Does anyone have a good report for behaviour and achievement that I could have

[HarveyFrench]

Hi

 

I've looked at many of the standard SIMS reports and others that I downloaded from the net, and none of them seem to do very much.

 

We are looking for a report definition that generates a excel spreadsheet with bar charts and pivot tables etc that we can use during assemblies and also by the SLT. Ideally a single workbook would contain all the sheets that analyse behaviour and achievement.

 

So the minimum the spreadsheet would contain would be a barchart of achievement by reg group in a selected year. Similarly another with the same for behaviour. I actually have a very basic one for behaviour but can't find one for achievement.

 

I would very much appreciate it if you could make any report definition files you have available to me either here or via my email: [email protected]

 

PS. I understand how these things can be made, but I want to avoid re-inventing the wheel.....

 

Sincerely

 

Harvey French

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

SIMS Discover has the functionality you describe, the reason you can't find anything may be because other people find Discover sufficient.

[HarveyFrench]

We don't have SIMS discover. Any other ideas.

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

Then I'd highly recommend installing it, it is a great piece of software. It's part of the SIMS core so you've already paid for it.

[tben2505]

Then I'd highly recommend installing it, it is a great piece of software. It's part of the SIMS core so you've already paid for it.

 

I don't think that's correct.

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

"How do I get SIMS Discover?SIMS Discover is included as part of your current SIMSAssessment suite subscription. To find out more aboutgetting up and running with SIMS Discover, contact yourlocal SIMS Support Team, or call us on 0844 893 9000." quoted from

http://www.capita-sims.co.uk/files/sims/downloads/capita_sims_-_product_brochure_-_sims_discover_-_nov15.pdf

[tben2505]

Convinced we're invoiced separately for it - but it might be just the deal we have arranged. It's certainly not part of core, though - it's in with assessment.

[SouthCoastSaint]

It may be free but I'm sure IT had to put effort into getting it up and running - it certainly wasn't a switch on and it works job although that was a while ago now. Normal laptops in our school can't cope with it, the graphics cards are not good enough. I am the only person to have it on my machine.

 

Also, I now have turned off the scheduled overnight imports as they carry on eating up memory throughout the day until Sims grinds to a halt. I only used it for dynamic groups and without updates every night these are not useful.

[CMLG]

I lost all my dynamic groups (lots and lots) during an upgrade and I haven't bothered using it since then.

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

Dynamic group are stored in the discover backup file and can be easily restored if lost by any means.