Category:Configuration
This category contains a list of the configuration pages found in this wiki.
Contents
- 1 General
- 1.1 Beginner's guide
- 1.2 User permissions
- 1.3 Global system settings
- 1.4 Group management
- 1.5 Notes for the beginning of the academic year
- 1.6 Configuring Heads of Subject
- 1.7 Creating on report cards
- 1.8 Default slip (used to generate OUTPUT.xml)
- 1.9 Importing report and certificate designs
- 1.10 Homework categories
- 1.11 Importing IEP designs
- 2 Technical
- 3 Attendance
- 4 Communications
- 5 Behaviour
- 6 Detentions, Removals and Extra Classes
- 7 Grading
General
Beginner's guide
User permissions
Global system settings
Group management
Notes for the beginning of the academic year
Configuring Heads of Subject
Creating on report cards
Default slip (used to generate OUTPUT.xml)
Importing report and certificate designs
Homework categories
Importing IEP designs
Technical
Installing PARS Connect
Installing Keep Alive
Allowing PARS to access the internet
Testing Automation
how to test Automation is working
Configuring the jobs performed by Automation
Attendance
Managing custom attendance codes
Taking AM or PM marks from lessons
Signing in & out, and biometric systems
Global system settings for registers
Communications
Importing pupils' email addresses
Configuration for sending SMS messages
Pre-defined messages
Behaviour
Global system settings for behaviour
A number of global settings for behaviour can be found in the behaviour preferences page, including SIMS writeback, which copies behaviour incidents from PARS to SIMS. Go to this page for a list of the available options.
Automatic behaviour alerts
Behaviour alerts are used to inform staff of behaviour issues within the school, where the staff are not expected to take further action within PARS. This might be to alert the form tutor is a pupil in their form group has received 5 or more positive incidents this week. Go to the configure alerts page if you wish to set these up.
General configuration for behaviour
If you are configuring behaviour in PARS for the first time, then you will need to create Grounds and Outcomes. These are the equivalent of Types and Outcomes in SIMS.
- When adding a behaviour incident, a ground is what the pupil has done, and the outcome is what the staff member is going to do about it.
The configure behaviour page covers the basic setup that you will need to do in order for staff to begin adding behaviour incidents.
Reporting - behaviour, attendance, detentions and more
Automatic behaviour points
Rule based behaviours will issue automatic behaviour incidents when pupils hit certain criteria e.g. 100% attendance in a half term, or 0 negative incidents in a week. This is a fantastic way of fairly and consistently rewarding pupils who do the right thing.
When looking at a "behaviour league table" (to see which pupils have the most positive behaviour points) many schools find that the best behaved pupils sit at the top of the table, closely followed by the worst behaved pupils. Many more pupils who rarely do anything wrong and quietly get on with their work (sometimes known as "unseen pupils" or "greys") sit at the bottom of the table as they are not frequently rewarded. Rule based behaviours are a great and effective way to deal with this.
Detentions, Removals and Extra Classes
Configure time types
Configure statuses
Rule based detentions
Grading
Configure comment bank
Configure grade schemes
Configure grade elements
Edit PARS grade element
Bulk add SIMS elements
Edit SIMS grade element
Custom grading reports
Key Indicators
Pages in category ‘Configuration’
The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
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- Changes to detentions
- Configuration
- Configure alerts
- Configure behaviour
- Configure categories
- Configure comment bank
- Configure events
- Configure grade schemes
- Configure grading elements
- Configure grounds
- Configure locations
- Configure outcomes
- Configure proxy server
- Configure SMS
- Configure statuses
- Configure time types
- Custom behaviour reports
- Custom grading reports