This FAQ lists the latest information regarding the End of Year procedures within SIMS, Arbor and Bromcom. It contains all guidance notes required to carry out the procedure and links to useful FAQ’s. You must complete these procedures before the start of the new academic year. It is critical that the new academic year is…
This FAQ lists the latest information regarding the School Workforce Census. It contains links to relevant documentation and information on the latest filesets, patches and errors. Register for our SIMS Digital Learning Course – Here – These courses are free for Scomis customers. School Workforce Census Date: 2nd November 2023 School Workforce Census Deadline Date…
The Summer 2023 SIMS Upgrade (V7.212) & FMS (V6.212) is planned to be rolled out on the evening of : Friday 4th of August (Scomis Hosted users please log off by 5pm) Please note the date for the upgrade has changed to the above date. Due to the release of the SIMS Consolidated Workstation…
If you are on our Hosted Environment, then you will need to submit your Census return file from within your hosted SIMS If you need to submit your return via COLLECT you will need access to the DFE Services shortcut which is located under Apps and Tools. Your shortcuts are located on the left hand side…
The Summer Upgrade 2022 includes functionality to report on the Assessment Result Owner with the “Result Owner” field within the Assessment Results area of the reporting dictionary in Design Report. This will now allow users to see which member of staff recorded the result alongside the rest of the result information. Go to Report >…
Brought in for the Summer 2022 upgrade – to improve system security, it is now a requirement that the password assigned to the ‘Sysman’ login is changed to a strong password. The replacement strong password must contain a minimum of eight characters including one alphabetic, one numeric and one special character. If this is not…
The Summer 2022 Upgrade will bring functionality to change the status of a report. Go to Reports > Design Report > Open an Existing Report. After highlighting an existing report in any of the folders displayed in the Open panel, you can now right-click and select ‘Set As’ to change the visibility of the report…
New functionality has been provided in the SIMS Summer 2022 release, enabling the setup and maintenance of personal pronouns. This functionality is accessible (via Tools | Setups | Pronoun Setup) and can be accessed by School Administrators and System Managers. Personal pronouns can be chosen by pupil/students, applicants, contacts, staff members and agents and applied…
The Summer 2022 SIMS Upgrade (V7.206) & FMS (V6.206) is planned to be rolled out on the evening of Friday 22nd July 2022 from 5.30pm (Scomis Hosted users please log off by 5pm) Important Information: Following the upgrade ESS have had reports from Schools to advise that they aren’t able to access Edit Marks…
Summer 2022 SIMS Update New Functionality New functionality has been provided in SIMS, enabling the setup and maintenance of personal pronouns. This functionality is accessible (via Tools | Setups | Pronoun Setup) and can be accessed by School Administrators and System Managers. Personal pronouns can be chosen by pupil/students, applicants, contacts, staff members and agents…
In the FMS Focus > Non-Invoiced Income > Receipts the cancel and post buttons are greyed out This occurs if this is a Cash or Cheque receipt. Focus > Non-invoiced income > Paying in slips. To post a cash or cheque receipt a paying in slip must be created. The action of posting the paying…
To report on COVID-19 Sub Codes in SIMS please go to Reports > Attendance/Lesson Monitor > Selected Pupil Reports > Subcode Report. Here you can select what date range is required and what group of pupils you would like to report on. Click ‘Search’ and ‘Print’ to run the report.
When the DfE added programmes of study to the autumn census, post-16 programmes of study were recorded separately to learning aims, along with an identifier in each learning aims to identify its post-16 programme. This meant the learning aims could continue to be recorded in the census, even if this programme identifier was missing. For…
The Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) is a statutory assessment from September 2021 onwards. It provides a snapshot of where pupils are when they arrive at school. It will provide a starting point to measure the progress schools make with their pupils between reception and the end of primary school. Full information about the reception baseline…
Capita have changed the service URL for their SOLUS3 Platform: The old URL was http://s3dl.capitasolus.co.uk The new URL is http://s3dl.ess-solus.co.uk What is the impact for users of SOLUS3? The downloading of patches and updates via SOLUS3 may fail if the new URL is not approved for access via internet filtering systems. Capita are therefore recommending that customers…
It is possible to restrict the Data Collection areas that can be edited in SIMS Parent. This can only be completed on by the SIMS Online Services admin via admin.sims.co.uk Go into to the SIMS Parent Settings > Data Collection There will be a list of 8 data areas that are collected: -Contacts -Cultural Information…
If you are a hosted school and wish to use Power BI you will need to install a external connector on the same machine as the Power BI software. Please see more information on how to request an external connector here https://faq.scomis.org/kb12448/ When setting up the Excel Command Reporter utility, you must create a new…
When adding a Linked Document, Communication or Medical Note there are three statuses to choose from: Public, Private and Confidential. What is the different between these statuses? Public If Public is chosen then the document/information is available to all users. Anyone can view this. Private If Private is chosen then the document/information is only available for the user…
If you wish to add additional Parental Consent options to the student record these can be added by going to Tools > Lookups > Maintain. Search for Parental Consent and click ‘Open’. This will open the consent and you can click on ‘New’ to add an additional consent. Once this has been added click on…
A new process has been created for Hosted schools wishing to link their third party software to SIMS via: GroupCall Xporter Wonde Contact Group SIMS Services Manager Schools can also use this tool to request a copy of their SIMS or FMS database. Only users with User Management access have access to this tool and…
When creating a booking using the icon a list of Organisations appear. If you wish to remove users from this list you can go to Tools > Cover > Organisations and Bookings > Manage Organisations and click You can then select the Organisation and click on The tick can then be removed from the Active Status…
To access Service Terms in SIMS go to Tools > Staff > Pay Related Press ‘Search’ Locate the required Service Term in the list and press ‘Open’ In Tab 2: Pay Awards click on ‘New’ to add a new Pay Scale You will then need to add a unique code, description, minimum and maximum…
All parents who have a child registered as on-roll at the school are eligible to stand for election when there is a vacancy for a parent governor. The term ‘parents’ includes natural parents and anyone else with parental responsibility. The Parental Ballot check box can be selected via Focus > Pupil (Or Student) – Family/Home…
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…
This FAQ will run through how to install the Hosted Android App on a personal Chromebook – if your Chromebook is managed by your IT department i.e. if your email address that you use to log in is a school email address please see the following FAQ: https://faq.scomis.org/kb22733/ Step 1: Check to see if your device…