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Whatever results the pupil achieves are attributed to the school they are recorded as being on roll at in the January Census of the year they finish KS4 - regardless of where such results were obtained.

At the end of October last year the government made an announcement regarding early entry at GCSE that stated: “From 29 September 2013 a pupil’s first entry in a particular subject will count towards the school’s performance tables. For those who have already completed an eligible qualification (summer 2013 or previously), the performance tables (and associated data, such as that held on RAISEonline) will still record their best result from either their previous attempt or from the next time they sit a qualification in that subject. Those who have not yet taken an eligible qualification in the subject will have their first eligible qualification taken after 29 September 2013 count in performance tables.” To me however the above statement is not clear on what would be taken if a student had multiple results prior to 29 September. Is the best result across all attempts prior to 29 September taken and then compared to the first result after this date, with the best grade being recorded OR is only the most recent attempt prior to 29 September taken and compared with the first result after that date?? Does anyone have any idea what the Performance Tables and RAISE would record against the school for the following pupil? Nov 2012 – Grade U Jan 2013 – Grade F Mar 2013 – Grade G Jun 2014 – Grade G Would they record a grade G or a grade F??

I have a VB macro in some of our individaul reports to do colour coding and as long as the member of staff accessing the linked document has their security settings to at least prompt them to enable macros the code runs. Staff all know that they should enable macros when looking at such documents.

If he is trying to import data into a Integer aspect rather than a decimal aspect, that could be one of the reasons as to why he can't data ending .0 into SIMS??

Any Examination Officers out there who use iSams and wouldn't mind sharing a guide to using iSams for exams? I've got a forthcoming interview at an iSams school and it would help as part of my preparation.

Apparently this error occurs when the Discover service is a more recent version than the Discover client. It was solved by upgrading the Discover client on my machine by running "ClientSetup" from inside the Discover Setups folder.

Not a joke matt40k. The routine was written because I was passed a csv file of student details and they needed inputting into SIMS. Converting the csv into CTF format and importing was the quickest option

I did write a routine a few years ago that created a CTF file from a csv file of student details so yes it is possible. Unfortunately I don't have it lying around anymore but I do recall it being relatively straightforward.

I'm trying to add a new assessment graph in the Discover Configuration tool but when I try to save keep getting the message: "There was an error saving the data. Procedure or function dw_pix_EditSetup_Save has too many arguments specified" I've tried looking in the SupportNet solution search but can't find anything - any ideas anyone?? We are running the Autumn release of SIMS.

This should do it:

Not overly impressed with Discover so far to be honest. I thought the graphs were going to be much more flexible than they are. Anyone else feel the same?

Back in the day when I worked in Local Authorities we developed an Excel file that allowed schools to enter KS2 raw scores and marks and obtain a set of reports (tabular and graphical). It also automatically identified students who were within 3 marks of the next level (helped the school identify possible remark requests), and finally it generated a SIMS Assessment Manager xml results file for import into their system via a macro. To give you a flavour the following VBA code creates a File System object called XMLFS, creates a text file called ResKS22010.xml in S:\SIMS\Marks and then begins to write text into the file Set XMLFs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set XMLFile = XMLFs.CreateTextFile("S:\SIMS\Marks\ResKS22010.XML", True) ' Write opening lines of XML file with results file Tag and Header Line XMLFile.WriteLine "" XMLFile.Write "" XMLFile.Write "Key Stage 2 Assessment Results 2010" XMLFile.WriteLine "" I'v still got a copy of the Excel file and it is perfectly feasible to adapt it to make bulk generation of aspects not reliant on the existence of 2 additional text files in the same directory as the Excel file. Think I might give it a go actually......something to get my teeth into

Another +1 for VirtualBox

Aargh!!!! Our head has recently taken the decision to go back to our LA for SIMS support......I did say I advised against it. Anyway...just had our first meeting with them and I said we need the Spring upgrade installing asap plus Discover. They were under the belief that Discover requires an additional paid for licence!!!! I put them right but this is the level we have now bought back into

10 miles each way....daily cycle commute. Keeps me fit and means I only spend about £40 every 6 weeks on petrol, as the car is only used at weekends

Until you get the Alternative Curriculum facilities in the new version of T6, you could add an extra band into the year, and schedule it at the periods you want. Then in SIMS, for each student you are looking to put into the intervention group, go into their curriculum, relax the rules, add the new band and assign to the class. This will then cause clashes on the student timetable which have to be resolved manually. It's a pain.....but if the number of students isn't too great then it is manageable.

Yes...indeed PROHIBIDADO ... lol Your script is good by the way.

Looking forward to Lion in the summer

With an ODBC connection to the relevant table in the SIMS DB, changing the resultset can be achieved with a find and replace in seconds. I realise this is probably unsupported though

Hello all Joined in June 09 yet this is my first post! Have spent 12+ years working in Education MIS and currently working as SIMS Data Manager/Exams Officer/Timetabler in a North East secondary school. Looking forward to being a bit more involved in the EduGeek community Andy.