Creating Reports in SIMS

Duration of package - Full Day On-site

Benefits of the service

This consultancy introduces you to the report designing process in SIMS with the objective of being able to extract useful information from the pupil database in a variety of formats.

Description of Service

SIMS holds a vast amount of data which can be used to inform school improvement strategies and support a wide range of school management activities including processing statutory returns and maintaining GDPR compliance.

This day will guide you through the basics of the designing reports using tasks based on typical scenarios which arise daily within the school office and prepare you to:

• respond to requests for information

• produce lists of information

• produce mail merged address labels

• produce mail merged letters

• use preview and filtering and sorting effectively

• re–use and modify reports

• select an appropriate output format

  Pre-requisites

Permissions in SIMS to access data to be reported on