Autumn 2021 SIMS Update New functionality in the SIMS Autumn release, includes adding lookups for Covid medical events; adding UPN, achievement\behaviour points or Pupil Premium to marksheets; adding additional information such as assessable grades to examinations; update to reporting and some housekeeping help for bulk deleting old admission applications. ESS Product videos can be found…
The screenshots below are an example of how to record a repeating year 13. Using a student named Hannah will illustrate a method for taking account of students repeating year 13 and thereby extending their learning and programme aims into a third year. Hannah is several months too old to be taught in year 13…
The pupil level Update Funding and Monitoring functionality is provided to enable schools to record aspects of the Education Recovery Package required by the DfE. The data is collected for the first time in the School Census Autumn 2021 Return. The information must be recorded via the Tools menu and then the details entered can…
Where a learner is repeating a year 13 study programme as part of the DfE’s education recovery initiative, the DfE expects the study programme and learning aims for the repeat year to be reported separately in School Census Autumn 2021 to the learners previous study programme and learning aims. As you probably know, there are…
When trying to download DCC Finance Forms – I am getting an error saying link has been removed. Who do I contact? Forms – Support for schools (devon.gov.uk) When selecting Finance Forms and Cheque Pay In Form I get the following error … Please report any issues with School Forms downloads to the contact…
Local Authorities receiving attendance data via B2B have reported that since the introduction of the Covid-19 absence subcodes, information being transferred is not as accurate as required. Patch 26491 has been released by ESS which will need to be applied via DBupgrade on the SIMS server. After applying the patch when exporting the data…
Capita have produced a fix for an issue that has appeared after upgrading to SIMS Spring update (7.198). All Scomis Hosted Schools will have the patch 26421 applied as part of the SIMS 7.198 update process. For all Locally Hosted Schools – patch 26421 will be made available via Solus and may be applied after…
The Spring 2021 SIMS Upgrade (V7.198) & FMS (V6.198) is planned to be rolled out over the weekend starting from 5pm on Friday 26th March, 2021. (Scomis Hosted users please log off by 5pm) Release notes containing detailed information on what is included in the upgrade can be downloaded below: Spring 2021 SIMS – Combined Release…
Salary projections in FMS shows a rogue staff member called ZZ_GDPR_Compliance-LD (where LD = Service Term) On checking, for this example, you will find a missing member of LD teaching staff whose name has been anonymised and put to the bottom of the list. This may affect staff in other service terms also. To…
When all staff in a particular service term in FMS are showing incorrectly, this is usually due to a new pay award being entered into SIMS Personnel. Earlier in the year, for budgeting purposes, the known or anticipated % pay increase for September may have been added in FMS. Once the pay award is entered…
When attaching a document to a student record through linked documents you will be offered 3 options. Public, Private or Confidential. If Public is chosen then the document/information is available to all users. Anyone who can view student data can view this. If Private is chosen then the document/information is only available for the user…
A red box may come up when downloading reconciliation files and running the reformat for FMS routine, stating that this file may already have been imported. Action 1 – If the box is still on the screen change the file name to today’s date (so it is easy to find). The file will be then…