Capita One National User Group 2014
SIMS Roadmap
Jo Perry and Kirsty Dixon – SIMS Account Managers
Agenda
SIMS Summer Release
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Statutory Returns
SLG
Performance Suite
Personnel and SEN
Exams
School Census Autumn 2014
DfE Additions to the Pupil Characteristics Module in
the Return File
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School Lunch Taken on Reference Date
Post 16 Planned learning hours
Post 16 Planned learning hours previous year
Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours
Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours
previous year
• Post 16 Full-time employment indicator (on roll pupils only) on
Reference Date
School Census Autumn 2014 Overview
DfE Addition to the Learning Aims Module in the
Return File
• Post 16 Core Aim(s)
SIMS Learning Gateway
SLG Summer Release
Change requests:
• Homework - now no extra charge for SLG users.
• Ability to remove handed in date
• Add individual extensions to homework tasks
• Improvements to mobile views
SLG Summer Release
Change requests:
• Data Collection Sheet:
• Parental responsibility
Summer - Enhance two way Communication
Alerts
• SIMS Homepage SLG widget
• How many parents have completed DCS
• How many parents have read published reports
• Report for who has not - reporting dictionary
SIMS Homepage SLG Alerts
SLG Summer Release
Change requests:
• Increase number of aspects and result sets to 10 in
Assessment Graphs
SIMS InTouch materials
• “How To” videos
• Set up - homepage and permissions
• How to customise templates
• Role specific - Attendance, Exams, Timetable
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Documentation
• Technical
• Data flow
SIMS InTouch Summer/Autumn
• Removal of VPN
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Reduce cases and remove fail point
Reduce lead time for install
No reconnection charge
Make InTouch easier to install and support
SIMS Performance Suite
Improved Highlighting of Columns & Rows in a Marksheet
Assessment Marksheet Order Rows
• Group Rows by Cell Colour
Assessment Marksheet Hide / Show columns
• Conceal / Reveal selected columns
Ability to delete imported analysis
• Ability to delete imported analysis
Assessment Aspect Swapping
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Speed up resource creation by swapping like-for-like aspects when cloning
Assessment Mapping Facility
• Mapping Aspects
Assessment Mapping Facility
• Mapping Result sets
Assessment Mapping Facility
• Mapping Grade sets
SIMS Discover Group Filtering
• Allow Dynamic Groups to be used for Filtering
SIMS Discover New Assessment Graphs
Assessment stacked bar graph for Grade Distribution
• Multiple Aspect
• Multiple Result Set
SIMS Discover More Copy to Clipboard
• Add Copy/export from Pop Up
• Add Copy to reverse of graph
Personnel and SEN
Personnel
Changes in the Summer release
• Ability to update staff salaries by an amount or by a percentage from
the Salary Update Screen
• Support for salary ranges using B2BP
Personnel
Changes in the Summer release
• New export to Excel functionality for Salary related
Personnel Reports
SEN
Changes in the Summer release:
All:
• Rearrangement of the selectors at the top
England only:
• New SEN Statuses
• E - Education Health & Care Plan to take over from
Statements
• K - SEN Support to take over from School Action and School
Action Plus
SEN
• Change in SEN Need type
• BESD - Behavoural, Emotional and Social Difficulties will be
made inactive
• SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health will be added
• NSA - SEN Support but no specialist assessment of type of
need will be added
• Ability to record if a child has an application for an Education,
Health and Care Plan (EHCP) in process
• Option to turn on and off Additional Support Fields
SIMS Exams
SIMS Exams
• Performance tables updated
• Early Entry rule applied
• Discounting rules updated
• Improved Student Filter
KS4 Summary Reports
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Cohort Information - 3 measures
Progress Measures - 4 measures
GCSE & Equivalent Achievements - 5 measures
English Baccalaureate - 3 measures
English Baccalaureate Subjects - 10 measures
The Basics - 3 measures
Averages - 5 measures
KS5 Summary Reports
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Cohort Information - 3 measures
A levels - 7 measures
A level and other academic qualifications - 5 measures
Vocational qualifications - 5 measures