Report to generate classes and teachers

To generate this report, please go to: -Reports > Design Report > Create a new report -Select “Student” and then “on roll” -On the select data fields screen, select “Classes” (blue sub report), then select Class Name, Class Teacher, Students (blue sub report) First Name, surname.  Your previewed report will look like this:   Reviewed…

How do I remove Organisations in Cover?

When creating a booking using the icon a list of Organisations appear. If you wish to remove users from this list you can go to Tools > Cover > Organisations and Bookings > Manage Organisations and click You can then select the Organisation and click on The tick can then be removed from the Active Status…

How to assign permissions in SIMS

  If you have System Manager access in SIMS you can assign extra permissions to users in your SIMS Database, this KB will show you how: Step 1 – Browse to Focus>System Manager>Manage Users in SIMS. Step 2 – Search for the user via the search tab at the top of the page. Step 3…

Sims Assessment – KS5 Resources – *NEW 4/11/19

This enables schools to have a report similar to the Ready Reckoner used by OFSTED to show the value added score of the school, subjects and students at KS5. What is in the English KS5 Resources? NEW 4/11/19 Now updated to 2019 Value Added figures. Please note that this latest version requires the KS4 average points…

Autumn 2019 Upgrade to SIMS and FMS

Documentation: Release notes containing detailed information on what is included in the upgrade can be downloaded here: Autumn 2019 Combined Release Notes Autumn 2019 FMS Release Notes The links below show short videos highlighting key information about the enhancements that come as part of the SIMS Summer 2019 release Update to the Linked People at the…

Percentage Attendance in Discover is different to Attendance Reports

Percentage Attendance figures produced by a Discover Percentage Attendance Graph are different when compared with the figures produced by an Attendance / Lesson Monitor report.   This is due to the way that Discover calculates attendance figures as an average, therefore the data will not always match. The differences are because the Discover graphs and…

LA Contacts for School Census – Autumn 2019

Please find the LA return dates and contacts below. Cambridgeshire Contact: Maria Clough – Email – maria.clough@cambridgeshire.gov.uk – Phone – 01480 379859 Return Census by: 10th October 2019   Cornwall Contact:  Errika Chew- Email – corestats@cornwall.gov.uk – Phone – 01872 327811 Return Census by: 3rd October 2019   Devon Contact: Alison Chater/ Sharon Vaughan – Email – census@devon.gov.uk – Phone – 01392 383000 Return Census by: 8th…

Change from Gifted & Talented to More Able and Talented

Following the Sims Summer 2019 upgrade, changes have been made to the Reporting Dictionary Report | Design Reports and the Additional Student Columns in Assessment and Attendance.  The fields previously referred to as Gifted & Talented have been changed to More Able and Talented.  Reviewed 27/7/20  

Sending Cover notifications/alerts

A notification/alert can be sent to a teacher, who is due to cover a class, to advise them that they are covering a particular class. Unfortunately this is not an automatic process and will need to be carried out manually. Go to Focus-School-Arrange Cover and select the day/absence in question.  Once this is open, you…

Course Manager – What is the purpose of the two Auto Update boxes

Auto Update Class Links This tick box is to allow Nova-T6 to remove and/or add classes to the course.  This is done when the curriculum and timetable is sent from Nova-T6 to SQL. If the box is ticked, then when a class is exported from Nova-T6 with the same subject and level as the course,…

Examinations Bulletin Summer 2019 – UPDATED 21/08/19 @ 11:30

Key Dates: Summer 2019 SIMS and FMS Upgrade release date: 26th July 2019 Download days: The Scomis Service desk will be open from 07:00 to 17:00 on results download days – 14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd August 2019. 21/08/2019 UPDATED @ 11:30 OCR Drama J3169A and J316B When importing a result file for students who…

Updated KS2 Wizards – Comparative Report

Capita provides a KS2 Comparative England 2019 report in SIMS that enables schools to provide parents with information on the school’s current Year 6 end of key stage outcomes alongside comparable national data from 2018. Unfortunately, some inconsistencies have been identified in the report in the way the data is currently presented for national performance…

Sims Attendance – Possible Attendance

When looking at a student’s Individual Registration Attendance report (accessed via links on the right hand side of the student record) you may find that possible attendance varies from one student to another.   Attendance codes D, #, Y, X and Z are ‘Attendance Not Required’ codes. As these codes indicate that attendance is not…

Setting up B2B Scheduled Tasks – Hosted Schools

To setup B2B tasks to send information to your local authority, you can follow these steps: Firstly, you will need to follow this FAQ – to make sure you are configured correctly – https://faq.scomis.org/kb22259/ Once you have done this, do the following:  Go into Routines – Data Exchange – Manage Tasks Press ‘Search’ and you will…

Parent App – Sending out Data Collection to pre-admission groups

It is possible to send out data collection via Parent App to pre-admission groups. Applicants must be in a valid pre-admission group and have an application status of “Accepted”. You can only invite these users in bulk by the groups, they will not appear at all in the individual users lists. One thing worth noting,…

Summer 2019 Upgrade to Sims and FMS

Documentation: Release notes containing detailed information on what is included in the upgrade can be downloaded here: Summer 2019 Combined Release Note FMS Summer 2019 Release Note The links below show short videos highlighting key information about the enhancements that come as part of the SIMS Summer 2019 release. People in Sims with the Same Address…

ScoLearn – Using Digital Learning

Home Page The course homepage will display the introduction and all the course modules. Each course will have a different number of modules to complete. Click on each module and work through all the required modules. Modules Every course has a different number of modules to be completed. Each module will focus on a different…

Student School Career Attendance Report

This report will show you the attendance and % attendance for the student since their date of admission. Reports > Lesson Monitor > Whole Group Student Reports > Student School Career Attendance Report. Attendances and % Attendance include both present and Approved Educational Activity  

Is there an audit trail in Attendance / Lesson Monitor 7?

There is no audit trail in Attendance or Lesson Monitor. The History of changes Report will: Show students who have had a change of mark recorded within the specified date range. All changed marks and their reason for change are shown. When a session mark is saved, SIMS checks if a mark already exists. If…

Is there an audit trail in SIMS?

There is currently no audit trail in SIMS so you will not be able to see which user changed something. If you do know the date and time of when something was changed, then this can be checked against session logins. Go to Focus | System Manager | User Access Log. This displays which users logged…

Viewing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) on the Sims Home Page

The Pupil (or Student) Teacher View provides a summary of the following pupil/student information in read-only format using widgets, which function in a similar way to those found on the SIMS Home Page: Basic details Timetable Achievements Behaviour incidents Assessment key indicators Attendance Attendance interventions For Further guidance on this, please refer to the documentation…

School Census – Migrating MIS data to Sims

If you have recently migrated your pupil and staff data into a Sims database from another MIS system (e.g. RM Integris) and you do not have sufficient historical information in your Sims database to complete the census a template can be requested from the DfE to input the additional information. Please complete a DfE service…

How Do I Spoil A cheque?

If you have a cheque that has e.g. been damaged by the printer you will need to spoil the cheque within FMS, in order to re-run the cheque processing for the suppliers associated with the cheque numbers of the spoilt cheques. 1) You can only spoil a cheque if you have not confirmed printing.  When…

Compile Error in Sims Quick Letter – Office 2010 (64-bit Edition)

The issue is caused by the language used as part of the Macros for the Quick Letter uploading process. For Hosted schools, the  “Quickletter Edit” shortcut has been updated so that the QuickLetterTemplate-Office2010 can now be found in F:\PUBLIC\SIMS\QuickLetter. To resolve this issue; Run the Quickletter Edit shortcut (This will copy in the Office2010 template…