PaulBilbrough

Good Morning Am hoping someone maybe able to help with a problem that we are experiencing. We are finding SIMS to be extremely slow in generating individual reports. Last year academic year we were looking at about 20 minutes to generate tracking grids for 30 students, this year we are talking upwards of 50 minutes for the same number of students on the same template. Obviously we have applied the latests updates and we are using a temporary server for SIMS. We are currently going through a major building project that means we cannot use our normal server room. However looking at the server we are peaking at about 70% CPU at times but not constantly. We are peaking at 10gb out of 14gb of RAM. The only bottleneck appears to be the Hard Drives. Now I know we are not exactly a small school ~ 2500 students with each year group being on average 350 students. This particular template will take nearly 11 hours on the above timings to generate to a PDF collector before I actually start to print. We have spoken to SIMS but to be honest they were not much help and kept saying "well you are a large school", I thought I would ask the community here to see if what we were experiencing was normal. Thanks for any help / advice Paul St. Georges Academy Sleaford Lincolnshire

Hello Does anyone on the boards have any experience of using Tiers within SIMS. We are a three site academy and would like to use tiers if possible. Currently the only way we can do reporting is by using the registrations groups as the first letter of the group denotes the site (i.e. 7Sxxx, 7Bxxx, 7Rxxx). I understand that tiers would allow easier and clearer reporting and also all for the setting of appropriate Heads of Year etc. We have five year groups within each site so in effect we would need to have: Tier R with Year groups 7,8,9,10,11 Tier S with Year groups 7,8,9,10,11 Tier B with Year groups 7,8,9,10,11 Is this possible and if so any ideas how to go about it? I am creating the new academic year on the 28th. Thanks Paul