This half day course explores academic arrangements for the school year, including the assignment of students to classes and producing student timetables. This academic course complements the pastoral course. Before the new school year commences, both the academic and pastoral process must be completed in SIMS.

This half day course explores the pastoral arrangements for the new academic year including the new student intake, student leavers and associated procedures. This pastoral course complements the academic course. Before the new school year commences, both the academic and pastoral process must be completed in SIMS.

Prior to a successful launch of the new SIMS Parent App, it is essential that the information displayed to parents is accurate and timely. This course is designed to help school staff understand what data will be displayed in Parent App, how the admin site works and how the data held in SIMS should be prepared.

Explore the production of high quality, fully customisable reports for parents using the Profiles module.

Delegates are given an understanding of how to make the most effective use of SEND information collected in SIMS.

Attend this demonstration-led course to gain a high-level overview of what modules are available in SIMS and how the effective use of SIMS as a management information system can support the running of a secondary school and contribute to school improvement.

The aim of the Basic User Report Writer course is to allow a SIMS Finance user to write reports on the general ledger.

This course will enable you to create single and multi-year Budget planning based on your budgetary figures, maintain budget values, enquire, review, add or amend budget figures or reverse budget amendments previously made. Extract modelled budget values to be use as the new years original and revised budget in NML.

In this course you will look at the Cash Management in SIMS Finance. This includes all entries made to the Bank Accounts in readiness for Month End Processes.

This course will look at End of Year processes in SIMS Finance. Before doing the Year End all Periods need to be closed. This can be done in sequence as normal at Period end or at the point of doing year end. This course is written with the assumption that Period 12 needs to be closed in all areas before processing Year End.