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Bromcom Vision-X gives Power BI access to all your pupil databases (including SIMS, Arbor etc)

Bromcom Vision-X gives Power BI access to all your pupil databases (including SIMS, Arbor etc)

by David Pott | Sep 4, 2020 | Analysis, Bromcom, Power BI

Over the COVID lockdown Bromcom released a new service that will be of interest to local support units (LSUs) and MATs everywhere. Vision-X is a service that unifies the data held in pupil databases across your MAT. As such, it’s not the first product that claims to...
Recommended resources for learning Power BI

Recommended resources for learning Power BI

by David Pott | Aug 18, 2020 | Analysis, Power BI

I’m often asked where school staff should start when learning about Power BI, so here’s a post that lists all the online resources that have helped me to learn Power BI over the last couple of years. First, here’s all the online websites that...
Recommended resources for learning Power BI

Synchronising Power BI slicers using slicer groups

by David Pott | Feb 12, 2020 | Analysis, Power BI

Sometimes we have columns in different tables that hold the same type of data. For example: A class (eg 11B/Ma1) might appear in a behaviour table (to indicate the class where a behaviour incident took place) and also in an assessment table (to indicate the class the...
Power BI DAX tips: using CALCULATE and ALL

Power BI DAX tips: using CALCULATE and ALL

by David Pott | Jan 15, 2020 | Advanced, Analysis, Power BI

In education data, we often need to compare one percentage with another. For example the attendance of our whole school with the attendance of a particular class or year group. Or the P8 of one group of pupils, compared to the P8 of the whole school. It took me a few...
Power BI DAX tips: using CALCULATE and ALL

Using date tables with SIMS and Power BI

by David Pott | Jan 7, 2020 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Power BI

In this article, I’ll show you how Power BI can create drillable graphs based on terms, academic years and the days of the week. Edit: There’s lots of really useful comments at the bottom of this article and I do recommend you read them. Whenever we...
Attendance Dashboards with SIMS and Power BI

Attendance Dashboards with SIMS and Power BI

by David Pott | Dec 4, 2019 | Analysis, Assessment, Power BI

After a first page that should consist of the most important ‘headline’ measures for a school, the next page in any SIMS + Power BI report is probably attendance. Partly, this is because of it’s importance to schools and partly because it is one of...
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