The Summer 2022 Upgrade will bring functionality to change the status of a report. Go to Reports > Design Report > Open an Existing Report. After highlighting an existing report in any of the folders displayed in the Open panel, you can now right-click and select ‘Set As’ to change the visibility of the report…
New functionality has been provided in the SIMS Summer 2022 release, enabling the setup and maintenance of personal pronouns. This functionality is accessible (via Tools | Setups | Pronoun Setup) and can be accessed by School Administrators and System Managers. Personal pronouns can be chosen by pupil/students, applicants, contacts, staff members and agents and applied…
The Summer 2022 SIMS Upgrade (V7.206) & FMS (V6.206) is planned to be rolled out on the evening of Friday 22nd July 2022 from 5.30pm (Scomis Hosted users please log off by 5pm) Important Information: Following the upgrade ESS have had reports from Schools to advise that they aren’t able to access Edit Marks…
Summer 2022 SIMS Update New Functionality New functionality has been provided in SIMS, enabling the setup and maintenance of personal pronouns. This functionality is accessible (via Tools | Setups | Pronoun Setup) and can be accessed by School Administrators and System Managers. Personal pronouns can be chosen by pupil/students, applicants, contacts, staff members and agents…
Schools can download this year’s KS2 Test results
Results are stored against the student. Deleting a result from a marksheet does not delete it from the student which means the result will repopulate the marksheet each time it is opened. To delete the result permanently: Open up the relevant marksheet Right click on the incorrect result Select ‘view/edit result history’ Select the grade…
Exporting Results – Once the appropriate assessment levels or test scores have been entered for all pupils, the results need to be exported to the Primary Assessment Gateway -https://www.primaryassessmentgateway.education.gov.uk/publicaccessproduction/selfservice/citizenportal/login.htm Although the website to upload Key Stage 2 results has changed from the National Assessment Agency to the Primary assessment Gateway the below is still…
This year there are a few changes- The ‘D’ code, originally used to record where a pupil was ‘disapplied’ from the national curriculum assessments, has been withdrawn. The engagement model replaces P scales 1 – 4 and is a new statutory teacher assessment tool for pupils working below the standard of the national curriculum and…
If when trying to run Tools > Performance > Assessment > Wizard Manager the Phonics Screening Wizard you are looking for does not show. Firstly ensure the Filter at the top is set to All If the Wizard still does not show it will need to be imported. To do this go to Routines >…
Where are the End of Year Notes…..
New functionality in the SIMS Spring release, includes, managing attendance sub-codes, importing ATF improvements, maintaining orphaned documents, reporting enhanacements in Cover, dictionary enhancements and enhancements to student list reports. Click here for video – Managing Attendance Sub-Codes Click here for video – Importing ATF improvements Click here for video – Maintaining orphaned linked documents Click…
You may find over the years your contacts lists in Focus > Person > Contacts, builds up as students/pupils leave your school. You will need to keep contacts of leaver pupils/students for 6 years or more depending on your schools data policy. You can remove any older records via the following steps: Select the following…
To support schools in completing the daily DfE Educational Settings form we have put together a SIMS report that brings together the key student data in a simple to read table. Running this report should reduce the time required to complete the Educational Settings form. Please follow the instructions in the setting up guide…
To report on COVID-19 Sub Codes in SIMS please go to Reports > Attendance/Lesson Monitor > Selected Pupil Reports > Subcode Report. Here you can select what date range is required and what group of pupils you would like to report on. Click ‘Search’ and ‘Print’ to run the report.
