Course overview
SIMS Discover enables schools to analyse their SIMS data and present it in a variety of ways, including Venn diagrams, bar charts, pie charts and line graphs. Learn how to drill down into your data and analyse it efficiently on this half day course.
Benefits of attending
Learn how to enhance the analysis of data in your school by using SIMS Discover.
What you will learn
• creating Venn diagrams and filtering by year, key pastoral factors, attendance, behaviour and end of key stage assessments
• working with data from previous academic years
• creating student groups based on the information provided by Discover; using these dynamic groups in SIMS, on the SIMS Home Page, in Attendance and as Assessment marksheet filters
• defining and setting up dynamic group ‘alerts’ to be able to track when students join and leave a dynamic group (for example for tracking persistent absentees)
• using SIMS user defined groups in Discover.
Who is it for?
Staff who use SIMS and who wish to enhance their data analysis skills by using the powerful graphical analysis tool, SIMS Discover.