Academic

Currently to produce an individual pdf file of the current report for the whole year group, we use the 'Create a Zip' option in Portal publishing. However, this option produces the individual pdfs in a folder by Form or by School id. Can we please...

The ability to use the statement bank in the general comment section would be useful. For example: "I hope <<Firstname>> has enjoyed the activities this term" At the moment it would mean going into each pupil's comment individually and...

Cover Module - we understand that you can select and "manage timetable suspensions" to collapse a year and free up teachers and rooms. However we would like to be able to collapse a year, free up the rooms - but not free up the teachers. This is n...

It would be very helpful if there was the facility to link sets in the development database.

Some of our younger year groups have a different number of periods on some days of the week, and some of the timings vary between days. Whilst the School day is the same length each day, the structure can vary, e.g. Two half-hour lessons instead o...

It would be great to be able to see all student ion a selected cohort and then add them into math sets for example in a tick grid or be able to export set list by subject with all classes in and then correct these and re-import them in SIMS this c...

While our teacher timetable was set up in time it would be good to be able to clone a timetable to another member of staff, either for when something changes mid year, or adding to to teaching assitants.

Our old system was set up so that a teacher marked the whole class as complete, so if they had nothing to say about students they still recorded the fact that they had finished entering data for the class. Some teachers will have over 150 students...

It would be useful if seating plans - in addition to stating when a candidate has, e.g., 25% extra time or a Word Processor - could show when a candidate has additional EAA notes, so that invigilators know that they need to check what these are. I...

When you have a full room but need to manually adjust seating, for those with access arrangements etc, it would be useful to have space outside the plan to temporarily move students. Otherwise the full room leaves very little room for maneuver.