What version of office am I using?
The following page tells you how to find out what version of office is installed on your PC http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/what-version-of-office-am-i-using-HA101873769.aspx Reviewed 18/02/2015
Can I upgrade to Office 2010?
The following link details the Microsoft minimum requirements to run Office 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624351.aspx Reviewed 18/02/2015
SIMS in the Classroom
Top Ten Reasons for Giving your Teachers Access to SIMS in the Classroom 1 Sims Home Page The SIMS Home Page is the key place where a class teacher, Head of Year or Key Stage can pick up on key performance data about the groups they teach or monitor. The Home Page is your dashboard…
Teacher 2 Parents – Invalid Username or Password
When using Teachers 2 Parents to create an extract and update T2P’s an error may occur ‘Invalid username or password’. T2P uses the sims.net username Teachers2Parents. This username and password can be checked by logging onto sims.net using the username ‘Teachers2Parents’ and the password, (on TS log onto the local install of sims Start>All Programs>sims…
How Do I Add an Exclusion that runs from Lunchtime to Lunchtime?
How do I add an exclusion that starts at lunchtime on one day and finishes at lunchtime the next day and show it as 1 day? In the student’s record: Click on Exclusions on the right hand side New Fill in the details Enter Start Time as PM Put a tick in Part time Exclusion…
Whole School Percentage Attendance Report
To produce a report showing one percentage mark for whole school go to Reports | Attendance | Group Reports | Group Session Summary Change Group type to ‘Whole School’ Click ‘search’ Change dates to the dates you wish to run the report from and to Click ‘print’ Reviewed 28/07/2020 – AT KB4844
Add a lookup to Behaviour – Parents Informed
to add a lookup in Behaviour – Parents Informed Go to Tools | Lookups | Maintain. Choose ‘Conduct Communication Type’ Reviewed 17/02/2015
Saving staff contract – error : contract start date must be on or after 01/01/1900
You may also get error ‘Not a valid start date ##/##/####. This is caused by an incorrect allowance description. Go to Tools | Staff | Pay Related. Search for the service term and then go to allowances. Open the allowance and you will see the description highlighted in red. Change the description as appropriate to…
How to resolve VSS or COM errors with Remote Backup
When checking the remote backup logs, you might come across the following errors – Error: 19:05:18 An error occurred preparing VSS for backup: Unknown VSS or COM error Error: 19:05:18 An error occurred trying to initialize VSS: Unknown VSS or COM error Error: 19:05:29 Unable to recover from exception in backup process The following processes…
Unable to run report – document management server not installed
If you are working on the main admin PC in school and get the above message please check the service is running Go to Start | Run | then type services.msc and enter. Scroll down list to find Sims.net Document Server Double click to open and check the service is ‘started’ If you are on…
Activate route to enable School Workforce Census
You need Personnel Officer and Return Manager permission rights in order to run the school workforce census. If you go to Routines | Statutory Returns and you still have no option for School Workforce Census you will need to apply the licence – please contact Scomis for the up to date licence Reviewed 17/02/2015
SIMS External Connector for third party application which link with SIMS (for schools on our hosted SIMS platform only)
This article is only relevant for schools on our hosted applications platform who have 3rd party software which links with SIMS and which Scomis do not currently host (eg – current commonly used applications in school are Nationwide Cashless Catering, ALPS) Please see article http://faq.scomis.org/kb2170/ for a full list of third party applications which fit…
My School Workforce Census Summary/Detailed Report has No Information Recorded
After creating and validating your School Worforce Census return there are no errors or queries to be checked. Also when looking at the summary report or any of the detailed reports there is no information recorded. The resolution is to: Import the latest fileset Log out of Sims and back in again Create and Validate…
Dinner Money 7 – What should be done at the end / start of the academic year?
At the end/start of the academic year: a) Create a new Catering Year for the forthcoming academic year (usually September) b) Reconcile pupil/staff balances c) Produce appropriate letters for pupils/staff with outstanding balances d) Enter any new meal prices as part of meal definitions in the DM setup. (It is also recommended that the school…
Dinner Money 7 – How do I record a split payment?
Sometimes a cheque payment will be made that needs to be split between more than one pupil. Enter the full amount for one pupil and then click on the Split Payment button. This will display the pupil and other siblings. You can add other pupils by clicking the Add Pupil button. Put in the relevant…
Dinner Money 7 – How Do I Add Extra Year Groups to a Meal Definition?
