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SIMS the MIS of choice supporting teachers, senior leaders and wider staff with the tools to efficiently drive improvement in their schools.
Guidance is split in to topics with 'General Guidance' usually being the best place to start with overviews. A Section call 'AOB' has been created to hold documentation which is not related to other material.
Resources are given below.
Integrations based on SIMS Business Objects, various articles of generic advice.
Interfacing with SIMS 7 Assessment is one of the best ways to add value to a school's SIMS MIS data.
Command reporter is the simplest and cheapest way for integrators to get data out of SIMS.
Dinner Money 7 was designed to make the lives of dinner money administrators as simple as possible as a consequence, presents challenges for integrators!
Schools, particularly in the 11 plus sector base their curriculum delivery on a period based time table. This section explains concepts and interfaces used in timetabling
A collection of guidance documents for interfacing with student apis.
Partner APIs are one of the easier ways to read and write data to SIMS 7 but the scope is more limited than our own internal APIs.
SIMS 7 & FMS 6 have need for local backup. This explains processes and accreditation
Some parts of SIMS 7 offer change tracking. Where TI data models are similar, these APIs can significantly reduce data exchange volumes between applications.
How to access/update student and staff photos. As a note of caution, photographs provided by school photographers usually remain the copyright of the photographer.
Includes guidance on ATF / AIF Import and coding to update applications / applicants.
How to add or update behaviour and achievements within SIMS 7.
Documents linked to entities in SIMS are actually a 'note' with an optional attachment (the actual document).
If you can't find topics elsewhere then this would be the best place to look.
Interfacing SIMS Staff data including HR systems
A collection of code samples that may assist TIs