[SIMS] Assessment - Starting from scratch
I have been at this school for about 9 months now and 3 months ago we got a new Head who has shaken things up (for the better) in the assessment...
View Article[SIMS] SIMS Summer Release hell...
Morning folks.. How is everyone else finding the Summer release? We were hoping to get organised ready for Exams Results Days, but seem to be...
View Article[SIMS] New Students in Sim to AD
Hi Guys, I have this years new students which are currently in Sims.net and wanted to know if there is an easy way for me to get them into AD ( ...
View ArticleSetting up inbound rule and ports on the Win 2012 firewall for SIMS document...
Hi I have finished migrating the SIMS database to new SQL 2012.I am in a process of setting up the document server .The document server is set to...
View Article[SIMS] Deleting student record for ex-pupil who is now a teacher
We've recently gone through an exercise of deleting students who left several years ago and have managed to get rid of a lot of extraneous records....
View Article[SIMS] Printing Student Photos Without Names Below
Morning all, Our new Principal has asked for some playing cards with students pictures on them for the Inset day. I've printed off the Current...
View ArticleAdding groups to existing SIMS users (x148)
Hi, I need to go through all our hosted schools and add a group to our EWO's. As there are something in the region of 148 schools hosted here, I...
View ArticleAttaching legacy FMS database to SQL2012 instance
Morning All, We have an old legacy FMS database which we've just dbattach'd from our old SQL2008 server and are attempting to now attach it to a...
View Article[SIMS] FMS Summer 2014 (6.158.305)
I am trying to deploy FMS Summer 2014 (6.158.305) on SOLUS3 I have deployed SIMS Summer 2014 with SOLUS 3 and that has been sent out to a 256...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL best practices 101
I was recently at a Microsoft SQL user group which got me thing about schools and how we tackle training. We often are driven by the suppliers when...
View Article[SIMS] Changing default timetable view on teacher profiles
This year we've moved to a timetable consisting of 30 minute double periods, so this takes up more space on the timetable meaning it doesn't fit on...
View Article[SIMS] NOVAT6 - Timetable
Hi everybody! So the person who normally does the timetable is off long term. We outsourced the timetabling to someone else who basically did a...
View Article[SIMS] Server Migration - SOLUS 3 Agents not communicating with new server
Good morning all, Last week I migrated my SIMS and FMS databases to a new server with a new name. Everything was working fine until I needed to...
View Article[SIMS] Renaming SEN
Hi, I've got no idea if this can even be done, nevermind how, but our LA have renamed SEN to SEND - and I'm wondering if there's a way to do this...
View Article[SIMS] SOLUS 3 and Office 365
Email settings in Solus 3 seem rather limited - can't use any secure SMTP server, therefore can't use O365 to send emails? Is there something I'm...
View ArticleIEP Writer (v3) silent install
Hi all, not sure if this is in the correct forum but I am trying to do a silent install of IEP Writer version 3 (to push out using MDT) cannot get...
View Article[SIMS] Lesson Plan??
Hi guys, The only tabs staff have available on the register page at our school are the 'Take Register' and any other marksheets that are assigned to...
View Article[SIMS] Pastoral intervention database
Does anyone know of an intervention database for pastoral interventions that writes back and forth to SIMs? I have been asked to look into creating...
View ArticleGreetings from Room Booking System
Hello EduGeeks! We're taking over sponsorship of the MIS forum from our friends at Schoolcomms. We provide the Room Booking System...
View ArticleBulk update staff email addresses
Hi, I think I already know the answer but I thought I'd ask just in case someone has done this.... Our school email address (the domain part) has...
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