[sims] SIMS Examination Question

[RogerCorrigan]

Just a quick question on behalf of our exams organiser, how would she go about creating a domestic season in SIMS Examinations? I've never used SIMS Exams Organiser so I was unable to help her.

 

Many Thanks,

Roger

[WayTooTricky]

I've done it - there's a little handbook in the SIMS documentation about it.

 

The thing I did badly when I started was not to plan it out. A consequence of this is a few exam titles that I want to use are hidden in the ether, connected to other exams of the wrong level.

 

Just pop into exams organiser and create a season pattern, use it to create a new exam season and go into the season.

Open up the base data, right click on DOM, add a series. I use series code BM for my November season - B represent the 11th Month and M for Mocks.

Then you create your exams in the same format as external ones. Awards and Elements - it's this bit where I should have taken more time to plan. I tried to encode my entry codes to mean something but I used them against the wrong levels so now I've "lost sight" of someearly ones. The other thing we don't really use is capturing the results so maybe plan this too if you want staff to enter results through exams.

 

I "believe" that it is possible to create your own CSV files to imitate the ones from the board.

 

Hope this is a start.

 

Sheel