Blogs & Updates

COVID-19 Guidance for Education Settings
  March 05 2020
Guidance for schools and other educational settings in providing advice about the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 This guidance will assist schools and other educational settings in providing advice for...
SIMS Attendance and Attendance Reporting Course
  March 02 2020

MIS

SIMS Attendance and Attendance Reporting Course coming this March This course provides a comprehensive overview of SIMS Attendance and how it can facilitate your attendance procedures. Delivered b...
Upcoming changes in the Capita FMS 2020 Spring Release
  February 25 2020
This blog contains information about SBS Finance, MIS and SBS Budgets. Capita has outlined what's new in the upcoming Capita FMS 2020 Spring Release, which is due out in the middle of March. The c...
SBS Schools Data Forum - March 2020
  February 13 2020

MIS

Our first Schools Data Forum of 2020 provides information for Primary, Special and Secondary Schools. Did you know about our Schools Data Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and bein...
SIMS Options Training Courses
  January 30 2020

MIS

We're delivering SIMS Options Training Courses in February We offer two different courses for SIMS Options - SIMS Options Standard (Options 5) and SIMS Options Online. SIMS Options Standard (Optio...
SIMS Standard Reporting Course
  January 28 2020

MIS

SIMS Standard Reporting Course coming this February This course introduces the user to the report designing process in SIMS with the objective to extract useful information from the Pupil/Student d...
February SIMS Training Courses
  January 27 2020

MIS

Take a look at what we have got coming up this February! Our SIMS training courses are ideal for maximising the use of your system, training your team or to prepare you for a new role in a school. Be...
IMPORTANT – SIMS Census Exclusion Issue
  January 22 2020

MIS

Is SIMS Census exclusion data being reported correctly in your Spring Census? Currently the SIMS 7 and SIMS Primary census applications are reporting permanent exclusions data where the Exclusion...
The end of Windows 7 and what this means for ICT security
  January 14 2020
As of today, the 14th January 2020, Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows 7! What does this mean? Microsoft will no longer create and push out Windows updates There will be no more sec...
MIS Spring Census 2020 guidance
  January 13 2020

MIS

The MIS Spring Census 2020 will be on Thursday 16th January. This blog includes guidance documentation for 3 MIS systems and the fileset for SIMS users. Welcome back after what we hope was a nice re...