If you wish to manually add a new pupil as a pre-admission. This could be a one-off pupil needing to be added after you have completed your ATF Import, or numerous pupils – as you do not use the ATF import area (this often applies to Special Schools). Navigate to Focus>Admission>Application or you can use the shortcut…
In some situations, where you are setting up your word template to show some pages in Portrait and others in Landscape, you might find that, on preview, the page orientation is not what has been set. The resolution here is to add a “Next Page” rather than a “Section Break”. We would recommend that you…
Exam Marksheets do not default to the Exams Officer as the owner, as it depends on the group that the marksheet has been created for. Exam Marksheets setup for different groups will have default owners as below: Classes – Main Class Teacher will be owner Registration Group – Registration Tutor Year Group – Head of…
The KS4 Autumn Checking Exercise is carried out by the DfE to ensure that the information held within the DfE is the same as what is held in the Schools MIS. This information relates to GCSE exam results received in the summer and any subsequent remarks, SEN, Pupil Premium, Dual Registration etc. Sometimes a student’s…
There are two ways that you can link courses to QANs: 1.Adding an Award to the Examination panel in Maintain Course, clicking new here will pull through any Award that has been imported into Exams Organiser. If the award is new and basedata has not yet been imported that contains the specific award, it will…
With regard to the new EYFS 2021 Framework, you may need to change your data entry options from 30-50 and 40-60 to be Birth-3, 3-4 and Reception Year. To reflect the new EYFS 2021 Framework, within Sims, go to: Tools/Performance/Options – tick “revised EYFS from 2020” Schools using the revised EYFS resources should select revised…
A CTF will only export Statutory results and Programme of Study results. Therefore, any bespoke internal tracking/progress assessments will not show in the CTF.
If you log into Access Workspace and receive this error, it means that the clock on your PC is out of sync with the correct time. To resolve this on a Windows PC, follow the steps below: Open an Internet browser and search for Time. In the bottom left, click the Start icon and type Control Panel. Click the…
To access your Internet Favourites in the Edge browser you need to click on the “Star with 3 lines” icon at the top right of the Edge window: If there is another website you wish to add to your list of favourites, then…
If you get a “SIMS Command Line Reporter” error when running Parent Pay please check the log files found in : F:\Public\ParentPay\Users\username\Logs\ In the logs it may say the error “Root element is missing.” Please follow the steps to fix this issue: Log into MIS Sync Go to Tools > Settings > SIMS and check…
If you are on our Hosted Environment, then you will need to submit your Census return file from within your hosted SIMS If you need to submit your return via COLLECT you will need access to the DFE Services shortcut which is located under Apps and Tools. Your shortcuts are located on the left hand side…
Go to Focus > School > School Diary. Find the correct date and right click on this field and select ‘New Public Holiday’. Enter the appropriate description and select ‘Bank Holiday’ for the category, Check the date is correct and then click ‘OK’ Students will automatically have # codes for all Bank Holidays. Note for Attendance /…
How do I make my admission pupils on-roll pupils Select Routines | Admission | Admit Applications to display the Find Intake Group Enter all or part of the intake group Name or select the appropriate options from the drop-down lists then click the Search button to display all intake groups that match the search criteria…
If you have admitted a pupil from your admission group who is no longer coming to your school you will need to delete their student record. You should only do the following if the pupil NEVER came to your school. If they attended for 1 day or even for just 1 morning you should mark…
When setting up a new user with access to SIMS, you will need to make sure they have relevant permission groups added to their record. The spreadsheet below shows all of the permission groups and what areas of SIMS they give access to. You can use this to come to a decision on which groups…
The Summer Upgrade 2022 includes functionality to report on the Assessment Result Owner with the “Result Owner” field within the Assessment Results area of the reporting dictionary in Design Report. This will now allow users to see which member of staff recorded the result alongside the rest of the result information. Go to Report >…
Brought in for the Summer 2022 upgrade – to improve system security, it is now a requirement that the password assigned to the ‘Sysman’ login is changed to a strong password. The replacement strong password must contain a minimum of eight characters including one alphabetic, one numeric and one special character. If this is not…
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…