This remote training session provides a perfect introduction if you are new to SIMS.

Understand how to set up, customise and implement Cover to manage all aspects of classroom staff and room unavailability. Explore the dynamic links of the module to other areas of SIMS. Review the classroom staff absence and cover statistics. Analyse the impact of absent classroom staff on students.

FMS is a finance package that runs separately to SIMS but may be linked to gain information from SIMS.
FMS is capable of recording all order and invoice information for suppliers, recording budgets and commitments along with cash book transactions, petty cash and general journals. It also produces cheque runs and bank reconciliations along with all the period end/year end procedures.

This course covers the end of year procedures in FMS specifically for academies to enable the smooth closure of the accounts prior to year end.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

FMS is a finance package that runs separately to SIMS but which can be linked to gain information from SIMS.
FMS is capable of recording all order and invoice information for suppliers, recording budgets and commitments along with cash book transactions, petty cash and general journals. It also produces cheque runs and bank reconciliations along with all the period end/year end procedures. It can also store and calculate salary information as well as produce sales invoices and record equipment although the last two are not covered in detail in this course.

This course provides delegates with an understanding of how to maintain and manage staff personal, professional and contractual data, including the links between Personnel and FMS.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

This course covers the maintenance and management of staff personal, professional and contractual data. There will be a focus on data collected by the School Workforce Census.

This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

Delegates are taken through the preliminary preparation for the census return, including the procedure for creating a return and correcting any outstanding validation errors. The course also explores the current return together with requirements for other returns.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

Delegates are taken through the preliminary preparation for the census return, including the procedure for creating a return and correcting any outstanding validation errors. The course also explores the current return together with requirements for other returns. The course does not cover Course Manager functionality, Post-16 Programmes of Study or Prior Attainment in English or Maths.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

This course provides delegates with an understanding of the data collected by the School Workforce Census and explores how SIMS can be configured to provide the data and how to produce the return itself and resolve data issues.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.