The SCOMIS Desktop view is easy to use and includes an introductory guide that will walk you through the key features of the page. To begin the interactive guide, click the .png)
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Play intro.
From the Dashboard, you can take attendance for your classes, view student information and search for individual students or classes.
Attendance: take attendance for your group from your dashboard via Actions (from the bottom right).
Student Details: produce an in-depth view of individual students, including their overall attendance, behaviour and achievement points, as well as their exam timetable and reports stored in your MIS.
Search: use the search function from your homepage to locate and view other classes or students at your school.
The student tiles displayed for your groups will give you a quick burst of information for each student. You will see Tiles every time you view a group in SCOMIS Desktop. Clicking anywhere on a tile will open up the Student Details in full.
- Name, Year Group, Registration Group, MIS ID. Regardless of the group you are viewing, the student’s tile will always display their Registration Group.
- School picture, Attendance mark (AM/PM). The attendance marks for each student will be displayed for AM and PM registration sessions.
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Behaviour and Achievement Points, Attendance as a percentage (for the year).
- Student Alerts, Flags. Both will be highlighted purple if there is information to notify you of. Simply click on the icon to view more information. If there are no alerts or flags for this student, the icons will be greyed out.
- Student Alerts: you will be alerted if the student has been given any points, or if they have been marked as absent this week.
- Flags: this includes important information such as FSM, Dietary requirements/ Allergies, Pupil Premium or SEN status.
From the top right corner, there are a number of icons that give you the option to adjust what you see on your Dashboard for the group you are viewing. Hover your mouse over each icon to check its functionality.
Refresh: If any data has been updated in SCOMIS Desktop, e.g. Attendance or Points, click 
Refresh to update the student tiles and display any new information.
Layout: click 
Layout to display a condensed version of the student tiles.
Filter: to display students meeting a certain criteria from a class, click 
Filter and choose from the list of Alerts and Flags (multi-select is possible). Hover your mouse over each icon to see its functionality. Once you have selected the required filters, click 
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Search to locate individual students or any class at your school. For a more detailed guide on this feature, please click here.
By using the menu bar on the left, you can access other features of SCOMIS Desktop. Click on the relevant user guide to find out more.
