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…
There are two ways to carry out Timetable rotations. The first is if the Students are rotating and the Teacher & Room are staying the same the other is if the students are staying within the same room and the teacher are rotating. If the students are rotating and the teacher is staying the same…
Since the FMS Autumn 2013 upgrade, it has been possible to automatically email suppliers with the purchase order instead of printing it out and faxing it through. Below are the steps necessary to enable and set up this functionality within the Hosted Environment. If using a school domain as the “from” address for the email…
A fault was identified with the Scomis Backup Control utility which results in a SIMS .net database backup not functioning as expected. The fault has been tracked to a database version name change as a result of the Capita SIMS upgrade. A update to Backup Control has been issued and is available for download using…
You may have problems with print output from Exams marksheets where the words/characters are bunched together to the point where they are unreadable if your printer is a network printer…
Click here to download the Maintaining Nova document which supports training on Day 3 and Day 4 of the Nova T6 for New Users Course. Reviewed on 01/08/2019
When you need to create new user accounts or amend/reset passwords within FMS, you use the Managing Users function. We have put together a short video that demonstrates this functionality. It is beneficial to set your window zoom to allow you to see the whole of the screen without having scroll bars. Amend the zoom…
This article has been retired. To view the most recent documentation, please visit the following link. How to submit your census return via COLLECT through Hosted Applications
From the Spring 2014 upgrade Capita has changed the way schools can choose to use or hide FC and FD codes from the Trial Balance Report. The following is included in their documentation for the upgrade. Enhancements to the Summary Trial Balance By Ledger Code Report This report has been enhanced to enable you to decide whether to…
Back to Pupil Premium FAQ These notes are designed to clarify the difference between who you record in census as a Service Child and the Service Children you will receive Pupil Premium for. Who to record as a Service Child The Service Children indicator recorded on the School Census indicates if a child…
If you get the following error message, these are the steps you need to perform, in order to reinstate the Reference Start Date for Cover Totals. To reinstate this date, please close down Cover and navigate to Tools – Cover – Global Settings. You will then be able to put the date back into the Reference…
If you use Corero for sending orders or remittance advice Emails, you may wish to further configure Outlook to allow replies to automatically be returned to the schools email address. Please ensure that you have completed the Using Outlook with Corero instructions – Setting up for the first time from http://faq.scomis.org/kb10764 Open Outlook Specify an…
Installing Emerge on your iPad/iPhone.
Within Reports – Timetables it is now possible to switch between timetable reports from a report output by clicking a component on the timetable. For example, from the Staff Timetable(s) report, clicking the room name on the output displays in a separate window that room’s timetable for the timetable cycle. This functionality was previously available…