From the SIMS 2014 Autumn release, Dinner Money will identify pupils who belong to National Curriculum Year R, 1 or 2 and automatically charge them £0.00. Where a pupil belongs to National Curriculum Year X, Dinner Money will use the age as at 31/08 to calculate if they are eligible for a universal infant free…
SIMS Services Manager (SSM) is a new product that manages the link between SIMS and cloud-based products such as the SIMS Teacher App, Agora and InTouch. It has been designed with the intention that it will replace other, older methods of data exchange (such as using VPNs), and unify them into a single technology. It…
To change a room name within Examinations Organiser you actually need to make the change within SIMS first. To make the changes you will need to follow this path within SIMS: Focus | School | Rooms. Once you are in the rooms section you will be able to edit previously created rooms by browsing for…
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Vacancies missing from the summary and all are temporarily filled. Change one of the vacancies to NO. Create and Validate Check the vacancies are appearing in the Summary Change it back to YES Create and Validate Check the summary – they should now all be showing in the Vacancy section of the Summary Report.
To enable the icons for Pupils Staff etc along the top of SIMS you need to look in the Tools menu. Click Tools Then Setups – User Options Under 3. Visual Settings put a tick in Display the Focus Bar to enable the icons or remove the tick to disable. Reviewed: 06/03/18
Rooms are brought across from SIMS when you open FMS Equipment Register. To Change or Update the rooms in Equipment Register you must open SIMS: In SIMS Click Focus -> School – Rooms Browse to the Room you wish to update Change the name or details which are wrong Click Save Open FMS Equipment Register and it will…
NOTE: This process permanently removes unlinked contacts. You may wish to carry out a backup before proceeding. 1. Select Tools | Housekeeping | Delete Unlinked Contacts to display the Find Unlinked Contacts browser. 2. Click the Search button to list all available unlinked contacts. If you wish to delete a specific unlinked contact, enter any…
Before starting the report, make sure you make a note of the Short Name of your User Defined Group as this will be required. After selecting the data fields that you require for your report press Next, this will take you to the Define Filter screen. Click on New, a screen will pop up which…
This is not included in the Class Teacher permissions group but many schools want class teachers to be able to add comments into user defined fields not just view them. The permission required is Student>Basic Details>Edit (All) which is included in the following groups:- Administration Assistant Admission Officer Attendance Manager Partnership Server Manager Returns Manager…
This will mainly apply to anyone using the scomis hosted applications service who require staff to access linked software such as FMS, DCC Applications, Scamp, PS Financials etc but who do not require access to the Sims .net database. There is a permissions group which gives no access to any of the student or personnel data…
Error: This exceeds the maximum width when running a report in SIMS. This is because the report is running as a Word List Report. It would need to be changed to a Form Report (RTF) output on the Define Presentations screen. Ensure that Form Report (RTF) is selected. Sometimes it will show as…
To create a simple report to generate a list of Usernames and passwords for SIMS Learning Gateway: Reports | Design Report | Create a new report Click on Contact, click next Click on the + Contact Information, select Addressee, AddressBlock of the home address [AddressBlock], Salutation Double click on the Students subreport, click on +…
SIMS Database failing to backup and the following shows in the log file: 12-11-2016 10:47:47 Starting backup of database: sims UAC OS Detected Backing Up database using DBAttach Method Exception attempting to create backup. Expected backup file not found. Backup not completed. To resolve this you will need to recreate the backup entry in the Scomis…
When trying to access the network drives (eg. F drive & G drive) I am being asked for a username and password. The main reason for the above issue occurring is that a windows network password has been changed or expired. In order to resolve this issue…
1)Select Focus, Accounts Payable, Purchase order. 2)Double click the required purchase order and select order. 3) Click the icon as shown by the red arrow, labelled pdf preview, this will open the purchase order, in Adobe reader, enabling you to reprint the order. kb13156 Last reviewed 21/12/2017
This page contains all the links required to enable you to access the new Scomis Training Provision – VMware View: Scomis Training Room – if you are in the Scomis Training room, using the Scomis Training Laptops, please use the following FAQ: http://faq.scomis.org/kb13118/ SWGfL School – if you are wishing to connect from…
To change a Pupil’s Enrolment Status in SIMS: Go To: Routines Student / Pupil Change Enrolment Status Enter the student’s name and click Search Select the pupil and change the Enrolment status at the lower part of the screen Click Save Reviewed: 22/02/18
To download your latest pupil premium file, you can go to Get Information about Pupils (GIAP) through the DFE Secure Sign In website. If you are a Scomis Hosted school please do this through the DFE Sign In shortcut in your shortcut panel. DFE Sign In Once signed in go to the GIAP (Get information…
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From September 2014 all Reception to Year 2 pupils will be eligible for Free School Meals. Universal Free School Meals for Reception to Year 2 pupils will be collected in a new panel the School Census and is not required to be maintained in the student record. However, Panel 6. Dietary Eligible for Free School Meals in the…
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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…