Schools may have selected the Travel tab in the Product Admin in order for it to appear for parents in ParentApp however the tab is not showing in the app The reason for this is that the tab in the app is linked to the Route lookup table….
SIMS Interventions enables schools to enrol pupil/students, who are not achieving or behaving as expected, on a course of intervention measures. It is possible to allocate additional resources, monitor the use of these resources and gauge how these resources affect Key Performance Indicators, as well as record the cost of the resources. This enables schools…
Missing Register Notifications can be set up as one of the Homepage widgets. On the Homepage go to Configure, this will open the Configure Homepage screen. On this screen you can increase the number of panels available on the Homepage if necessary by increasing the number and selecting the tick, you must have a blank…
What is the SIMS School Report and how can you access it? The School Report provides an instant overview of your school based on the latest data held in SIMS, giving school leadership and governors insight into areas of strength and weakness to inform their decisions. The report can be exported in a number of…
Scomis provides termly Newsletters informing you of up coming events and training and of the latest changes in SIMS and new services we provide. You can subscribe to the Newsletter from this link https://www.scomis.org/contact-us/ then scroll down the page and complete this form …
These instructions will take you through creating a Company Bill Payer and linking the Company to a student. 1 A Company Bill Payer should be created and the student added to the financial details area of the Company Record 2. The Company Bill Payer will be visible in the Pupil Fees Details screen, 3….
The school has been informed of a change to an email address, this has been left overnight but has not updated on the Admin Console. Ensure that the user’s email address has been updated and marked as Primary in SIMS Wait up to an hour for SIMS Parent to be updated. Return to the Manage…
When you pull through information from Programme of Study (PoS) you are not able to change the font to match the rest of the report just by selecting the information and then selecting the font or colour you would prefer. The steps to change the formatting in these columns is :- Change the style of…
This report will give you a list of pupil and their parental contact. Pupil with Mother & Father report To Import The Report Select the file and Save As, make a note of the location and then unzip the file. In SIMS.net go to Reports>Import click on Open and browse to the file you have…
There are 3 reasons why a clash would not show on a Component Clash Analysis Report 1 The Award has not been attached to a Course. You can check this by right clicking on the Award and select Properties, is the correct course showing in the Course field? If not go into Course Manager, select…
When an upgrade email is received from 4 Matrix and logged (as a Service Request) by the Service Desk the S&N team will log a Change Request. The Change Request will appear in Support Works Change Schedule detailing when the upgrade will take place. When a school calls asking for the latest 4 Matrix upgrade…
A derived year enables you to create sessions for students from different years, in SIMS .net>Focus>School>Academic Structue>Curriculum Assignment by Scheme all the students in the derived years will show as eligible. For this example I am going to add years 7 and 8 to a derived band. 1. On the left of the Model screen…
All periods can be split in half using the half period cover setting in Tools | Cover | Global Settings. Where half period cover is not used, but odd periods need to be split, this can be done as follows: Right click on the assignment for the Closure or Absence. Choose Clone. Right click on…
A day in the Cover Diary browse is showing in red but there are no periods requiring cover This is caused by a staff member having two instances of absence, one absence was added and the cover was entered and then another absence has been added which overlaps the original absence. See the example in…
This FAQ will guide you through the process of verifying, recording and authorising a request from a school for access to the Devon staff pages (The Source). This process is a temporary workaround and the process is under review by ICT Services. Schools go to www.devon.gov.uk/login to complete and submit a form requesting an…
This KB gives 3 scenarios to help you to provide Cover for a teacher who has left the school, 1 If a staff member leaves and the timetable is taken over by just one supply teacher then the best option is to replace the leaver in Nova with the Supply person. The Supply person…
In order for students to be available for Transfer in to Options they must be in a Band in the New Year. This is often an issue is a student joins the school after the main bulk of students have been Transfered to Options. Check the following steps The students are entered in the current…
Occasionally when a Results File is downloaded a result may come down as a Query When the Grade is eventually awarded it will need to be added manually to the Candidate via a Marksheet in Exams Organiser. Sometimes after the result has been manually entered and when running a Candidate Statement of Results report, you…
There is a number of patches which can be run to resolve this issue Please contact the Service Desk and quote KB111255 requesting patches 14265, 11669,12879 Reviewed 24/5/2019
In Exams Organiser go to Tools>Delete Marksheets Select your criteria from the left hand panel by putting a tick in the required selection, (Season is usually the most relevant) Click on Refresh The left hand panel will be populated with all the Marsheets related to your previous selection. In the right hand panel select the…
A Dynamic Group which has been created in Discover will only appear in SIMS.Net if you have members in the group eg. You have created a group for In Care and you do not currently have any In Care students; the group will not appear in SIMS.net until you have a student who has an…
Schools can be supplied with a Photo Import Licence from an accredited school photographer for which there is an annual charge. A list of the accredited photographers can be found at Accredited photographers | ESS SIMS (ess-sims.co.uk) Schools should contact these photographers directly for a new licence. The Exception To The Rule Schools who have…
There is more than one method to view and print a Registration Group list quickly, this is one options 1) In SIMS.net go to Reports>Student List>General Student List, this will give you a list of all Students on roll. 2) Select the Filter Icon from the Menu Bar 3) The Student Filter…
To change the Home Page on Internet Explorer press Tools>Internet Options>General Tab and type new address into the Home Page’s Address field You may find that your version of Internet Explorer has multiple lines for the address, in this case you can enter several frequently used addresses and they will each open on a…
Cloning a Group Group templates provided by Capita SIMS cannot be edited. However, cloning a group is an efficient method of making a small number of changes to a Capita SIMS permissions group that otherwise has the required permissions. 1) Select Focus>System Manage> Manage Groups to display the Find Group browser and highlight the…
Occasionally pre printed order form lay outs may change so that when they are printed from FMS the date or order number prints over the logo. This lay out can be change in FMS 1) Go to Tools > Accounts Payable Parameters > Tab 1: Order Header 2) Change the margins accordingly, you can then…
How to add a Support Assistant to an existing class
One class is split to be used by 2 teachers in different rooms at the same time.
This option can be used to add 2 or more staff to teach a class at different times.
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