Summer School On Line Training Courses

The SDMS On Line Summer School

Making the best use of your time is essential to all of us. Cutting out the loss of travel time and cost typically incurred when getting involved in training, while at the same time getting the benefits of learning how to use SDMS software more effectively is the thinking behind the SDMS On Line Summer School. Why not join us and find out!

For further information about summer school courses and our plans for this year call Business support on 01952-200911 or email admin@sdmsltd.com

As an example of what courses are offered, here are some of the courses run in previous years:

The Basics of SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows: for New Users

Who is the Course for:   

This course is designed for customers with new staff in the training administration teams who have not benefited from the initial SDMS training and where the pressures of daily work make it difficult to provide ‘on the job’ training and who wish to develop an overall understanding of the system and the skills necessary to ensure accurate and speedy data entry.  It is specifically designed for administrative and clerical staff.

 Topics and Skills:  

Overview of SDMS Staff Development and Learning Management for windows,  Basic System Navigating – Finding details, entering new records, Creating an new training activity, creating training events, recording trainer details and venues and rooms, Entering course enrolments, managing course attendance, Running Reports on Training Courses showing enrolments.

HRPersonnel - Jobs and Employment Contracts

Who is the Course for:

The aim of the course is to introduce the users to the main areas of Data Entry and Administration in SDMS HRPersonnel for Windows enabling them to set up New Post, assign employees to Jobs and enter their basic job and contractual information.

Topics and Skills:

Be able to add Employee information, Post Types and Posts to the System, be able to enter contracts of employment and work patterns, enter data into the System and be able to run Simple Reports.

Write Your Own Reports - An Introduction to Crystal Reports for SDMS Users

Who is the Course for:

This On Line Course is designed for users of SDMS Staff Development and HRPersonnel who wish to produce their own reports using this powerful report writer.  It will be of value to all users of SDMS Software but in particular for those administrative, technical support or general users who are faced with requests for ad-hoc reports from senior management. The course is designed specifically for the non-technically minded.

Topics and Skills:

Basics of creating a new report,  Automatic creation of reports,  Selecting and ordering fields on the report,  Creating breakdowns and sorting the data,  Adding, totaling, averaging and other statistical operations,  Expressions and conditions, Sample Reports used within the session will include: Production of Course Registers, Course Delegate Lists, and Counts of Training Days, Number of Enrollees and Events by Group.

Customise e-Training and Make It Do What You Want without being a Programmer

Who is the Course for:

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of SDMS V e-Training and how best these areas can be set-up and utilised for the Organisations needs. This will include looking at the Web Management Console and the Web Business Rules along with the other utilities. It will also look at the specific information which can be held against Training Courses and how this information can be displayed on the e-Training Website. It is of value to those who are the main administrators of the SDMS application and assume no major knowledge of HTML or websites.

Topics and Skills:

Exploring the Different Access Levels of e-Training – Guest, Self Serve, Line Manager, Trainer, Venue, Adviser, Administrator, Ensuring the correct items are recording with SDMS, Activity Details, Scope, Aims, Objectives, Programme, Course Fees, Venue Details and Maps, Amending Web Labels and Translating for 2^nd Language, Configuring Options using Web Business Rules, Accessing User Logins and Passwords, Modifying Colour Schemes and updating the website.

The Basics of SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows for New Users

Who is the Course for:

This course is designed for users new to HRPersonnel to help them plan and successfully implement SDMS V HRPersonnel.  It will provide an easy to digest overview of all the functions of the core system. It will also help to develop an overall understanding of the system and the skills necessary to ensure accurate and speedy use of the software.

Topics and Skills:

Product Overview, Personnel: legal and organisational requirements. Policy, procedures and paperwork,  Navigating the system and Software Interface,  Personnel administration: Personal details and Staff Records, Emergency Contacts, Defining Posts and organisational structure, Assigning staff to posts,  Contracts and employment conditions, Absence and Sickness Control, Recording on absence, sickness and maternity leave. Holidays, The reporting system: standard and customised reports – sending to Report Viewer and Editor and Spreadsheet.

Workflow - Getting the Best out of Word Templates, Mail Merge and Emails in Staff Development

Who is the Course for:

This one-hour On Line course is designed for users of SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows who wish to make best use of the automatic workflow features of SDMS to produce Word documents using mail merge templates, and emails using the SDMS Email Templates. Designed for day-to-day users of the product who are tasked with sending out the many approval, rejection letters, registers, certificates, memorandums in the effective administration of training and learning management. 

Topics and Skills:

Knowledge of the range of Word templates and different types of templates, Using and amending existing Word templates; creating new templates; Mail Merging to Word, Quick Administrators, Setting for different Word Versions - XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010, Review of all mail merge facilities in SDMS software and use, implementation and benefits of effective Mail Merging, setting up the templates and configuring the SDMS system to utilise this both on demand and automated through the Quick Administrator facility, The course will deal with differences between Version 5 and Version 6. Setting up the SDMS Email Templates and sending them via the Enrolments screen.