Any “Out of Memory” or “Exception” type errors that are received in Examinations organiser typically occur in place of an actual error that should be received. These error messages can happen due to the ‘mscomctl.ocx’ file being missing or incorrectly registered on the effected machine. To resolve these errors when they occur please do the…
Autumn 2021 SIMS Update New functionality in the SIMS Autumn release, includes adding lookups for Covid medical events; adding UPN, achievement\behaviour points or Pupil Premium to marksheets; adding additional information such as assessable grades to examinations; update to reporting and some housekeeping help for bulk deleting old admission applications. ESS Product videos can be found…
Scomis are making changes to the External Connector which will add a layer of resiliency to the service. In addition, to the resiliency, the External Connector Upgrade will also refresh the digital certificates that are used by the service, helping to ensure that the service keeps data secure during transit. About External Connector The External…
Hosted Schools: Schools have recently received contact from JCQ to update the A2C Migration App to the new A2C Transport App: The latest A2C Transport app has been installed as recommended by JCQ. Users will continue to use the “A2C Exams Transfer” shortcut within SIMS. A prompt will now be presented when opening the shortcut….
If you have changed support provider to Scomis, you will need to send an email to Education Software Solutions to ask for your Solus to be updated to reflect that Scomis are now your current support providers. This enabled Scomis to authorise upgrades and send out patches to you. Please email SIMSSupportPartners@educationsoftwaresolutions.co.uk. ESS will…
When the DfE added programmes of study to the autumn census, post-16 programmes of study were recorded separately to learning aims, along with an identifier in each learning aims to identify its post-16 programme. This meant the learning aims could continue to be recorded in the census, even if this programme identifier was missing. For…
The screenshots below are an example of how to record a repeating year 13. Using a student named Hannah will illustrate a method for taking account of students repeating year 13 and thereby extending their learning and programme aims into a third year. Hannah is several months too old to be taught in year 13…
The pupil level Update Funding and Monitoring functionality is provided to enable schools to record aspects of the Education Recovery Package required by the DfE. The data is collected for the first time in the School Census Autumn 2021 Return. The information must be recorded via the Tools menu and then the details entered can…
The Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) is a statutory assessment from September 2021 onwards. It provides a snapshot of where pupils are when they arrive at school. It will provide a starting point to measure the progress schools make with their pupils between reception and the end of primary school. Full information about the reception baseline…
Where a learner is repeating a year 13 study programme as part of the DfE’s education recovery initiative, the DfE expects the study programme and learning aims for the repeat year to be reported separately in School Census Autumn 2021 to the learners previous study programme and learning aims. As you probably know, there are…
In February, ESS SIMS was acquired by new independent owners and is therefore no longer part of Capita. As of the 21st May 2021 the legal name of the company formerly known as Capita ESS Ltd will be changing to Education Software Solutions Ltd. The abbreviation ‘ESS’, which they have been using since February, will…
Go to Focus > School > School Diary. Find the correct date and right click on this field and select ‘New Staff Training’. Enter ‘Staff Training Day’ as the category and ensure the Session options are correct. If necessary enter a description. Click OK and this will have been added to the Diary. Students will automatically…
What do I need to register for the SIMS Parent App Lite? Before beginning the registration processes, you will need the following: 1. Your unique registration email. Your school will send to you a registration email that contains a registration link and an invitation code. This email will be sent from Capita SIMS (noreply@sims.co.uk). If…
When trying to download DCC Finance Forms – I am getting an error saying link has been removed. Who do I contact? Forms – Support for schools (devon.gov.uk) When selecting Finance Forms and Cheque Pay In Form I get the following error … Please report any issues with School Forms downloads to the contact…
Routines > Staff > Delete Staff In most cases, it is not possible to delete the entire record of a staff member because of the complexity of links to other data within SIMS. In the Spring 2019 release of SIMS Capita relaxed some of the rules that prevented deletion in previous versions, mainly to cover…
Capita have changed the service URL for their SOLUS3 Platform: The old URL was http://s3dl.capitasolus.co.uk The new URL is http://s3dl.ess-solus.co.uk What is the impact for users of SOLUS3? The downloading of patches and updates via SOLUS3 may fail if the new URL is not approved for access via internet filtering systems. Capita are therefore recommending that customers…