SIMS offers a wide range of remote training courses and expert consultancy options specifically designed to help you use SIMS to drive whole school improvement.
This half day course explores the budget management functionality present within FMS and explains how to use this functionality to actively manage the school budget.
A school’s management information system (MIS) holds a vast amount of data, which if accurately maintained can be used to inform school improvement strategies and support a wide range of school management activities including processing statutory returns.
The school office is the hub of day-to-day pupil data management. Using typical scenarios encountered on a regular basis, this course takes a new user through the main procedures for maintaining accurate and useful data within the school’s MIS.
This course introduces delegates to the report designing process.
NOTE: We have recently updated our course names to better support our customers in finding the course they need, the course content has not changed only the name has been updated. This course was previously titled Standard Reporting.
This course explores the production of existing reports and the design of custom reports to support the analysis of personnel data.
NOTE: We have recently updated our course names to better support our customers in finding the course they need, the course content has not changed only the name has been updated. This course was previously titled Reporting from Personnel.
SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) covers the full range of accounting functions required by schools, whether they run their own accounts locally or have their finances managed centrally by their Local Authority. FMS is a finance package that runs separately to SIMS but which can be linked to gain information from SIMS.
FMS can record all order and invoice information for suppliers, recording budgets and commitments along with cash book transactions, petty cash and general journals. It also produces cheque runs and bank reconciliations along with all the period end/year end procedures. It can also store and calculate salary information using SIMS as well as produce sales invoices and record equipment and Assets.
This course is designed for administration staff who add, maintain and use contact and address data. Maintaining this data correctly enables SIMS to generate Salutations and Addressee details for contacts which can then be used to customise various types of correspondence including mail merged documents and use of the Quick Letter functionality.
Part of the SIMS Office User course suite.
SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) covers the full range of accounting functions required by schools, whether they run their own accounts locally or have their finances managed centrally by their Local Authority. FMS is a finance package that runs separately to SIMS but which can be linked to gain information from SIMS.
FMS can record all order and invoice information for suppliers, recording budgets and commitments along with cash book transactions, petty cash and general journals. It also produces cheque runs and bank reconciliations along with all the period end/year end procedures. It can also store and calculate salary information using SIMS as well as produce sales invoices and record equipment and Assets.
This short course provides an overview of System Manager. It covers creating new users, altering permissions and assigning passwords. You will be made aware of data security and the responsibilities you have relating to sensitive data and learn the skills needed to manage users of a SIMS system.
NOTE: We have recently updated our course names to better support our customers in finding the course they need, the course content has not changed only the name has been updated. This course was previously titled System Manager - SIMS.
FMS Reports provide a comprehensive overview of your school’s finances enabling you to manage your budget and meet your reporting requirements for all your stakeholders.
The school office is the hub of day-to-day pupil data management. Using typical scenarios encountered on a regular basis this course covers procedures for adding new pupils, leavers and importing/exporting Common Transfer Files (CTFs).