Managing QCFs with SDMS V QCF Learning and Skills for Windows:

Who is the Course for:

The course is designed for users of the QCF Learning and Skills for Windows and will focus on the Awards and Learning Planner elements of the application. It will describe how the software can be used to track the progress of a candidate from their initial registration to the completion of the award. It is specifically intended for administrative and clerical staff.

Topics and Skills:

Setting up awards, units, elements and criteria, Creating awards and linking specific units, Creating Award and Learning Planner Details, Recording Candidates details, attaching assessors and verifiers along with their current qualifications, Recording QCF registration details, recording and managing unit completion details with target dates, Extracting details via Standard Reports sending information to Report Viewer and Spreadsheet.

HRPersonnel - Pay and Payroll Export and Import

Who is the Course for:

The course is aimed as HR Administrators and Managers who have some knowledge of the SDMS V HR Personnel system and wish to expand their use of the system to provide pay figures for export to payroll. This course is designed to cover all data entry areas needed in SDMS V HRPersonnel that are elements of an individual’s gross pay including: pay rates and scales, benefits and pension payments. 

Topics and Skills:

The Course will provide those attending with understanding of details which need to be recorded within SDMS V HRPersonnel, the process of running the export of new starters details from SDMS, Running Import of new starter details into Sage Payroll, Review details which need to be recorded within the Pay Details within SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows for the Variable Data Import, Process of running Variable Data Import from SDMS into Payroll, Process of running Sage Payroll with Leavers Details.

Installations, Configurations, Access and Things Technical for Customer IT

Who is the Course for:

The course is designed for IT support staff that have to provide support to users of SDMS products.  It is of value to both those who are new to SDMS products and those who have been supporting them for some time.  It will assume knowledge of hardware, software and operating systems in general.

Topics and Skills:

Using Crystal Reports with SDMS - Intermediate and Advanced Session 1 of 2:

Who is the Course for:  

The course is designed for users of SDMS V Staff Development and SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows who have experience of using SDMS Report Writer – Crystal Reports with the SDMS Data model and wish to focus specifically on using some of the more advanced techniques to create more flexible, speedy and well presented reports.

Topics and Skills: 

Quick Refresher on basic steps in creating a new report, covering the elements covered in the introduction training session. Using features of SDMS Report Writer: Crystal Reports to allow for more flexible reports, how to optimise reports, troubleshooting techniques, hiding data fields, using complex formulae such as nested statements and mathematical formulae, Changing the report output using parameters and formulae, Creating and using sub reports.

HRPersonnel - Training Management and Employee Development:

Who is the Course for:  

The aim of the course is to introduce the users to the main areas of Data Entry and Administration in the Training Administration Module of SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows enabling them to Record Details of Training Courses, Recording Training and Development for all current employees together with basic training history and cost of training, qualifications and competencies and training needs.

Topics and Skills:  

The Course will provide those attending with hands on training in; the Functionality of the Software in Relation to Recording Details of Training Courses, understand the Basic Procedures and Methods of Accessing Data, Recording Qualifications and Competencies, Recording Training Needs and how to make effective use of Standard Reports for Training Courses, Qualifications, Competencies.

Evaluate Training with SDMS V Training Evaluation for Windows - Optional Module:

Who is the Course for:  

The Course is designed for Training Managers and Administrators who as part of their role in organising Employee Training are responsible for ensuring that training is evaluated and continually improved. It will allow the attendees to translate their existing delegate training evaluation forms and process them via SDMS software.

Topics and Skills:  

HRPersonnel - Absence and Holidays

Who is the Course for:  

This Course is designed for HR Administrators who as part of their role in managing details of the organisations Staff Attendance will manage information about the absence and annual leave of their staff within SDMS V HRPersonnel. It will allow attendees to understand how the appropriate details can be accurately managed within the software to allow monthly and yearly absence and holiday statistics to be produced.

Topics and Skills:  

Statutory Framework and Best Practice in Absence Management, Employee Record - Posts and Jobs and Pay Details, Absence and Attendance Module, General Absence, Absence Types and Reasons, Sickness Absence and Cost, Bradford Factor, Statutory Sick Pay and Occupational Sick Pay, Maternity Leave and Cost, Paternity Leave and Costs, Absence Rules and Configuration, Holiday Records and Plans, Holiday Entitlement Rules Access and Security, Reporting on Absence and Attendance

Costs, Revenues, Budgets - Staff Development and the Financial Management of Training:

Who is the Course for:  

This course is designed specifically for experienced users who wish to spend time exploring the financial functions of SDMS in detail.  It is particularly relevant for administrative and finance staff of all levels who are concerned with financial control, auditing and reporting against training budgets.  It will be of value to both SDMS Staff Development Version 6 and 7 users.

