Power Bi to SIMS - write back?

[Kimbern73]

Is it possible, or can you only read data from SIMS into Power BI?

[FN-GM]

This is a bad idea, a reporting product should only read from the source.

 

What are you trying to achieve?

[Kimbern73]

I don’t know yet. Just exploring. Most simplistically, maybe reporting entries (behaviour, AtL, etc) being entered into PowerBi and written back to SIMS. I can’t find anything online. You can writeback to enterprise databases with PowerBi (lots of articles and third party tools available) but as for school MIS…can’t see anything

[Kimbern73]

15 minutes ago, FN-GM said:

This is a bad idea, a reporting product should only read from the source.

 

What are you trying to achieve?

Problem we have is we use Class Charts, which doesn’t write back lesson attendance (only AM/PM) so we’ve got no useful lesson attendance data in SIMS, which is most useful at KS5

[Boredguy]

3 hours ago, Kimbern73 said:

Problem we have is we use Class Charts, which doesn’t write back lesson attendance (only AM/PM) so we’ve got no useful lesson attendance data in SIMS, which is most useful at KS5

Class Charts (and other third parties) only sending AM/PM data back to SIMS is expected as the individual lesson marks you needed the Lesson Monitor licence for.  Plus since the legal requirement is only to submit AM/PM marks back thats all they worry about.