Go to the … icon in the top right hand of the screen and go to Settings. Scroll down and choose View Advanced Settings Find the button as below under Proxy Setup called Open Proxy Settings Scroll down and find Manual proxy setup and turn Use a proxy server to On. Fill in the details for…
When adding new users or controlling existing users access rights, you may find that you want the user to be able to access a specific area, but the pre-defined permission groups either give them too much or not enough permission to allow the user to do this. Within SIMS, go to Focus > System Manager…
When you have entered students that are siblings into SIMS, they should all pull through to the corresponding Family Links panels as long as the parent’s records are the same and “Correspondence” and “Parental Responsibility” are ticked in both records. These pupils both have the same parents and both have the home symbols but are not…
Issue: When Parents/Carers are logged into Options Online they are unable to tick the approval box. Resolution: Within the Options Online plan definition you will need to make sure that the “School should approve student choices” tick box is completed. This will then make the Parent/Carer approval tick box live.
The UCI consists of 13 characters: Centre number (5) Board Identifier (1) The academic year of registration (2) Candidate serial number (4) Check character (1) Centre Number The number of the centre where the Candidate took their first unit. Candidates moving to different centres part way through their course will retain their original UCI. Board…
After creating your Domestic Season you will need to open the Basedata window via Focus > Basedata. Right-click the DOM board, and then select “Clone a Previous Series” from the menu displayed Highlight the series that you want to clone and then enter a code & title. The code will need to start with the month…
Within a student record, where the parental contacts are recorded there is an option for ‘Correspondence’. The Parental Correspondence on a contact should be set for those parents who do not live with the student and who wish to receive correspondence and/or a copy of the pupil report. “It is not currently possible to bulk update…
Variations of error in Nova T sgdclash Tdraw celldata sgdtable TdrawCellData sgdstaff TdrawCellData sgdDays TdrawCellData sgdUnits TDrawCellData sgdAttributes TDrawCellData sgdPPATable TDrawCellData Explanation In some instances, the error can be avoided by not having the Year/Band timetable open in the background, or on another monitor (dual monitors), when making changes to the curriculum and timetable. i.e. if…
When selecting ethnicity for staff as White British, it appears as Traveller of Irish/Gypsy/Roma Heritage in Census Return. Capita are aware of the problem and have confirmed that it can be ignored. When it is submitted to Collect it will not be submitted as part of the census return. The error is due to certain Lookups…
This can be done in two ways:- The User may configure their own home page by using the spanner icon in the top right hand corner of the Home Page itself – via this option it is possible to add the panel ‘Messages’ There is a also multi user option which the individual user cannot…
A report to show students who live with both parents or either parent is becoming a common request due to a freedom of information request going around. There is no simple way to produce this report however there is a rptdef (Report Definition File) that can be imported into SIMS under Reports > Import and…
Sometimes it’s necessary to remove a member of staff in SIMS, if they have been added by accident or it’s a duplicate staff record. It is very important to only delete a staff record in the above circumstances, as when a member of staff is deleted from SIMS, this is permanent. When the staff record…
This log is available after importing new Assessment Manager resources via Focus>Assessment>Marksheet entry – usually following an upgrade Click Yes – this can take a long time, do not interrupt it, when finished it will show the activity log Click on Save and choose a location Unless this is manually saved at the time there…
Even if an overnight automated backup is successful, you may receive notification that there were possible errors. On checking the log files, there could be some (or even several) files which don’t backup. You can find out which files these are by checking the log files in the console. It is the schools responsibility to ensure all…
Devon schools use Anycomms to download finance files which consist of the following file types: dt – Devon Transfer ii – Internal Invoices bm – Budget Management pi – Payroll Information To download these files, you need to log into Anycomms, ensure the download file path is set, (Hosted schools) F:\public>anycomms>Inbox (Non hosted schools) – C:\anycomms>Inbox Once you have downloaded these files, you will then…
