Secondary Data Co-ordinators Spring Upgrade 2014

Spring Upgrade 2014 Scomis are currently in the process of testing the Spring BETA Release Full Spring Release to Hosted Application Schools is expected to take place weekend of 12/13 April in accordance with Capita’s current release date. 2

Where can I find detailed information on the release? Full details of what is included in the Spring Upgrade will be available when you first login following the upgrade: What’s New in this Release? 3

SIMS Assessment

Assessment Additional Attendance Details Data Tags Available for Individual Reports You can now insert information relating to the Number of Sessions Late and the Total Session Minutes Late. Additional Class Teacher Data Tag Available for Individual Reports An additional Class Teacher data tag can be inserted, called Initial including Middle Initials. Additional Student Details Data Tags Available for Individual Reports Additional data tags have been provided when inserting Student Details. You can now insert a pupil/student's Legal Surname and their Parental Addressee information. Generating Individual Reports in PDF Format It is now possible to produce individual reports in PDF format by selecting PDF Format from the drop-down list adjacent to the Export button on the Individual Report Details page. 5

SIMS Profiles

Profiles On Grid and List Entry we have added a link menu when writing a student Profile to quickly access Behaviour, Assessment, Attendance, Examinations and Linked documents Introduced an option to Find/Replace words when reviewing a Student Profile Introduced the ability to quickly change a comment when reviewing a Profile by clicking Edit on the Review Screen Added additional Data Tags on Profiles Template to include Legal Surname, Parental Addressee, Staff Initials, Total Session Minutes Late, Year Group (Full Name) 7

SIMS Discover

Add Quick Search to Discover catalogue items Typing in quick search box will return a list of graphs containing that text

SIMS Discover - Pupil Mobility Will allow schools to see spread of admission throughout the current year and last 3 years 10 Existing – anyone on roll at start of year Term – anyone joining in that term Leavers who return – will show term of most recent joining date

Discover Exam Analysis - Subjects 11

Discover – Exam Analysis - Venn Diagram 12

Discover Exam Analysis – Exam Residuals 13

Discover – Exams Analysis – Bar Graph 14

Discover New A Level Examination Graph Definitions Several A2/AS Level Examination graph definitions have been provided:  KS5 A2 Point Scores per Student  KS5 A2 Point Scores per Entry  KS5 A2 Grade Distribution by Subject  KS5 A2 Exam Residuals by Subject  KS5 AS Point Scores per Student  KS5 AS Point Scores per Entry  KS5 AS Grade Distribution by Subject  KS5 AS Exam Residuals by Subject. 15

KS5 Year 13 16

Discover New Graphs: Achievement by Half Term – to match the Behaviour Incidents by Half Term Graph included in Autumn Release Bullying by Type A revised version of the Student Totals by Key Pastoral Factors graph definition has been provided in the Pastoral catalogue. The modified graph definition enables you to view only the data points for which you have been granted permissions in SIMS. Whole School Graph – this is for filtering and sharing A new graph definition has been provided in the Attendance catalogue that enables you to view the Whole School Attendance 17

SIMS Examinations Organiser

Examinations Organiser The pivotal Performance Indicator functionality from Examinations Organiser has been moved into SIMS to enable Capita to maintain and improve PI functions. A new route under Tools | Examinations has been created to carry out the following: Edit PI Data, PI Reports have been removed from EO and are now only accessible from SIMS Import of Qualification Data removed from under Statutory Returns Improvements to the display of Grades Inclusion of Non EDI results achieved in a previous season Produce Performance Indicator Reports in SIMS Examination Officers will be updated on their Network Meetings 19

SIMS Learning Gateway

Change requests have been implemented: Conduct Behaviour – Improved filters Conduct – on student dashboard option to hide either behaviour or achievement from the consolidated graph Conduct – behaviour and achievement types available for selection in register match those types that are flagged as ‘include in register’ Marksheets Automatically calculate on marksheet save Pupil Premium, First Language and Age in Years/Months as column options 22

SIMS Learning Gateway Further improvement for using SLG on iPad Mini Homework – add ability to filter students by Year Group, Reg Group, House and Tier have been added to Surname and Forename when selecting students to assign to a Homework Task Support for Office 2013 has been introduced 23