SIMS User Forum – Autumn 2010 Welcome

1. SIMS User Forum – Autumn 2010Welcome

2. Presenting • Ralph GardnerSIMS Support Manager • Rose CaveSIMS Support Officer • Nick FinnemoreCapita Senior Product Manager

3. Housekeeping

4. Agenda 1. Latest SIMS News – Nick Finnemore & Ralph Gardner2. SIMS InTouch – Nick Finnemore Refreshment and Comfort Break 3. SIMS Discover – Nick Finnemore 4. SIMS Hints and Tips – Rose Cave

5. SIMS .net Core Areas to be Covered • Autumn 2010 Developments: • BehaviourReviews • Bullying Sub-Types • Spring 2011 Developments: • Home Page Quick Search • Other Spring 2011 Changes • DfEReviews • Alternative Curriculum

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Autumn 2010 – Behaviour Set Bullying Types • When adding a behaviour incident, specific types of bullying may be recorded against the generic behaviour ‘bullying’.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. Spring 2011- Polishing

15. Spring 2011- Polishing

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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...

19. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum Create Alternate groups in Nova

20. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum View Lesson shows AC Activities

21. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum New ‘Add Activity, in Student Curriculum

22. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum New ‘Add Activity’ in Student Curriculum -Timetable

23. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum AC Activity will show in Student Curriculum - Timetable

24. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum Students Timetable will show AC activities

25. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum Homepage Timeline will show AC activities

26. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum Lesson Monitor aware of AC activities

27. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum Cover 7 will show AC activities AC Activities can be Suspended if required.

28. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum Assessment and Analysis will show AC activities

29. Spring 2011 - Alternative Curriculum Profiles will show AC activities

30. Technical Update Module Support Dates

31. 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

32. 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)

33. 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