Why not create a dashboard with 3 of these widgets configured to show the dates of each term.

A slightly different version by reg group and gender.

Alter the parameters/settings appropriately and this widget will also be great for Head’s of Year to keep an eye on all their learners without constantly reviewing attendance reports each week or even less regularly. Perhaps at the end of the year or each term, your SMT could view all the learners and easily identify and reward those at 100%. Remember every day counts!

Build relationships further by commenting on positive behaviour in other classes. Make students aware that you know if they've had a poor lesson and provide support/sanctions.

Below is a Progresso Cluster User Dashboard which uses 2 widgets (previously posted on this blog) but the establishment parameter in each widget points at a different school within the cluster. Hey presto! I can see a summary of a number of schools on a single page.

But what about viewing many schools data within a single widget you ask? Well I call those true cluster widgets. The establishment parameter in these type of widgets is a multi-choice field, so you can select just the schools you want (e.g. only the primaries within my trust, or just the secondaries as displayed in the dashboard below - Starters and Leavers).

Well here's a widget that just might help with that.

The Attainment vs National Average widget allows a user to select an assessment point (e.g. Year 4 / Autumn 1 / NC Level) and compares it to a specified level (e.g. National Average). The widget will produce a summary of the subjects with data recorded and identify the number of students that are below, at or above the set value. Furthermore, each subject can be expanded to show the individual students and their point difference.

The image below shows part of a dashboard that contains 2 of these widgets showing Autumn 1 and 2 entry points. This provides a quick view to see what levels of improvement has been made over the term.

Here's a simple little widget that lists the SEN reviews in chronological order and highlights any that have gone past their date (in red) and the ones to be done in the next 3 weeks (in green). Oh, and if the learner doesn't have a review date then these are also highlighted (in grey).

I wanted to see if I could easily view who was logged on so I built this simple widget which looks at today's users and calculates how long they have been using the system.

It's surprising what other data is stored, such as the IP address. This gave me the idea to try out the SSRS feature to launch an external URL. So if you click on the IP address a new window will open that showing the users login location (that's if it's not hidden).

Why not add the "Todays Birthdays" widget to your dashboard and set the parameters just to look at your Form/Tutor/Registration group.

Btw, the widget only looks forward 7 days and the highlighted row is the current day.

A good point made here, and Progresso's roll call maintenance feature makes quick work of bulk entry from the completed forms.

Also, because this question came from a primary school, we added the option of an additional column to be included (such as Lunch choice).

List all associated contacts or just the ones with above a priority level.

It consists of 3 tables, the 2nd and 3rd being a summary by gender. By clicking on the + you can expand or shrink each table.

Parameters include Academic year, Group Type and Group Code.

I wanted it to be useful but also to keep it simple what with it being my first venture into SSRS. As any of you who work with school's MIS databases will know the many different types of data that is recorded, so I decided to go for a report based on learner data.

Also, I love the fact that you can place these reports within a widget on a users desktop. So as soon as a user logs on, POW! there's the information.

Anyway, the report lists the different Ethnicity of the learners currently at the school. It also makes use of the 'Databar' feature which is a nice graphical way of viewing amounts.