SIMS SEN User

The Special Educational Needs facility in SIMS.net is used to support schools in following the SEN Code of Practice. This course provides a detailed overview of the SIMS software for managing the SEN process in school and is designed for SENCOs, senior staff with responsibility for overseeing special needs provision and administrative staff who may be involved in maintaining SEN information.

An understanding of the SEN Code of Practice and how it is managed in school would be useful.

Content

• Navigate through SIMS
• Manage and record details of reviews, events and provisions
• Manage students transition from statemented to EHCP
• Produce the SEN reports provided in SIMS
• Edit look up tables
• Add linked Adults, Agents and Agencies
• Send, receive and view messages relating to SEN students
• Configure their SIMS home page to help monitor SEN processes

Attendance

Half day

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

Standard Reporting

An introduction to the report designing process:

Schools need to be able to respond to requests for information efficiently, including reports, making your school processes more streamlined. This course is intended for SIMS users responsible for responding to requests for information. You should have attended a SIMS Office User course or have a good understanding of SIMS.

Content

• Running pre-defined reports
• Modifying and creating reports to produce lists
• Creating reports to produce mailmerge documents and labels
• The use of different output formats of Word and Excel
• Using analysis output
• Exporting, importing and using the My Favourite Reports panel on the Homepage
• Attendance

Full day

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

Programmes of Study for the New Key Stage Curriculum

This course will help delegates to understand and use the resources that are available in relation to the new Curriculum.

Benefits of attending

To gain a practical insight into the functionality of the new SIMS Assessment software and to understand the available resources relating to the curriculum.

Content

• How to use the latest assessment functionality to record data against the new National Curriculum Programmes of Study
• Use of the resources available to monitor and evaluate progress and analyse data effectively from one screen
• Evaluating progress based on expectations
• Generating reports for parents/carers based on pupil attainment and progress, linked to the Programmes of Study

Attendance
Full day

Discover Assessment User (Secondary)

Learn how to adapt the SIMS Discover user definable components to analyse assessment data effectively.

• Use bar charts, line graphs and Venn diagrams to analyse the data in your SMS database

• Cross-match attendance, behaviour or achievement data against gender, ethnicity or special needs

• Analyse population by Year group and Pupil Premium, House and EAL, Registration group and gender

• Check attendance by gender, monitor attendance throughout the school year.

• Create dynamic groups where the population changes according to the data – eg low attendees

• All facilitated in a drag and drop analysis, making the production of clear charts as easy as 1,2,3.

CONTENT

• The relationship between SIMS Discover and SIMS Assessment
• The SIMS Discover interface
• The SIMS Discover configuration utility
• Defining, calculating and using SIMS Discover aspects
• How to customise the pre-defined SIMS Discover assessment graphs
• How to create new SIMS Discover assessment graphs
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  ATTENDANCE

Full day

SIMS Profiles For New Users

Learn how to produce high quality, fully customisable reports for parents based on the Profiles software, using editable pre-defined comments, free text or a mixture of both.

Benefits of attending

Parents want to be kept in the loop – learn how to produce high quality customisable reports with SIMS Profiles. SIMS Profiles reports can be generated using information in SIMS assessment and can be mailed to parents using the Parent App.

Content

• How to create and import comment banks and link comments to grades in assessment
• How to set up a profiling session and design a school report template
• How to select and amend comments, enter free text, check and preview Profiles
• How to review and approve pupils’ Profile reports Generation and printing of the final profile report
• Linking Profiles to the individual pupil record in linked documents

Duration

Full day or site visit

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

SIMS Discover Assessment User (Primary)

Learn how to adapt the SIMS Discover user definable components to analyse assessment data effectively.

• Use bar charts, line graphs and Venn diagrams to analyse the data in your SMS database

• Cross-match attendance, behaviour or achievement data against gender, ethnicity or special needs

• Analyse population by Year group and Pupil Premium, House and EAL, Registration group and gender

• Check attendance by gender, monitor attendance throughout the school year.

• Create dynamic groups where the population changes according to the data – eg low attendees

• All facilitated in a drag and drop analysis, making the production of clear charts as easy as 1,2,3.

CONTENT

The relationship between SIMS Discover and SIMS Assessment

The SIMS Discover interface
The SIMS Discover configuration utility

Defining, calculating and using SIMS Discover aspects

How to customise the pre-defined SIMS Discover assessment graphs

How to create new SIMS Discover assessment graphs

ATTENDANCE
Full day

Course Booking enquiries
01618831290 or email support@osmis.co.uk

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here;

Lesson Monitor

Lesson Monitor is designed to enable schools, colleges and academies to monitor individual lesson attendance and tackle post registration truancy. The software is simple to use but very powerful, particularly when using the Reports available for analysis of the data, and the links with Behaviour Management.

It is particularly important that Lesson Monitor is implemented with a properly prepared management plan to ensure the software is used to best effect and the school’s objectives in implementation are achieved.

Content

• Introduction to Lesson Monitor
• Initial considerations
• Modes of use
• Customising the module for your use
• Earliest mark
• Data entry
• Lesson register using SIMS.net
• Edit lesson marks
• Deal with unexplained absences/missing marks
• Entering a code over a date range
• Setting up a weekly pattern
• Reports
• Attendance

Full day

Course Booking enquiries
01618831290 or email support@osmis.co.uk

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here;

Attendance

Course Overview

Learn how to use SIMS Attendance to fulfil day-to-day statutory attendance monitoring requirements. Strong attendance has a direct impact on achievement. Learn how to make the best use of SIMS attendance for effective attendance monitoring.

This one day course is designed for staff with responsibility for attendance who have an understanding of attendance procedures and who are familiar with SIMS.

What You Will Learn

• Planning a strategy for managing the statutory attendance process
• Customising sims attendance to meet the particular needs of your school
• Understanding the potential links to other functionality in sims
• Identifying the most efficient way of collecting attendance data
• Understanding how to maintain attendance data effectively
• Reporting attendance data to help monitor attendance

Who is it for?

Staff with responsibility for maintaining Pupil/Student attendance records. An understanding of attendance procedures and familiarity with SIMS would be beneficial. 

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here;