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Posted on April 16, 2019 by Laura Bagnall in SIMS.
SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course coming this month!
Our upcoming SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course is a rewarding course for all staff responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the school timetable.
Delivered by Cara Patching, by the end of this course you will have learnt how to:
- Change the room and teacher of a timetabled class
- Add additional staff onto classes, as is the case with support
- Carousel teachers and/or rooms around classes in a block
- Deal with the arrival of new staff
- Maintain the integrity of data between T6 and SIMS .net (SQL)
- Use non-class codes
Our next course date is Monday 29th April 2019 10am – 4pm at Swiss Cottage School in Camden, London.
Places are limited so schools are advised to book now
To reserve a space on this course or if you require any further information, please see below:
Contact our team → See venue information → Course prices and current offers →
You might also be interested in:
SIMS Health Checks
In addition to our SIMS Training Courses, we can provide a comprehensive SIMS Health Check to evaluate and ensure SIMS is used effectively and efficiently at your school.
Find out more → Contact us →
SIMS Remote Support
Are your staff too busy? Do you have key staff off? Have you got the SIMS expertise? We can help! Gain peace of mind that your statutory returns and tasks are taken care of by the SBS team.
Find out more → Contact us →
Data Manager Role
For schools that find themselves in need of a Data Manager our experienced MIS team is on hand to provide emergency cover or be deployed as part of a long term school improvement strategy.
Find out more → Contact us →
Posted on April 5, 2019 by MIS Service Desk in SIMS.
Update: CTF Issue with SIMS Spring Release (7.186)
Capita have now given us further information on the CTF issue with the SIMS Spring Release (7.186).
See our blog to find out more.
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Posted on April 4, 2019 by MIS Service Desk in SIMS.
CTF issue with SIMS Spring Release (7.186)
Capita have informed us that there could be a CTF issue in the Spring Release (7.186) of SIMS.net.
See our blog to find out more.
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Posted on March 25, 2019 by MIS Service Desk in SIMS.
Online Free School Meals (OFSM)
In this age of Universal Infant Free School Meals, and importance of the Pupil Premium funding, it’s important that all eligible pupils are signed up.
See our blog to find out more.
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Posted on March 21, 2019 by Laura Bagnall in SIMS.
SIMS Training Courses from SBS in April
What’s coming up in April? Take a look at April’s SIMS Training Courses to see if anything catches your eye!
See our blog to find out more.
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Posted on March 19, 2019 by Laura Bagnall in SIMS.
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools
These sessions are a great way of networking and being able to speak to other schools to see how they deal with their daily challenges.
See our blog to find out more.
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Posted on March 18, 2019 by MIS Service Desk in SIMS.
Your SIMS Spring 2019 Release
Your SIMS Spring 2019 release is going to be available from Friday 22nd March.
See our blog to find out more.
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Posted on March 11, 2019 by MIS Service Desk in SIMS.
New NJC Pay Scales
In April 2019 the NJC Pay Scales are changing and will need to be updated in your SIMS system.
See our blog to find out more.
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Posted on March 6, 2019 by MIS Service Desk in SIMS.
SIMS Agora has a new name… SIMS Pay
Capita have decided that they are changing the name of their payment system from SIMS Agora to SIMS Pay.
This is to help them align their service with expectations so that they can “equip schools with delivering cutting edge payment technology to their parents and employees”.
Please see our recent blog for further information.
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Posted on March 5, 2019 by MIS Service Desk in SIMS.
National Insurance Rates 2019/2020 for SIMS .net
As usual, we’ll be applying this patch to all our schools where we apply your upgrade. This will be applied at the same time as your Spring Update.
Please see our recent blog for further information on how we can assist you with this update.
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