[bromcom] Importing Assessment Data into Bromcom

[campdave]

Hi,

 

We are a new school starting on Bromcom in September. Previously we've been using SIMs for assessment, which has had pros and cons.

 

We've had the overview training, and I can see how to create and manage assessment types, and have successfully imported some data from SIMs and mapped it to the subjects and term.

 

What I can't find out how to to, and it doesn't seem to be in any manual, is how do we import data that isn't tied to a subject - eg CAT scores.

 

For instance, we collect effort grades across all our subjects (fine), we then calculate the average of these effort grades and send a report home to parents - we can't for the life of us figure out how to calculate an average across several subjects without writing the result back to another subject!

 

All help gratefully received.

[Bromcom_Support]

Hi campdave

 

If you contact our support team they will be able to advise you on how this can be done. If need be I can also get one of our trainers to give you a call.

[campdave]

Thanks - tried ringing support and it's shut today - unfortunately today is my last day before the summer, I will ask my colleague to ring tomorrow, but she did try to ring yesterday and said that support were pretty unhelpful in providing an answer.

[RootsSchImp]

You need to create a subject/subjects (overall, baseline etc) for anything that isn't subject based. Do that via the groups menu, then it will be available for classification of your assessment grades.

[campdave]

Thanks, we had figured we might have to do something like that.

[Bromcom_support2]

Hi campdave, RootsSchlmp is correct about needing to create a subject to import data.

 

Re. the support desk on Thursday - we were still open for support but the phone lines had to shut at 1030, this was due to a major incident in the Bromley area which left our offices with no running water for a full day (!). We have not had to shut the phone lines for several years and are confident that we will not need to do this again anytime soon.