Electronic Data Collection
Hi All, I've been asked to come up with an electronic method to replace our paper Data Collection Sheets. I know SLG has this part but i'm just wondering (hoping) that there might be another (better)...
View Article[SIMS] Whole School Attendance Reporting by Vulnerability
Hi All I am trying to run an attendance report to give me the whole school attendance percentage for children who are SEN, LAC etc. Using SIMS inbuilt "report by vunerability" however returns to me an...
View Article[SIMS] Secondary school DODDLE
HI, I was wondering if any schools have started using doddle to send reports home. I am struggling at the minute with this- Does anyone have a report templatre they use in doddle or anything that can...
View Article[CMIS] [Facility] Automation
Anyone know a way of running a CMIS/facility report from a shortcut? I'm thinking something like cmis.exe -u:me -p:secret -dataset:201516.cdb -report:xyx >> out.csv but don't have a clue. thanks
View Article[SIMS] SIMS backup + storing password sercuity
How do you store your password for you SIMS backup using dbattach? Is there an easy way of storing the password securely?
View Article[SIMS] HODs and Assessment
Hi guys - sure it's simple - but I can't get my HODs to see marksheets of subjects they are head - eg my science HOD can only see marksheets of classes she teaches, not classes of other science...
View Articlehow to get a SIMS report of report names?
I have made quite a few reports that all begin with the same word. Is there a way to get a textual report that lists the names of all reports? Preferably this would be filtered by a certain...
View ArticleSIMS reports with macros - broken!
Hi I hope someone can help! I needed to edit a complex (to me) SIMS report that I'd designed, that uses a macro to convert the output to a pivot table in Excel. So as not to mess anything up, I "saved...
View Article[SIMS] [FMS]Error:[Login Failure]:Invalid user name/password [Solved]
Has anyone come across this before in FMS? The error Error:[Login Failure]:Invalid user name/password pops up frequently. Pressing OK closes out the message and the program continues to work....
View Article[SIMS] Intouch - Linked Adults - SEN Co-ordinator
Hi Is there anyway that we should be able to add the SEN Co-ordinator to the list of linked adults when sending a message via the student profile? All other "agents" are listed but not this contact!...
View ArticleMISSING SIMS ASPECTS
Hi All, I have recently noticed when I come to add aspects to some of the templates within SIMS I am unable to do so as they are missing. I have double checked that the aspects are still active which...
View Article[SIMS] Firewall exeptions SOLUS3
First hope this is in the right place, I have very little to do with SIMS as it is maintained by the LEA. However we have got 2 new servers in one is a DC for the curriculum and another which is...
View Article[SIMS] FMS Accounts Receivable import from SIMS?
Does anyone know if it's possible to import data such as home address, name etc from SIMS into FMS Accounts Receivable? Been asked by our finance dept but I can't see any way of doing this.
View ArticleBulk update of contact details in SIMS
Afternoon wise old folks of SIMS, We have two systems, WBCS PASS for enrolement/billing, etc which the most up-to-date collection of pupil details. Then we have SIMS for everything else, with a...
View Article[SIMS] Updating staff absence details is slow
Hi, We are trying to update the absence details for a number of staff and it seems to take an age for a save to happen each time the save button is pressed (up to about 3 minutes). We have spoken to...
View Article[SIMS] Multiple Marksheets for 1 class?
Hi Folks In our 6th form, where a student is taught by two teachers, we like to have to reports. However this class is defined only once, say U6-Ma1, which is shared by two staff, say ABC and DEF. When...
View ArticleSIMS Teacher App
Hi All I have tasked with looking into replacing Emerge with the SIMS Teacher App. Apparently there are some issues with it (which is news to me and not very useful as we only renewed our license 3...
View Article[SIMS] Marksheet visible to all staff?
Does anyone know please of a sensible way to make a particular marksheet available to all staff? I know that I can create copies for every class in the school so that each teacher can see their own...
View ArticleParent Portal Options
Can anybody recommend any parent portal or parent/pupil engagement systems worth looking into? We have SIMS as a MIS system, and we want something that will be able to pull information from this and...
View Article[SIMS] Census Error 2870 - Setting Learning Aims
Hi, I'm getting three 2870 errors relating to three Year 12 students in our Sixth Form, but for the life of me, I can't see why I'm getting this error. They each have course start dates, end dates and...
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