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How to update the Mailing Point in SIMS
The Mailing Point check box can be used to show which sibling should receive any correspondance from the school. To identify the child considered to be the mailing point for the family, select the Mailing Point check box via Focus > Pupil (or Student) on the Family/Home panel. Only one child should be designated as…
GDPR – Deleting Pupil/Student Data in Bulk (Manually)
Routines | Pupil (or Student) | Bulk Delete Pupil Data Following the Sims Summer 2018 Upgrade to assist schools in being GDPR compliant, it is now possible for a school to bulk delete pupil/student data in line with the Schools own data retention policies. The following data areas can now be deleted: Alerts Attendance…
Bulk update Correspondence tick box within a parental record
Within a student record, where the parental contacts are recorded there is an option for ‘Correspondence’. The Parental Correspondence on a contact should be set for those parents who do not live with the student and who wish to receive correspondence and/or a copy of the pupil report. “It is not currently possible to bulk update…
How can I add more to the Medical Event lookup?
To add more options under a medical event i.e. additional options under the Immunisation list. Tools> Maintain Medical Event > Search Select the relevant Event Type i.e. Immunisation and double click to open it > Values section > Click New Enter the Code and Description and click Save To see the changes, you will need to log out of SIMS and go…
Editing the Planned End Date and Status
The planned end date column (P End Date) is filled with the dates from the End Date column. If a planned end date is recorded, a Status must also be recorded. If the student has left the course because they have left the school, the status should be set to Withdrawn, by selecting from the…
Creating a hosted applications demo account
Process for setting up a demo account for a school interested in purchasing our hosted applications solutions Logon to SIMSNET01 Connect to DemoData and login as scotech Go to Focus>System Manager>Manage Users Create a new SIMS user or select an existing user currently not being used (ie a non windows authenticated user) with the relevant…