Course overview

This course explores how to make the best use of SIMS Attendance to fulfil day-to-day statutory attendance monitoring requirements.

Benefits of attending

Learn how to use SIMS Attendance for effective pupil attendance monitoring. 

What you will learn

• planning a strategy for managing the statutory attendance process

• customising SIMS Attendance to meet the specific needs of your school

• understanding the links with other functionality in SIMS

• identifying the most efficient way of collecting attendance data

• understanding how to maintain attendance data effectively

• reporting attendance data to help monitor attendance.

Who is it for?

Staff with responsibility for maintaining Pupil/Student attendance records. An understanding of attendance procedures and familiarity with SIMS would be beneficial. Please note that Lesson Monitor is not covered on this course.

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Course Curriculum

  Course Documentation
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  Course Introduction
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  Schools new to Attendance
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  Setting up the SIMS Homepage
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  Attendance Setups, User Defined Groups & Attendance Codes
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  Taking the register
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  Maintaining the attendance data
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  Part Time Pupils
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  Display Marks
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  SIMS Attendance Letters
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  Attendance Reports
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  Using SIMS Discover to view attendance data
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Hi, I’m Jill Green your SIMS Course Trainer


I get great pleasure in helping schools get the best out of their SIMS software.

I have 25+ years of experience using SIMS – in a school environment, a Local Authority support team and 11 years as a software consultant with Capita

I have delivered consultancies all over the world in all types of schools from nursery schools through to Sixth form colleges and Prep Schools through to Senior Schools.

I have spent many days with admin teams in schools helping them to improve workflow processes to increase efficiency.