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Design tips for visualizing school data with Power BI

Design tips for visualizing school data with Power BI

by David Pott | Jun 9, 2019 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Demonstration, Intermediate, Performance 8, Power BI, Primary, Progress 8, Secondary

You can’t just throw a few Power BI visuals into a report and expect users to be able to analyse their data more effectively. In this post I try to highlight what I think makes an effective Power BI report. Firstly, I recommend anyone starting to work with data...
Ordering year groups with Power BI

Ordering year groups with Power BI

by David Pott | May 10, 2019 | Beginner, Demonstration, Power BI, Training

If you have been using Power BI to create data visualisations for primary schools, you’ve probably run in to this problem: you want the x axis of your graph to run from nursery through reception to year 1 and then to year 6, but Power BI insists on alphabetical...
New Microsoft Power BI Resources for SIMS

New Microsoft Power BI Resources for SIMS

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 easily and quickly – it’s like Excel on steroids. The BI stands for Business Intelligence and it’s used by many large...
SIMS Primary Update October 2018

SIMS Primary Update October 2018

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...

Extending SIMS Programme of Study Marksheets: Summative Assessment

by David Pott | May 8, 2015 | Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, Demonstration, Primary, Secondary

Capita recently released a their new ‘programme of study marksheets’. They allow teachers to record a grade against each and every statement in the entire national curriculum. They work well, but there’s no option to give an ‘overall’...
SIMS and Chris Quigley Assessment

SIMS and Chris Quigley Assessment

by David Pott | Apr 21, 2015 | Assessment Without Levels, Demonstration, Primary

Several people have asked about SIMS and Chris Quigley assessment milestones. Well, here’s a system I developed for a school last week. As with most systems, the school wanted a few tweeks and changes to fit in with it’s existing system, but the...
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