Change Enrollment Status of a Pupil

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

Pupil Premium – Import

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…

Universal FSM for R – 2 and Pupil Premium

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…

SIMS Allowances – New Functionality in 7.159

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  This takes time and can also result in a contract being allocated an out-of-date allowance in error.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…

Hosted Applications Migration – Configuring SIMS

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….

SIMS Personnel Annual Increments for Teaching Staff

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…

Can coursework marks be carried forward from previous year?

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…

Can I set up Exam reminders in Intouch?

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…

Cleaning the Supportworks mailbox

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…

Universal Infant Free School Meals & Dinner Money 7

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…

Left Handed Mouse Click in Terminal Server

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…

How do I add an hourly rate to Sims .net Personnel?

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…

Changing to a salary range pay scale

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…

How do I export Sims.net Reports

  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…

Dinner Money 7 – Unconfirmed Payment when running the Banking Return.

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,…

Dinner Money 7 – Unable to enter refund as negative current balance

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…

How to record a paid meal when a pupil is FSM

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…

How to deal with a staff leaver’s timetable for Cover

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…

Students Missing from Options

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…