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We have our SLG hosted on-premises running off a Sharepoint 2013 Currently logins for parents are windows authentication based, which means they get the security pop-up asking for username and password when they login, unfortunately this method of authentication is not compatible with IOS devices which is causing a lot of parents to think the system isn't working (despite my instructions to use a PC or MAC) I am wanting to change this to forms based authentication via our ADFS server already setup for office365 I followed this guide https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh305235.aspx all works a treat until you actually sign into SLG, it comes up with the "Request access to this page" prompt It's like it cant match my domain user credentials and is denying acess to SLG based on the fact it thinks i am a unregistered user of some sort I think this is to do with claim rules, attached is how its setup but if anyone can advise me on the correct claim rules i need to pass through to SLG it would be much appreciated

Hi All, I'm trying to run and auto consolidation process for ADP for SLG but my searches are limited to 1000 items Does anyone know how to increase this?

Hello All, Is anyone implemented anything sending emails from SLG to the group of students. Thank you Tanvir

Hi, at the moment the kids at our school gets many paper reports each year, the school would like to save them as PDF. this is fine. but they want the parent to be able to login to the SLG and get their childs report PDf files. is there anyway this can be done using capita webparts? or does anybody have any suggestions on how to go about doing this sort this??? any automation at all would be really helpful as i think manual setup would take forever and be a nightmare to maintain. thanks, ITHelp

Good Morning, I'm hoping someone can provide some ideas as I'm getting rapidly frustrated. Does anyone here use Sims learning Gateway? We have it (hosted by Capita) and ever since the transition to RM internet the connection keeps dropping after 5 minutes. If you restart the OpenVPN service the connection will stay up for about 5 minutes and then drop it again. I’ve got a case logged with Capita – Who can’t see what’s causing it and I’ve also got a case logged with RM who have changed loads of firewall settings etc but the problem still persists. Has anyone got any suggestions please? Thanks Dan

We have our Sims Learning Gateway set up for external access over SSL. Users can log in however the SIMS web parts all report the following errors "Web Part Error: An unexpected error has occurred." Its fine internally over port 80, so we are not sure what we are doing wrong! Anyone have any suggestions that we should try. Thanks Paul

Hello My manager is looking for some advice on how to best roll-out SLG to parents. Should he initially do a year group? Just interested parents? Things of this nature and any other advice that you think would be useful to an independent school with SLG. Could you PM me and we arrange a phone call at some point for him to discuss? Thank you very much.

Hi All, I am after some advice regarding access to SLG from home. Our network manager recently retired so I have been asked to get this configured. I need some information on how you guys have this configured. I understand we need a certificate, but do you all use TMG or a similar firewall for staff and parents to access SLG remotely? I do not know much about SLG so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Shane

Just a quick query regarding provisioning users in SLG... Is it better to provision all staff and/or student SLG accounts in one go, or has anyone provisioned a few users as a test before doing thr entire rest of your staff/student groups? Any comments gladly received

Hello, Our Principal is looking at getting SLG for our school to cut back on printing reports and issuing students with planners timetables etc. We have had this in the past on site (although this was before I started) but moved away from it to other VLE packages. Flash forward a few years and now looking at re activating it but have Capita host it rather than a sever on-site. I don't know much about it apart from the generic documentation they send. I am hoping that someone can provide me with their experience on using SLG and if the hosted solution is better than having it on site? Here are a few thoughts currently going through my head. Hosted vs on-site? Worth getting profiles? (what do they do?) Network stores, can students/staff access network drives (will this work with hosted option) Administration (easy to use, configure) If we do get it I want it to work and not become another clunky file store that about 5% people use. Also if anyone can provide their roll-out of it? Any info will be great. Thank you, William

Has anyone managed to get an internally hosted sharepoint 2013 SLG installation to authenticate using ADFS? If so do you have any advice or a guide i could follow? " I've managed to get as far as logging in using ADFS but instead of directing to the SLG web application i just get a message after login saying "Let us know why you need access to this site."

Does anyone know if it's possible to set an 'end date' on the calendar/timetable for parents (studenttimetable.aspx)? Basically, we don't want them to see next years timetable while it's being worked on.

Hello, We have recently moved to Hosted SIMS. SIMS ID itself seems to work ok but the SIMS Learning Gateway - I can't believe how bad it is compared to ePortal. We have lots of issues that have been outstanding for weeks and considering we are a new customer, I have really lost my faith in CAPITA and this system to the point where i'm thinking about pulling the plug whilst it's early doors and going with a third party product. We only use SLG for parent access although we would have moved on to giving students access too. My question, what other third party supplies are people using and would you recommend them? I've seen links to Go4Schools and Tasc software Insight. Are they any good? Are there any others? We don't want staff to enter CP data into the third party product though, we simply want to use it to give parents (and if possible, students) access. It seems ridiculous thinking about buying into an alternative product but that's where I am right now. Any answers or advice would be much appreciated.

Hi. My school is at a point where we feel that we are in a position to rollout usernames/passwords to parents for SLG. However we aren't sure of the best strategy to do this... Has anyone managed to do this, and if so what method did you use? An idea I had was to handout parent logons at parents evening so we can be sure that the parent has definately recieved the correct credentials. Thanks. Alan.

We have experienced some problems using MAC's browsing SLG where by the page scolling ability disappears for no reason? Switch browsers and sometimes it is ok and others not?

Hi guys I'm new to SLG and finding it hard work. We have some new students in our school and when we run the report to generate letters home to parents with usernames and passwords on it, our new students aren't being generated. Any help is appreciated! Kel