mouchel st helens ims event wednesday 20 th april 2011
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Mouchel St Helens IMS EventWednesday 20th April 2011
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Mouchel St Helens IMS Event
• 13:25 SIMS Update - Capita Children’s Services • • 14:15 IMS Update - St Helens LA• Break• 14:40 E-Caf – St Helens LA• 15:10 SIMS Assessment Update - Capita Children’s
Services • 15:40 Service Update - Mouchel
• 16.00 Close
Mouchel
Claire Gannon Lisa Almond Maxine MorrisSteven KnowlesVicky Piert
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Assessment – what’s next?
• Help with traffic lights?
• Tracking progress?
• Tracking Grids?
• Discover?
• Advice?
• Are you interested?
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Discover Prerequisites
• Check hardware
• Installation & Setup
• Configuration
• User Defined Groups
• Behaviour
• Aspects
• Create Dynamic Groups
• Training
• Overview
• Assessment Overview – Primary
• Assessment Overview – Secondary
• On site Consultancy
• Interested?
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Discover – Current Capita Specifications
• Workstation Specification
• Server Specification
Database 50Mb
Transaction Log 100Mb (this can be reclaimed)
CPU 1.8 Ghz or faster processor
Graphics Card Minimum - DirectX 90 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driverRecommended – dedicated card with latest drivers installed and an integrated chipset
Memory Minimum 2GbRecommended 4Gb
Hard Disc Not applicable
Capita are working to optimise this. This is for information only.
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SIMS & Mouchel Roadmap 2011
• 3 Releases for 2011
– Spring Release• w/c 19th April
– Summer Release• June / July• .Net Framework 4.0 required• Includes System Manager 7
– Autumn Release• October / November
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Solus 3
• Replacing SOLUS2 with SOLUS3
– .NET4
• Deployment Service– A Service that controls and manages
SIMS updates at a school– It knows SIMS config at School
• SIMS Agents– Sit on each ‘SIMS’ PC – A service that updates SIMS without
user intervention
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Solus 3
• Scheduled updates– Updates can be performed outside of lessons– New PC’s can have SIMS installed remotely
• The entire SIMS System can be automatically upgraded without user intervention. Users aren’t doing the upgrades!
• Any Infrastructure needed by SIMS can be packaged up and automatically deployed (e.g. .Net framework 4)
• Installation & configuration required
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Technical Roadmap
• Server – 32 Bit and 64 Bit
• Windows Server 2003 SP2• Windows Server 2008• Windows Server 2008 R2 – NEW
– 32 bit only• Windows XP
• Workstation– 32 Bit
• Windows Vista Business SP1• Windows XP Pro Sp2 – cease support
from Aut 2012??– 32 and 64 Bit
• Windows 7 – NEW
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Technical - Software
• Software– Office 2003 / 2007 / 2010 (new) – all 32 bit– Office 2010 64 bit – Summer 2011
• .NET framework – .NET 2.0 SP1 minimum – .NET 4.0 is required for
• Discover Workstations• SIMS Summer 2011
– SOLUS3 will install 4.0
• Adobe Acrobat 6 (8 for Fees)
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• IMS Booking website now live! – www.sthelens.org.uk/imstraining
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Training Programme – Summer 2011
• New Summer Term Brochure/Flyer available– Using Behaviour Management Effectively– Course Manager & Post 16 Aims for Census– Diploma Management in Exams Organiser– Preparing for New Academic Year Pastoral &
Academic– Role of the Pastoral Manager– School Census– SIMS for the Class Teacher– FMS New User
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Training Programme – Autumn 2011
• New courses for Autumn 2011– Discover – Autumn Term– Using Assessment Tracking
Effectively– SIMS for the Classroom Teacher– SIMS.net Assessment Tracking Grids– System Manager
• On site– Assessment/APP– Discover - from September – End of Year
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Training Offers
• As Featured on IMS Course Booking Web-Site!
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Questions?