[SIMS] Solus 2/3 - Summer release "Needed" for exam results?
Morning All, Had our Solus3/SIMs server migration planned in for over summer as we were told only Spring release was needed for this, and now apparently today our exams officer has been reading new...
View ArticleSolus3 and Imaging
Does anybody know if solus 3 can be included on a sysprepped disk image without issues? TIA
View Article[SIMS] Blanking out people in Cover
Hi guys, I have just found out that we're making teachers absent in cover, in order that they're not used. For example there might be a few teachers who need time off cover to get on with marking etc,...
View ArticleSolus 3 help - where are the logs
Our SIMS partner is having trouble downloading updates via solus 3 as it is getting blocked somewhere. I am trying to find what is blocking it but cannot see where the logs are stored. Could anyone...
View Article[SIMS] Linked docs and INSIGHT
We're not one for posting much but whole-school mailouts are fairly common. Does anyone send them in a way that adds them to the pupils linked docs as a general letter, and as such can be pulled into...
View ArticleNovaT - New Timetable cycle
Next AY we are altering the timings of our school day. I have completed the TT on NOVA and have sent through the new cycle details via the "data - export cycle to SQL" menu. Most of the TT has gone in...
View ArticleParentPay - Where do you install MIS:Sync?
Hi Was just curious where everybody installs the MIS:Sync app for ParentPay? In my head, I assumed that I would just install it on the server and schedule an update to parentpay nightly or something...
View Article[SIMS] ParentPay MIS:SYNC can't see Pre-admissions SIM's
Hi We are using Parent Pay and using MIS:SYNC to sync our Pre-admissions information to Parent Pay but when I use MIS-SYNC -->Pre-admissions --> Manual Update --> Import to import...
View ArticleSchool-Look Seating Plan
Hi Is anybody using the seating plan software www.school-look.com (http://www.school-look.com). This is a free software. If you are using it, what is your experience?
View ArticleStudent email address in SIMS
Ongoing battle this one. In SIMS where should the students email address be recorded (student school email address that is) I think it should be in section 5 of the student record. I keep finding the...
View Article[SIMS] Teacher App - who is using it?
Hi gang So what I'm after is some guidance/anecdotes from people who have actually used the SIMS Teacher App in recent times. My NM has got it working well enough to be able to give me valid device...
View ArticleFMS Personnel Module - Salary Projections very slow
Good morning all, My first post on edugeek and hopefully not to daft! We are finding that Salary Projection reports in FMS take between 20 and 30 minutes to run. Our local helpdesk has told me that...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS FMS Issues.
Hope someone can help? I'm not an SQL (or SIMS) expert in any way, only a basic understanding but I've got a SIMS/FMS problem at a school and the SQL 'Expert' is off sick. We have tried CAPITA but I...
View ArticleSIMS Summer 2016 Release is out
The SIMS & Discover Summer 2016 Release 7.170 is now out. Have fun all...
View Article[sims] Import teacher assessment data from NCA TOOLS site
Morning All Not sure if I am missing a trick here (despite knowing we have done this the wrong way around) but we have all our teacher assessment data downloaded from the NCA Tools site in xml/csv...
View ArticleSIMS to iSAMS
Has anybody here moved from SIMS to iSAMS or another MIS recently? We have had SIMS since the 90s here, but we are going to look at alternatives over the next academic year, after a brief preliminary...
View Article[SIMS] Assessment for Primary Schools
Hi, We are a large primary school and currently use Target Tracker for Assessment and Reports we would like to move over to SIMS and am interested in hearing from any other schools that have done this...
View ArticleSIMS Server CPU nearly at Capacity
Hi all I'm having an issue with my SIMS server. It is constantly running at between 80 and 99%. Its definitely something to do with SQL 2014 but I'm not sure why its started all of a sudden. The server...
View Article[SIMS] School meals problem
One of the schools just started doing registers but school meals are not recorded except for one class only? Anyone know what might be the reason for it?
View ArticleStudent Data Retention
Hi All, Just wondering if someone could give me an answer to this one. I've looked through all sorts of policies and things but everything seems rather vague. We have a member of staff who was at this...
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