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Cheers for the response - I have just heard back from Techsoft and it seems that I have to uninstall the current version and then install the standalone version. I was just hoping to change the activation key.

Hi We have a site licence for Techsoft Design V3 and we are also allowed 4 stand alone PC's. Our technology teacher wants to be able to check students work when she is at home, but when she starts Techsoft, it is looking for the licence server which is obviously in school. I have the activation code for the stand alone version - do I have to uninstall Techsoft and then reinstall with the stand alone activation key or is there a way of transferring the key without uninstall / re-install? Cheers

Hi How do I configure a laptop or Smoothwall so that when a student takes a laptop home it is still being protected by Smoothwall? The student will be logging on to the laptop using a local account. Cheers

Thank you, I will pass on your solution to our timetabler and see what he thinks. Regards

Thanks for that suggestion, I have a look at doing that.

Hi, Our students are on a carousel in Art, Tech, Performing Arts. One issue that we are getting with Teams/O365 is the KS3 classes which are on the carousel is pulling in all their memberships so if they have done two rotations then those students are appearing in both rotations, is there anyway of just picking up the current rotation? We are ending up with Teams that have over sixty students in because "last weeks students" haven't been removed when the moved to their new class. Does that make sense? Can anybody explain how I can make the classes in SIMS replicate exactly to O365? Thanks

Hi, I have added our Heads of Year as a member in every class in their respective year, so that they can dip in and out any remote lessons and check up on the students. They are now moaning about receiving massive numbers of e mail alerts for lessons being set up in their year as well as the lesson chats. Is there a way to limit what emails/notifications a particular user gets from Teams? Thanks

Hi Is there an easy way to remove Windows 10 apps for ALL users? One of our teachers is constantly moaning about kids being on Solitaire etc. I have tried the following Powershell commands: Get-AppxPackage *solitairecollection* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage -allusers *Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection_4.4.6132.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe*| Remove-AppxPackage I have also tried Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage which I think should remove all Windows apps? It seems to delete for me when logged on as admin, but when I log back in with student test accounts it's back. We are running Windows 10 Pro build 1903 Cheers

Hi Does anybody have any recommendations for a room booking system that links to SIMS? I need something that is CHEAP and will automatically update every time the timetable is altered. Cheers

No, we don't have anything - dark ages here They can just carry on using the Missing Register panel

Thanks for the quick response. I think the attendance lady already does that. I was hoping for some kind of automatic alarm that beeps/flashes 10 minutes after the start of each lesson if the register hasn't been taken.

Hi Is it possible to set some kind of reminder for staff to ensure that they need to do their register? Staff are supposed to have done their registers within the first ten minutes of a lesson, but don't always. New deputy head is handing out roastings to staff who don't comply I was thinking of a message popup or an audible alarm that goes off ten minutes after the start of each lesson for those classes that haven't submitted completed registers? Cheers

Hi, I am trying to set up our room booking app for the new school year and I need to tick all of the "week commencing" buttons for each of the "Week 1" and "Week 2" parts of the setup for the whole year. Is there a way in SIMS to be able to see the dates all of the Week 1's and Week 2's for the whole academic year? I am not sure when it comes to holidays that if we finish on Week 1 - have a week off, do we come back to Week 1 or 2? There are no admin staff in school at the moment so I can't ask them. I hope that makes some kind of sense. Thank you.

Thank you so much -

Cheers, I'll take a look at that.

Hi, Not sure if this is the correct forum. We have a number of old Promethean boards that need new pens - Activpen ACTIVPEN3-1 The ones with an orange band around them. They seem to be discontinued everywhere, does anybody know of any suppliers? We cannot justify replacing boards just because of pens. Cheers

Nice one, thank you very much

Hi, hopefully a simple one..... I install Scratch as admin - no problem. But, when anybody else logs on to the PC it isn't there. Am I missing something very simple here? Cheers

Yeah, I need to find out how to point NOVA to the correct folder.

Hi, I am having an issue with Nova T6. A couple of days ago we had a power cut in the night (may be totally unrelated) and since then I've had a few issues with the share name and folder permissions, but most of these appear to be resolved now. But since the morning of the power cut, we haven't been able to use Nova-T6 properly. When I click on "Load External Dataset" I appear to be pointed to the wrong folder. It is going to S:\SIMS\SNOVA\NT6 when I actually want it to go to S:\SOVA\NT6 How do I set it so that NOVA-T6 automatically points to the correct folder by default? I cannot see anywhere to set this. I have had a call logged with Capita but it is taking far too long for them to get back to me. Hope that makes some kind of sense. Cheers

Hi We have a NetSupport problem. I have one tutor console that the teacher cannot change the Tutor User Interface settings due them being greyed out. We go to View > Current Settings > User Interface > Tutor and they are all greyed out. I have uninstalled and deleted all files relating to NetSupport and then re-installed - this had no effect. We have the Tutor console installed in a number of other classrooms and the teachers can edit their settings without any issues. Is it a permissions issue on the PC? Can anybody assist please. Cheers

Cheer guys, Turns out his home folder was completely full (he needs every single file even though 90% haven't been accessed for years) :mad: I removed one of his folders to free up some space and he seems to be working OK again now. Just need to educate staff regarding housekeeping now

Hi, I have a teacher that when he clicks on the "My List Entry" icon on the SIMS toolbar he gets the following error: Input string was not in a correct format. : System.FormatException I have been doing a bit of testing and found that if he is logged on to the PC using his school AD account, then accesses SIMS he gets the error. If I log into SIMS with my SIMS credentials while the PC is logged on as the teacher, I get the same error. But if I log into the PC with my AD credentials, we can both log into SIMS and access "My List Entry" without any issues. This occurs on various PCs Has anybody come across this issue? Cheers

Morning, We have just purchased NetSupport and have started rolling it out. One issue we are having is how do we set it so that when different teachers log on to the PC they all automatically get the correct PCs for the room that they are in? I have sat with a teacher and set it for his room, but when the next teacher logs on, they have to go through the same process. Is there not a way of setting each teacher PC to automatically only pick up that rooms PC's for ALL users? Hope that makes sense.

Cheers guys - I think they are all just going to have to use IE