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Ben Jones
Parental Engagement
““SIMS Learning Gateway
SLG provides secure access to children’s progress for parents and strengthens the triangle of communication between school, parent and pupil.
Neil McClementsRainey Endowed School
SIMS Learning Gateway
• Installed in over 2,500 schools
• Over 600 schools on Capita Hosted SLG
• Continued growth this year
SLG Headlines
• Expand Two Way Communication
• Deliver Customer Change Requests
• Continue to enhance Homework
• Develop ease of reporting
• HSLG – Password Management
HSLG – over the summer
• Communication went out to all HSLG schools
• Reminder of process
• New UI for logging on
• Removal of \Hosted
Autumn - Passport Number in Data Collection Sheet
Autumn – Marksheet Summary
1. Colour Rendering Improvements
2. Marksheet Summary
Autumn - Hyperlinks for contact info
Autumn – Homework Assessment in SIMS
1. Teacher link homework to aspect and result set in SIMS
Homework cont....
1. Teacher link homework to aspect and result set in SIMS
2. Update Reporting Dictionary• Add Staff and School
• Add extended due date
3. Class Information and select students from class
Spring 2015 – Homework Statuses
• "show late homework" will be changed to "show homework status“
• web part property to globally hide all statuses
Spring 2015 – Teacher Homework View
• Homepage Widget for teachers to view their own homework
Spring 2014 – Pre-defined Reports
• All fields available in reporting dictionary
• Homework• Teacher• Hierarchy
• SLG Alert Widget• How many parents have completed DCS• How many parents have read published reports• Report for which parents have not
If we can.....Reports in SLG Widgets
““SIMS InTouch
SIMS InTouch saves us time and makes communication instant, helping with behaviour and attendance issues
Janet EpplestonNorth Chadderton
InTouch in 2014
• Total emails processed....
• Total SMS processed....
• Total emails and SMS received.....
16.5 million
4.2 million
1/2 million
Making InTouch even easier to support
• Removal of VPN and IIS means:• InTouch is even easier to support• Reduce lead time• Low touch install
• Easy to switch over• Upgrade to Autumn
How will Schools upgrade?
• InTouch web services and VPN run in parallel
• If SSM not installed, InTouch continues to run with VPN on Autumn
• School upgrades to Autumn
• SSM is installed & InTouch services started
• School receives email, copy and pastes the licence key into set up screen
Install Process
InTouch Spring
• No need to set up the Scheduler Service
• Automatic Scheduling of Messages and Reminders
• Improvements to Spam filtering
• Further increase speed Store templates in the school
database
• Flag messages
““SIMS Agora
Using SIMS Agora has been very easy for our school – it just works! Our parents like the system too and really appreciate the convenience of being able to make payments online, whenever and wherever they wish to.
Mrs Jean Robinson Didsbury CofE Primary School
Agora
• Installed in over 255 schools
• Over 18,500 active parent accounts
• Over £3.5 million processed since launch
• 99,000 transactions
• September - £500,000 transaction value
Agora Headlines
• LA Demo sites made available to sales
• Cashless Catering ready for early adopters
• Only Accredited SIMS Partners
• Ability to roll back data if required
• FMS Pilot underway
• Improved child management capabilities and usability
• Part of making Agora the One Stop Shop for parents to make all payments for their children
• Enables parents to pay for their child’s dinner money online with funds automatically credited to the pupils account
• Removes cash from school premises
What is Cashless Catering?
Rollback of SIMS
The rollback tool detects any schools that require data to be rolled back and confirms the number of changesets affected.
Additional Synchronisation Statuses
The green tick denotes a successful synchronisation
The orange exclamation mark means no synchronisation in the last 24 hours
The red cross means synchronisation failed
The cycle means it has an unknown synchronisation status
The Agora Dashboard screen shows the synchronisation status of the SIMS upload, the FMS download and the School Meals upload and downloads.
Improve Child Management
• Ability to easily add children
• Ability to change the preferred child name
• Ability to change the order that children appear on screen
• Ability to show or hide children
• Clearer labels and options
Improve Child Management – Adding a child
Add Child button now on homepage
A wizard now guides customers to add initial and additional children
The edit function allows the name the child appears as can be changed
The customer can change the order children appear on the homepage
Improve Child Management - Personalisation
Labels have been changed to be more intuitive
Before Christmas.....
• Universal Free School Meals
• Diagnostics and Reporting
• Student Statement of all Transactions
• Documentation for SIMS Support Units
• Record Refunds
Manual Refunds
Manual Refunds – Select Order Item
Manual Refunds – Marked as Refund
Manual Refund – Finalise Refund
Agora Future Priorities
• Improvements to on-boarding process
• Functionality Enhancements• Product Page enhancements• Reporting• Notifications• Paypoint• Paying in instalments• Transaction surcharges• Store card facility