SIMS Training Courses

Training available on request.

Course overview

SIMS Discover helps you drill down into your data so you can monitor at risk groups, assess intervention strategies and see the whole picture of your school.  Learn how you can use it to its full potential.

For the Assessment functionality with Discover please see our other courses.

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Learning outcomes

• Familiarise yourself with the Discover interface

• Learn how to create your own graphs and filter them

• Learn how to set up Discover Groups for use in SIMS

• Learn how to use the configuration utility

Course Overview

Intended to help school staff create an Options Plan, offer course selections to students online and create an Options solution to meet the student's subject choices.

What you will learn

· How to define a new Options Plan

· How to design Course Offer Lists for student choices

· How to manage access to the Options Plan by students/parents to collect student choices

· How to analyse and amend student choices

· How to create classes and place them into a blocking structure

· How to build an Options Solution to meet students’ choices and school requirements

· How to use reporting functionality to best use

· How to administer the export to SIMS and subsequently Nova T6.

Aimed at Timetablers and Data Managers with a basic understanding of their schools’ Options process and its relationship to the Timetable and Academic Manager.

Intended to help refresh school staff knowledge of the SIMS Lesson module and reports.

What you will learn: -

· How to check for Missing Marks

· How to Edit Marks

· How to Deal with Unexplained Absences

· How to Enter a Code Over a Date Range

· How to Enter a Weekly Attendance Pattern

. How to Enter an Exceptional Circumstance

· How to use Attendance Reports

Aimed at Attendance officers and staff monitoring pupil’s attendance.