School Management
 Basic Information
 School Management Committee
 Staff Entitlement
 Class Structure
 School Document
School Details
 Premises & Sub-Premises
 Classroom Designation
 School Facilities
School Facilities
 Basic Information
 Class-Based Subject
 Class Subject Full List
 Class Timetable
 Class Document
Class Details
 Basic Information
 Sub-Group
 Class Attached
Group for Cross-Class Subject (Hint 1)
Subject Group (Hint 2)
 Basic Information
 Subject
 Class Attached
School Calendar
 Basic Setup
 Term Information
 Holiday
 Event
Setup
Calendar
 Year
 Month
 Week
Data Capture
 Basic Information
 Class-Based Subject
 Class Subject Full List
Confirm School Information
Class Details
Group for Cross-Class
Planned Subject MOI
Subject
Subject Group
Report
Plan New School Year *
Data Communication File
(Appendix)
 Basic Information
 Sub-Group
 Class Attached
 Basic Information
 Subject
 Class Attached
 Plan New School Year
 Reset Plan of New School Year
 Migrate to New School Year
Create Past School Year
Announcement
School Document
Category
Document
Class Document Category
Report
Housekeeping
Data Communication
School data to be mainly captured by “Student”, “Assessment” ,
“Timetabling”, “Attendance” and “Financial Monitoring &
Planning” modules.
 Prepare Outgoing Data
 School Calendar
 Planned Subject MOI
 Class Details
 Class Subject / Time Allocation Table
 Confirmed Outgoing Data
School Facilities
Only non-government schools need to maintain “Premises & Sub-Premises” and “Classroom Designation”
Class Details
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A “Class-Based Subject” can either be “compulsory” or “elective”. Same subject with different MOI will be regarded as different
Electives.
i.e.
History with English as MOI and History with Chinese as MOI are considered as 2 different electives
There are 3 types of subjects: “Class-Based Subjects”, “Cross-Class Subjects” and “Subject Group Subjects”.
All types of subjects attached to a class are regarded as “Class Subjects”
Within a class, a class subject can only belong to one of the subject types.
User can view all class subjects in the “Class Subject Full List”
A hyperlink is provided for user to view the Current “Class Timetable”
School Calendar
School Calendar > Setup > Term Information
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Up to 24 assessments can be set for a class level
School Calendar > Calendar > Month
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“Set Cycle Day” function is provided for schools running on cycle-based
Confirm School Information
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After confirmation of school information, changes to Term Information, Class Basic Information, Class-Based
Subject, Group for Cross-Class Subject and Subject Group are not allowed.
If changes are necessary, user must “Reset School Information”.
Document
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School and Class document categories must be set up before uploading school and class documents to
- School Details > School Document
- Class Details > Class Document
“Housekeeping” function allows user to view or delete class documents of ALL classes
Data Communication
After “Planned Subject MOI” has been sent to CDS, a copy of the data file will be kept at Planned Subject MOI > Data Communication File.
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Hint 1: Group for Cross-Class Subject
Fig. 1
Group for Cross-Class Subject function is designed to cater for a greater
diversity of student learning abilities and allows greater flexibility in curriculum
design.
i.e.
1A
1B
1C
Eng II
Eng III
 School offers a Group for Cross-Class Subject named ‘S.1 English’
for S.1 students from Classes 1A, 1B & 1C.
 The Cross-Class Subject of the Group is ‘English Language’.
 Within the Group, there are 3 sub-groups namely, English I,
English II & English III. The students are assigned to study one of the
sub-groups according to their English Language competency.
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Eng I
S.1 English lessons will then be CONCURRENTLY conducted on a group basis
with students from different classes but having similar abilities in English
Language. (Fig.1)
Fig. 2
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Hint Two: Subject Group
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Subject Group function is designed for use by most secondary schools that provide
level-based elective subjects.
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4A
4B
4C
A number of Subject Groups will be offered for students from different classes of the
same level.
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Each student is allowed to take only one Subject Group and deemed to study all
subjects in the selected group. (Fig. 2)
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HIST
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BIO
ART
GEOG
A/C
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Copy Function
Copy Function is available in Class Basic Information, Class-Based Subject, Group for Cross-Class Subject, Subject Group and Term
Information to minimize data entry.
* PLAN NEW SCHOOL YEAR
APPENDIX
School
Management
Plan New School Year
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This function performs a
For the case of
secondary school,
Plan New School Year
data capture of school info
users may select to
profile, NAA profile, SAT profile
copy the profile of
and Assess’t Profile from
 This is an enhanced
current SAMS or
current year to next year.
copy the profile
function that is to replace
Users may start planning and
from Planned
the Inter-Year Process
maintain student promotion
Subject MOI
Application of SAMS 4.3.
exercise based on the copied
function.
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Before starting
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Class details and
information in new school year.
the task, profile of
ASR Module must
be confirmed.
also copied the
next school year
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profile of a
Profiles of NAA,
particular module
Student Attendance
and Award &
across year.
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Punishment will also
be
Having started the
function, users may
will be duplicated to
School Management
Module and profile of
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assessment profile
duplicated.
Year concept is
adopted by most of
the module.
Change of code
Reset Plan of New
School Year
This function will only be
applied when users find that
information of next school year
is not necessary
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Once the function is
triggered, all planned
information of next school
year will be removed.
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table become
Migrate to New
possible.
School Year
This function serves as a system
migration tool to update the default school
year from current year to next year.
it is triggered, system will roll over to new
school year and view the new year to be
current year.
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be restored into the data data server.
records are found in next
exercise will not be
carried out.
Once it rolls over, there is no way
back unless an older data table will
When student attainment
school year, the Reset
Once
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Before system will roll over to new
school year, it will performs checking
on students’ attainment record to
make sure that all students are
handled properly.