I'm trying to find a forum of some sort of capita sims users, mainly because I find users to be far more helpful in things that make their lives easier, than the software owners.
So, anyone?
Posted Jan 13, 2012, 7:12 PM UTC
Sims.net?
yeah, I guess that's what the shortcut is called.
used in schools, manages all the student and staff data.
I'm managing a system now, and would like to talk to other people who are doing the same to grow my knowledge of it.
Sims, on r/unitedkingdom?!
I'm an IT technician in a secondary school, although Sims is not my area of expertise, as long as the client's installed and running that's my part of it sorted. The boss does all the server side stuff.
I'll secomd kaerast's recommendation for Edugeek - it's a good forum for school IT techies and managers.
Capita are the govt. contractor who write the software, it's called Sims.net because it requires the Microsoft .NET Framework to run.
They have a forum for Sims here, but I'll have to ask my colleagues on Monday what the requirements for registering are, I think it's tied in to your school's Sims licencing and support contracts.
thanks, I got registered on the site for sims, so that's a start.
and edugeek will be tomorrow.
but I'm glad there are some of you in the know on here.
Edugeek is definitely what you want.
I work for eSchools and lead MIS integration, so I know quite a bit about SIMS. Happy to answer any questions you might have.
Edugeek is a good place to start, they have a forum for MIS systems. TeachMeets are a good place to meet other teachers and tend to be quite heavily tech-orientated, you may find some local SIMS experts if you attend your local meet. And if you attended Bett this week you'll probably have met companies who support and integrate it, including my current employer.
I vaguely recall a discussion a month or two ago about Sims being replaced by another product in the near future, though I may have gotten that confused as it's not my area of expertise.
thanks for the leads, I'll be sure to look them up this weekend.
I didn't attend Bett, I just started my job, but the IT guy at the school did, he was all about some speech given yesterday.
my next local meet isn't for a few weeks, and I have my first class in a couple weeks too, I was just looking to be ahead of the game.
I have a few things I'd like to get out of sims to make my day-to-day go by quicker, and be able to focus more on what I can provide to the teachers/tutors that will be informative quickly. I figure other managers are looking at the same things, and to talk to them would be fantastic - even ahead of the meet.