1. Welcome to the Spring software update session

2. Housekeeping  Mobile phones  Toilets  Fire exits

3. Agenda  Preparing for the Summer Term BREAK  Capita Quality and Customer Care processes  SIMS developments for academies and schools

4. Preparing for the summer term

5. SIMS Yearbook  Check list/reminder of key tasks  Provides links to related information  Useful guidance for new staff  Is updated during SIMS upgrades Preparation

6. SIMS Admissions Groups  Pupil data input efficiently managed  Profile of student performance and contextual data supports early planning and intervention  Personalised communications with new parents/carers  Safeguarding – all students accounted for at the point of transfer Data in once, shared many times

7. Student lists  Extract key student data items quickly and simply  Provide to user in a variety of formats  Access using different technologies  Safeguarding – all students accounted for at the point of transfer Anytime access

8. Student progress  Quickly indentify students who are not achieving targets  Quickly track progress of key pupil groups  Identify success of interventions  Profile performance year on year Enhanced learning

9. SIMS Developments - Headlines

10. SIMS Developments – Headlines  Updated Primary Tracking Progress Grids for England to show P-scales alongside NC levels  Updated 2012 Key stage Assessment Wizards for England and Wales  Group filters now added to Group Analysis Assessment

11. SIMS Developments – Headlines Assessment

12. SIMS Developments – Headlines Discover

13. SIMS Developments – Headlines Discover

14. SIMS Developments – Headlines  Restrict the attendance codes for users  Take Register – additional columns  Achievement, Quick Note, Boarder Status  Teachers add student to register  Persistent Absence Report – ability to select 15% or 20%  History of changes report in Lesson Monitor shows who originally recorded the mark Attendance & Lesson Monitor

15. SIMS Developments – Headlines Attendance & Lesson Monitor

16. SIMS Developments – Headlines NOVA T6

17. SIMS Developments – Headlines  Exams – user definable special arrangements  Reports – filters re deceased students  Profiles – Tutors read only access to other areas of report Send alert when report marked not approved

18. SIMS Developments – Headlines  Consistent Financial Reporting  Asset Management  Automatic journal entries for add and retire  Create automatic straightline depreciation journals  Reports  Asset List  Retired Assets  Asset by Asset Detail Reports Finance

19. SIMS Developments – Headlines  Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office  SQL 2008 will be supported throughout 2012 and 2013  Need to plan and budget for migration to SQL 2012 for both licence and technical work  Support end for Office 2003 in Spring 2013  Plan upgrade to Office 2010 Technical

20. SIMS Developments – Headlines  SupportNet – http://support.capitaes.co.ukhttp://support.capitaes.co.uk  SIMS Roadmap – Resource 18820  SIMS Technical Roadmap – 17910  Release information – SIMS Documentation Supporting Documentation & Information