Your students and their parents will enjoy the convenience of selecting their options online, whilst you'll save hours of time and paperwork. SIMS Options allows you to seamlessly manage the whole process, it is easy to set up your plan and pathways. Once students have made their selections these are automatically fed back and classes are automatically created.
Intuitive and convenient for students and parents
Students and parents benefit from the convenience of being able to select their GCSE or A-level choices online through a simple intuitive portal. They can find out about the subject options, make selections from their assigned pathway, list subjects in order of preference and add reserves, as well as add comments for the school administrator. Submissions are instantly fed back into SIMS.
Seamlessly manage the whole process
It is easy to set up your options plan and pathways in SIMS Options and share with your students. Classes are created automatically, allowing you to define class size, grouping preferences and much more. You can also include applicant students from other schools in the process. With SIMS Options you can accurately keep track of progress in real time and ensure that important information does not go astray.
Improve efficiency and save time
You'll save countless hours of administration time by taking your options process online. You will no longer need to manually input, collate and sort each individual submission as SIMS Options does this automatically. You'll also be able to answer any submission queries quickly and easily, with all of the information you need available instantly within the software. SIMS Options frees your time, allowing you to focus on your other priorities.
How SIMS Options helps
Senior leaders
You can provide the best service for your student whilst saving valuable staff time and resources.
Timetablers
Classes and blocks are automatically created simplifying the whole process, while the manual override function ensures you have full control.
Administrators
Save hours of time inputting, collating and sorting your options submissions.
SIMS Options screenshots
SIMS Options makes the whole process of selecting options really simple. It enables pupils and parents to choose their options over the web, and so eradicates the filing and collating of individual submissions. This keeps the timetablers happy too by releasing precious hours of their time.
Geoff Worth, Head of Management Information and Data Infrastructure, Pate's Grammar School
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