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.
Due to the current CTF issues Capita have disabled all of their online services as a proactive precautionary step. This will affect: SIMS Parent & Parent Lite SIMS Activities SIMS Student SIMS Options SIMS Agora** To re-enable the services you will need to log on to your Online Services Admin Portal. This can be accessed…
Routines | Pupil (or Student) | Bulk Delete Pupil Data Following the Sims Summer 2018 Upgrade to assist schools in being GDPR compliant, it is now possible for a school to bulk delete pupil/student data in line with the Schools own data retention policies. The following data areas can now be deleted: Alerts Attendance…
The Individual Session Summary Report (Reports/Attendance/Individual Pupil Reports/Individual Session Summary Report) will only display one student’s attendance details per page. Unfortunately it is not possible to change this. As a workaround, please follow the instructions below: Open File Manager Choose a destination (Eg: F:/Public/Updates) Right click on the white background and select New/Microsoft Word Document. …
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…
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…
Options does not recognise students whose Year and Year Taught in are mismatched. To workaround this issue we need to temporarily amend the Year Group to match Year Taught In. If this year’s Year 10 are to be included in next year’s Year 10 Options implementation, then you must open the History by clicking the…
In Sims.net go to: Focus Groups User Defined Groups Search for the Group that you want to remove the student from Go to Panel 2 – Membership Find the student in the Member list Right click on the orange bar to the right of the Member’s name Click on Remove Membership Save Reviewed: 22/02/18…
It is possible to send InTouch messages to contacts of students who have now left. There are currently two workarounds for this: Create a User Defined Group for the Contacts Go to Focus | Group | User Defined Groups and enter a Group Description and Short Name. Make sure that the Active State is set…
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 Language from within the Ethnic/Cultural section of the Student record. No data is deleted when making this change it is just simply hidden…
To change a Pupil’s Enrolment Status in SIMS: Go To: Routines Student / Pupil Change Enrolment Status Enter the student’s name and click Search Select the pupil and change the Enrolment status at the lower part of the screen Click Save Reviewed: 22/02/18
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…
There is no need to create academic classes to match registration groups for Lesson Registration purposes because Lesson Monitor will offer Registration groups for selection in Take Register is is it set up to do so. The only reason for creating academic classes to match registration groups for a registration period is so that they…
How do I set Student/Pupil Teacher view as my default?
Is it possible with SLG to make the student name when listed in the attendance registers list linkable with their student details page?
Should you need to amend the dates in a student history youc an do so be…
If a pupil shows with a title of Mr or Mrs please follow the below instructions…