Topics and Skills:  

Managing Training Costs and Revenues - Activity, Event, Session and Enrolment: Estimates and Actuals.  The best estimate calculation, Attaching to Invoices and Orders, Recording Central Expenditure and Training Overheads,  Setting up Budget Periods, Budgets and Sub Budgets, Cost Categories, Nominal Codes and Cost Centres for linking with other financial systems. 

Managing Adviser Support Services with SDMS V Adviser and School Support for Windows

Who is the Course for:

This On Line course is designed for users of SDMS V Adviser and School Support for Windows and SDMS V e-Adviser for Web and Intranet Access who wish to make best use of the features available within the application. It will look at the process of recording information around Advisory Visits to Schools using both the Windows and Web applications. It is designed for day-to-day users of the product who are tasked with the configuration and set-up of Advisory References, Contracts and Adviser Details and look at how the workflow elements of the software can be used to send out emails based the use of the e-Adviser for the Web application and Online Adviser Requests made by Schools

Topics and Skills:

Customise e-Training and Make It Do What You Want without being a Programmer V6 and V7

Who is the Course for:

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of SDMS V e-Training and how best these areas can be set-up and utilised for the Organisations needs. This will include looking at the Web Management Console and the Web Business Rules along with the other utilities. It will also look at the specific information which can be held against Training Courses and how this information can be displayed on the e-Training Website. It is of value to those who are the main administrators of the SDMS application and assume no major knowledge of HTML or websites.

Topics and Skills:

Exploring the Different Access Levels of e-Training – Guest, Self Serve, Line Manager, Trainer, Venue, Adviser, Administrator, Ensuring the correct items are recording with SDMS, Activity Details, Scope, Aims, Objectives, Programme, Course Fees, Venue Details and Maps, Amending Web Labels and Translating for 2^nd Language, Configuring Options using Web Business Rules, Accessing User Logins and Passwords, Modifying Colour Schemes and updating the website.

HRPersonnel - Reports and Word Templates

Who is the Course for:

This On Line Course is designed for users of SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows who wish to produce reports and Mail Merge Documents from HRPersonnel, enabling them to get the information they need in a useful format.  It will be of value to all users of SDMS Software but in particular for those administrative, technical support or general users who are faced with requests for reports from senior management.

Topics and Skills:

Managing Pay and Payroll Processing with SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: Versions 5 and 6

Who is the Course for:

This On Line course is designed for users of SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows who wish to make best use of the Pay Module available within the software and wish to expand its use to provide figures which can be exported to payroll. This course is designed to cover all data entry areas needed in SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows that are elements of an individual’s gross pay including: pay rates and scales, benefits and pension payments and will explore the ability to configure the details which need to be held and how these can be exported to payroll. 

Topics and Skills:

Using Crystal Reports with SDMS - Intermediate and Advanced Session 2 of 2:

Who is the Course for:

The course is designed for users of SDMS V Staff Development and SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows who have experience of using SDMS Report Writer – Crystal Reports with the SDMS Data model and wish to focus specifically on using some of the more advanced techniques to create more flexible, speedy and well presented report.

Topics and Skills: 

Quick Refresher on basic steps in creating a new report covering the elements covered in the introduction training session. Using features of SDMS Report Writer: Crystal Reports to allow for more flexible report, how to optimise reports, troubleshooting techniques, hiding data fields, using complex formulae such as nested statements and mathematical formulae. Changing the report output using parameters and formulae, Creating and using sub reports.

Workflow - Getting the Best out of Word Templates, Mail Merge and Emails in Staff Development V6 and V7

Who is the Course for:

This one-hour On Line course is designed for users of SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows who wish to make best use of the automatic workflow features of SDMS to produce Word documents using mail merge templates, and emails using the SDMS Email Templates. Designed for day-to-day users of the product who are tasked with sending out the many approval, rejection letters, registers, certificates, memorandums in the effective administration of training and learning management. 

Topics and Skills:

Knowledge of the range of Word templates and different types of templates, Using and amending existing Word templates; creating new templates; Mail Merging to Word, Quick Administrators, Setting for different Word Versions, Review of all mail merge facilities in SDMS software and use, implementation and benefits of effective Mail Merging, setting up the templates and configuring the SDMS system to utilise this both on demand and automated through the Quick Administrator facility, The course will deal with differences between Version 6 and Version 7. Setting up the SDMS Email Templates and sending them via the Enrolments screen.

HRPersonnel - Recruitment and Selection

Who is the Course for:

The aim of the course is to introduce the users to the main areas of Data Entry and Administration in SDMS HRPersonnel for Windows enabling them to enter basic personnel data for all current employees together with basic current post and job information. This session will address the users of the Recruitment and Selection Module.

Topics and Skills:

Overview of the Functionality of the Module, Understanding the Basic Procedures and Methods of Accessing Data, Be able to Manage Vacancies and Applications for Jobs from Potential Employees and Volunteers, Setting Up and Configuring the Customisation and Codes Required, review User Definable and Free Text Coding Required to use the Module and Producing Reports and Mail Merge Documents with the Use of the Software.