[SIMS] Staff Info
Hi Folks, With the Spring update, was there a change in which group can see what? Our Receptionist can no longer see phone numbers, next of kin etc. for staff, but her group memberships haven't been...
View Article[SIMS] Sims letter template
Afternoon I am looking for a work around. We have a new letterhead and it's not converting to a .doc nicely and so I'm have trouble setting up my attendance letter templates. Any-one been through this...
View Article[SIMS] Capita Solvency?
Hi folks, What do you make of the recent issues with Capita and solvency? Anyone concerned? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/25/gov_grilled_over_huge_exposure_to_struggling_capita/ I appreciate...
View ArticleSIMS ISSUES
Hey Guys, I have noticed that my *Week view register* has vanished through Focus/Lesson monitor/Edit marks . Does anyone know why this has happened? Or what could be the reason for this. It was all...
View Article[SIMS] Solus3 PKG Files
Is it ok to delete pkg files? I have a number in the following directory tree SIMS\Solus3\Repository\DoNotDeleteThisFolder\... I obviously do not intend to delete the folder, but within that folder...
View Article[SIMS] Guest Reports
Does anyone know how to produce a behaviour management report for a student that is placed as a Guest?
View ArticleSLG provisioning woes for some users
Hey all, I'm having problems with provisioning some users in sims for SLG. It should be that after adding users in the provisioning section in sims, the ADP service creates SLG accounts in AD. The ADP...
View ArticleBromcom Email Limits
Anyone else get the email today about the Bromcom email limits? What a backward step this is. Anyhow - we have an on-prem Exchange server and our MX records point at Google (we use GSuite for Education...
View ArticleHow to design a report that shows a given day's attendance
Hello I'm able to generate a report of *today's* attendance within SIMS, like so: Reports > Attendance > Whole Group Student Reports > Today's Register Report. This creates an XML file that...
View Article[SIMS] Sims client
It's easy to deploy the client , but can I uninstall the client from solus for a remote PC ? Or do I really have to go to each PC and manually do it ?
View Article[SIMS] Anyone got their hands on a live SIMS Primary environment yet?
Hi all, Just wondering if there is anyone out there who has managed to get SIMS Primary live and working in their schools yet. Wasn't it supposed to launch at Easter?
View ArticleBehaviour Watch
Hi Everyone Just after anyones opinion on Behaviour Watch, our SLT are looking in to getting it for staff to report on positive and negative behaviour. Never really heard of it before so would like an...
View ArticleBuilding a test/training SIMS server on Server 2016 and SQL 2016
Hi Im planning to build a server 2016 VM and running SQL 2016 running SIMS for testing and training for the team, hoping to be more self sufficient. At present we are running a 2012r2 / SQL 2012 SIMS...
View Article[SIMS] Cover - Incorrect Timetable Day
Morning. Spot the issue: Attachment 48808 (http://www.edugeek.net/attachments/forums/mis-systems/48808-cover-incorrect-timetable-day-simsissue.jpg) As such the wrong lessons are displaying for Tuesday,...
View Article[SIMS] End of Life Support for SQL Server 2012
The last I heard, Autumn 2018 is the last supported SIMS release to run on SQL Server 2012, then it's SQL Server 2016 only form Spring 2019. Can anyone confirm if this is still the case or has this...
View Article[SIMS] OCR and A2C entries
Has anyone else had OCR denying they've received exam entries recently? Or doing anything daft? Our exams officer discovered OCR hadn't received entries despite the receipt within A2C from OCR servers....
View Article[SIMS] Heads up: Hosted SIMS and May 8, 2018KB4103718 (Monthly Rollup)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4103718/windows-7-update-kb4103718 This appears to break RDP when trying to connect to hosted SIMS. With this update installed we were getting ---Quote--- An...
View Article[BROMCOM] Bromcom new assessment approach
Hi Has anyone switched to Bromcom's new assessment approach? We're considering moving, but would be interested in your feedback. Is it better than the legacy approach - if so how etc etc. Thanks!
View ArticleIssue with Hosted SIMS & Teachers2Parents
Had an issue today where export of parents details to T2P is not working. T2P are working on it and are expecting a patch out on Monday, otherwise it's do a manual update of T2P. Hope this helps anyone...
View Article[SIMS] Sims Permisions Audit
Is there an easy way to get a list of users and what groups they are in in regards to permisions? Trying to find an easy way to do this but sure I am missing something. Cheers
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