Thanks BKGarry...it's not date of entry I'll be using. We're running a new phonics programme in our school and progress is tracked by entering the date when every student passes each stage of the programme. The teachers would like the tracking to be done through a marksheet within SIMS, so I intended to set up each stage as a new Aspect, but I've never seen a marksheet where the result is a date rather than a grade set. I wondered if anyone else had had a similar situation and knew of a way to ensure valid data is entered into the date format.
I will look at the course you've mentioned though as it may be very useful going forward and I'm already looking at the SIMS manuals as we speak.