[SIMS] Parent App - Attendance dates
Hi everyone, I am currently going through final stages of testing the SIMS parent app. One of our members of staff also happens to be a parent so she is kindly testing it out for me. One small problem...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS report issue
Morning, Sorry if this is in the wrong place but I'm not an IT professional. I'm trying to run a SIMS report that will have every child in the school along the left hand column, all subjects across the...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS Home Access
Hi all, I have been asked to look at ways teachers can access SIMS from home for lesson planning, completing reports/marksheets etc. We used to use SLG, but staff really struggled with it, we have just...
View ArticleSIMS report on behaviour type by tutor group
Help wanted from SIMS reporting guru. One of our Heads of House would like a report listing the count of each behaviour type by tutor group, i.e. Tutor Group A: 3 forgotten planners, 2 rude to staff, 4...
View ArticleSIMS - Cover Diary
We have started to use the Cover Diary, which is working well. However we have spotted an issue. How do you setup cover for a member of teaching staff who is taking a class out on a day trip, You can't...
View ArticleSIMS Solus3 Management From Workstation
Hi Please could someone let me know where I can obtain the SOLUS 3 UI from so that I can manage the agents from my workstation rather than having to login to the server each time. I extracted the solus...
View ArticleSIMS - Cover Diary - Publish to HTML / Email Staff
Hi all We are now using SIMS cover, working well, but I've had two requests from above. 1. Can the staff that have been chosen to cover a lesson, be emailed a summary automatically from SIMS Cover...
View ArticleSIMS Teacher App issues
I have 3 schools who purchased the SIMS Teacher App for registers. I rolled it out to one of them at the beginning of September and we have had constant issues and I've yet to roll it out to the other...
View ArticleSage 200 specify delivery address with name of person who placed order
Hi, we are having an issue here with Sage where we can't specify who each order gets delivered to? So at the moment since moving over the finance team are having to direct deliveries manually, they...
View Article[SIMS] Sims Permissions
Hi everyone Hope someone can give me some guidance on which permission to assign to our attendance officer who can send messages via in-touch, however they doesn't seem to be receiving any messages...
View Article[SIMS] Changing times on Timetable
Hi guys, We currently have a "duty" period" first (D1), then Reg1, then ino lessons etc. I want to remove D1 and extend Reg1. Currently D1 is 08:20 - 08:35 Reg 1 is 08:35 - 09:00 I want Reg1 to be...
View ArticleSIMS or Facility??
Hi all I am looking to tender a new MIS to a secondary school. I wondered if any of you have any opinions on which is best? SIMS or Facility. I have read pros and cons for both, but wanted some experts...
View ArticleCapita sims attendance tracker
My new role in school is attendance coordinator. I want to devise something in sims so tutors and year heads can look at a week by week tracker on sims with traffic light colour codes. How do I set...
View ArticleULN Service Application Error
I submitted my ULN CTF on Friday via S2S when it came back up and it was uploaded without any error messages. When I go to download it it says the status is WSRC0007 Application Error and no downloads...
View ArticleSIMS DB increasing in size
Hi all; Looking at our SIMS SQL2012 DB, its gettting rather large (29Gb) - 1300 student school, 150 staff Its in simple Mode and backed up by Capita script daily. What could cause the increase in size...
View ArticleSummer Data into New School Year Assessment Template.
Hi all, New here, so I hope I explain this properly! I've taken over a set of templates/marksheets and on the whole I'm managing to make them display the data I want. However, the staff would like the...
View ArticleFFT aspire exporting pupils into SIMS
Hi all. I'm a new user (both of here and FFT Aspire) and I'm trying to import my pupil target data into Sims. I have sorted the targets and removed all those who do not study a particular subject (i.e....
View Article[SIMS] Student somehow has "Contact" role - how to remove?
Our admin people have someone managed to make a student their own mother, they've resolved this but the student still seems to have the "contact" role and even though she's not linked to any students I...
View Article[Progresso] Head of Department access to all marksheets (screens)
Hi, what is the best way to give head of department e.g. Maths, access to all other Maths teacher's classes to be able to add grades for an absent teacher. I don't really want to add the hod to each...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS InTouch - General Student Message - User Defined Groups
Hello all, We have just started using InTouch and would like to be able to send a General Student Message (so we can make use of the Student tags to customise) to a user defined group. Our trips...
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