[sims] Students from Waiting List appearing in SIMS Programme of Study

[panosthegreat]

This is only a problem in "Programme of Study Tracking" which we use to enter grades that then get pulled through into a marksheet to calculate an end of term grade.

 

No matter which class you filter to, you end up with 10-15 names that teachers don't recognise because they are just applicants to the school and are on SIMS applicant under the status 'waiting list'. So if you choose any Year 7 class to enter their grades you end up with the same 10-15 extra random names; and they'll be different if you select any year 8 class.

 

I suspect they were accidentally promoted somehow when we did the end of year procedures but i can't find any way to 'demote' them. After a 4 week wait, Capita helpdesk told me to run the database diagnostic tool and closed my ticket.

[panosthegreat]

Update: I've found a workaround... I set the starting date for the waiting list group to be a date in the future, so that stops them pulling through into program of study tracking. The problem now is its messing up the 'new students report' we send out to teachers.. so i need to now keep changing the start dates so they are after the assessment windows and are moved to new future dates before the new pupil list is generated - forever

 

Might be easier to just convince the school to go back to regular marksheet entry and abandon the PoS. could be the first step in me convincing them to abandon SIMS altogether to an MIS that has some support available