Explore the potential of SIMS Assessment including the essential skills needed to build and implement an assessment system. Learn how the software can be used to create a customised tracking system.

This course covers how to create reports on individual pupils attainment for parents and other stakeholders. The layout of the reports can be fully configured for the school needs from simple tables to fuller end of year reports.

Attendance provides schools with an integrated classroom and administration tool to monitor students’ attendance and behaviour.
The Attendance module in a Primary school is used to record statutory attendance of AM and PM sessions.
Using SIMS Attendance can help schools reduce truancy and improve safeguarding, while monitoring behaviour trends in the classroom, facilitating early intervention where necessary.

This course has been designed to enable you to make the most of the valuable management information that has been collected as part of routine attendance registration. The course concentrates on the data that can be used to monitor and ultimately improve pupil attendance and achievement. This assumes that if a pupil is not attending school they will be at a considerable disadvantage.

A bulk update routine is provided to add or update certain types of data for selected groups of pupils. The purpose of these routines is to reduce the time it takes to enter the data required. These routine should be used with care.

Part of the SIMS Office User course suite.

This course explores how the Course Management functionality of SIMS links the areas of Nova-T, Academic Management and Examinations Organiser.

This course does not include Post 16 functionality, if this is required, please also book onto the PLA-05-05 Post-16 Learning Aims.

Understand how to set up, customise and implement Cover to manage all aspects of classroom staff absence and room unavailability. Explore the dynamic links of the module to other areas of SIMS. Review the classroom staff absence and cover statistics. Analyse the impact of absent classroom staff on students.

SIMS Discover is an analysis tool that takes data from SIMS and presents it as a series of predefined graphs. These graphs can then be manipulated and combined to create additional graphs.

This course details how SIMS Examinations Organiser can be used to manage domestic (internal/mock/PPE) examinations. The purpose of a domestic exam season in Examinations Organiser is to extend the functionality available for public exams to domestic exams.
This course covers the initial planning and preparation for these exams, creating basedata, managing candidates, making entries and arranging seating. It also explores links to SIMS Assessment.

Examinations Organiser supports all aspects of managing external examinations. This course covers reviewing the setup of the software, importing and structuring basedata, creating and submitting files for entries, coursework marks, managing and seating candidates.