Course Overview

This course will further develop your skills to carry out the report designing process in SIMS, enabling you to extract useful information from the pupil database in a variety of formats.

The course will take approximately 6 hours to complete.


What will you learn?

This course will cover:

  • enable you to produce more complicated lists and mail merged documents
  • show you how to modify templates to adjust the appearance of reports including the incorporation of headed paper
  • develop the use of RTF output
  • explore cross-modular links in the data
  • use different focuses as the starting point for reports
  • develop the use of Excel
  • extend the use of the analysis tool
  • demonstrate how you can manage reports in folders.

Course Curriculum


  Introduction
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  User Templates in Word Lists
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  Creating Reports Using a Combination of And/Or Clauses
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  Sub-Reports
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  Rich Text Format (RTF) Reports
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  Report Inserts
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  Reporting on User Defined Groups
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  Staff List Reports
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  Section 8 - Sub Report Count and Excel
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  Section 9 - Analysis Revision
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  Conclusion
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Will I get a certificate? 

On Completion of the course you can claim a School ICT certificate of course completion.


How long do I have access to the course? 

You will have a year to complete the course.  


How much is this course?

£156 inclusive of VAT


How do I purchase the course?

To purchase this course via your school/organisation you can pay by invoice. Please E-mail: [email protected] specifying if you have a purchase order and which course(s) you wish to purchase.  We require the name and address of the person paying for the course. If you are in a school this may be your Finance department. If you are purchasing a course for another member of staff, we will also need their name for the certificate and their email address to enrol them on the course. The student will receive an email once the course is available to access.

To purchase this course privately you can pay by bank transfer. Please contact our Finance team on 0345 2226802 to make a bank transfer. The course will be accessible on receipt of payment. We need your full name and an email address to enrol you on the course.  

Terms of usage.

  • Courses will be accessible for 12 months from the date of purchase.
  • Once access has been granted to distance learning, no refund will be given.
  • Under no circumstances should the course content be downloaded, copied or shared with other schools.
  • Under no circumstances should your access details be shared.
  • Support queries should be directed to [email protected]


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