Occasionally when reporting on Peronnel and Contracts within SIMS, it will display a closed contract for the member of staff. There is no specific option within the Reporting module to only make the open contracts show, you will need to filter the workaround as follows: Expand the ‘Employment Details‘ section and pick the blue ‘Contracts‘…
Options does not recognise students whose Year and Year Taught in are mismatched. To workaround this issue we need to temporarily amend the Year Group to match Year Taught In. If this year’s Year 10 are to be included in next year’s Year 10 Options implementation, then you must open the History by clicking the…
Documentation: Release notes containing detailed information on what is included in the upgrade can be downloaded here: Spring 2018 Release Notes Headlines: Statutory Returns School Census Summer 2018 files are included in this release. Examinations Organiser and SIMS Reports to identify QNs missing from the Manage Performance Indicator screen Ability to record Level 2 Technical Qualifications at…
When a construction dataset is submitted to Sims it reads the curriculum from Sims .net and matches what is in the file with what is already in Sims and if it is the same doesn’t change anything. Where there are differences in the submitted file to what is held in Sims, changes are made in Sims with effect from the start…
Maintenance timetables can only be transferred into SIMS once. To be able to re-use this timetable you will need to convert it to a Construction timetable. Open Nova T6 and load your maintenance timetable. Once loaded, click Select Data > Load Dataset. choose Create Construction Dataset and then click Next. You will then…
For students without UCI numbers:- 1. Select Tools>Allocate UCI & Exam Numbers. 2. Select the Group required. 3. Highlight the student required 4. Click on the Allocate UCI button. 5. Click Save. This only applies if no exam number is present – the allocate UCI action will populate any student with an existing exam number…
This report will give you a list of pupil and their parental contact. Pupil with Mother & Father report To Import The Report Select the file and Save As, make a note of the location and then unzip the file. In SIMS.net go to Reports>Import click on Open and browse to the file you have…
If the emails are not affected then check that the school has sufficient credit to send text messages. Log into http://www.pageone.co.uk/login and check and/or top up SMS credit in order to send text messages. Pageone log in details can be found in Tools>InTouch>Module set up They can be contacted on 0333 200 5033 or via email at customersupport@pageone.co.uk.
Users may have a problem when opening School Comms within the Scomis Hosted Apps. The application may open the initial screen and then fail to open or not open at all. If this happens the S&N team will need the call to do the following fix: Below is done by S&N: Log in to SIMSNET01…
There are 3 reasons why a clash would not show on a Component Clash Analysis Report 1 The Award has not been attached to a Course. You can check this by right clicking on the Award and select Properties, is the correct course showing in the Course field? If not go into Course Manager, select…
Below is a summary of the setup process, for more detail please download the Sims Parent Install guidance. Step 1 : Register The nominated Sims Parent Administrator at the school emails distribution@capita.co.uk to request Sims Parent with the following information NB If you are requesting the free Parent Lite version – please go to Order Parent Lite App from here…
Error when trying to delete Linked SEN Document – “There was an error uploading documents!” This occurs because the document itself has been deleted from this record but still remains as a Linked Document. Go to Focus>Student>Student Details Open the student’s record. Click the Linked Documents link and delete the SEN Document. This will no…
1. Go to Focus>Student>Student Details and select the Linked Documents link. Select the applicable Linked Document and click ‘Open’. This will now save the document as a local copy on your machine or open the existing copy you may have. Make any necessary changes to the document and once you are satisfied it is correct, save it. 2. Close the file…
When logging into Hosted SIMS, the user may experience a local SIMS login box or the following error: This error will appear after the initial Remote Desktop Connection screen and after the blue/green Windows server screen where the user profile and group policy settings are being loaded. This is common when the user is logging…
Columns relating to statutory guidance are displayed with a green background and can be identified by the letter Y in the PoS Expectations heading. Columns that relate to non-statutory guidance are displayed with a pale blue background and can be identified by the letter N in the PoS Expectations heading. Columns relating to user-defined resources…