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…
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…
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…
User can’t see the option to pick 2019-20 Planned Learning Hours in order to update it through Tools / Academic Management / Course Manager / Post 16 Programmes of Study. Likewise can’t select 2018-19 to Update Prior attainment. These options won’t be available unless the user is in the 2019-2020 academic year. To change the…
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…
Unfortunately, it is not possible to push attendance via the Parent App for one year group. Changes to the SIMS Parent settings, such as enabling certain modules, will affect the whole school.
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,…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
If you are already using Programme of Study to record your Early Years data, it is possible to transfer the results into the Early Years Profile Wizard. Please follow the guidance below: EYFS Transfer results from PoS to EYFS Wizard Marksheets Please contact the Scomis Service Desk on 01392 385300 if you need further guidance.
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…
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…
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…
This error appears because a ledger code had been created in the previous year, after close down, and had not been updated in the new year’s structure. To resolve this, you will need to open the previous year, go to Tools/Define Financial Years/Update Next Year’s Structures: Tag the code and then click on Copy…
When downloading your files, please note that when you ”Download all” , all of the files will be downloaded as one batch. This may cause an issue as all of the different types of files (ATF, reconciliation files etc) are coming down in one zipped file and you may find it difficult to retrieve the file. …
When trying to fix the budget in FMS you may receive the error above. This is because the Expense Limit and Expense Allocated figures do not match. To match these figures go to; Focus | Budget Management | Cost Centre Allocation. Click the “Columns” icon and select “Expense Limit” and “Expense Allocated ” You will…
It is possible to view and approve changes made by parents through Parent App via the SIMS homepage. From the SIMS Homepage, click on the “Configure” button on the top right hand side. From here you will need to add a new panel by using the arrow buttons on the right hand side of the…
You can create custom date ranges in SIMS for use in Academic Management by browsing to Tools > Setups > Curriculum Setup > Curriculum and then click the New button on the menu bar. You need to enter the name and the from and to dates. Once saved, this will apply for all users in…
For guidance on how to create an Assessment Lookup Table, please see the document below: Creating Lookup Tables For further queries, please contact the Scomis Service Desk on 01392 385300
Annual Updates to Early Years Foundation Stage Profiles for 2019 Applicable to schools in England only Routines | Data In | Assessment | Import The following resources have been updated for 2019 and are available from the AMPA\England Primary (and Middle Deemed Primary)\Assessment Manager folder: EYFS Profile Template 2019.xml EYFS Profile Wizard 2019.xml. Annual Updates…
This FAQ – https://faq.scomis.org/kb23777/ – shows how to edit and create SEN review letters for single pupils. Below are instructions to create these letters for pupils with SEN reviews in bulk. Go to Reports – Design Report – Open Existing Report. Browse through the folders to Focus – SEN Review and open up the SEN…
When adding reviews to an SEN record, you can create a letter to send to parents directly from this area. Go to the pupil record and click on the SEN link on the right hand side. Scroll down or click the hyperlink to panel 4 – Reviews. Once you have created the review for this…
Tools | Statutory Return Tools | Update Top-Up Funding to display the Update Pupils with Top-up Funding screen. Any pupils currently recorded as having top-up funding are displayed in the Top-up Funding list (located in the bottom half of the page) Use the Students On-Roll on Census Day search criteria to locate the additional pupils…
Schools may have selected the Travel tab in the Product Admin in order for it to appear for parents in ParentApp however the tab is not showing in the app The reason for this is that the tab in the app is linked to the Route lookup table….
This guide will give you some general advice on how to prepare your workstation for TLS 1.2. TLS or Transport Layer Security is the encryption that is used to protect your internet traffic whilst it is going over the internet. There have been several iterations of the protocol, starting with SSL 1, 2 and 3…
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