by David Pott | Feb 23, 2021 | Assessment
Bromcom’s MAT Vision product is a very easy way to integrate Power BI and your Bromcom data – simply point your Power BI at the Bromcom OData feed, enter your ID and password and you have deep access to the underlying data in the Bromcom MIS database. Most... 
by David Pott | Sep 18, 2020 | Assessment, Primary
For SIMS primary schools in England and Wales there is a free, robust and easily learned assessment system that is already installed with SIMS Assessment Manager. Here’s what it can do. In my next blog post I will show you how to get the system up and running in... 
by David Pott | May 4, 2020 | Assessment
Readers of this blog will know that Power BI is a powerful tool for analysing school data. But for those with responsibility for data across a multi-academy trust (MAT) the gulf between what Power BI promises and what we can deliver, given time-constraints and... 
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... 
by David Pott | Dec 7, 2019 | Assessment
The Programme of Study marksheets (PoS) are a great way to record formative assessments against the national curriculum. All SIMS schools already have access to this system – there’s no extra charge. Many schools don’t understand how flexible the... 
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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