SIMS MATTERS
Autumn 2010 Hampshire IT Schools 11
The SIMS Documentation Centre is a really useful resource to find information about new and existing features in SIMS. It can be accessed by clicking the Documentation button on the SIMS home page; once launched it provides access to handbooks, mini guides, help sheets and quick reference sheets, together with the reporting catalogue and yearbook. Online help can be accessed by pressing F1 or clicking the relevant Help button.
New academic reporting and timetable printing The SIMS Spring Upgrade 2010 brought a new academic reporting area with useful features for primary school pupil and registration lists and secondary school Nova replacements: • Go to Reports | Student/Pupil List • Select from one of the following options: › General Student List › Class List [Secondary Schools only] › Registration Group List For secondary schools, this replicates and enhances some of the Nova T4 routines. Also, the Student Analysis routines have been reproduced by selecting Reports | Student Analysis Report. The Autumn 2010 release includes functionality to view and print a wide variety of timetables from within SIMS. Advanced formatting options are also available. Timetables can now be produced for staff, student, rooms and non-class codes, plus a range of timetables including Free Staff and Subjects. Those familiar with Nova T4 will no doubt be pleased with the many similarities between the old and the new versions and will see a considerable number of additions. The ability for individual users to view the data in particular fields is determined by
their user permissions as defined in System Manager. Nova T4 is due to be switched off shortly, so you should consider moving to SIMS Reporting as soon as possible.
htt p:/ /i ntranet. hant s . gov. u k/i c t i n s c h o o l s | I T H e lp D e sk 0 1 9 6 2 8 4 7 0 0 7 | e dic th e lp @h a n t s. gov. uk