Once a meal definition has been set up it cannot be amended. In order to make changes to the year groups you need to create a new meal defiition with all the year groups required. Go to Tools – Dinner Money – Pupil (or Staff) Meal Definition Search for the meal definition In the description…
Planned End date different in School Census
The planned end date is showing different in the Update Learning Aims panel in the School Census to that in Course Manager and is bright yellow. The Update Learning Aims panel will show the original planned end date for YPLA matching purposes. The advice from the Dfe is not to change it – it is…
Inconsistent font size in generated profiles report
If the inconsistent font is from a teachers comment or a comment inserted from the comment bank, check the following 1. Check the default font size in the comment bank. This is the font set in the List Entry Screen and is applied to typed as well as inserted comments. 2. If the session is set…
Switching from a single to a double award
Students following a single award course may be identified as able to enter the double award exam – what is the correct way of dealing with this in Course Manager? You will need to create a new double award course and transfer the students from the single award course to the double award course. Failure…
Dual Registered Students and Consortiums
The Post 16 Learning Aims will be collected for all Main – Dual Registered students. Therefore schools who are in a consortium who have Main – Dual Registered students should record ALL the learning aims for these students whether they take place at the school site or at another school. Post 16 Learning aims will NOT…
Two year courses support enhanced from the 2015-2016 year
Support for 2-year courses has been enhanced from the 2015-2016 year. Setting the duration for 2 years will automatically set the membership for each student with an end date which reflects the 2 year duration, e.g. start date …/09/2015 -end date will automatically default to …./07/2017. If the level (e.g. GCE2Y) is always a 2…
Adding a new QAN/Discount Code to an existing course
Care needs to be taken when doing this to avoid backdating the change to previous years, or creating duplicate learning aims. Please follow the steps below: Check that you are working in the correct academic year in Tools / Academic Management / Set Academic Year Tools / Academic Management / Course Manager / Maintain Courses…
Automatic Backups In Nova-T6
How to create and Load Automatic Backups in Nova-T6
How do I export the Certification Broadsheet Report?
To export the Certification Broadsheet Report as a CSV file, 1. Select the criteria for the Certification Broadsheet. 2. Do not click on Print as you will not be able to view AND Export the Report. 3. To Export the Report, click on the Export button immediately after selecting the criteria. 4. Save file as…
Some of our students have taken exams early, will their results be included in the PI calculations?
Provided that the July season dates overlap with the Summer that is being calculated, yes. If Summer runs 01/05/10 – 30/06/10 and July runs 01/07/10 – 31/07/10, then no. Results gained in January and November Seasons will be included in Summer PI Calculations. Certifications cashed in in a previous Season WILL count in the Performance…
How can I view examination results?
Once the result file has been imported, there are several ways to view the results. Report for Statement of Results, Report for Broadsheets (for Certifications only), Report for Subject Grade Analysis, Result Marksheet, Consolidated Marksheet, Exporting the Examination Results into a CSV file. Or you can view the results through Tools | External Results |…
How do I attach QCA Subject codes?
To enable Performance Analysis, it is necessary to enter QCA subject codes into basedata if they have not already been supplied by the Boards. To attach QCA codes, Use Focus | Basedata to open the Basedata window showing the Basedata for the current season. Expand e.g. EDEXL/GCE to show the Series 6C06_EDEXL GCE. Expand this…
Import SIMS .net Reports after an Upgrade
Hosted Service (Terminal Server) School & Upgrade Service School please follow Reports > Import > Click Open and if neccessary browse to F/Public/Sims.net Browse to the latest version of the pre-defined report.rptdef file – e.g. ‘Predefined Reports_v7.162.rptdef’ where 7.162 is the version of the SIMS .net you are now on. Click Open Click Check All and…
SIMS .net Permission Groups yellow triangle
Testing and advice from Capita indicates that any changes you have made to the Capita default permission groups will persist for the time being. After the summer upgrade in Focus / System / Manage Groups such groups will show with a yellow warning triangle to indicate this is a Capita permission group which has been…
Connect.ini and FMSConnect.ini formats
Typical format of a SIMS or FMS Connect.ini file