9 May 2017
Scomis have produced a variety of reports which allow more detailed analysis of attendance data. The attached files will need to be imported into SIMS Reports and will be accessible through the…
2 Feb 2017
Internet filtering changes Who is affected? If you have a South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) Internet connection at your school or establishment, you will be affected. Schools using…
23 Mar 2016
Please check with your Local Authority that they are not collecting information on Home language before making this change. With the Spring 2016 release of Sims you can now hide the Home…
13 Jun 2014
Problem When connecting to the Scomis Hosted Application service you may get an error relating to "Remote Desktop can’t connect to the remote computer" --------------------------- Remote Desktop Connection --------------------------- Remote Desktop can’t…
Connectivity Requirements The connector will work from any internet connection with the exception of a few countries such as China which are blocked at our firewall Bandwidth Requirements For information on bandwith requirement…
16 Jan 2014
Removed 19/08/2016 **************************************UPDATE************************************** Scomis will soon be replacing the https://gateway.scomis.org service with our new Connector which works from home or in school. Please download the new client from http://faq.scomis.org/kb9079 - once installed you will…
6 Aug 2013
Capita make strong recommendations about the hardware specification of the hardware to run SIMS Workstations of Minimum System Requirements specification would be recommended for occasional use and are likely to be less…
14 Jul 2011
**************************************UPDATE************************************** Microsoft has now released free RDP Clients for OSX and iOS which Scomis now support for connecing to our services, Please see http://faq.scomis.org/kb11320/ for more information on connecting to our Hosted…
18 Feb 2011
**************************************UPDATE************************************** https://gateway.scomis.org has been replaced with our new connector. Please download the connector from http://www.scomis.org/go/hosted instead of following this faq. **************************************UPDATE**************************************
14 Jan 2011
************PLEASE NOTE: This FAQ is to be followed entirely at the risk of the school and Scomis is not held responsible for any data lost. Failure to follow all steps correctly may…
8 Jul 2010
If your users use a domain user at school and a local user at home when logging onto their laptop they face the following issues... Background: The first ever time an encryption…
5 Jul 2010
This is the current Scomis Password Policy (which has been based on the Devon County Council Password Policy) which is applied to the Scomis Managed Services. We also recommend that schools adopt…
25 May 2010
Please make sure you have a full backup before starting this procedure. 1. Tools>Define Financial Year>Define/edit year 2. Use + on right to add the new year. You will probably want to…