[sims] Cover and Room Changes

[tben2505]

Hi all,

 

We are moving to SIMS in September and are starting to add cover.

 

We have found a relatively easy way to swap rooms in Cover - for instance if we want to swap rooms of CLASS A and CLASS B in rooms "ICT1" and "501" - we simply show all rooms on cover then swap them over.

 

However, in doing this, we have found a couple of things we'd like to look at:

 

- No cover slip is produced for the individual teachers involved in the room swap, the room changes are only shown on the notice board export. Is this something that can be achieved? How do others ensure staff are aware of room changes?

- The room changes are obviously reflected in the teacher's timetable on their home screen, but is it highlighted, like cover is?

- It would be nice to add a reason for the swap which can be seen on said printouts, eg "Yellis testing"- is this something that can be achieved? Do other schools have issues with staff asking why they've been moved?

 

I suppose this is a big issue for us as we have room changes every single day - mostly because we have limited space for ICT and have to juggle things around frequently. In addition our MFL orals require rooms regularly.

 

Anyway any advice or tips would be very useful!

 

Thanks a lot guys,

 

T

[PhilNeal]

The home page displays cover data. Not sure about paper slips but I'd be surprised if we didn't do them - please call our desk if you don't get a response.