 | 14th November Autumn CD is go! Secondary
schools are encouraged to apply the Autumn upgrade CD which was
distributed at last week's SIMS.net Academic training immediately. SIMS
have now released a patch which will circumvent the address issue which
was discussed at the session. This release will apply the latest version
of the Data Check Utility (3.47) required prior to final conversion and
provide upgrades to SIMS described in the accompanying
Implementation
Pack. |
| 14th November The latest information
regarding the deployment of the SIMS Autumn Upgrade and Final Conversion
processes is available
here.
Secondary schools particularly are encouraged to download this file and
to read and act upon its contents. |
| 14th November Updated
Known Issues
document, listing problems with the Autumn CD is now available. |
| 12th November Falinge Park and Heywood
Community have joined St Cuthberts as fully converted schools. Further
schools are already scheduled for conversion. |
| 31st October SIMS Autumn CD delay:
regrettably the
SIMS Autumn CD has been delayed once more. The
latest prediction is that the Autumn CD will not be available for
distribution to schools much before the end of November. In the light of
this CES are to release a Nova and Migration Update CD.
The CD will contain
version 3.46 of the Data Check Utility along with revised versions of
Nova and other software and patches which will also assist in the
conversion to SIMS.net. The CD should be with the EDIT team by the end
of next week and will be delivered immediately for installation by
schools. An extract of the communication from CES is available
here. |
| 31st October St Cuthbert's have become the
first Rochdale school to perform final conversion to SIMS.net. |
| 31st October Instructions on how to
install PAT on RSN networks to enable multiple users and ensure that
data is backed up are available here. |
| 31st October Essential advice for
secondary schools relating to the use of Nova T has just been published
and is available
here. |
| 29th October The DfES have stated that
paper, school level returns will be accepted for Nursery Schools for
January 2005. The immediate requirement for Nursery Schools to use SIMS
is therefore relaxed and SIMS may well decide to withdraw support for
the Nursery PLASC 2005. |
| 29th October Documentation from the recent
SIMS.net training sessions are now available from the
MIS Downloads Page. |
| 29th October Version 3.45 of the SIMS
Datacheck utility is available by clicking here. |
| 13th October A spreadsheet, detailing the
permissions applied to SIMS.Net user groups is available
here. |
| 13th October A revised flowchart mapping
processes towards final conversion in Secondary Schools is available
here. |
| 13th October Once and for all guidance
notes on the use of CTFs to transfer information between schools is
available here. |
| 13th October Notes on the use of a CTF to
populate eProfile software are available
here. |
| 11th October Many thanks to schools who
contributed to the SIMS Accreditation survey which is now closed. Your
views are valued by the team and will be used to improve our services to
you. A representative of Capita ES will now visit the EDIT Team to
review the contents of the survey and to assess other aspects of the
team's work. We hope to be able to publish the outcome of the process
shortly after half term. |
| 6th October SIMS comes clean - updates on
issues relating to
SQL migration have recently been released by CES. Please also note
the contents of the
Summer CD Update Known Issues Document. |
| 6th October Updated
notes page to reflect the
need to use version 3.41 of the Data Check Utility (available following
the application of the Summer 2004 Update CD) |
| 6th October Updated notes on the migration
of Nova T data to SQL software available
here. The
document refers to features to be released on the Autumn platform. |
| 6th October Updated SIMS.Net Flow Chart
available
here. |
| 6th October Updated
Data Check Utility Errors
and Resolutions document |
| The
Training Calendar has been updated to include sessions scheduled for
the Autumn term. |
| PLASC 2005 - SIMS have stated that there will be
no Data Manager routine to complete PLASC 2005 for Secondary, Special
and Nursery schools. For this reason it is imperative that schools in
these sectors perform final conversion on their data before Christmas.
Primary schools are unaffected and will receive further information
later in the term. Further information here. |
| Primary schools SIMS.net update - It is with
regret that, owing to late software releases and the need to migrate all
special, nursery and secondary schools this term, the SIMS.net pilot in
primary schools is now delayed until after PLASC 2005. Primary schools
who expressed an interest in using the new software will be contacted
later this term with more information. |
| SIMS Accreditation - The EDIT Team is currently
undergoing a process of Accreditation by Capita ES. A major part of the
process is a survey of schools' opinions of the SIMS support
services provided by the team. This survey, which is completed on-line
and in no more than a few minutes, will give the team invaluable
information which will be used to improve services. Schools are
encouraged to take the opportunity to make their feelings known by
logging on to the Accreditation web-site before Friday 8th October. More
information has been supplied directly by e-mail to designated SIMS
users and is available
here. Please note that the survey elicits opinions on the SIMS
support provided by the EDIT team and not more general technical
support. |
