1. Mouchel St Helens IMS Event Wednesday 20 th April 2011

2. 1 Mouchel St Helens IMS Event 13:25 SIMS Update - Capita Children’s Services 14:15 IMS Update - St Helens LA Break 14:40 E-Caf – St Helens LA 15:10 SIMS Assessment Update - Capita Children’s Services 15:40 Service Update - Mouchel 16.00 Close

3. Mouchel Claire Gannon Lisa Almond Maxine Morris Steven Knowles Vicky Piert

4. 3 Assessment – what’s next? Help with traffic lights? Tracking progress? Tracking Grids? Discover? Advice? Are you interested?

5. 4 Discover Prerequisites Check hardware Installation & Setup Configuration User Defined Groups Behaviour Aspects Create Dynamic Groups Training Overview Assessment Overview – Primary Assessment Overview – Secondary On site Consultancy Interested?

6. 5 Discover – Current Capita Specifications Workstation Specification Server Specification Database50Mb Transaction Log100Mb (this can be reclaimed) CPU1.8 Ghz or faster processor Graphics CardMinimum - DirectX 90 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver Recommended – dedicated card with latest drivers installed and an integrated chipset MemoryMinimum 2Gb Recommended 4Gb Hard DiscNot applicable Capita are working to optimise this. This is for information only.

7. 6 SIMS & Mouchel Roadmap 2011 3 Releases for 2011 –Spring Release w/c 19 th April –Summer Release June / July.Net Framework 4.0 required Includes System Manager 7 –Autumn Release October / November

8. 7 Solus 3 Replacing SOLUS 2 with SOLUS 3 –.NET4 Deployment Service –A Service that controls and manages SIMS updates at a school –It knows SIMS config at School SIMS Agents –Sit on each ‘SIMS’ PC –A service that updates SIMS without user intervention

9. 8 Solus 3 Scheduled updates –Updates can be performed outside of lessons –New PC’s can have SIMS installed remotely The entire SIMS System can be automatically upgraded without user intervention. Users aren’t doing the upgrades! Any Infrastructure needed by SIMS can be packaged up and automatically deployed (e.g..Net framework 4) Installation & configuration required

10. 9 Technical Roadmap Server – 32 Bit and 64 Bit Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 – NEW –32 bit only Windows XP Workstation –32 Bit Windows Vista Business SP1 Windows XP Pro Sp2 – cease support from Aut 2012?? –32 and 64 Bit Windows 7 – NEW

11. 10 Technical - Software Software –Office 2003 / 2007 / 2010 (new) – all 32 bit –Office 2010 64 bit – Summer 2011.NET framework –.NET 2.0 SP1 minimum –.NET 4.0 is required for Discover Workstations SIMS Summer 2011 –SOLUS3 will install 4.0 Adobe Acrobat 6 (8 for Fees)

12. 11 IMS Booking website now live! – www.sthelens.org.uk/imstrainingwww.sthelens.org.uk/imstraining

13. 12 Training Programme – Summer 2011 New Summer Term Brochure/Flyer available –Using Behaviour Management Effectively –Course Manager & Post 16 Aims for Census –Diploma Management in Exams Organiser –Preparing for New Academic Year Pastoral & Academic –Role of the Pastoral Manager –School Census –SIMS for the Class Teacher –FMS New User

14. 13 Training Programme – Autumn 2011 New courses for Autumn 2011 –Discover – Autumn Term –Using Assessment Tracking Effectively –SIMS for the Classroom Teacher –SIMS.net Assessment Tracking Grids –System Manager On site –Assessment/APP –Discover - from September –End of Year

15. 14 Training Offers As Featured on IMS Course Booking Web-Site!

16. 15 Questions?