Student Behaviour Management Report
Morning everyone Does anyone use any software for badly behaved students who are 'on report' (where they have each lesson monitored and sent home for parents to read and sign) Students are conveniently...
View Article[SIMS] Inserting Fields in SIMS reports - Word 2013
We have recently been upgraded to Word 2013, and I am trying to add a field to a SIMS report. Previously there was a dropdown listing all the fields in your report and you could insert them but that...
View Article[SIMS] "Exceptional Circumstance" applied in error - can I get rid of it?
M'colleague has applied a # code to a student's attendance in error. We've tried to delete the exceptional circumstance, but although now it'll allow me to delete the # and put the attendance marks...
View Article[SIMS] Creating a Linked Document Type for Parental Admission Contracts
How do I create a new linked document type ? I want to set one up for admission contracts. TIA
View Articleexcel 2016 from sims pivot cache
Hi All, We are having this same issue and have removed the KB's that Capita have instructed us to do. Still, no avail. - They have all but given up on us and told me to call Microsoft. Can anyone else...
View Article[SIMS] Another SIMS/firewall thread....
Hi, So once again trying to get the Windows Firewall on... I have looked through a few other threads and not seen my exact question answered as I have the GPO configured with all the correct ports and...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS / SOLUS3 Re-Imaging workstation
Hi, Trying to replicate what is done to the database when an agent is 'Uninstalled' I regularly re-image our machines which works fine for all software other than SOLUS3. As far as I can tell, its...
View ArticleGenerate a reminder for staff
Hi all, first post so please be kind and first few months using SIMS. I know that sims allows staff to send messages to one another etc, but is there a way for SIMS to produce a notification/reminder...
View ArticleAble and Talented Coordinator access to all marksheets
Any ideas on how to give our Able and Talented coordinator access to year group marksheets? I'm thinking the best way is to add as a supervisor alongside Head of Year in the pastoral structure but...
View Article[SIMS] Import attendance data to SIMS
I have some attendance data from a secondary source that I want to import back into SIMS lesson monitor. XML, CSV uploads? Anything else? How can I go about doing this?
View ArticleRewards and behaviour platforms- SIMS
Looking for a rewards and behaviour platform which is cheap/free, ideally can be used on phones by teachers to make it easy to award points in lessons which can feedback to pupils and parents. we have...
View Article[SIMS] Numbers don't match
Looking at student numbers on SIMS. "School Report", effective date 05 Oct 2017 has a total of 60 students in reception class. Running a Student Analysis Report for all students on roll on the 05 Oct...
View ArticleSims in-place upgrade to windows 10
Our sims "server" is a win7 PC chugging away, and I'd like to do an inplace upgrade to windows 10. For a test, I've already done a P2V of the SIMS server, upgraded it to windows 10 and a simple test,...
View ArticleShrinking SIMS LDF file
Hi all Capita has suggested I shrink the ldf file using their attached ShrinkDBlog utility Can this be run live and do I need to kick users off SIMS first ? Details they sent below , thanks all !
View Article[SIMS] Reports with MailMerge?
Hi everyone! We are planning to switch to a new MIS and a possible candidate is SIMS. We were told that SIMS apparently creates the school reports in Word using Mail Merge. Is that true? Is there any...
View ArticleExtra Period on a Wednesday
Hi, Does anyone know the best way to add an extra lesson just to the end of Wednesday for a review/homework type lesson that is not part of the model. I only know to add it to each day, blank the other...
View ArticleSIMS won't install via Solus 3
Afternoon all Been happily (!) using SOLUS 3 for a few years now. Pushing out the SIMS client is usually not a problem. I do however have one PC which SIMS just will not install onto. The SOLUS 3...
View ArticleKEYS - Software
Hi, Has anyone got some experience of using KEYS MIS? I've had a request for access to it and I've got the data backed up but not sure how to access it as I cant find the disk. We got SIMS before I...
View Article[BROMCOM] Anybody using Chrome 62 having problems?
The only change that has happened recently has been the Chrome update to 62. Now, lots of teachers are reporting significant speed issues using the interface itself, not necessarily loading pages, but...
View Article[SIMS] Aspects: Marks Integer to Decimal
Hi guys I have just set up LOADS of aspects, then templates full of formulas etc - which feature many aspects as integers. I've just been told they need to be decimal (despite my confirming this before...
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