Purpose: Urgent Information

Audience: All School Staff

Please note the ICT Network Meeting on Tuesday 15th November at Nene Infants, Wisbech has been cancelled. News of forthcoming events will be circulated shortly.

Helpline News

Purpose: For Information

Audience: All School Staff

The November issue of Helplines has now been sent out to schools via the courier bag. You can also access the Helplines by searching for Helplines from the Portal Home Page.

Schools can now upgrade to Sims .Net version 7.62 via Solus. Further details and Release Notes can be accessed from the Solus Planet on the Sims Home Page. To access the Sims Home Page search for sims home page on the Portal home page or click here.

SIMS FMS6 for Bank Accounts

Purpose: IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Audience: SIMS users

An e-mail has recently been circulated concerning a new version of the BCR Report that can be downloaded from the Portal. Please note that there are two files involved - a Word document and a smaller file with the extension srf. The srf file must NOT be opened - it can only be used by FMS6 for importing!

Please would users download and print the Word document then read it fully before attempting this process. It will still be necessary to carry out some editing on the Report once it has been imported, but this is much less work than would have been involved in carrying out the full edit of the BCR.

Once the Report has been imported print off a Ledger Code Check and a Structure Report by Row and Column to get some idea of the task involved. If the Ledger Code Check runs to more than a page you could fax the two reports through to the Helpline and they will provide details of what codes need to linked to which lines.

Opportunity for Schools - Partnership Project with E2BN

Purpose: For Information

Audience: All Headteachers

E2BN are looking for up to 50 schools to trial new Learning Pathways material (please see attached).

Secondary SIMS User Groups

Purpose: For Information

Audience: Secondary Schools

The documents and slides from these user groups are now published on the portal together with the answers to some of the questions asked at the meetings. Search on the portal for SUGS.

Assessment Manager and Performance Analysis - Sims need your help

Purpose: Short Questionnaire

Audience: All School Staff

Are any of these statements true for you?

I enter 'Sats' data for Year 2 and/or Year 6 or Year 9 pupils using Assessment Manager 6

I use Assessment Manager 6 to record pupil progress

I use Performance Analysis

If so, you can have an impact on how your marksheets etc will look next year. The plan is to make things easier and better for you. Just fill in the short questionnaire on screen with ticks and comments, email it to ampark@capita.co.uk and Sims will consider your responses.

(If you don't use Assessment Manager or Performance analysis, this could be forwarded to someone else in your school who does.)

More ICT News on the Portal...

Do you regularly check the ICT News page on the Portal? It features all the latest ICT-related news of importance to Cambridgeshire's schools.

To take a look, simply search for "ict news" from the portal front page, or select 'ICT News' on the ICT Service home page (www.ict.ccceducation.net).