Publishing Reports in Sims Parent

[jtcoops]

Hi

Long story short - we lost our I.T manager a few months back and are now struggling with Sims Parent and end of year reports which he used to take care of. Previously end of year reports were shared to parents via Sims Parent. However we now have 700 PDF documents waiting to be shared to parents, and from what I can see in the minimal documentation sent by ESS is that the reports have to be created within Sims and then shared, i.e we can't upload pre-written reports in PDF format for sharing.

 

Is this the case? Has anyone managed to share documents by uploading to Sims or do the reports have to be created from Marksheets and then shared?

 

Sorry for the wide scope of the question - previous schools I've worked in still use printed reports. I've a week to get a solution in place for electronically distributing the reports which is secure and compliant, and if we can't do it by Sims I'm a bit stuck.

 

Thanks for any guidance in advance.

[ajp233]

Assessment individual reports and Profile reports can be published to the SIMS Parent app providing they have been created and uploaded to the Students linked documents first.

 

Once they are uploaded to the Students linked documents they can be published through Routines > SLG & SIMS Online > Publish Documents.

[coolhands]

I think you have a problem if you have all the pdfs but they were not generated in sims by Individual Reports. As you won't be able to generate them as Linked Documents (which as pointed out above is necessary in order to 'publish' them to sims Parent app) unless someone else knows different. How were they created if not in sims?

[jtcoops]

Thanks both. The reports were written in Word, saved as PDF. I've worked out we can send them in Messaging in Sims Parent as an attachment but its a manual process. It does at least meet the needs for now. Next year Teachers will be briefed on how to create the reports the correct way!