Address Validation – what does it do? It is a service you can switch on in SIMS .net which will make the Validate button to the right of every address in SIMS .net live. When you click on the button it will check and validate the address against the Capita address database. If you are using it after…
It is possible to send InTouch messages to contacts of students who have now left. There are currently two workarounds for this: Create a User Defined Group for the Contacts Go to Focus | Group | User Defined Groups and enter a Group Description and Short Name. Make sure that the Active State is set…
Main: This is used for reporting purposes only and does not pull through or populate within the InTouch module in SIMS.net Primary: This will need to be selected for all mobile numbers and email addresses that you would like available in the InTouch module
Documentation, patches and other information \\ds\docs\Exeter, Great Moor House\EALData\Traded\ScoMIS\Applications Team\Address Validation How is the address validation switched on? Run patch 7186 – this will switch on the service to individually validate addresses Run patch 11328 – this will switch on the bulk address validation service. The Address Validation Service Setup Can be found in Tools / Setups…
When in Student Curriculum attempting to change membership dates an error appears End Date is not in an Eligible period – it does not matter which date is entered. Click on the ‘Relax’ option above the date bar which will allow date to be entered. kb18041
Firstly the user will need to be given permissions within System Manager to the Staff Performance (SP) groups. Secondly go to Tools>Staff>Staff Performance>Line Management structure Check the date and click Go Highlight name to change and either right click or click on Action, choose Replace, choose the name of the replacement, OK then Save Reviewed…
If your remote backup is not running, it may be due to the backup service for Windows stopping or failing to start, especially when the backups are not attempting to run. For Windows 7 Please see here: Go to the Windows start menu in the bottom left hand section of the screen and type ‘services.msc’…
We have become aware of an issue caused by the recent Microsoft Anniversary Update to Windows 10 which appears to have introduced a bug affecting a 32bit Windows 10 computer’s ability to establish a remote connection usually with a ‘Security Package Error’, including to our Hosted Application service. Users are unable to connect to the remote session and receive error…
What should you put in for the Grade and Achieved column for an Overseas Equivalent? If the student has an overseas or a UK equivalent then the grade will be NR Not required. It is then expected that you recorded when they achieved the equivalent grade .i.e. at the end of Year 11 or since…
The EFA Funding Guidance for 2016-2017 states the following: Where learning programmes are designed to enable students to re-sit or re-take examinations and assessments these are not generally eligible for funding as the activity has already been funded. Where there are exceptional circumstances outside the control of the student or institution, such as a period…
The table below indicates those qualification types that are academic. If the student’s core aim in the is not one of the listed types, the student’s programme is vocational and the core aim must be identified for the school census. Academic Programmes Level Qualification types 3 GCEs: AS, A2, A with AS levels; double awards…
Qualifications equivalent to GCSE grade A* to C in maths and English for the purposes of prior attainment The following qualifications in maths, English language and literature are treated as equivalent to GCSE A* to C. Students who have studied in England or other UK nations (Wales, Scotland or N Ireland) holding the following qualifications…
Devon schools are able to claim for Admin and other support staff overtime, for this reason there are safeguards in place both to protect the Admin staff from any danger of impropriety as well as the public funds schools are spending. The person who enters the claims in the Claim Preparation software cannot be the…
This is likely due to the CTF being sent on an earlier version of SIMS than it is received or vice versa. Workaround: You will need to manually edit the CTF version in the XML file. To do this, use the file manager shortcut to find the CTF (usually under SIMS/STAR/CTFin) and right click on the XML…
SchoolChooser is an application that allows a single Scomis Hosted Applications user ID and password to be used with multiple schools on the Hosted Platform. The initial versions of SchoolChooser allowed users to select a school from a drop down list. The list was populated from information in the Scomis Hosted Applications platform. What’s New?…
The Windows 8.1 Search tool is no longer just about scanning your own system. It’s now integrated with Bing, delivering internet results and (sometimes) even Wikipedia-style summaries of whatever you’re searching for. To give this a try, launch the Charms bar, click Search, type ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and press Enter. As well as seeing any matches…
Reporting on Linked Documents In the upgrade SIMS Summer 2016 Capita have brought in a change to the reporting dictionary which means you can now report on linked documents. This will enable you to select a Documents sub-report, which in turn allows you to list all document recorded against a student. Select Reports – Design…
As you know, when a user creates a report within SIMS, only that user can amend or delete the report. Other users can use this as a base for their own report but the original report remains in effect. Therefore when a person leaves or changes role, their reports were orphaned within SIMS in previous…
In the fields section expand the +SEN option then choose the Special Needs sub report – this is at the bottom and not the same as the SEN Needs at the top. Once this is active the Start date and/or End dates may be chosen and used in the filter definitions. Reviewed – 19/03/2018
Support staff don’t normally appear under Focus>Person>Manage Classroom Staff If they do then it is likely that they have either been used for Cover or had a timetable in the past. It is not advisable to change the staff code as it affects the personnel record but schools can remove the assignability for the year…
Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the titles of column headings. Reviewed 24/5/2019
Pupils have joined the school since the tests so their results are not showing on the marksheets. They need to be entered in the same way they would have been at the time. Go to Tools>Performance>Assessment>Wizard Manager Choose the previous year’s wizard eg Key Stage 1 2015 click Next Use the browser to populate with…
This can be done within the Examinations software. Tools>School Setup>School Details Under EDI Directories browse to the network path required Save Reviewed 24/5/2019
Address validation is enabled by running licence patch 7186. The activates the address validation service in Tools / Setups / Services If the service is there (i.e. the patch has been run), and the school phones in to say it is offline, it is one of two things It cannot get to the address…
Extra contact showing on data collection sheet but with no name just a comma and a telephone number. This may just be an extra line for the named contact in the line above. Check under Focus>Person>Contact to see if there are multiple telephone entries. Reviewed 14/05/2018 KB17491
The maximum number of characters that can be used in a description of a Grade Set is 100.
If your updates are not scheduled to run automatically then follow the below procedure to use Solus 3 to check for updates. On the machine where Solus 3 is installed, run the SOLUS3 User Interface from the icon on the desktop. From the main Solus 3 screen, click on “Upgrades” and…
We have had calls from schools that have been unable to access NCA Tools website via Internet Explorer in Scomis Hosted Applications, and as a locally hosted school. They receive either of the following two errors that are shown below. Testing performed by Scomis has revealed that the website actively blocks connection requests from…
If you have got Solus 3 installed on your Windows Server based Active Directory network and wish to add a new SIMS/FMS/Discover workstation then please do the following: On the server where Solus 3 is installed (usually the SIMS server), open the Solus 3 Deployment Server UI. Once opened, click…
Assessment Manager 7 will allow exactly 1000 characters to be entered into a Comment Aspect. Reviewed 19/03/2018