SIMS December Update - is now available

[Toby.Belfield]

SIMS December Update - is now available

 

Please visit http://www.capitaes.co.uk/solus for further details - including the Release Note. Further details of SIMS software can be found from this website.

 

This release has been made available to all Bedford and Cirencester supported schools to receive using the SOwLUS 2 Wizard.

 

All Support Units have been authorised to distribute this release to their schools.

 

More detailed information about SIMS software and releases can be found from Support Net (http://support.capitaes.co.uk).

 

Regards,

 

Toby Belfield

CAPITA

[MkII]

Thanks Toby!

 

Alerts! Woohoo! (been looking forward to that - I thought it was slated for much later release)

 

Is that right - you have to refresh the home page to see any messages? - that's a little dissapointing - we were hoping that would be automatic

 

Release notes: http://www.capitasolus.co.uk/ReleaseNotes/december06updateRNa.pdf

[Toby.Belfield]

Yes, Mark - you do currently have to Refresh the Home Page as the messages/reminders/reports all appear there. Clearly, on first log in the Home Page is automatically refreshed. To make it automatic would have caused performance issues. However - we will be looking to enhance the Alerts functionality, to possibly include the choice of sending messages/reminders/reports to either the Home Page of SIMS, or email software (such as MS Outlook.)

 

Have a look at the Handbook for full details of the functionality. The Release Note just gives a small amount of detail.

 

I demonstrated Alerts at the Independent Schools Conference in November, and it went down extremely well - particularly the ability to schedule reports. The idea here is that Heads of Year (for example) could have a regular report of their Year Group's attendance/behaviour etc. Every report in SIMS can now be scheduled.

 

We will be updating and improving the SIMS Home Page - examples of which can be seen at BETT in January next year.

 

Regards,

 

Toby Belfield

CAPITA

[MkII]

Should still be workable. Our Attendance 'crew' need the functionality to flag absconders.

 

Thankyou for the extra info!