Schools have raised an issue where allowances, once used within Personnel, cannot be deleted and therefore many schools have a long list of redundant allowances to scroll down through before they get to the current, valid ones. This takes time and can also result in a contract being allocated an out-of-date allowance in error. We…
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Uploading and Importing the Current QAN Catalogue
Missing QCA Codes Reviewed 03/05/2018
Processing Results and Calculating PI Data in Exams and SIMS Handbook Reviewed 24/5/2019
UPDATE – B2Buser and Backup user are no longer required to be setup. Log on to a front end SIMS.net server Run Connect to Dataset shortcut, Select school. Log on to SIMS.net with the username and password supplied by the school Create a Scomis Technical Team user (SIMS login name = Scotech) in System Manager….
You can add this type of result by going to Tools | External Results – Manual Entry Please be advised that doing this and not changing the effective date will show the date the results were entered in SIMS.net Exams link. Reviewed on 24/5/19
As the majority of our schools have not moved from Points salaries within SIMS Personnel, users have asked if they are going to have to manually update each Teacher’s salary in September as the service terms do not appear within the Annual Increment routine now. We are pleased to tell you that you can follow…
In Exams Organiser go to Reports > Results > Candidate Statement of Results. This will open the Report Criteria Screen and you will need to change the scope from Season to Year then select the Academic Year. Reviewed 24/5/19
This can be caused if the Season you are in is locked. Please check the season is not locked Tools > School Set up > Seasons. Click HERE to see how to unlock a season. Reviewed 24/5/2019
Please follow the below to carry forward a mark from the previous year. 1.Create a marksheet for the element aspect type ‘Coursework’ 2.Enter 0 for the Mark and give it a status of F. 3. Enter a Previous Qualifier Flag through Focus | Candidates Internal. Click on the plus (+) to add the Board, Series…
You can set up Exam Alerts via the following: Tools | InTouch | Exam Reminder Alerts Setup to display the Find Exam Reminder Alert Definition browser. You can send an SMS or email message to internal examination candidates who are scheduled for an exam, reminding them of a forthcoming examination. The message can also be…
At the end of each term we need to be cleaning out the Supportworks email mailboxes. Please follow through the following instructions to do so. Within Supportworks go to the ‘Archive’ folder. Check the dates of the emails and leave the last month’s until the figures have been given to SPO Individually go through the…
From September 2014, all pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 in state-funded schools in England will be eligible for free school meals. This will include Academies, Free Schools, Pupil Referral Units as well as Maintained Schools. NOTE: Existing entitlements to free school meals for disadvantaged pupils in nursery classes and at key stages…
The current auto upgrade application for the external connector was not designed to work on Windows 7 workstations…
To change to a left handed mouse click within the Hosted Environment, a shortcut will need to be added to the user’s profile. A member of staff with User Management permissions in SIMS will need to add the shortcut by opening the TS Shortcuts tool found within the User Management tab. The Swap Mouse Buttons…
Go to Tools>Staff>Pay Related>New Enter a code, description, Hours Worked and Weeks Worked as required. If the pay pattern will be the same for all staff on this service term it may be entered here by clicking on the Pay Pattern button – split the weeks worked for the year between the months until the total…
The Spring 2014 release has been updated to allow schools to change Service Terms currently using using Pay Scales and Points to using Salary Ranges. The functionality is switched on by applying patch 18881. Changing a Service Term Pay Scale to a Salary Range is IRREVERSIBLE – we STRONGLY advise any school wanting to do this to carefully…
You will need to be a member of any of the following User Groups in System Manager to run this function: Administration Assistant, Assessment Coordinator, Assessment Operator, Class Teacher, Pastoral Manager, School Administrator, System Manager. Previously defined report definitions can be exported for use by other departments, schools, establishments or agencies as required. When…
Change the meal charge via Tools>Dinner Money>Backdate Meals processed. Change the date back to the start of the academic year. Via Tools>Dinner Money>Pupil Meal Definition click serach and select the meal definition you need to amend and change the start date, click save. Via Tools>Dinner Money>Unlock Meal Processing, put a tick in the tick box…
In Focus>Dinner Money>Banking Return, when running banking return a message appears that there is an unconfirmed payment. To locate the unconfirmed payments go via Focus>Dinner Money>Pupil Payments include leavers and search to see all pupils. Look at the list in cheque and cash amounts where any unconfirmed payments would appear. Find the unconfirmed payment and click save,…
Message ” you can only make a refund if the balance is above 0.00″ when trying to make a refund via Focus>Dinner Money>Pupil additional Transactions. A refund can only be processed when a balance is above 0.00, the opening balance for the pupil will need to be temporarily edited via Focus>Dinner Money>Pupil Opening Balances and…
A pupil is eligible for a free school meal on some days but not all days, unable to put in the charged meal details. This can be recorded as an Adhoc pupil meal via Focus>Dinner money>Adhoc Meals>Paid child meals, add the pupil name in the reason, this will provide a record of the meal for the student…
This KB gives 3 scenarios to help you to provide Cover for a teacher who has left the school, 1 If a staff member leaves and the timetable is taken over by just one supply teacher then the best option is to replace the leaver in Nova with the Supply person. The Supply person…
In order for students to be available for Transfer in to Options they must be in a Band in the New Year. This is often an issue is a student joins the school after the main bulk of students have been Transfered to Options. Check the following steps The students are entered in the current…
Occasionally when a Results File is downloaded a result may come down as a Query When the Grade is eventually awarded it will need to be added manually to the Candidate via a Marksheet in Exams Organiser. Sometimes after the result has been manually entered and when running a Candidate Statement of Results report, you…
There is a number of patches which can be run to resolve this issue Please contact the Service Desk and quote KB111255 requesting patches 14265, 11669,12879 Reviewed 24/5/2019
In Exams Organiser go to Tools>Delete Marksheets Select your criteria from the left hand panel by putting a tick in the required selection, (Season is usually the most relevant) Click on Refresh The left hand panel will be populated with all the Marsheets related to your previous selection. In the right hand panel select the…
A Dynamic Group which has been created in Discover will only appear in SIMS.Net if you have members in the group eg. You have created a group for In Care and you do not currently have any In Care students; the group will not appear in SIMS.net until you have a student who has an…
There might be occasions during the planning of the student curriculum when groups of students need to be transferred from one class to another during the course of the academic year. This is particularly useful if, for example, there are three groups of students attending Expressive Arts classes. At any one time during the academic…