Table of Checks and Fixes DATABASE DIAGNOSTICS To Run Database Diagnostics from SIMS click Tools – System Diagnostics – Database Diagnostics. [NOTE: Do not run this during a busy work period as it may slow SIMS down for other users.] Reviewed on 24/10/2016
Select Tools > Setups > SEN Setup to display the SEN Setup page. To add a new SEN Co-ordinator or More Able Co-ordinator click New and then search for the staff name. To give overall responsibility for SEN or More Able to a staff member click Set Main button. To remove a staff member from…
Any groups for which you are the supervisor can be viewed from the My Timeline widget. Click the Options button in the My Timeline panel then select My Groups from the drop down menu. This will display any group you are a Supervisor of.The Effective Date defaults to today’s date but can be changed. If…
In Student/Teacher View screen the Assessment Key Indicators are showing as ‘Aspect not Defined’ how do I get Aspect to appear? Go to Tools > Setup > Student/Teacher View > Section 3 > Select the Curriculum Years and click Add on the ‘Aspect for the selected NC Year’ for the Aspect browse box to appear…
Introduced in 2011, the pupil premium is a sum of money given to schools each year by the Government to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children. Schools are given a pupil premium for: Children who have qualified for free school meals at any point in the past six years. Children who are or have been looked…
Within SIMS go to Tools | Setups | User Defined Fields Click New Enter a description for the field. Select a Field Type. For instance, is your UDF to be a single line of text, or a Date, or a True/False field. Select the Data Domain that it is to be applied to. (Staff, Pupil,…
The sessions when part-time pupils, i.e. pupils of non-statutory school age, are not required to attend school can be specified using this routine. SIMS then applies the No Attendance Required code to the sessions that occur during the specified date range. The Week Range dates must lie within the new academic year and we would…
If a student has a class membership of a course with a Planned End Date that is more than one day after the start date of another relevant class membership, the course membership will have a gap inserted unless each of the following is true: The gap in working days between the class memberships is…
This should be done as part of the creating the next academic year structure and not in the current year. Select Focus > School > Pastoral Structure > Next Academic Year Structure to display the Next Academic Year Pastoral Structure. Expand the Pastoral Structure until you can see the Registration Group to be removed. Right…
For part time pupils changing to Full Time in September, you should ensure that their Part Time Details has an End Date. Choose Focus > Pupil > Pupil Details or click to display the Find Student browse Use the drop down for Year Group or Class to refine your search then click Double click on…
There might be a situation where current students are also employed by the School or the student has left and come back as Staff. To avoid a duplication, you should only use the one record within Sims. To do this, go to: Focus > Person > Staff > New Type the Surname of the Person…
Marksheets created in Examinations Organiser can be made read-only, enabling their data to still be viewed while preventing them from being edited. This would be particularly useful when working with entry marksheets, where the submission file has been sent to the examination board and you do not want any changes to be made to the…
The reasons for absences in Cover are held in a separate table from the reasons for absence in Personnel, but there is no reason why the tables cannot be the same, if desired. The Cover absences are within SIMS under | Tools | Cover | Reasons for Absence. Select a reason and click on Edit to see…
Routines | Student | Change Enrolment Status select student and change the Enrolment Status. Reviewed: 29/7/20
Please see the Permission Definitions below: Public: Documents available/visible to all users Private: Documents available/visible only to the user that created them. Confidential: Only available/visible to those from the following User Groups: SEN Co-ordinator School Administrator Senior Management Team Reviewed: 22/02/20
This can be done one of 2 ways either by Staff or by Training Course By Staff Select Reports | Personnel | Staff Training Enter a Start Date & End Date. In the Selected Staffs panel click the New button and search for and staff you would like to report on Click the Open button….
Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Course | New and is made up of seven panels, you will need to complete Panels. 1. Duration and Tolerance -This panel is a new addition to the SIMS summer 2012 release and displays the course duration, continuity tolerance and completion tolerance. The default settings from…
Please note – Microsoft will no longer offer security fixes for Windows 7 from January 2020, upgrade to Windows 10 as soon as possible. Open Windows Explorer by double clicking on the Computer icon on the Desktop. Click on Tools menu and select Map Network Drive… option as shown above. If this Menu does not…
We have received many calls to the helpdesk regarding linking awards to courses in SIMS, where the Basedata Award imported into Examinations may contain more than one certification element. This can cause problems within Course Manager due to the fact you can only link one award to one course, so results for both certifications will…
Hosted Service School’s please contact Scomis Service Desk on 01392 385300 to request that Patch 17755 be applied to the School dataset. The below information is for Non Hosted Services Schools. Schoolcomms have been made aware by Capita of a fault in the SIMS Autumn release which will affect schools accessing Schoolcomms from the SIMS Focus…
Once a candidate has been made eligible for Special Arrangements, it is possible to assign to them additional time for an examination sitting How do I make Candidate Eligible for Special Arrangements? Click the Seating Organiser button on the Application Bar or select Focus |Seating Organiser to display the Seating Organiser Component browser. Click the…
Select Focus | Candidates | Internal to display the Internal Candidate browser. Highlight the candidate for whom you want to grant Special Arrangements and click the View/Edit button to display the Internal Candidate Details form. The Basic Details page will be selected automatically. Select the Special Arrangements browse Icon. One of the available Items is…
Pi Cohort populates from the census and can be used by the performance analysis to analyse the performance in your school. You need to collect all the exam results for the candidates in the current season so that when collating your examination results they are successfully put into up to two groups. The first group which is named…
Please follow the below Healpsheet on How to Add Agents into Sims.net How to add agents Reviewed on 12/08/2016
Please follow the below Helpsheet on How to Add an Agency into SIMS.net How to Add an Agency Reviewed on 12/08/2016
To add a historic result or a result for an Exam taken externally to Student Details Exams link, you will need to enter the result by doing the following: In SIMS Tools | Examinations | External Results | Manual Entry |Double click on the student | Add result Enter all of the information for the student’s result….
Absences such as meetings are recorded in Cover only – The member of staff is not actually absent therefore they are not recorded in Personnel. When adding or editing a reason for absence for Cover, in SIMS .net | Tools | Cover | Reasons for Absence, ensure that reasons are either ticked or unticked as…
You can add new Attendance Codes and any new code would need to be linked to a Statutory DfE code. To do this go to Tools | Attendance Setup | Codes | Maintain Codes. Click NEW. You will see you can set up a new code and then ‘Link to Reg Mark’ You can report…
What is a ULN? A Unique Learner Number is a 10-digit number which is unique to the learner and is used in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Why do we need the ULN? A ULN will be used by awarding organisations to populate a central Personalised Learner Record (LR) in relation to qualifications achieved by…
The Autumn upgrade has introduced new options when choosing to export a CTF Routines > Data Out > Export CTF. You will now be faced with 2 Export Type options. General – This is the default option which will take you into the export CTF window you are familiar with. ULN Request/ Update – This…