by David Pott | Feb 9, 2019 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Demonstration, Download, KS4 Resources, Performance 8, Primary, Progress 8, Secondary
New analyses with Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is an analysis tool that allows you to create powerful data visualisations – it’s like Excel on steroids. The BI stands for Business Intelligence and it’s used by many large organisations to...
by David Pott | Jan 11, 2019 | Assessment
I wrote this post before the news that SPTO, one of the main assessment products for primary schools, was to close at the end of December 2019. Perhaps we can expect more consolidation in the assessment marketplace. Ofsted have announced that they will no longer take...
by David Pott | Nov 13, 2018 | Analysis, Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, EYFS, Intermediate, Primary, SIMS Discover
Primary schools will find these special marksheets and reports incredibly useful when analysing EYFS, KS1 and KS2 results. Introduction For a few years now, Capita SIMS have been quietly releasing a set of integrated SIMS marksheets, Excel analyses and Discover graphs...
by David Pott | Oct 19, 2018 | Assessment
Capita have just released an update to their KS4 Resources to include the new estimates released by the DfE a few days ago. If you use the KS4 resources now is a good time to log in to MyAccount and download them. For convenience (or if you don’t have access to...
by David Pott | Oct 19, 2018 | Analysis, Assessment, Demonstration, Next Generation SIMS, SIMS Next Generation, SIMS Primary
Introduction Last week I met with Graham Cooper and Ben Jones from Capita to talk about progress with SIMS Primary. A few weeks ago I blogged about how quiet progress seemed to be, since the official launch back in January and Graham was keen to update me on recent...
by David Pott | Sep 7, 2018 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, Intermediate
Hidden away in the summer 2018 release of Capita SIMS was an extra feature that will make the programme of study marksheets much more useful. Since they were introduced in 2015 (as a response to the removal of levels from the curriculum) the programme of study (PoS)...
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