
Posted on 6th September 2018
MIS Service Desk high volume of calls
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...

Posted on 13th August 2018
Urgent and Important – Exams PI Report Problem
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has been found that the fileset 1001 causes a problem for one of the reports in the Exams PI and it has therefore been withdrawn.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...

Posted on 30th July 2018
SIMS Exams and Results Day – 2018 edition
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 ...

Posted on 25th July 2018
News round-up from the SBS Capita-accredited SIMS team
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...

Posted on 18th July 2018
New SIMS patch available: Issue with Contacts and CTFs with Pre-Admissions
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...

Posted on 16th July 2018
Are you ready for Analysing in SIMS?
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...

Posted on 12th July 2018
Your SIMS Summer Upgrade is here! (7.182)
The Change Request Release! The new upgrade is out and available now and comes with a vast array of little changes that have been made based on customer feedback through Capita’s Change Request sys...

Posted on 9th July 2018
Downloading & Importing KS2 test results
How to download & import KS2 test results from the NCA Tools Website Downloading the result file in CTF format read Login to the NCS tools Website Click here with the credentials supplied to the ...

Posted on 5th July 2018
Next generation of Exams in SIMS
Capita have released a sneak preview of the direction they’re heading for the next generation of Exams in SIMS. A very early preview of what to expect and how you can feedback with your thoughts. ...

Posted on 18th June 2018
SIMS FAULT : Issue with Contacts and CTFs with Pre-Admissions
Contact Matching when importing CTFs for new Admissions is broken! Capita have discovered an issue with importing CTFs for pre-admissions that may cause some problems with your contacts. Simply put...

Posted on 13th June 2018
End of Key Stage Processes
The sun is shining, quick, get the BBQ out! Oh, and do your End of Key Stage Processes! It’s hit June, we’re getting hot weather and it’s finally looking as though Summer is arriving. Time yet...

Posted on 30th May 2018
End of Year Procedures for the end of 17/18 - Nearly there!
We’re hitting the final stretch and its time to be thinking about your End of Year Processes. Below you will find 2 different types of the EOY documents; the Summary and the Detailed. The 'Summa...