Jo Perry and Kirsty Dixon – SIMS Account Managers SIMS Roadmap Capita One National User Group 2014

Agenda SIMS Summer Release Statutory Returns SLG Performance Suite Personnel and SEN Exams

School Census Autumn 2014 DfE 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 Release Change 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 Release Change 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 Release Change 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 Colour Assessment Marksheet Order Rows

Conceal / Reveal selected columns Assessment Marksheet Hide / Show columns

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 sets Assessment Mapping Facility

SIMS Discover Group Filtering Allow Dynamic Groups to be used for Filtering

SIMS Discover New Assessment Graphs Assessment 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

Personnel Changes 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

SEN Changes 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

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