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Shibboleth - that's about the single login ID and password isn't it? It sounds OK but is there a real benefit? Kids have so many different log-ins anyway; MSN, facebook, google mail etc. I can see it makes things easier but by how much? SIMS Web Parts integration: is this to purely update students details both ways on a foreign VLE or can it be more refined? Can you for example set up an assessment in the VLE and when doing so choose a results set and aspect to transfer the data into an appropriate mark sheet in SIMS? Surely the SIF when/if operational will not operate at this level of detail? We've had a very quick but successful SIMS implementation and I'd be interested in your views as we're refiing our two year plan. Thanks

When viewing a marksheet in SIMS, it is easy to export by just clicking the export icon. But what about transferring the data the other way? One of our departments wants to continue with their spreadsheets at the moment and there doesn't seem to be an easy way for them to get their data in. Is it possible to paste directly into the marksheet or via the 'exported' spreadsheet? Thanks

Thanks all. We've had our initial training and have more planned. We're going with 'standardised' markbooks across all deparments/key stages for Phase 1, then picking off most departments, department by department over a 12 month period. There are 1250 kids in our school so reasonable size. A markbook will have FFT, Level/Grade from last year, 5 fields for attitude to learning and 5 fields for attainment and average. That's it. I've estimated it will take one person five days to set this up but we'll see what the guru thinks on our next training day. In September each member of staff will have 1 hour training on using the marksheets and a bit on the other things in Sims. We're setting up User Groups in Sims so that functionality will be limited to start with to make it easier to start with. New laptops to meet min spec on order. Server being upgraded. Hard wired points being setup in staffroom in case issues with wireless connectivity. Sound about right - what am I missing? Cheers

We're looking at swopping to the above from Bromcom e-Markbook - it's trash. We would like to set-up department level markbooks (so they meet most of the needs of individual departments) but then effectively 'overlay' these with layer of reports for whole school reporting. I know this is a big job, setting up the sheets, formula, conditional formatting etc It would be good to know in advance any isuues I am likely to hit and perhaps what I should avoid. I've picked up so far - do not be the first to install patches/upgrades and do not install these wirelessly to laptops. Any others folks?