Jo Perry and Kirsty Dixon – SIMS Account ManagersSIMS Roadmap

Capita One National User Group 2014

AgendaSIMS Summer Release• Statutory Returns• SLG • Performance Suite• Personnel and SEN• Exams

School Census Autumn 2014DfE Additions to the Pupil Characteristics Module in the Return File

• School Lunch Taken on Reference Date• Post 16 Planned learning hours • Post 16 Planned learning hours previous year• Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours • Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours

previous year • Post 16 Full-time employment indicator (on roll pupils only) on

Reference Date

School Census Autumn 2014 Overview

DfE Addition to the Learning Aims Module in the Return File

• Post 16 Core Aim(s)

SIMS Learning Gateway

SLG Summer ReleaseChange requests:

• Homework - now no extra charge for SLG users.• Ability to remove handed in date• Add individual extensions to homework tasks• Improvements to mobile views

SLG Summer ReleaseChange requests:

• Data Collection Sheet:• Parental responsibility

Summer - Enhance two way Communication

Alerts• SIMS Homepage SLG widget

• How many parents have completed DCS• How many parents have read published reports• Report for who has not - reporting dictionary

SIMS Homepage SLG Alerts

SLG Summer ReleaseChange requests:

• Increase number of aspects and result sets to 10 in Assessment Graphs

SIMS InTouch materials • “How To” videos

• Set up - homepage and permissions • How to customise templates• Role specific - Attendance, Exams, Timetable

• Documentation• Technical• Data flow

SIMS InTouch Summer/Autumn

• Removal of VPN

• Reduce cases and remove fail point• Reduce lead time for install• No reconnection charge• Make InTouch easier to install and support

SIMS Performance Suite

Improved Highlighting of Columns & Rows in a Marksheet

• Group Rows by Cell ColourAssessment Marksheet Order Rows

• Conceal / Reveal selected columns

Assessment Marksheet Hide / Show columns

• Ability to delete imported analysis

Ability to delete imported analysis

• Speed up resource creation by swapping like-for-like aspects when cloning

Assessment Aspect Swapping

• Mapping Aspects

Assessment Mapping Facility

• Mapping Result sets

Assessment Mapping Facility

• Mapping Grade setsAssessment Mapping Facility

SIMS Discover Group Filtering

• Allow Dynamic Groups to be used for Filtering

SIMS Discover New Assessment GraphsAssessment stacked bar graph for Grade Distribution

• Multiple Aspect• Multiple Result Set

SIMS Discover More Copy to Clipboard• Add Copy/export from Pop Up• Add Copy to reverse of graph

Personnel and SEN

PersonnelChanges in the Summer release• Ability to update staff salaries by an amount or by a percentage from the

Salary Update Screen

• Support for salary ranges using B2BP

Personnel

Changes in the Summer release

• New export to Excel functionality for Salary related Personnel Reports

SENChanges in the Summer release: All:• Rearrangement of the selectors at the top

England only:• New SEN Statuses

• E - Education Health & Care Plan to take over from Statements

• K - SEN Support to take over from School Action and School Action Plus

SEN• Change in SEN Need type

• BESD - Behavoural, Emotional and Social Difficulties will be made inactive

• SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health will be added• NSA - SEN Support but no specialist assessment of type of

need will be added • Ability to record if a child has an application for an Education,

Health and Care Plan (EHCP) in process• Option to turn on and off Additional Support Fields

SIMS Exams

SIMS Exams

• Performance tables updated

• Early Entry rule applied

• Discounting rules updated

• Improved Student Filter

KS4 Summary Reports

• Cohort Information - 3 measures• Progress Measures - 4 measures• GCSE & Equivalent Achievements - 5 measures • English Baccalaureate - 3 measures• English Baccalaureate Subjects - 10 measures• The Basics - 3 measures• Averages - 5 measures

KS5 Summary Reports

• Cohort Information - 3 measures• A levels - 7 measures• A level and other academic qualifications - 5 measures• Vocational qualifications - 5 measures