chrisgoodrich Posted January 24, 2012 Posted January 24, 2012 Hi, Is there any way that when a student reaches say 20 negative behaviour logs that SIMS can automatically send an e-mail to for example the head of year? Thanks Chris
PhilNeal Posted January 24, 2012 Posted January 24, 2012 (edited) If you take a look at the Discover module it should give you an idea of how you can achieve this and more complex alerts. Edited January 25, 2012 by vikpaw
chrisgoodrich Posted January 25, 2012 Author Posted January 25, 2012 If you take a look at the Discover module it should give you an idea of how you can achieve this and more complex alerts. When is SIMS Discover available to schools? If it already is do I have to do anything to get it access it? Thanks Chris
skunk Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 It is available now and you should be able to deploy it through SOLUS3.
Mcshammer_dj Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 should be available to all schools. talk to your local support team. Be aware that unless you have implimented Solus 3 you will need to install this manually
chrisgoodrich Posted January 25, 2012 Author Posted January 25, 2012 It is available now and you should be able to deploy it through SOLUS3. We still have Solus 2 here. Maybe our County is holding it back?
vikpaw Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 We still have Solus 2 here. Maybe our County is holding it back? Check out this link SIMS Discover | capita-sims.co.uk which shows how it can solve your issue, and the other link on that page : Stream Connect - Player The main thing to bear in mind, is that it's FREE - yes, if you have SIMS, you have DISCOVER. I'm of the view that you don't need to push it out to all staff. Therefore you don't need to worry about the headache of SOLUS 3. If you have the time, get on SupportNet and download the ISO and instructions to install it. You can play with it yourself and give some staff remote access to start trying it. You'll have to manually update, but initially give it a go. It's been on my to do list for a while.
Mcshammer_dj Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Check out this link SIMS Discover | capita-sims.co.uk which shows how it can solve your issue, and the other link on that page : Stream Connect - Player The main thing to bear in mind, is that it's FREE - yes, if you have SIMS, you have DISCOVER. I'm of the view that you don't need to push it out to all staff. Therefore you don't need to worry about the headache of SOLUS 3. If you have the time, get on SupportNet and download the ISO and instructions to install it. You can play with it yourself and give some staff remote access to start trying it. You'll have to manually update, but initially give it a go. It's been on my to do list for a while. But you do need to be aware that if you push this out from the iso and install on the srever and then on specific work stations you will need to manually do this for the upgrades.
vikpaw Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 I know. When i do it, i don't see it going to more than 2 people other than myself. Also, you don't have to upgrade it do you.
Mcshammer_dj Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 granted you theoretically don't need to upgrade discover when SIMS is upgraded. But with Solus 3 working the install and control of Discover is actually quite nice. Also worth taking time to schedule the backups of the discover database. I know there isn't data stored but it does make it easier if the users have a number of graphs etc that they setup.
fiza Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 What do you need to run Discover? Do you need a Server to run it on and then a Client with a dedicated graphics card to show all the nice graphs? SQL Express or SQL Full? Do you keep it off the SIMS Server and give it its own dedicated server? So many questions and not many answers in the Discover installation Guide!!
PhilNeal Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 It will normally run well on any desk top. Integrated graphics laptops are hit and miss but mostly OK. A netbook is hopeless. It should run on the same box as SIMS unless that's already being thrashed.
fiza Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 It will normally run well on any desk top. Integrated graphics laptops are hit and miss but mostly OK. A netbook is hopeless. It should run on the same box as SIMS unless that's already being thrashed. So no need for a dedicated graphics card for desktops? I would prefer to keep any additional load off my SIMS server. Would a VM be ok? All our staff run with either Dell optiplex 745 or Dell optiplex 755 machines. Are these good enough?
vikpaw Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 What do you need to run Discover? Do you need a Server to run it on and then a Client with a dedicated graphics card to show all the nice graphs? SQL Express or SQL Full? Do you keep it off the SIMS Server and give it its own dedicated server? So many questions and not many answers in the Discover installation Guide!! @fiza - some similar questions were asked a while back - check this thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/72611-discover.html i would go for separate vm, express would be okay, and you could run it local if you wanted initially for testing.
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