rachael marshman sims performance suite. assessment in sims is evolving
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Rachael Marshman
SIMS Performance Suite
Assessment in SIMS is evolving
This year enhancements already include
• New Resources:Templates, tracking grids, analysis grids and progress grids that schools can import and use straight away
• Increased Functionality:Features to improve productivity, efficiency, aid analysis and change requests
So, what Resources are available now?
Resources available now
Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis• Early Years Foundation Stage• Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
(levels and points)
Progress Grids• KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum
Schools can import and start using straight away
Resources available now
Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis• Early Years Foundation Stage• Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
(levels and points)
Progress Grids • KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum
Schools can import and start using straight away
Resources available now
Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis• Early Years Foundation Stage• Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
(levels and points)
Progress Grids • KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum
Schools can import and start using straight away
Resources available now
Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis• Early Years Foundation Stage• Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
(levels and points)
Progress Grids • KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum
Schools can import and start using straight away
Resources available now
Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis• Early Years Foundation Stage• Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
(levels and points)
Progress Grids • KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum
Schools can import and start using straight away
Progress Grid: New CurriculumSubjects tabs split further in Autumn
Progress Grid: New CurriculumOverall judgement now available
Progress Grid: New Curriculum
Bullet-point Gradeset updated
No Levels
• ‘below expected’ becomes Emerging = just starting to learn knowledge or skill• ‘At expected’ becomes Developing = increasing understanding• ‘Above expected’ becomes Secure = achieved the knowledge or skill• New Grade ‘Mastered’ to indicate when a child is using and applying skill(s) across the curriculum
Track knowledge and skills for all subjects
Resource Progress Grid – New Curriculum • All Core and Foundation subjects• Knowledge by subject and strand• End of year and end of key stage expectations• Statutory and non statutory guidance
Consultations - Feedback
• Need efficient way to manage assessments • Instant analysis, evidence of progress• Want to move away from progress grids
teachers find them time-consuming
Outcome• New solution available for Spring...
What is the next phase for the New Curriculum in SIMS going to look like?
• New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors• Ability to select assessment period for data entry• Quick data entry for individuals or groups• Set current targets (teaching focussed)• New summary row definitions• New summary columns
Linked analysis and reports
Spring 2015
New Style Screen - Display Descriptors
Example Marksheet
EXAMPLE
• New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors• Ability to select assessment period for data entry• Quick data entry for individuals or groups• Set current targets (teaching focussed)• New summary row definitions• New summary columns
Linked analysis and reports
Spring 2015
Select Assessment Period
• Apply global resultset to marksheet• Ensures data is recorded for the right period of time• Removes need to duplicate columns for each term
Example Marksheet
EXAMPLE
Viewing Historical information
• Visual indication to highlight achievement not recorded within this assessment period
Example Marksheet
EXAMPLE
• New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors• Ability to select assessment period for data entry• Quick data entry for individuals or groups• Set current targets (teaching focussed)• New summary row definitions• New summary columns
Linked analysis and reports
Spring 2015
Quick data entry
• Allow for Data Entry against an individual child for all skills or whole group for one skill
Example Marksheet
EXAMPLE
• New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors• Ability to select assessment period for data entry• Quick data entry for individuals or groups• Set current targets (teaching focussed)• New summary row definitions• New summary columns
Linked analysis and reports
Spring 2015
Set ‘Current Targets’
• Only applies to the new knowledge statement columns• Y indicates a focus skill during this assessment period • ‘Set current target’ value can help schools calculate
progress for the skills they are specifically focusing on
• New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors• Ability to select assessment period for data entry• Quick data entry for individuals or groups• Set current targets (teaching focussed)• New summary row definitions• New summary columns
Linked analysis and reports
Spring 2015
New Summary Row Definitions
• Only applies to the new knowledge statement columns• Displays both the number and percentage of pupils
achieving a particular skill
Example Marksheet
EXAMPLE
• New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors• Ability to select assessment period for data entry• Quick data entry for individuals or groups• Set current targets (teaching focussed)• New summary row definitions• New summary columns
Linked analysis and reports
Spring 2015
New Summary Columns
• % of last years expectations achieved• % of end of this year expectations achieved• % of current ‘targets’ achieved
Example Marksheet
EXAMPLE
How will attainment and progress information be reported?
