This Course is designed to introduce you to the new features of Office 2010 and to ensure you have a smooth transition from previous versions of the software. It will cover the key features and changes throughout the Office 2010 suite of Applications.
Oct 052011
This course has been designed specifically for those schools that have previously been Central Payment Schools and have just, or are about to, become an Academy. This course will provide delegates with the skills that they need in order to operate independently.
The course is aimed at senior teaching staff involved in the strategic planning of assessment and reporting and staff engaged in the day to day maintenance of the assessment process. It will provide delegates with the ability to analyse the full range of their students’ assessment data using the functionality within SIMS Analysis.
This course is for experienced users of SIMS Assessment or those who have previously attended SIMS Assessment courses. It will provide delegates with the ability to analyse the full range of their students’ assessment data using the functionality within SIMS Analysis.
This course has been designed to assist assessment co-ordinators, school administrators and class teachers in Primary schools, in using the new SIMS pre-defined APP Grids to assess pupil progress based on the National Strategies guidelines. The provided grids automatically link to the tracking pupils’ progress marksheets and aspects. The Progress Grid functionality is designed to replace the paper-based National Strategies Assessing Pupil Progress (APP) grids.
This course will explore the production of high quality, fully customisable reports for parents based on Profiles, which uses editable pre defined comments and / or free text and Assessment Individual Reports. Data recorded in SIMS Assessment, Attendance and other areas of SIMS can be linked to a report.
A sound working knowledge of SIMS Assessment would be beneficial if Assessment results are to be incorporated in reports for parents.
This course is for experienced users of SIMS Assessment or those who have previously attended SIMS Assessment courses. You will learn how to analyse the full range of your students’ assessment data using the functionality within SIMS Analysis. It will take you through the advanced features of the software in order to realise the potential of SIMS Assessment and Analysis as a tool to drive improvements in student achievement. This course will cover the creation and maintenance of user-defined groups; the creation and use analysis grids; group, aspect, chance and result-set; using Individual Reports for analysis; creating tracking grids; the design and construction of complex Assessment templates and utilising progression and value-added graphs.
This two day course covers the essential skills needed to build and implement an assessment system in school. The course will examine how SIMS Assessment can be utilised to create a customised tracking system for both KS3 and KS4 and explore the potential of SIMS Assessment. This course assumes no previous knowledge of SIMS Assessment although some experience of the use of SIMS would be an advantage but not essential.
This course introduces you to Assessment Manager 7. It will provide you with the ability to record and view a full range of your pupils’ assessment data in order that you can quickly and easily track pupils’ progress, monitor individuals and groups effectively and share information across the school, parents and other interested organisations. It is important that delegates have a good understanding of their school’s pupil Assessment and Reporting Policy.
This Workshop covers how to customise the analysis of your examination results and assessment data to suit your school’s requirements. Using Grid, Chance, Trend, Aspect and Result Set Analysis you will be able to perform a greatere range and depth of anlysis.
Apr 282011
SIMS Discover is the next generation of analyse sofware for SIMS, which allows a wide range of data from SIMS to be interrogated in a clean, modern interface with simple drag and drop actions
The Key Stage Wizard is a tool to simplify the process of entering the statutory End of Key Stage Assessments into SIMS. This Presentation will cover everything you need to know to enter this information, create reports and export results to either your LA and/or the National Assessment Agency