If you wish to link staff members or teachers to one of your ‘Year Groups’ or ‘Registration Groups’ in your pastoral structure you will need to: Navigate to Focus>School>Pastoral Structure>Current Structure then Click on ‘Go’ (Once this is populated you can link staff members.) YEAR GROUPS To add ‘Head of Year’ to a ‘Year…
Capita have now issued a PDF file with the latest National Insurance Rates for 2022/23. There is now a Capita patch available, number 26960, which will insert the National Insurance table 2022-23 on your behalf. If you have already created the table for 2022-23, the patch will overwrite the existing table. The patch adds an…
Routines > Staff > Delete Staff In most cases, it is not possible to delete the entire record of a staff member because of the complexity of links to other data within SIMS. In the Spring 2019 release of SIMS Capita relaxed some of the rules that prevented deletion in previous versions, mainly to cover…
Click HERE for the Managing Classroom Staff QRS Reviewed on 24/05/2019
Please find report definition for current staff contracts below. Current Staff Contracts To import this report, download the file and unzip it once it has saved. Go into SIMS and go to Reports – Import and then browse to the file and click import. The report will then be available under Reports – Run Report…
The way to double up teachers in SIMS is to go to the class timetable. This can be done via Timetable > New > Group and selecting the year, block and group. This will show you the classes under the group. When you right click the class you can select the option to Add Staff….
Sometimes it’s necessary to remove a member of staff in SIMS, if they have been added by accident or it’s a duplicate staff record. It is very important to only delete a staff record in the above circumstances, as when a member of staff is deleted from SIMS, this is permanent. When the staff record…
Occasionally when reporting on Peronnel and Contracts within SIMS, it will display a closed contract for the member of staff. There is no specific option within the Reporting module to only make the open contracts show, you will need to filter the workaround as follows: Expand the ‘Employment Details‘ section and pick the blue ‘Contracts‘…
This can happen if staff have been entered in Personnel and separately into Manage Classroom Staff resulting in two staff codes. Also (rarely) if they are in the student focus and that record hasn’t been used as the employee. Usually the issue manifests itself when a teacher cannot see their classes when they logon to…
Check the member of staff’s personnel record for absences. Either there is a missing end date or the end date is not correct eg the year has been mistyped. This can occur even if the individual analysis report appears to be correct. KB16419
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…
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….
This report uses all of the non-confidential School Workforce Census fields within SIMS and should be sent out to all staff in September of each year, in order to get all your data accurate and updated in time for the SWC in November. You can download this report by clicking here. 1. Save the Scomis Staff…
1. From the Cover Arrangements page, click the New Absence button to display the Record Classroom Staff Absence dialog. 2. Select the absent member of staff in the Staff panel (use the Ctrl key to select multiple staff members). 3. Select a reason for the absence in the Reasons panel. 4. In the Duration panel,…
If the Timetable has contains blanking codes for the staff members not showing they will not be available for cover, the blanking codes will need to be removed from the Timetable in Nova and the Timetable sent across to SIMS. 1) Check that staff have the correct working pattern in SIMS .net | Focus…
This is due to a missing date in the ‘Employment Start’ field……………..
Go to Focus | School | Pastoral Structure | Next Academic Year Structure…
This guide will take you through adding users to SLG, before continuing you should complete the FAQ on data cleansing…