When adding dietary needs including allergies to a pupil record, the options you need to enter may not be available. You can add in any extra options in here by following these instructions. 1 – Go to Tools – Lookups – Maintain 2 – Press ‘Search’ and scroll to find ‘Dietary Needs‘ and double…
When exporting a Supplier List from FMS Reports, it shows all suppliers including the ones that are no longer ‘In Use’. A workaround for this, is to go into the supplier list and use the export button in the top right corner of the screen. Once you have saved the file, navigate to it and…
Before subscribing to the Scomis Webtrain Service, you may want to test your connection to make sure that the software works with your network. You can follow this link – https://support.logmeininc.com/gotowebinar/help/join-a-test-session-g2w060001 – to join a test session.
When you have entered students that are siblings into SIMS, they should all pull through to the corresponding Family Links panels as long as the parent’s records are the same and “Correspondence” and “Parental Responsibility” are ticked in both records. These pupils both have the same parents and both have the home symbols but are not…
If you are authorising a batch of invoices in FMS and one shows as On Hold, you will not be able to tag and export it until it shows as authorised. In order to change the status from On Hold to Authorised, you need to go to Focus – Accounts Payable – Invoice/Credit Note and…
When sending out intouch emails, you may wish to redirect responses to your school email rather than the intouch inbox. This can be done by following the steps below. Go to Tools – Intouch – Message Type Defaults Setup In here, search for the message type – eg. General Message and open the record…
If you need to add in email addresses for a large number of people in SIMS. You can follow this guide – Bulk Import This can be done for current staff members and contacts (for pupils see https://faq.scomis.org/kb26013/) This document can be followed as it is for Non-Hosted schools but if you are a hosted…
When running a report eg. Group Session Summary Report – a user defined group that has been set up is not showing in the drop down to base the report on when changing the date range filter. This is because, when you set up a user defined group, you need to set the date range…
If a parent has passed away, you will need to remove them from SIMS to make sure that no reports or letters are sent to them. As this is a sensitive issue for both the pupil and family involved, please check that no labels contain the deceased parent’s name and address once the following instructions have…
Currently, when using School Pupil Tracker within Scomis Hosted Applications, you will only be able to use the ‘Set Up Helper’. This is the area where you can upload a CTF or a report that has been created in SIMS.You can also use any functions used to update your account within SIMS eg. update classes, attendance, upload…
Once the user has been set-up in SIMS please log-in to the FPS Budget Companion and select the P7 Link option Select NEXT Some schools may see a screen with an error (See Below) – click on the “Locate link dll” button, wait for the files to all populate (takes about 10 seconds)…
To download your latest pupil premium file, you can go to Get Information about Pupils (GIAP) through the DFE Secure Sign In website. If you are a Scomis Hosted school please do this through the DFE Sign In shortcut in your shortcut panel. DFE Sign In Once signed in go to the GIAP (Get information…
Create your report as normal, including any fields that you want to include and any filters that are necessary. Go through the report wizard until you get to ‘Report Output’ and select Word Mailmerge. Click ‘New’ to create a new template. …
Y and # codes cannot be entered through the register, a member of admin staff will need to follow this routine: Go to Focus>Attendance>Exceptional Circumstances (or Focus>Lesson Monitor>Exceptional Circumstances) Click new Enter the dates you require Select group type (e.g Whole School if the school had to be closed or Individual pupil if someone was…