MattG92

We’ve used schools cloud parents evening system this week for ours (3 form junior school) it’s worked really well apart from parents forgetting about their appointments!

Hi all, We are setting our library temporarily as a class room. We want to purchase a short throw projector that we can connect to a laptop via HDMI and be placed on a table at the front when it is needed. I have asked our IT support company for a quote and it has come back quite a bit higher than I would have expected. We don't want to mount the projector so that we can use it around the school as it is needed. The display size is ideally around 170x160 (or there abouts). Can anyone recommend a good portable projector so that I can compare the price we have been given? Thanks!

Hi all, Apologies if these questions have been asked before, I did have a search but didn't find the answers I need. We are just setting up the parent app lite in our school and all the pupils and their parents appear on the web portal, but they do not have an email address listed despite it being on SIMS. When I view a parents contact details I have noticed that the email they have listed is not set as their main or primary, is this stopping them from being pulled through? If that is the case, what is the easiest way to change this on all the pupils in the school? How often is the data refreshed on the app, we are hosted by the LA so have no control over SIMS Service Manager so wondered if there was a standard refresh time? Thanks!

Thanks for the advice, how would you use a formula to calculate the most recent?

Sorry in advance for the long post but I am still relatively new to SIMS! I am trying to create a report on SIMS that will only use the latest result from an assessment aspect with multiple results sets within the same marksheet. I first tried by setting the filters for a particular aspect and sorting by ‘result date’. Then ticked the ‘display first record only’ button on the filter. However, it seems that because the result is linked to a formula in the marksheet SIMS recalculates the whole sheet every time you enter data giving them all the same result date (annoying!). Then I tried to sort by resultset but due to the naming convention we currently use the resultsets, when sorted alphabetically as they are in SIMS are not in the correct order for our data drops. So my question is if I changed our naming convention of the results sets will that have an impact anywhere else in SIMS. I was thinking of changing from: Year # September Baseline Year # Milestone 1 Year # Milestone 2 Year # Milestone 3 To prefixing each one with a hash symbol and then a number moving up in sequence e.g. #1 Year 3 September Baseline #2 Year 3 Milestone 1

Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this thread so sorry if it would be better elsewhere. I am looking for a new website to potentially be created as the one we currently use has gotten very dated, is not easy to navigate and from what I have seen the CMS doesn't seem to be the best. This along with the fact that costs keep increasing despite the support we receive not being all that great. Can anyone recommend providers that would design and create a website for the junior school I work for? Thanks!

Hi all, Ive searched for answers for this and couldn't find anything recent. We are a small school who have recently added a set of 16 ipads that can be used around the school. They are setup as stand alone devices but are managed by a mac mini running macos server. They are stored in a sync and charge trolley so can be connected to the mac mini or a windows 7 PC. What is the easiest way to get the photos and videos that the children produce off of the iPads and onto our network? So far I have been plugging the trolley into the mac and then using the photos app to sync the photos and videos and delete them but I still have to click on each iPad one by one and wait for it to sync before starting the next one. Is there an easier way, possibly more automated that will take the videos off and delete them once the iPads are plugged into the mac or a PC? Thanks

Thanks I'll give that a try

Hi, we have some of the activpanels installed in our school and sometimes they can be overly sensitive clicking more than one page at a time in activprimary flipcharts. I have spoken to our ICT support company about it but they aren't sure what causes it or how to fix it. Has anyone else experienced this or has an idea of how to sort it? Thanks

As others have said a good introduction but a bit late to be communicating this information to schools

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This is what we use, seems very simple and easy to use. Only problem I have had so far is that you can't manually type in the barcodes if they can't be read by the scanner.