is not what is required then edit the report…

Assigning users additional shortcuts within Hosted SIMS

If you have user management access within SIMS.net, you are able to assign users at the school with additional shortcuts. The shortcuts for the users appear along the left side panel and can be viewed/hidden using the 2 green arrows in the top left of the screen. In order to assign the shortcuts, under the…

Deleting Discover Groups from SIMS

Focus | Groups | Discover Groups Discover Groups in SIMS no longer exist in Discover. How can these be deleted from SIMS? Please call the Scomis Service Desk on 01392 385300 as a patch will need to be applied to delete the groups.

How do I create an Achievement Points by Registration Group graph in Discover?

In Discover there is a ‘Behaviour Points by Registration Groups’ graph but not one for Achievements. How do I create one? To see this information in Discover: 1. Please open Discover and click the Pupil button. Drag the graph ‘Student Totals by Year Group’ onto the canvas. Click the Achievement button and drag the appropriate…

What is the difference between a Discover and Dynamic group?

When saving a new Group in Discover, there is an option to save as ‘Discover’ or ‘Dynamic’. A Discover Group is only available in Discover, whereas a Dynamic Group is also available in SIMS. A Dynamic Group will allow any Supervisors of the Group to see any changes, such as when a Student has left the…

Installing the V6 Scomis Hosted Apps Connector

For a school to be able to access the updated Server 2016 based Scomis Hosted Apps platform, they will need to install the latest version of the connector. To do this, first download the latest V6 connector from: http://simsts.scomis.org/ScomisHostedAppsV607.msi (this will be updated as necessary) Once downloaded, ensure the user is logged out of the Hosted…

Report for Behaviour/Achievement points over a date range

Current functionality in SIMS makes this almost near impossible or extremely complex to make, so that you can run a report for behaviour/achievement conduct points over a date range. You can download the report definition file below and import into SIMS (Reports > Import), which has made this possible:   Conduct Net points over date…

Homepage Quick Search shortcut reporting criteria/tokens

The quick search on the SIMS homepage can be used as a quick reporting tool to help you find information. You can view details of search tokens available in Quick Search by entering the search string ‘help’ – use the scroll bar to view the entire list. Search tokens, starting with #, are used to…