Knowledge statement report
EXAMPLERed text indicates
curriculum descriptors
• Highlights knowledge achieved• Displays knowledge to work towards
Example Reports
Progress Tracking and Reporting• Visual representation of Achievement & what’s ‘expected’
Compares ‘Year Expected Target’) against number of
statements achieved for an individual pupil
Note: this is a mock-up to provide an example
of a possible visual representation
Example Reports
EXAMPLE
Group overview – Subject / Strand / Statement
Example 'New Curriculum' Summary showing Achievement
Ability to reviewCohortBoys / Girls / EAL / FSM / PP / SEN Etc.
Preferably side-by-side
Example Reports
EXAMPLE
Group overview – Subject / StrandExample 'New Curriculum' Summary showing progress
Ability to review• Cohort• Boys • Girls • EAL • SEN • G&TEtc.
Example Reports
EXAMPLE
Group overview - SubjectExample 'New Curriculum' Summary showing progress
Ability to review• Cohort• Boys • Girls • EAL • SEN • G&TEtc.
Example Reports
EXAMPLE
What does the removal of National Curriculum Levels mean for SIMS?
New National Curriculum and SIMS
In the Product:• Comprehensive solution for tracking knowledge
and skills against the New Curriculum• Resources for maintaining levels and points
New National Curriculum and SIMS
• SIMS Assessment is a flexible system that can be tailored to suit emerging requirements
• Schemes can be tweaked or adapted to evolve as more evidence of what ‘good looks like’ becomes known.
• September 2014 National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) published ‘Beyond levels, alternative approach developed by teaching schools’ (p31)
New Features in SIMS...
Highlights
Some of the new Features introduced into SIMS this year
Summer: • Mapping Tool• Aspect swapping on Templates
Autumn: • SIMS School Report
Mapping Tool
• Enables schools to match their own Aspects, Resultsets and Gradesets to those provided by Capita
Why is this useful?• Drives linked analysis in the SIMS School Report• Populates Capita Pre-Defined resources
• Marksheets• Tracking Grids• Analysis• Discover
Assessment Mapping Facility - Aspects
Mapping Tool
Assessment Mapping Facility - Resultsets
Mapping Tool
Assessment Mapping Facility - Gradesets
Mapping Tool
Further Mapping Tool updates for Autumn
• Aspect no Result Set to Aspect and Result Set• Export and Import• Delete and Clone• KS4 Aspects
How can this help?Speeds up resource creation by swapping like-for-like aspects when cloning
Aspect Swapping
SIMS School Report and Assessment
New SIMS School Report
• The new School Report provides an instant overview of your school based on the latest data held in SIMS, giving school leadership and governors insight into areas of strength and weakness to inform their decisions.
• Includes Assessment
Ben Jones
Parental Engagement
““SIMS Learning Gateway
SLG provides secure access to children’s progress for parents and strengthens the triangle of communication between school, parent and pupil.
Neil McClementsRainey Endowed School
SIMS Learning Gateway
• Installed in over 2,500 schools
• Over 600 schools on Capita Hosted SLG
• Continued growth this year
SLG Headlines
• Expand Two Way Communication
• Deliver Customer Change Requests
• Continue to enhance Homework
• Develop ease of reporting
• HSLG – Password Management
HSLG – over the summer
• Communication went out to all HSLG schools
• Reminder of process
• New UI for logging on
• Removal of \Hosted
Autumn - Passport Number in Data Collection Sheet
Autumn – Marksheet Summary
1. Colour Rendering Improvements
2. Marksheet Summary
Autumn - Hyperlinks for contact info
Autumn – Homework Assessment in SIMS
1. Teacher link homework to aspect and result set in SIMS
Homework cont....
