Blogs & Updates

Census Consolidated Patch v2
  October 01 2018

MIS

There is now a Census Consolidated Patch v2 for Summer Release 2018 (patch 24330) is necessary to correct the issue in the SIMS application for schools receiving error 1992 when running School Census...
Are you experiencing issues with your Agora program?
  October 01 2018

MIS

We recently received this Capita document which can provide information to help with this Agora issue. Download now! ➝ If you would like any further information, please email misservicedesk@...
SIMS Autumn Census guidance 2018
  September 21 2018

MIS

The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 4th October 2018 With October coming around fast it’s time again for that joyous thing that is the October School Census. To help with carrying it out we
Your updated Pupil Premium 2018/19
  September 21 2018

MIS

As many of you are no doubt aware, your Pupil Premium ‘ticks’ will not have carried over from last year and so will need to be re-entered. Thankfully to make our lives a little easier, you can ...
MIS Service Desk high volume of calls
  September 06 2018

MIS

The MIS Service Desk is experiencing an exceptionally high volume of calls this week and we would please ask that you bear with us as we will deal with things in a priority order. We do understand t...
Urgent and Important – Exams PI Report Problem
  August 13 2018

MIS

Exams PI Report Problem It has been found that the fileset 1001 causes a problem for one of the reports in the Exams PI and it has therefore been withdrawn. The existence of this fileset may be unkno...
SIMS Exams and Results Day – 2018 edition
  July 30 2018

MIS

The summer holidays are finally upon us with Mediterranean sunshine to help us forget about the school year, but for those of you involved in SIMS Exams and Results Day there’s still a little more ...
News round-up from the SBS Capita-accredited SIMS team
  July 25 2018

MIS

SBS MIS support team achieves Capita SIMS accreditation for the third time! Our accreditation visit, led by Capita's Professional Services team, took place during the SBS Company Developmen...
New SIMS patch available: Issue with Contacts and CTFs with Pre-Admissions
  July 18 2018

MIS

This is an update from our previous blog in June Previous information: what is the issue? Capita have discovered an issue with importing CTFs for pre-admissions that may cause some problems with yo...
Are you ready for Analysing in SIMS?
  July 16 2018

MIS

Capita End of Key Stage, Exams, and Post-16 Analysis We know that at this time of year there are a lot of assessments and results to analyse and a lot of headline figures to collate and work out. T...