Getting Started with the SIMS Parent App Lite – A Parents’ Guide

What do I need to register for the SIMS Parent App Lite? Before beginning the registration processes, you will need the following: 1. Your unique registration email. Your school will send to you a registration email that contains a registration link and an invitation code. This email will be sent from Capita SIMS (noreply@sims.co.uk). If…

How to amend Work Email address to Home Email on Data Collection Sheet

The standard Data Collection Sheet only displays the Work Email address of a contact. This can be amended in several ways, the most stress-free approach is to update the field in the report so that the main email address takes the place of the work email address. This can be done as shown below. 1….

Sims Parent App – Two factor authentication /Multifactor authentication

The two factor authentication will work normally in Sims Parent for new sign ins if the two factor authentication was enabled on the sign in account (eg, Google, Microsoft, Facebook).  When signing in to Sims Parent on an unknown device you will be prompted to complete the two factor authentication. For further information. please see…

Sims Parent – Which documents can be published to the Sims Parent App?

Assessment individual reports and Profile reports can be published to the SIMS Parent app providing they have been created and uploaded to the Students linked documents first. Once they are uploaded to the Students linked documents they can be published through Routines | SLG & SIMS Online | Publish Documents.

Manually inviting user to Parent App / Parent Lite App

When a user is invited to use SIMS Online Services, it keeps the original email that was invited and doesn’t update when the email is changed in SIMS. There doesn’t appear to be a way to cancel the invitation so what you need to do is to go to https://admin.sims.co.uk and browse to Manage Users…

Identifying addresses modified by CTF import bug

The report can be downloaded by clicking below, please save as to a suitable location, and extract the file so that it shows in your File Explorer as Address change history.rptdef, ready for import into SIMS. Address change history report.zip download For instructions on how to import a report into SIMS, please see the in-depth…

Who has access or the ability to view SIMS Parent App?

*Updated 05/07/2019*   Which contacts associated on a student record has the ability to access SIMS Parent App? SIMS Parent App/Parent App Lite The current functionality is that any contact or guardian that has Parental Responsibility and no Court Order will be able to access SIMS Parent App, and have the ability to see the…

Report for students who live with both parents/only live with one parent

A report to show students who live with both parents or either parent is becoming a common request due to a freedom of information request going around. There is no simple way to produce this report however there is a rptdef (Report Definition File) that can be imported into SIMS under Reports > Import and…

Unable to unprovision a parent in SLG

If there is a case of duplicate records and/or parent of leaver needs to be unprovisioned but cannot be found. Go to Routines>Active Directory Provisioning>Provision Users>Contacts / Parents>Remove Contacts Under the search button there is a tick box entitled ‘Contacts with no child’ Tick this tick box and then click search This will list all…