This course introduces users to the main procedures for entering and maintaining accurate pupil / student data within the SIMS database.
Course Overview:
SIMS is a School's Information Management system for recording / management of pupil and staff data.
It can record key data on individual attendance, progress, behaviour, achievements and special educational needs. This information is displayed on a single screen, with quick links to all pupil / student information.
Target Audience:
New school office users of SIMS with responsibility for the input and maintenance of basic pupil / student data. The course is aimed at staff with little or no knowledge of SIMS.
Key Features:
A variety of topics related to pupil / student data are covered including:
The course covers the maintenance and management of staff personal, professional and contractual data. The Personnel Module is one of the key core modules in SIMS .net. It provides basic personnel data to support external returns but it also provides the basis for issuing contracts for staff and maintaining staff development records.
Maintaining accurate data is essential for accurate budget planning and monitoring
New Admin Officers with responsibility for maintaining staff records. The course is aimed at staff with little or no knowledge of Personnel procedures.
FMS provides a comprehensive at-a-glance picture of your school's finances and resources to help your team to manage their day-to-day financial tasks. Administrative staff can handle payments quickly and efficiently, heads of departments can manage their budgets and bursars can track spending and staff costs against commitments.
School Finance staff new to FMS
This course provides an introduction to the School Finance module for new staff.
Topics covered include:
SIMS Attendance enables you to meet the school's day to day statutory attendance monitoring needs.
Some knowledge of SIMS .net useful but not essential
Looking at all the Attendance features including:
This course introduces users to the reporting facility in SIMS.
There are numerous reports provided within the software to allow users to extract useful information from the pupil / student database in a variety of formats. Users are also able to design their own reports to extract data specific to their requirements.
Delegates must be familiar with basic usage of SIMS.
The course will cover:
School Finance staff with prior knowledge of the basics of FMS
This course provides more in-depth training to the School Finance module for staff already familiar with FMS
Topics covered include: -
The course follows on from the Introduction to SIMS Reporting course and so assumes that users are able to create basic reports.
This course requires users to have a solid knowledge of reporting up to the level obtained through the Introduction to SIMS Reporting course. It assumes that users are able to create basic reports and have used SIMS Analysis and other output types from SIMS.
The course will equip users with a clear understanding of how reports are produced in SIMS and in particular be able to:
The course follows on from Personnel 7 - Part 1 and demonstrates how to produce reports based on the data entered onto staff records to support pay related and absence data management.
Target Audience: New Admin Officers with responsibility for maintaining staff records. The course is aimed at staff with little or no knowledge of Personnel procedures.
Key Features: The Personnel Module is one of the key core modules in SIMS .net. Reporting in Personnel provides the opportunity to check and maintain the information on staff records ensuring records comply with School Workforce Census requirements.
Following on from the SIMS Pupil Administration Essentials course this session will look at more detailed pupil / student data.
It can record key data on individual attendance, progress, behaviour, achievements and special educational needs. This information is displayed on a single screen, with quick links to all the pupil / student information.
School Admin Assistants responsible for the input and maintenance of basic pupil / student data
This presentation outlines the routine for producing the school workforce census via a step by step demonstration.
Target Audience: School staff with responsibility for producing the School Workforce Census return.
The school workforce census is a statutory data collection that takes place each autumn. The census collects data on all teaching and support staff in regular employment.
The school workforce census is required to be submitted for staff working in:
The course provides a complete overview of the SIMS Behaviour Management area which a school can use to record, monitor and manage pupil behaviour and achievements, including detentions and the use of report cards.
Target Audience: Familiarity with the pupil data held in SIMS will be helpful but it is more important that you have a good knowledge of the way behaviour and achievements are currently recorded, reported and analysed in your school and your school’s future ambitions in this area.
Key Features: Routines covered in the course include: