Welcome to SIMS Discover

Overview

Customer Services ManagersPat Webb – 07703 396501Sheila Cockin – 07801 136515Amanda Boychuk – 07799 408001 Lisa Callinan – 07974 393670Linda Beresford – 07976 436142Sue Marshall – 07769 239516Michelle Armstrong -0788 1515366 Zena Fitch - 07801 136647

Housekeeping

MobilePhones

Fire Exit

Toilets

Professional Services

Discover Overview

Technical Requirements

Preparing Data for Discover

Agenda

SIMS Discover Overview

What is Discover

What can I do in Discover

Through Sims. Net

Discover

Saving My Graphs

Discover Groups - Alerts

Pre-defined Assessment Graphs

Training

There are several hands-on training courses:- Discover Overview (half day) Discover Assessment User - for Primary Schools (half day) Discover Assessment User – for Secondary Schools (half day)

For more details call the Professional Services team to discuss and book on 0844 8939000

How do I get Discover?

Simplest option is to download from SOLUS 3

Alternatively, Discover is available to download from SupportNet

For installation notes visit www.capitaess.co.uk

Technical Requirements

SIMS Spring 2011 Release SQL Server 2008. Microsoft .net Framework version 4.0. Recommend operating systems 32-bit and 64-bit versions:

Windows XP SP3 or later, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 SP2 or later, Windows Server 2008 R2.

Preparing to Use Discover A CPU with a Core Duo 2 or a higher specification processor. A dedicated graphics card with appropriate drivers installed.

Once installed there are two methods to launch Discover. Through Sims. Net; Log into SIMS as usual then access via menu route

Focus / Assessment / Discover

Via Program Files; use your SIMS log in details

Which ever method you use Discover will honour SIMS permissions, no separate Discover permission are required

Permissions

Data Preparation for Discover

Data needs to meaningful. To ensure your analysis is meaningful your data needs to be:-

real time

accurate

complete

Data Preparation cont...

Behaviour / Achievement Module within SIMS.net Easy to personalise and configure for your school

Easy and quick to log

See the ‘whole’ child

Ability to track and record rewards and sanctions

Why use Discover

Ease of use; click, drag and drop

No complicated menu routes

Integrated data

Ability to track target groups

Alerts; be made aware when groups change

Your pupil data in one place

Real time contextual data already held in SIMS

Penn Wood School said; Discover was an ideal tool for sharing cohort characteristics with different audiences eg governors

SEN

Pupil Learning

SEF

DFE

Pupil tracking

External Agencies

School Performance

Pupil Performance

Monitor groupsInterventions

Support

Data entered once - Used many times

SIMSDiscover

SIMS Discover helps you to unlock your data

If you have any questions or would like further information please contact your Customer Services Manager.

Thank you for your time today.

Customer Services Managers Pat Webb – 07703 396501 Sheila Cockin – 07801 136515 Amanda Boychuk – 07799 408001 Lisa Callinan – 07974 393670 Linda Beresford – 07976 436142 Sue Marshall – 07769 239516 Michelle Armstrong -0788 1515366 Zena Fitch - 07801 136647