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SIMS Recording Attendance and Setups

Audience: Primary School Attendance Officers
  • Key Stage 2
  • Key Stage 1
  • Foundation

This webinar on SIMS Attendance Recording & Setup is perfect for school office staff who are new to SIMS or taking on new responsibilities with attendance management. With the fast-paced demands of a school office, mastering attendance tracking is essential, and this session is designed to help you do just that.

Why Watch this Webinar?

Get Comfortable with SIMS: Whether you’re just starting out with SIMS or expanding your role, this webinar will give you the skills and confidence to use the system effectively for managing attendance.

Streamline Attendance Processes: Learn how to set up and manage attendance effectively, ensuring that you can easily track and maintain accurate attendance records for your school.

Boost Office Efficiency: By mastering attendance tracking in SIMS, you’ll make daily operations run more smoothly, ensuring that attendance is recorded quickly and accurately every day.

Grow in Your Role: This training will equip you with the tools you need to handle one of the most important tasks in the school office, making you an even more valuable member of the team.

If you’re looking to confidently take on the responsibility of managing attendance in your school, this webinar is a great opportunity to build your skills.

The expected learning outcomes include:

  • Knowledge of the Attendance Setup routines and how these can be adapted for your school, including restricting codes used by teachers.
  • Managing attendance in bulk, including setting up weekly patterns and checking for missing marks.
  • Overview on the attendance codes brought in by the DfE in August 2024 and how these are managed within SIMS.

Delegates will learn how to customise the attendance setup to meet their school’s specific needs, as well as how to add, edit, and maintain student attendance data in SIMS—key skills essential for managing daily attendance tasks in the school office.

Setups and Codes

  • Attendance Module Setup
  • Attendance Codes

Take Register

  • Accessing and Taking the Register – Class Teacher
  • Take Register for Different Date or Teacher
  • Using links to other Areas of SIMS

Maintaining Attendance

  • Editing Session Marks
  • Dealing with Missing Marks

  • Enter a Code over a Date Range

  • Enter a Weekly Pattern (Part time pupils)

  • Entering an Exceptional Circumstance

Changes to Attendance from 19 August 2024

  • Entering Multi Character Codes
  • Statutory Reasons

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