Preferences

Preferences

Welcome letter

This is a default message when sending a new Mail message.

Banner text

This text will be displayed as the header for Insight. If this is left blank then the head teachers name will be picked up from SIMS and displayed.

Notices

• Show these SIMS events

Staff Training, Term School Event, Half-Term Holiday, Holiday, Public Holiday.

Parents can only view the SIMS events you tick here in Notices.

Attendance

• The number of days taken to validate attendance marks for attendance summaries

If you do not want to show very recent attendance records, for example if they are not yet validated by an Attendance Officer, you can enter a number of days here for which the marks are considered to in the validation range. You can use -1 to mean "this week".

• Hide marks in attendance summaries in the validation range

Leave this box unchecked to show marks in the validation range as greyed out, or check it to hide those marks completely.

Email

• Send emails to these addresses when a telephone number change is requested

Leave empty for no emails, or enter a semi-colon separated list.

• Send emails to these addresses when a SIMS synchronisation might be needed

Leave empty for no emails, or enter a semi-colon separated list. Emails will only be sent if the Keep Alive service is running.

• Send emails to these addresses when an absence is reported

Leave empty for no emails, or enter a semi-colon separated list.

• Send emails to these addresses when a forum post is reported

Leave empty for no emails, or enter a semi-colon separated list.

• Send emails to these addresses when an address change is requested

Leave empty for no emails, or enter a semi-colon separated list.

• Hide the schools email address on the default banner

Check this option if you are concerned that the schools email address could be scraped

• Your SMTP server name or IP address

This must be entered in order for INSIGHT to send emails.

• Your Reply To email address

When users reply to emails sent from INSIGHT then this is the email address they will receive it in.

• Introductory message for Email

When you compose a new email this will be the default message.

• Username used to authorise against the SMTP Server
• Password used to authorise against the SMTP Server
• Enable SSL for SMTP

Check this box to use secure email

• Optional port to use for SMTP (leave empty for default)
• Code inserted into subject fields used for spam rules on internet email

You can use text here with anti-spam rules at your SMTP server.

• Text to display in the forgotten password box

Leave empty for the default, or a single space to clear any text.

Exams

• Hide exam menu items for the following years

You cold enter for example 7+8 to hide exams information for years seven and eight.

• Number of days to hold back exam results

Use this to delay the publishing of exam results. Leave blank to publish as soon as they are in SIMS, which is before the usual release date.

Lesson marks

• Hide all references to lesson marks

If the recording of lesson registers in not strongle enforced, you may want to check this option to prevent parents seeing a patchy record.

Login

• Time between logout reminders

Enter a number in minuted

• Trust this host as an authentication provider

PARS

• Store generated Student Review XML data in the temp folder

This can be useful for checking report designs when first setting up the system.

Information which is input in PARS.net can be collected and viewed from Insight by enabling the preferences below:

• Collect Behaviour information from PARS
• Collect Detention information from PARS
• Collect Report Card information from PARS
• Collect Assignments from PARS

Proxy

• Your Web Proxy details

Sleuth

• Sleuth web service address

If you use Sleuth for behaviour recording and reporting, enter the web service address here.

• Use Sleuth to provide behaviour details

Check the to divert Insight to look at Sleuth behaviour.

• Master Sleuth username
• Master Sleuth password

Textanywhere

• Your Textanywhere TASC authorisation number
• Use SSL for SMS sending
• Your Textanywhere client identifier
• Your Textanywhere client password

The client identifier and password are provided by Textanywhere

• Email address for SMS replies

If an email address is entered here then SMS replies will be sent to this email address rather than INSIGHT

• Introductory message for SMS

This is a default message when sending a new SMS message.

Umbrella

• URL of the Insight Umbrella service if used

If user changes are to be sent to an umbrella service, enter the URL here.

• URL of this insight installation for the Umbrella service to use

Enter the an accessible URL To your Insight installation.

User creation

• Never use email addresses for usernames when synchronising parents

Email addresses can change, which could cause confusing, and additionally email addresses for external domains are not valid usernames for Active Directory purposes, so you may want to use this option to ensure everyone has similarly styled usernames.

• Only create users for contacts with parental responsibility

Checking this option means that users will not be created for contacts without parental responsibility

• Only create users for contacts with Priority 1

It is possibly but unusual to have more than one Priority 1 contact. Checking this option means that only Priority 1 contacts will be made into users.

• Create users for contacts with court orders

By default users will not be created for contacts with court orders, but this can be achieved if required by checking this option

Vocabulary

• Word used in place of Behaviours

For example Sanctions or Consequences

• Word used in place of Acheivenments

For example Rewards

• Define snapshot green/thumbs up
• Define snapshot red/thumbs down
• Define snapshot amber/yellow card
• Define snapshot green/thumbs up for attendance
• Define snapshot red/thumbs down for attendance
• Define snapshot amber/yellow card for attendance