1. Teacher link homework to aspect and result set in SIMS
2. Update Reporting Dictionary• Add Staff and School
• Add extended due date
3. Class Information and select students from class
Spring 2015 – Homework Statuses
• "show late homework" will be changed to "show homework status“
• web part property to globally hide all statuses
Spring 2015 – Teacher Homework View
• Homepage Widget for teachers to view their own homework
Spring 2014 – Pre-defined Reports
• All fields available in reporting dictionary
• Homework• Teacher• Hierarchy
• SLG Alert Widget• How many parents have completed DCS• How many parents have read published reports• Report for which parents have not
If we can.....Reports in SLG Widgets
““SIMS InTouch
SIMS InTouch saves us time and makes communication instant, helping with behaviour and attendance issues
Janet EpplestonNorth Chadderton
InTouch in 2014
• Total emails processed....
• Total SMS processed....
• Total emails and SMS received.....
16.5 million
4.2 million
1/2 million
Making InTouch even easier to support
• Removal of VPN and IIS means:• InTouch is even easier to support• Reduce lead time• Low touch install
• Easy to switch over• Upgrade to Autumn
How will Schools upgrade?
• InTouch web services and VPN run in parallel
• If SSM not installed, InTouch continues to run with VPN on Autumn
• School upgrades to Autumn
• SSM is installed & InTouch services started
• School receives email, copy and pastes the licence key into set up screen
Install Process
InTouch Spring
• No need to set up the Scheduler Service
• Automatic Scheduling of Messages and Reminders
• Improvements to Spam filtering
• Further increase speed Store templates in the school
database
• Flag messages
““SIMS Agora
Using SIMS Agora has been very easy for our school – it just works! Our parents like the system too and really appreciate the convenience of being able to make payments online, whenever and wherever they wish to.
Mrs Jean Robinson Didsbury CofE Primary School
Agora
• Installed in over 255 schools
• Over 18,500 active parent accounts
• Over £3.5 million processed since launch
• 99,000 transactions
• September - £500,000 transaction value
Agora Headlines
• LA Demo sites made available to sales
• Cashless Catering ready for early adopters
• Only Accredited SIMS Partners
• Ability to roll back data if required
• FMS Pilot underway
• Improved child management capabilities and usability
• Part of making Agora the One Stop Shop for parents to make all payments for their children
• Enables parents to pay for their child’s dinner money online with funds automatically credited to the pupils account
• Removes cash from school premises
What is Cashless Catering?
Rollback of SIMS
The rollback tool detects any schools that require data to be rolled back and confirms the number of changesets affected.
Additional Synchronisation Statuses
The green tick denotes a successful synchronisation
The orange exclamation mark means no synchronisation in the last 24 hours
The red cross means synchronisation failed
The cycle means it has an unknown synchronisation status
The Agora Dashboard screen shows the synchronisation status of the SIMS upload, the FMS download and the School Meals upload and downloads.
Improve Child Management
• Ability to easily add children
• Ability to change the preferred child name
• Ability to change the order that children appear on screen
• Ability to show or hide children
• Clearer labels and options
Improve Child Management – Adding a child
Add Child button now on homepage
A wizard now guides customers to add initial and additional children
The edit function allows the name the child appears as can be changed
The customer can change the order children appear on the homepage
Improve Child Management - Personalisation
Labels have been changed to be more intuitive
Before Christmas.....
• Universal Free School Meals
• Diagnostics and Reporting
• Student Statement of all Transactions
• Documentation for SIMS Support Units
• Record Refunds
Manual Refunds
Manual Refunds – Select Order Item
Manual Refunds – Marked as Refund
Manual Refund – Finalise Refund
Agora Future Priorities
• Improvements to on-boarding process
• Functionality Enhancements• Product Page enhancements• Reporting• Notifications• Paypoint• Paying in instalments• Transaction surcharges• Store card facility
