Attendance figures from SIMS inconsistent

[kingswood]

SIMS isn't my job at the school, but today we are having a visit in connection with attendance (BIP school etc) and the reports being generated by SIMS we are using to show attendance are way out- in some cases showing a 31% attendance rate when it should be more like 90%. The reports are also showing attendance for 2004/2005, and not 2005/2006. Anyone have anything like this with SIMS before or know why this is so that I can give an answer to those above and help them out a little?

 

If not I'll just call our MIS person- but calls at home on day off is a big NO...

 

Thanks!

[pete]

re Wrong percentage: If you go into attendance and look at overall & individual figures is the data right? What reports are you running?

If you go to Reports > Selected Student Reports > Percentage Attendance and select "Whole School" (default here) and hit print, do the figures look right or not?

 

re Wrong year: I'll assume they've got the right year selected?

 

When was the last time it worked successfully?

What's changed re SIMS since then?

[kingswood]

Hi.

 

Thanks for the input. I'll check the other items in your suggestions soon- but I can tell you that I realised they had the wrong year chosen...duh! They had been running comparitive reports and left the year as 2004/2005. I saw that and told them and when we changed to the correct year SIMS moaned that it didn't have anything for July 2006!

 

OK. You've given me a lot to look at and this isn't my department- so I may be some time! lol!

 

Appreciated greatly.

 

Paul