Preferences

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Preferences

Welcome letter

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

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.

Email

  • 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
  • Optional port to use for SMTP (leave empty for default)


Exams

  • The date of the month to publish exam results

Use this to delay the publishing of exam results. Leave blank to publish as soon as they are in SIMS.

Login

  • Trust this host as an authentication provider

PARS

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


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.