Parental Engagement Duncan Hield Product Manager SIMS Learning Gateway
SLG provides secure access to childrens progress for parents and strengthens the triangle of
communication between school, parent and pupil. Neil McClements Rainey Endowed School SLG Headlines
Deliver Customer Change Requests Continue to enhance Homework Develop ease of reporting 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 2015 Teacher Homework View The homework appears in the Timeline according to the due date Blue backgrounds indicate future homework
Red backgrounds indicate homework has not been handed in by at least one student and if homework is due for that day Spring 2015 Teacher Homework View Green backgrounds indicate all homework has been
handed in Yellow backgrounds indicate at least one student has been given a homework extension Spring 2015 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 SLG Focus and Priorities Publish reports improvements Browser investigation and fixes Authentication
SIMS InTouch
SIMS InTouch saves us time and makes communication instant, helping with behaviour and attendance issues Janet Eppleston North Chadderton
InTouch During the recent snow period Total Messages sent via InTouch 2.4 million
Average SMS sent using InTouch 2014 Primary Secondary 4,000
12,000 Primary Pricing...Thank you for your feedback Your feedback - The Primary price is prohibitive The Primary License price is now 400 from 1st April
Your feedback - the initial number of SMS is prohibitive Offer before 1st July, 4000 SMS What have we done in the product? Move to web services:
InTouch is even easier to support Low touch install 680 schools have already moved to web services 200 left to move Spam Filtering
Further protects InTouch Schools by providing:
Spam filtering Anti-Virus Banned word scanning Identify potential threats through attachment scanning
How Have Schools upgraded? 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 InTouch Spring - Usability No need to set up the Scheduler Service Automatic Scheduling of Messages and Reminders
Improvements to spam filtering Further increase speed of InTouch Flag messages Outlookifying InTouch My Messages Inbox (Flag Status)
My Messages Inbox (Flag Status) In sort order School Messages Inbox (Flag Status) InTouch Summer - Customisation
One mailbox for all messages Allow schools to customise message defaults to suit their needs: Outgoing messages Incoming messages Recipient External Email Accounts
One Mailbox InTouch users will now see one mailbox for all messages, with School and User (formerly MyMessages) having icons to identify them Customise Send/Receive as
For each message type, default can be changed of who messages are sent from; the school or the user. Customise Defaults can be set by the school e.g. a part time attendance officer could send messages, with the
replies received by anyone with School permissions to ensure timely resolution Customise Recipients The default can be changed for the InTouch recipient type
External Email Accounts Choose message types to be forwarded to an external account. InTouch Summer - Customisation
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 Over 24,000 active parent accounts Over 5 million processed since launch (April 2013) 145,000 transactions
January - 600,000 transaction value Agora Headlines Support Unit notifications end February Cashless Catering ready for early adopters FMS integration launched at BETT
Refunds Support Unit Notifications Making Agora easier to support, building on LA demo sites
Nominate support email contact for notifications Cashless Catering
Part of making Agora the One Stop Shop for parents to make all payments for their children Only Accredited SIMS Partners Ability to roll back data if required
Additional Synchronisation Statuses The Agora Dashboard screen shows the synchronisation status of the SIMS upload, the FMS download and the School Meals upload and downloads. 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 Agora interface with FMS
Agora interface with FMS Agora FMS interface journals Parent make a 10.00 payment on line Ledger Code
Ledger Type School Dinner Money IN
External Debtor DE DR
CR 10.00 10.00 Deposit of funds into schools bank account where a transactions
charge is made/taken this will be a few days later Ledger Code Ledger Type DR
External Debtor DE Bank Account
BK 9.70 Transaction Charge
EX 0.30 CR
10.00 December 2014 Release Universal Free School Meals Diagnostics and Reporting Student Statement of all Transactions
Documentation for SIMS Support Units Record Refunds Produce a statement for a single student Choose
groups to filter students Student Statement Filterable list of each payment, exportable to MS Excel
Show a refund has been made Manual Transactions screen Select
from dropdown Select product to refund Specify Refund
Refunds can be for less than the full product amount but cannot exceed it
Finalise Refund A reason must be logged for
the refund Print a refund receipt Previous refunds
Refund Reports Agora Product Page Re-Design Functionality Enhancements User Experience Paying in instalments
0 balance products Upload PDFs Parental consent Improve stock control Screens so far.......
Agora Future Priorities Improvements to on-boarding process Functionality Enhancements Reporting Paypoint Transaction surcharges
Store card facility Staff Provision Thank you Your questions?
Ben Jones [email protected]
