Mouchel St Helens IMS EventWednesday 20th April 2011

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Mouchel St Helens IMS Event

• 13:25 SIMS Update - Capita Children’s Services • • 14:15 IMS Update - St Helens LA• Break• 14:40 E-Caf – St Helens LA• 15:10 SIMS Assessment Update - Capita Children’s

Services • 15:40 Service Update - Mouchel

• 16.00 Close

Mouchel

Claire Gannon Lisa Almond Maxine MorrisSteven KnowlesVicky Piert

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Assessment – what’s next?

• Help with traffic lights?

• Tracking progress?

• Tracking Grids?

• Discover?

• Advice?

• Are you interested?

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Discover Prerequisites

• Check hardware

• Installation & Setup

• Configuration

• User Defined Groups

• Behaviour

• Aspects

• Create Dynamic Groups

• Training

• Overview

• Assessment Overview – Primary

• Assessment Overview – Secondary

• On site Consultancy

• Interested?

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Discover – Current Capita Specifications

• Workstation Specification

• Server Specification

Database 50Mb

Transaction Log 100Mb (this can be reclaimed)

CPU 1.8 Ghz or faster processor

Graphics Card Minimum - DirectX 90 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driverRecommended – dedicated card with latest drivers installed and an integrated chipset

Memory Minimum 2GbRecommended 4Gb

Hard Disc Not applicable

Capita are working to optimise this. This is for information only.

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SIMS & Mouchel Roadmap 2011

• 3 Releases for 2011

– Spring Release• w/c 19th April

– Summer Release• June / July• .Net Framework 4.0 required• Includes System Manager 7

– Autumn Release• October / November

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Solus 3

• Replacing SOLUS2 with SOLUS3

– .NET4

• Deployment Service– A Service that controls and manages

SIMS updates at a school– It knows SIMS config at School

• SIMS Agents– Sit on each ‘SIMS’ PC – A service that updates SIMS without

user intervention

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Solus 3

• Scheduled updates– Updates can be performed outside of lessons– New PC’s can have SIMS installed remotely

• The entire SIMS System can be automatically upgraded without user intervention. Users aren’t doing the upgrades!

• Any Infrastructure needed by SIMS can be packaged up and automatically deployed (e.g. .Net framework 4)

• Installation & configuration required

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Technical Roadmap

• Server – 32 Bit and 64 Bit

• Windows Server 2003 SP2• Windows Server 2008• Windows Server 2008 R2 – NEW

– 32 bit only• Windows XP

• Workstation– 32 Bit

• Windows Vista Business SP1• Windows XP Pro Sp2 – cease support

from Aut 2012??– 32 and 64 Bit

• Windows 7 – NEW

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Technical - Software

• Software– Office 2003 / 2007 / 2010 (new) – all 32 bit– Office 2010 64 bit – Summer 2011

• .NET framework – .NET 2.0 SP1 minimum – .NET 4.0 is required for

• Discover Workstations• SIMS Summer 2011

– SOLUS3 will install 4.0

• Adobe Acrobat 6 (8 for Fees)

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• IMS Booking website now live! – www.sthelens.org.uk/imstraining

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Training Programme – Summer 2011

• New Summer Term Brochure/Flyer available– Using Behaviour Management Effectively– Course Manager & Post 16 Aims for Census– Diploma Management in Exams Organiser– Preparing for New Academic Year Pastoral &

Academic– Role of the Pastoral Manager– School Census– SIMS for the Class Teacher– FMS New User

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Training Programme – Autumn 2011

• New courses for Autumn 2011– Discover – Autumn Term– Using Assessment Tracking

Effectively– SIMS for the Classroom Teacher– SIMS.net Assessment Tracking Grids– System Manager

• On site– Assessment/APP– Discover - from September – End of Year

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Training Offers

• As Featured on IMS Course Booking Web-Site!

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Questions?