[SIMS] Automating lesson marks based on quick behaviour incidents
Hi, hope you can help. Is there a way to automatically change the lesson mark (on a register) based on a "quick" behaviour incident awarded by right clicking on a student name? detail: In our school...
View Article[SIMS] Room Changes on Timeline are a different colour
This is what we really want and I believe many schools would benefit from this. If you do - please vote on this change request: https://goo.gl/vysXGT And hopefully it may get picked up! Cheers
View ArticleSolus3 Command Line
Dear all, According to this link: Upgrading to SOLUS3 | Essential information for Schools | Capita SIMS...
View ArticleImport current classes into SIMS Options
Hello I am new to Options this year but have managed to set up implementations for 9 into 10 and 11 into 12. All good. Now due to staff changes my head has asked me to look into plausible restructures...
View ArticleSIMS to iSAMS: How to run SQL scripts to extract data
Morning folks, I have a bunch of SQL scripts that I want to run to extract data from SIMS. They are custom made by iSAMS and contain all the necessary tables/fields, etc so we can package all relevant...
View Article[SIMS] Solus 3 - Slow upgrade deployment after timeout
So following advice we scheduled deployment of the Spring upgrade overnight and made sure our workstations were on. These were fine for users when they ran SIMS the following day. However, most of our...
View ArticleIndividual Report - Teacher Missing
Hi all We have recently gone live with SIMS (not even one month yet) and we have an issue with an individual report. I have asked CAPITA for support and they have been great but unfortunately as a...
View Article[SIMS] Hosted Sims RDP Connection Dropping
Hi All, We have recently migrated to hosted Sims from Serco Facility. Only a few of our users actually use the RDP connection to the Full Sims interface and the rest all use hosted SLG to complete...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS Learning Gateway alternative
Hi all, I have been tasked with the job of seeing if there is a decent alternative to SIMS Learning Gateway? Basically we want staff to be able to access Marksheets, student data etc. Also we want...
View Article[SIMS] Nova T6 Additional period at the end of the day
For the timetable this year I have been asked to add a period to the end of the day so certain booster classes etc can be set up and attendance recorded etc. What is the best way to go about this? I'm...
View ArticleDo we actually need SOLUS3 client on all the workstations?
Interesting debate running in my office at the moment so I thought I'd throw this out for some opinions. We are currently finishing the gold build for Windows 10 and the question was raised for how to...
View Article[SIMS] SOLUS 3 UPDATE
This is probably a simple question but want to check before i press the big green button. As its the first time using solus 3 So I have downloaded The spring Full Release (7.168) on the server. I am in...
View Article[SIMS] DBATTACH Backup
Would running DBATTACH in sims for a backup close peoples connection to SIMS while it carries out a backup? looking to run a discover update at very short notice and want to avoid kicking people out of...
View Article[SIMS] Report Effective Date
Hi there, I'm building a custom report in SIMS that gives information about attendance and absences. I have built the report, and all runs ok but I want to explore using the "effective date" of the...
View ArticleSims Individual reports and Word conditional formatting
Morning experienced Techie people, I have an individual pupil report and would like to 'grey out' a table cell if the contents are a specific value eg "no comment" Does anyone know if/how I can do...
View ArticlePivot Problems
Hi, Does anyone know how to make a pivot table count in Excel show names rather than numbers? I want it to create a matrix tracking students KS2-current data outside of SIMS. Thanks
View ArticleFMS Change a ledger code
Our business manager wants to change a ledger code. Apparently we can purchase a tool from Capita which will do it, but obviously the word "purchase" implies spending money, which none of us like...
View Article[SIMS] Sims 'On roll' report showing students who are not on roll?
I have several SIMS reports that export data to xml files every night for further processing externally. All of them are based on: *Data area: Student - Population: On Roll* They have all been running...
View Article[SIMS] Register Check
I highly doubt this is possible, is there a way we can run a report on if and when a teacher has or hasn't completed the register. I'm guessing this sort of thing isn't logged within SIMS at all. Were...
View ArticleUnlinking Contacts from Historical Applications
Doing some housekeeping on duplicate contact codes. Unfortunately some of the duplicates contact records that I would like to unlink and then delete are linked to historical admission applications...
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