[SIMS] Consolidated Patch Version 1 (ID 21779)
I've been asked to apply the consolidated patch listed above, according to the News release this is available in Solus 3, but it isn't listed in my available updates. Where can I get the patch from or...
View ArticleSIMS Hanging on Startup
Morning all I have one PC in school which is having trouble loading SIMS. I can log in fine, but it hangs on the loading screen. If I then click on it I get a "SIMS is not responding" message with...
View ArticleMicrosoft Classroom
Question to Phil N. Do Capita intend to support the new Microsoft Classroom initiative both in terms of account and group provisioning and the writing back of data to SIMS? Thank you in anticipation
View Article[SIMS] Starting the new Academic Year early
For as long as anyone can remember, we have always started our academic year on 1st September. However, we use Go4Schools and this will not update until SIMS has rolled over to the new year and we...
View ArticleSims SOLUS3
Hi We currentley use Sims .net and we have just moved from BT lancashire to Pennine Education Ltd in Oldham We Called them last week to update Sims for us and I thjought they would updrade us to...
View Article[SIMS] Individual reports not overwriting
I want to upload an individual report to overwrite an existing one - definitely the same name. The SIMS dialogue box warns me it will be overwritten when using the upload to document server but when I...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS Report Macros and protecting against Cryptolocker
Hi All As part of our defence against malware such as Cryptolocker, we have disabled all macros in all office documents / locations and explicity set (via gpo) a couple of trusted locations where macro...
View Article[BROMCOM] Exam data export
How do you export all the exam data reports by student? There seems to be system reports that you are unable to put wildcard cards into.
View Article[SIMS] SIMS - Can't inactivate template
We are currently in the process of cleaning up our 'templates' in assessment. There is a lot from our exams officer from 2004 onwards, that obviously are used the once and never again. I wanted to make...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS teacher app signing-in with Google Account
Is anyone else currently experiencing signing-in issues with their Google accounts for the SIMS teacher app? Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The same goes for access the SIMS teacher app...
View ArticleMoving from SIMS to Facility/ePortal - Easy to learn?
Hi all, First post here so apologies if I do something wrong! :) I'm looking at moving to a school and leading on aspects of assessment, reporting and potentially timetabling, and the school in...
View Article[SIMS] Validate E-Mail Addresses and Mobiles
Hi All, Is there a way in SIMS to validate an e-mail address and mobile phone number in SIMS when details are entered? I'm finding errors in Parents e-mail addresses (using characters like , or / in...
View ArticleiSAMS Parent Portal
Hi All, We are currently using iSAMs Parent Portal, and wondered if its possible to add additional pages to the portal. For example we can create new links in the navigation bar, and name these...
View Article[SIMS] SOLUS 3 - Pushing out clients to turned off machines.
If you add a new machine as a target and it is turned off when it tries to install the client will it automatically try and install it again in the future or do you need to try and redeploy the client...
View Article[SIMS] InTouch - Message Type Defaults - Auto Forward
Hi all, Does anyone know what this does? There's an option on all message types to "auto forward" to an email address.. Does this mean if I added "admin@school.com" there, that when sending, say, a...
View ArticleiSAMS Parent Portal
We are just testing the parent portal and been told that iSAMS don't have a generic userguide for it. Has anyone created one?
View ArticleSIMS Intouch/teacher app or groupcall?
Hi, Our Intouch has not worked now for close to 3 weeks. This is our main communication tool and we are struggling (now having to resort to outlook for school emails). We are not impressed with...
View ArticleCannot delete old staff member from SIMS
Having fun trying to delete an old duplicate user from SIMS - see screenshot. It's picked up they're still linked to some data, a "Workplace" field set to our school name. But where is that actually...
View Article[SIMS] Hardware Specs
Hi All, We are about to make the jump from iSAMS to SIMS, please could you advise the specification of our SIMS servers and if you have had any issues hosting it on virtual servers? Thanks in advance!
View ArticleSIMS Teacher APP on Android Phone.
Is it a lack of "real estate" on the screen or does the Teacher App on an Android phone not allow you to access the Marksheets or detailed student info ie phone numbers etc?
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