antonponniah

Looks simple enough to use this functionality, hopefully this will work. Unfortunately I can't test this out as the mail merge option is unavailable, it looks like google workspace admin has to enable this, i have emailed the IT department and waiting for their response. Many thanks pointing me out in the right direction.

Many thanks for your reply, I will check it out.

Hi All Currently we are using Gmail in our school for emails. Unfortunately this doesn't have mail merge functionality. Until now we had a webserver where I used a web application for mail merging purpose, due to cost reduction and updates to our school network, I don't have access to this webserver anymore. Could you please advise what's the best software to use for mail merge. I would appreciate if you let me know of any package you are currently using for mailmerge in your school. thanks in advance Anton Ponniah

Hi All I figured this out by looking at an earlier thread - I have to use a RTF template to output the data. Thanks

Hi All Wondering if there is a way to run a photo list report in Sims which can be adjusted to have more than one columns (also able to adjust the number of rows on the page). Currently when I run, the out put has only one column so the number of photos per page and the size of the photo can't be changed. What I would like to have is, able to adjust the columns and rows so I can control the number of photos on one page, which in turn adjust the phot size as well. Any help is much appreciated Thanks

Worked a treat after changing the Pivot table source range (we have around 2000 students) ! Thanks very much and much appreciated!

Great stuff.. just found the report.. somehow i overlooked this. Very useful - thanks for pointing this out.

My email address is: [email protected] Thanks and much appreciated.

Thanks all for your advice. I am creating a pivot report as per Sefton's advice. Please let me know if there is any Sims report definitions available to extract school summary data.

There is only one report showing up under school report, named as 'GCX_Dummy', which only brings up the school name when i run it. I can see this report in 2011. There may be other reports like the one you mentioned above which i may have to import but i don't know where to find this.

I would appreciate if you could share this report with me. I assume we can't do this in Simms directly? I can see that we can do counts for the existing groups in Sims but may be not for dynamic grouped sets?

Hi All Wondering if it's possible design a report which will give me counts for grouped sets of data, for example, i need to know the number of occurrences of PPI in year 10 Boys, year 10 girls, etc.., is it possible to get this using a query in Simms. Currently I export this data to spreadsheet and do a count in the spreadsheet. This is time consuming and wondered if this can be done in Simms directly. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks Anton

Not safeguarding issues (for this we have CPOMS), more about academic related - for example interventions. May be a bit pastoral/behavioural but if it's too sensitive then will go into CPOMS. I think we may have to create this document without any sensitive data, if it's too sensitive then it has to go into CPOMS.

Yes - some of the information that goes will be pulled off from assessments and attendance, but mostly from the specific mark sheet edited by SLT and tutors - ALL SLT and tutors, there is no need for restrictions among them. What we are trying to achieve is to have a history of certain things happened to a student in one document from the beginning until they leave the school. It is more convenient to have it in Simms as this is the place that someone will be looking to find any details of the student. I think it will be hard to manage if it's on a shared drive. Thanks for your advice.

Hi All In Assessment manager, i would like to create a linked documents which is only accessible to certain staffs, for example to tutors and SLT. I have been asked to create a document for each student which contains sensitive information. Information will be inputted by SLT and tutors, for this i am planning to create marksheets, which I assume can be easily assigned to tutors and SLT. I will then create the linked documents using the data from the mark sheet, which i want accessed only by SLt and tutors. I think everyone can access linked documents when you upload the documents to documents server, how can we restrict access to this? If this is not possible in Assessment Manager, is there any other way we can do this in Simms? Thanks Anton