Blogs & Updates

Spring Census 2017 - Issues with COLLECT upload
  January 19 2017

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This post is for all schools and academies who upload their Census files straight to COLLECT. We have been made aware of an issue whereby some authorised files are not uploading and COLLECT is genera...
CES (Catholic Education Service) Census 2017
  January 17 2017

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The CES Census 2017 is this Thursday (19th January) - the same date as the Spring Census for the DfE. The Catholic Education Service has many resources to support schools with this return includi...
Tidy up time
  January 12 2017

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Although Census time allows schools to update a lot of information held in SIMS, the same old data issues often persist (contacts not showing correctly, no little houses, names in upper and lower ca...
Spring Census - Fileset 502
  January 03 2017

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A new Fileset (502) has been made available by Capita for the Spring Census. It contains updates to both the summary report and validation files. Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please check tha...
Consolidated Exams patch available
  December 15 2016

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Capita have now released a consolidated exams patch (22509) which adds the newly identified discount codes TA1, TA2 and TA3 as well as correcting JCQ Gradeset 43 and fixing basedata issues previous...
Spring 2017 Census
  December 09 2016

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Our step by step Census documentation is available now so that you can get ahead and start preparing for Spring Census day which is on Thursday 19th January. Preparing for the Spring Census ...
Reduce Paper Records and Improve Efficiency
  December 08 2016

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Back in the Summer, we published a blog about the new Direct Scan Solution from Brother. Please note this product is currently unavailable from our Procurement service and this blog is now for refer...
Updated KS4 Resources including Scatter Graphs
  December 07 2016

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New Version of CAS Key Groups Inspection Dashboard Report This report has now been updated to include the 2016 National figures which have just been published. When imported, the updated report wil...
SIMS for Safeguarding
  December 02 2016

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With Ofsted placing greater emphasis on safeguarding than ever before, it is essential that staff in schools are aware of their responsibilities and have confidence in the monitoring systems that are...
SIMS Training Courses in 2017  
  November 14 2016

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Dates for our 2017 SIMS courses are available to view now on our SIMS Training page. As well as some of the ever-popular, regular SIMS training courses you will also find some new courses on offer: ...