New Research Project: Education Supporting Systems
I am starting the next phase of my research project into transparancy in education data systems, following on from the success of the MIS Challenge....
View Article[SIMS] Document retention within SIMS
This question is directed at Phil from Capita I think. What document retention policies and processes are in place within SIMS? eg. You attach a...
View Article[SIMS] Allocate houses mid-year
We'd like to allocate students to houses on SIMs, but can't see an obvious way of doing that other than going into individual children's records. Is...
View Article[SIMS] Attendance letter mailmerge template being stored in Linked Documents
Hi, Our Attendance Office has today noticed a problem with the low attendance letters she generates in Sims and sends to parents. More...
View ArticleHow to delete former UPN
Hi Pretty new to SIMS so please forgive my ignorance and newb question. A student has a former UPN which is the same as the UPN which another...
View Article[SIMS] Creating new marksheets every year?
When I started my job (my first SIMS role), my predecessor showed me how to clone templates at the end of each academic year and save them as a new...
View Article[SIMS] Student Photograph Rotating
Hi all, We seem to be having an issue in SIMS with one specific student. Our photographs are taken at the start of Y7 and then again in Y9....
View Article[SIMS] Extra Curricular Activities or Clubs
Hi guys - I posted this earlier but I think it went in the wrong forum - wondering if anyone could help... We are currently looking to switch our...
View Article[SIMS] Autumn 2014 Census - Post 16 Results and Outcomes - are they needed?
Hi, Silly question - but I have had conflicting information about this. We still haven't sent our census in yet - and we are only generally...
View Article[SIMS] Room Swaps Any Quick Way?
We have a student whose needs require about 9 lessons spread out over a week to be rescheduled for two months. Is there any quick way of changing the...
View Article[SIMS] Bulk delete results on SIMS
Hello, Sorry if this is an easy question, I am not that proficient with SIMS. We have entered a lot of results in one column (let's say...
View ArticleDinner Money 7
I'm trying to install dinner money 7 but it fails every time. I was told to use DB upgrade to install it. It doesn't matter if I use my account or...
View Article[SIMS] Medical Information - How do you store yours?
Hi, I am looking to improve the way we store medical information in SIMS. There are 3 main sections. This is what I'm thinking: *Medical Events*...
View ArticleCapita Sims - SIMS Technical Roadmap 2014
Hi We are currently running Windows 2008 Vanilla and Sql 2008.. Do we know how long Sims will continue to support them? Im getting mixed...
View ArticleAdvanced Learning offering Progresso trial software
Calling all data junkies! We've been considering a new solution for a while, and have been kicking the ball about considering all the usual stuff...
View Article[SIMS] Sims Marksheets Rounding Issue
I don't personally deal with the SIMS system, I'm helping a colleague however we're setting the grades with a number on the marksheet so that it will...
View ArticleSIMS newsimsdatabase
Hi all, I'm just setting up SIMS on a private computer so that I can get use to some features. And when I log into the Attach Database, I type in my...
View ArticleSIMS Reports - Training
Ive been asked to provide staff with training on how to use SIMS Reporting....... normally not a problem but I'm doing the training this Wednesday...
View ArticleSIMS Report Non-Teaching Periods (e.g PPA)
Hi, Anyone know where on earth in SIMS Report Design you can find the field/area/focus that stores non-teaching periods (e.g PPA, DUTYs etc...)? ...
View Article[SIMS] Autumn census error messages
Hi Is anyone able to point me in the right direction for this census error? I'm pretty new to SIMS so I'm sure it'll be very easy for you. ...
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