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 | Nov 20, 2019 | Power BI, Primary
Here’s the first page of my School Analytics pupil dashboard. It’s built using SIMS and Power BI – where SIMS provides the raw data and Power BI provides the analysis and visualisation – and it is intended to show the data required by a primary... 
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 | Jun 5, 2019 | Assessment, Beginner, Intermediate, Power BI, Primary
Primary schools using SIMS must sometimes feel like the Cinderellas of the assessment world. Most of the new resources created by Capita tend to focus on secondary schools. But Capita SIMS have just released a new primary school assessment system that comprises a set... 
by David Pott | May 29, 2019 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Power BI, Primary, Secondary
Keeping data ‘fresh’ I’ve been thinking about what makes a good Power BI report by trying to understand how best to present the information to the audience. When I’m looking at a dashboard that shows the latest pupil data, or attendance data,... 
by David Pott | Mar 18, 2019 | 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 this summer. Updated January 2019 These resources were updated by Capita in January 2019 to include the changes to the PAG groups and national... 
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