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... 
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... 
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... 
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 | 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’... 
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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