SIMS Courses
If a course is fully booked or there is not a suitable date you will be put on a waiting list for the next available date.
Don't forget we offer customised commission work for your establishment.
MIDAS Training videos - Now Live!
Our new online training content is now live and available to all MIDAS subscribers!
Accessible via the Training Videos button on bit.ly/midasdocumentation, all staff in school now have access to video tutorials that can be accessed at a time to suit them. This new format for free training gives you the opportunity to watch particular videos as many times as necessary, skip videos you don’t need assistance with or that aren’t relevant to your role, revisit content if you haven’t covered it for a while, and have more control over the training you need.
School Pupil Census Workshop
9th January 2025
​Venue: Online
​Time: 10 - 12.30pm
MIDAS subscribers: £FREE
​Non MIDAS subscribers £50
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The workshop will be presented online, via Microsoft Teams and will run for about 2 to 2 and a half hours long. 10 - 12.30pm
The format will include a presentation detailing all statutory data requirements for a school census and will include a demonstration of how to create and manage a return in SIMS.
Post 16 Learning Aims will not be covered.
This workshop is free to schools that subscribe to the MIDAS Service.
Advanced Reporting
21st January 2025
​Venue: Online
​Time: 9.30 - 3.30pm
MIDAS subscribers: £116
​Non MIDAS subscribers £145
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Course overview
This course covers all aspects of creating and editing more complex reports.
Each stage of the reporting process is covered with particular focus on report templates which will facilitate outputs such as mail merge and photograph reports.
You should have either attended the “Reporting: Introduction” course or have a working knowledge of SIMS reporting techniques.
Learning outcomes
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Design your own templates to meet the needs of your school
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Produce reports for classes, groups and individuals
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Construct complex filters for in depth data analysis
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Create mail merge reports for letters and labels
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Design individual and group photo reports
Personnel New Users
22nd January 2025
​Venue: Online
​Time: 9.30 - 3.30pm
MIDAS subscribers: £116
​Non MIDAS subscribers £145
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Delegates attend both sessions.
Course overview
This course covers the maintenance and management of staff personal, professional and contractual data.
Delegates are shown how to deal with new appointments and leavers, promotions and other data adjustments with a focus on data collected by the school workforce census, as well as links to the SIMS Finance module.
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Learning outcomes​
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Be able to effectively manage and maintain Personnel 7
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Be familiar with the range of personnel related data which can be held in SIMS
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Be able to add new and edit existing personnel records
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Be able to maintain pay and contract related data
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Be able to maintain personnel data to support statutory returns including school workforce census
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Be able to effectively manage and maintain Personnel 7
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Know how to record training and absences for staff
Personnel Reporting
27th January 2025
​Venue: Online
​Time: 9.30 - 3.30pm
MIDAS subscribers: £116
​Non MIDAS subscribers £145
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Course overview
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Explore the production of existing reports and design of custom reports to support the analysis of personnel data.
Learning outcomes
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Use and edit existing reports
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Design new reports
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Create letters and labels using the mail-merge feature
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Use the analysis tool to interpret data
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Management of reports
Assessment Manager - Essential Skills for Secondary Schools
29th January 2025
Time: 9.30 - 3.30pm
MIDAS subscribers: £116
​Non MIDAS subscribers £145
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Course overview
Raising attainment across your school is key and SIMS Assessment is an efficient way of keeping track of all your students progress. Discover the potential of SIMS Assessment and how the software can be used to create customised tracking system to suit your school.
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Learning outcomes
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Creating grades and aspects
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Creating and using result sets
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Creating marksheets
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Adding formulae Measure progress against target Term on term, year on year progress
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Creating individual reports
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Utilising system utilities
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Bulk result/marksheet export
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Bulk result/marksheet import
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Bulk result change
Options Online
3rd February 2025
​Venue: Online
​Time: 10 - 12.30pm
MIDAS subscribers: £116
​Non MIDAS subscribers £145
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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.
Attendance Refresher
24th February 2025
​Venue: Online
​Time: 9.30 - 12.30pm
MIDAS subscribers: £116
​Non MIDAS subscribers £145
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​Intended to help refresh school staffs 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.
Discover - Overview - Training available on request
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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
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Familiarise yourself with the Discover interface
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Learn how to create your own graphs and filter them
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Learn how to set up Discover Groups for use in SIMS
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Learn how to use the configuration utility