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SIMS Learning Gateway Ben Jones – Product Manager
Agenda • ICO, Data Protection and SLG • Spring Release Demonstration • Summer Release • Autumn Release • InTouch
ICO Guidelines, Security and SLG • SLG is live, data not extracted from SIMS • HSLG, only usernames, passwords and online reports • Data collection sheet • “Can be disclosed” tick box • Parent must be parental contact AND live at some address • Configure the data you want to show • Password Complexity......
SLG Spring • Google Chrome support • Data Collection Sheet – hide tabs, schools can choose what data parents can modify • Mobile Browser access for Parents and Pupils • User Interface change of Student Summary
Password Re-set • Password re-set process.... • User forgets password, clicks on forgotten password link • User is prompted to enter username • User is asked for security Q and A defined in My Account Page in SLG • User is emailed new 1 time access password and changes once logged in • Single service day for us to set up for you • Summer Release - HSLG • Auto reminder of Security Question and Answer • Removal of \Hosted • New UI for Login • Authentication review - ADFS Investigation – SP2013
Summer Release • ADPS Release • Consolidation routine within ADPS Console • Disabled Account Handling • Error handling/bypass error account requests • SQL 2012 Support • Customised script to extract additional details • Password re-set HSLG • New UI for Login • Removal of \Hosted • Auto reminder of Security Question and Answer
Ofsted • Quality of Teaching: • “Teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework, together with support and intervention, match individual needs.”
SLG Autumn 2013 • Homework • Record handed in/not handed in/handed in late • Allow teachers to apply a mark to the homework • Marks to be available in Assessment Manager • Mobile browser view for Parents and Pupils • Link documents • Reports: • Pupils that have handed in homework • Comparison between marks and ‘handed in’ trends • SharePoint 2013 support
Thank You – Questions? Ben Jones
SIMS InTouch Pamela Yeung – Product Manager
Agenda • Spring 2013 Release • Summer/Autumn 2013
Spring 2013 Release – New Features • Integration with Dinner Money • Bulk sending Dinner Money Letters • Integration with Cover • Sending Cover Alerts to Teachers • Integration with Discover • Send messages to members of Discover Groups
Spring 2013 Release – Customer Requests • Student General Message • Send personalized bulk messages – including User Defined Fields • Save against the student’s communication log • Match messages to unexplained Absences • Where a parent proactively sends a school a message regarding absence
Savings with SIMS InTouch (per year) Primary Schools £2,629 26,550 sheets of paper 184 hours Secondary Schools £10,913 35, 846 sheets of paper 445 hours
Summer/Autumn 2013 Release Installation of SIMS InTouch
Thank You – Questions? Pamela Yeung