This course will provide delegates with the basic skills required to maintain their school timetable data over the academic year.

This 8 x half-day course provides a step by step explanation of how to use Nova-T in the production of the school timetable, from populating the system with core data (rooms, staff, subjects) to submitting the completed timetable to SIMS.

Refresh your timetabling knowledge on how to use Nova T to construct your next timetable.

This course explores procedures for allocating students to classes, including bands and curriculum structures, and maintaining class memberships. The functionality of class list and timetable printing in SIMS, and the curriculum analysis reports, are also covered.

This course is designed to give you an understanding of what an Agent and Agency are within SIMS and how these can be recorded for individual pupils. An agency can be an LA support team, a doctor’s surgery, or any other external organisation. An agent being an individual who has some involvement in a pupil’s development.

The course deals with the creation of alternate activities in Nova-T, the placement of students into them in SIMS and the consequential effect on other areas within SIMS.

Learn how to analyse your students’ assessment data. Explore advanced features including analysis grids, tracking grids, Key Stage 4 analysis resources which enable you to use SIMS Analysis as a tool to improve student attainment.
The KS4 resources in SIMS are based on the latest information supplied by the DfE in relation to Attainment/Progress 8 Measure. Not suitable for Welsh schools – please book on the Assessment - Analysis Wales - Secondary course.

It is recommended that you complete the Assessment - Getting Started course prior to this course.

This course will enable you to analyse students’ assessment results using SIMS Analysis. It takes you through the advanced features of the software to realise the potential of SIMS Assessment and Analysis as a tool to drive improvements in student achievement.
It is recommended that you complete the Assessment - Getting Started course prior to this course.

SIMS can be used to identify gaps in pupils understanding to enable targeted learning to fill in the gaps. Schools can either used predefined National Curriculum statements or create their own.

Programmes of Study allows students to be assessed against curriculum statements. Statements can be arranged by subject/strand or by your termly curriculum plan. The software contains a number of analysis resources to help identify gaps in individual pupils learning and to monitor attainment and progress of key groups.

By default, statements for Early Years Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum (Key Stage 1 to 3) are available. Schools can modify the existing statements and/or create their own curriculum structures.

This course focuses on using Programmes of Study in an English Secondary School and will cover using the resources for Key Stage 3.

Schools not following the national curriculum would have to build their own curriculum. Please email our sales team to ensure this is the right course for you.