SIMS User Forum – Autumn 2010
Welcome
Presenting
• Ralph Gardner
SIMS Support Manager
• Rose Cave
SIMS Support Officer
• Nick Finnemore
Capita Senior Product Manager
Housekeeping
Agenda
1. Latest SIMS News – Nick Finnemore &
Ralph Gardner
2. SIMS InTouch – Nick Finnemore
Refreshment and Comfort Break
3. SIMS Discover – Nick Finnemore
4. SIMS Hints and Tips – Rose Cave
SIMS .net Core
Areas to be Covered
• Autumn 2010 Developments:
– Behaviour Reviews
– Bullying Sub-Types
• Spring 2011 Developments:
– Home Page Quick Search
– Other Spring 2011 Changes
– DfE Reviews
– Alternative Curriculum
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Adding a Behaviour
• New fields for recording the member of staff recording
behaviour incident details and the member of staff actioning
sanctions.
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Behaviour Follow-up
• New option to follow up a
behaviour incident, either
for multiple students or an
individual.
• One or more students can
be selected for following up
the incident.
• Log kept of the follow up
process.
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Add a Behaviour Review
• Ability to set up a Review
Meeting for an individual
student to follow up a
behaviour incident.
• Includes ability to record
comments on actions
agreed by parents,
students and senior staff.
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Review Summary
• Review details are recorded and summarised
• A summary of all reviews is added to the individual student’s
conduct details.
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Set Bullying Types
• When adding a behaviour incident, specific types of bullying
may be recorded against the generic behaviour ‘bullying’.
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Add Type of Bullying
• Under Tools | Setups | Behaviour Type, a behaviour type
can be designated as a ‘Bullying Type’.
• Once a bullying type has been set, adding a behaviour
incident of bullying activates the Type of Bullying lookup
list.
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Set Bullying Types
• The Bullying Type check box activates the Bullying Type
lookup.
• Located under Student Lookups, Data Area: Type of Bullying
Autumn 2010 – Behaviour
Other Changes
• Set points to zero for victims and witnesses of a bullying
incident
• Include date search option when searching for incidents
• Updated Behaviour Management reporting dictionary for
enhanced reporting
– Behaviour and Achievements can be included in the
same report
– Date reporting is enhanced to enable more flexible
reporting, e.g. for achievements, the highest achiever
of the week
• Existing Pre-defined reports re-written using new
dictionaries
Spring 2011- Polishing
Spring 2011- Polishing
Spring 2011- Polishing
• Home Page Detentions panel
• Pupil Teacher View to show Date of Birth
• Inactive lookups do not populate Behaviour Incidents
when incident added via Take Register.
• Electronic and printed Report Cards to display ticks
when a student has achieved the targets set.
DfE Reviews
• SEF
– Current SEF removed from Sept 2011
– New school inspection framework 2011
• SEN
– Ofsted report 14/9/2010
– Green paper to be published Autumn 2010
• CRB Checks (Recently announced)
– Full Review of CRB Scheme expected early 2011
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Pupils can be scheduled into alternate lessons.
To allow schools to produce individualised
timetables for each pupil.
Other areas of SIMS to be aware of the change.
This is not Extra Curricula...
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Create Alternate groups in Nova
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
View Lesson shows AC Activities
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
New ‘Add Activity, in Student Curriculum
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
New ‘Add Activity’ in Student Curriculum -Timetable
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
AC Activity will show in Student Curriculum Timetable
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Students Timetable will show AC activities
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Homepage Timeline will show AC activities
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Lesson Monitor aware of AC activities
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Cover 7 will show AC activities
AC Activities can be Suspended if required.
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Assessment and Analysis will show AC activities
Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum
Profiles will show AC activities
Technical Update
Module Support Dates
Module
Date Support Ends
Options 5.31
Autumn 2010
NovaT-4 Reporting
(Student class lists and
Timetable Printing)
Spring 2011
Technical Update
Supported Operating Systems (Autumn Release)
• Server
• 64 Bit only
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• 64 and 32 bit
• Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Windows Server 2008
• Other Software
• .NET framework 2.0 SP1
• PX, SOLUS3, InTouch and SLG requires 3.5 SP1
Technical Update
Supported Operating Systems (Autumn Release)
• Workstation
• 32 Bit
• Windows Vista Business SP1
• Windows XP Pro SP3
• Windows 7
• 64 Bit
• Windows 7 (Not Nova-T4 or Legacy Timetable Printing)
• Other Software
• .NET framework 2.0 SP1 minimum
•
•
SOLUS3 will install 3.5 SP1
.NET 3.5SP1 needed for InTouch
• Microsoft Office 2003 / 2007 (32 Bit Only)
Technical Update
Spring 2011
• Technical release requiring admin rights on the server
• Upgrade SIMS & FMS SQL Server as System Administrator
• .NET framework 4.0 on SIMS workstations
• Required for SIMS Discover
• SOLUS3 can be used to install this
• Or get it from Microsoft
• Currently being evaluated
• SQL Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Office 2010