Reporting on Linked Documents In the upgrade SIMS Summer 2016 Capita have brought in a change to the reporting dictionary which means you can now report on linked documents. This will enable you to select a Documents sub-report, which in turn allows you to list all document recorded against a student. Select Reports – Design…
As you know, when a user creates a report within SIMS, only that user can amend or delete the report. Other users can use this as a base for their own report but the original report remains in effect. Therefore when a person leaves or changes role, their reports were orphaned within SIMS in previous…
The School Teachers’ Pay Award 2015 has now been finalised. The full document is available from the link below. Please use this document to access the latest Pay Award tables. 2015 LGA school teacher pay circular FINAL pdf In addition there are 3 updated TLRs and 1 SEN: TLR1 £7546 – £12770 TLR2 £2613 – £6386 TLR3 £517 – £2577 SEN £2064…
In the Spring 2015 upgrade, functionality for recording card payments was introduced into FMS. We have put together a guide to utilising this for your school. Charge Card Functionality – Spring 2015
The Government announced their intention to abolish National Insurance contributions for under-21s for the 2015-16 tax year, providing a significant financial incentive for businesses of all sizes to employ young people. Under-21 employees earning more than £42,285 per annum are considered above the Upper Earnings Limit and employer NIC will be liable as normal, however this will affect…
Schools have raised an issue where allowances, once used within Personnel, cannot be deleted and therefore many schools have a long list of redundant allowances to scroll down through before they get to the current, valid ones. This takes time and can also result in a contract being allocated an out-of-date allowance in error. We…
As the majority of our schools have not moved from Points salaries within SIMS Personnel, users have asked if they are going to have to manually update each Teacher’s salary in September as the service terms do not appear within the Annual Increment routine now. We are pleased to tell you that you can follow…
The Spring 2014 release has been updated to allow schools to change Service Terms currently using using Pay Scales and Points to using Salary Ranges. The functionality is switched on by applying patch 18881. Changing a Service Term Pay Scale to a Salary Range is IRREVERSIBLE – we STRONGLY advise any school wanting to do this to carefully…
Since the FMS Autumn 2013 upgrade, it has been possible to automatically email suppliers with the purchase order instead of printing it out and faxing it through. Below are the steps necessary to enable and set up this functionality within the Hosted Environment. If using a school domain as the “from” address for the email…
When you need to create new user accounts or amend/reset passwords within FMS, you use the Managing Users function. We have put together a short video that demonstrates this functionality. It is beneficial to set your window zoom to allow you to see the whole of the screen without having scroll bars. Amend the zoom…
This article has been retired. To view the most recent documentation, please visit the following link. How to submit your census return via COLLECT through Hosted Applications
If you get the following error message, these are the steps you need to perform, in order to reinstate the Reference Start Date for Cover Totals. To reinstate this date, please close down Cover and navigate to Tools – Cover – Global Settings. You will then be able to put the date back into the Reference…
Due to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions changes effective from September 2013 which removes a mandatory pay structure for teachers, Local Authorities and SCOMIS are unable to provide automatic updates in the future. This decision has been taken because schools now have the option of setting their own pay scales (within defined minimum and maximum points)….
Leading Practitioner pay range and SWC There are several changes announced in the July 2013 bulletin regarding the Advanced Skills Teacher and Excellent Teacher pay arrangements and the replacement pay terms for Leading Practitioner (the relevant Excerpt from this bulletin is shown at the bottom of this page for further information). Capita are aware of the need to record the…
Latest advice from Capita: Changes to teachers pay from September 2013 The updated STPCD 2013 explicitly states: From September 2013 schools may find that they are initially operating more than one pay system within each pay range to accommodate existing teachers and new entrants. This is acceptable and it will be for schools to determine…
Capita have provided Appraisal and CPD Functionality into their SIMS Personnel records, in order to aid schools with their new Performance Pay legislation requirements. This will be released as a separate upgrade entitled SIMS Summer Release 2 and will incur a one-off charge per school. Scomis have put together a powerpoint guide, previewing the new functionality,…
If your school sells items such as book bags online via SchoolComms you will need to inform County/HMRC of the VAT element, in order that the monies can be reclaimed. At the moment there is no defined way for a school to mark a payment request as being VAT applicable within Schoolcomms. This would make…
Within the Hosted SIMS Environment, you can set up your own internal shortcuts to parts of SIMS that you use most often. We have put together a short video to get you started. This takes you through adding your own Panel and creating your internal shortcuts. It is beneficial to set your window zoom to…
To access other hosted applications such as FMS or dtsapps (ie Claims, Monitor, Trial Balance Comparison, Contract Printing) from the hosted environment, or to complete data transfers via SecureNet (which has to be run from SIMS in order for the files to be accessed), shortcuts (known as TS Shortcuts) are required to launch them. This…
This is a guide for new customers to our Hosted Applications service. We have put together a short video to get you started. This takes you through determining whether your machine is 32-bit or 64-bit, downloading and installing the software and completing your first login. It is beneficial to set your window zoom to allow…
Presuming you are an Academy or Local Payment School……