PhilNeal

@iceman - in principle I can see why changing the definition of an Aspect could invalidate data that is already in the system - hence not being allowed to do it. Whether this applies to the type of change you are trying to make, I'm not sure.

@iceman I think you will need to go through those steps as what you are doing is creating a completely different Aspect. MyAccount users may have a better route for you. I'd also recommend using our Aspects if you are in a state school - if you use known Aspects we can perform smart calculations on them such as Progress 8 without you having to map your Aspects to ours.

@psydii anyone that is a SIMS user can have a "MyAccount" account - the change request system is there as are forums that are monitored and responded to by our product management team.

Thanks @colacao82 - we've tried this out and all of it works as it should. Please double check and if there's still an issue then please re-open the case and we might need to see your data.

@kennysarmy - please drop our product manager an email and we will monitor. [email protected]

@pcstru have you seen the times of night that I post on this forum!! I don't sleep.

Please let me have the case reference so I can check this response out. We should be supporting Chrome.

I'm pretty sure that if it was necessary to disable access in writing back we would have included it in the software!

Support Units have never had the ability to delete change requests. Change requests are regularly reviewed and form the basis of our future developments - we take them very seriously.

Or the change request system indicates that there is a strong desire for it.

@SwedishChef & others thanks for sharing your views on this. SIMS does not audit access views. The approach we have taken is to provide access controls to data areas which are then available to schools to assign. Since schools vet their staff, and we are rarely asked to provide anything further, we have considered this to be adequate but we regularly review this position. Schools frequently tell us about the functionality they want in SIMS and audit trails have not often been a priority. New data protection laws are being drafted that will be available for viewing shortly for implementation in early 2018. Data access auditability may well become a requirement, and if so, we will update SIMS accordingly.

If you mean the cost of delivering a course, I don't think so

@vikpaw a sensible suggestion. Thanks

Please log cases. There were 14 cases logged in the last 6 months all of who were using S2.

@SweedishChef I'll check out your case. Data storage today is very different to when SIMS7 was designed and we are currently re-engineering everything without too much concern over space.

Indeed and it's pretty quick to do.

The only issue I've heard of is viewing the reports in the new browser.

Yes Windows is the way to go

@Banjo as a student is a member of groups SIMS can sum against any of these variables. If you mean that some achievements are awarded to a house for example that is an enhancement we're looking at.

The spring release brings in user defined statements

@howartp my apologises I shouldn't have pressed save! @GREED it was for best Assessment & Learning Tool which we entered with Assessment Manager & Teacher App.

There's no fees for reading data out of SIMS. Resilience is important so in my view schools creating all sorts of add-ons are very dependent on individuals that move on and then things fail. SIMS can do loads as @bobsmith says - I'd strongly advise investigating what it can do before resorting to coding.

This is what the behaviour system is designed to record - it's completely open and one click away from the register with bulk selection. It's not a great idea to combine two data items into a single field as it makes analysis so much harder.

There are loads but have they won the BETT Award?

It would be interesting to know what your SLT are after.