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Deputy head, with responsibility for data.

We also have plans to move to Arbor at some point in the next year, but I don't know when yet. My previous school went from SIMS to Progresso ( which was terrible at first but I didn't hate after 2 years) then back to SIMS following a trust change. I have recently heard they are moving to Arbor soon too. Like SpreadsheetJockey I feel it is something I do every couple of years, and in some ways I'd rather get it over with sooner than later. SIMS is ok and it works but it is rather old and clunky. At least all these changes mean we don't get bored

We are changing Trust in September and wish to move more in line with other schools in the new Trust. i.e. SIMS with Go4Schools for assessment. It looks like the SIMS move might not happen until Feb half term or Easter but I can't see any reason why we can't start using Go for assessment in September straight away. I really don't want to have to set everything up in Progresso and then do it all again in Go4Schools and have to transfer everything over.

Does anyone use both Progresso and Go4Schools? Are there any problems I should be aware of? Thanks

Off topic but it made me laugh. Think yourself lucky to have missed the joys of Progresso 18.6 released over Christmas.

YEAR 6 ADMISSIONS - Our Year 6 co-ordinator has received an ADT (Admissions Data Transfer) file from County, has to sort this out and rank the students, and then return it to County as an ASL (Admissions School List) file. Apparently SIMS accommodates this, but Progresso appears not to. Also, with SIMS we used to be able to put Year 6 on as Applied/Accepted whereas with Progresso this is not possible and only picks students up once they need to be draft. Can anyone give any guidance please? Is there any other way to create an ASL file or can this only be done in SIMS? Thanks

We have been with Progresso for just over a year now and you would think we would be fluent with it now but that isn't the case. There is a lot of potential with the SSRS reports but the basics just don't work. It is slow and full of bugs and you have to swap browsers as some things work on one but not another. Several tasks have to be repeated as there is a maximum of 200 pupils visible at a time so if you have just over 200 in a year group you have to do it twice. I could go on, but I'll stop now.

No one has suggested Progresso yet.

We moved to Progresso we setup several user defined fields to record SEN data. The SEN department update it via the SEN tab on the Learner record and we wrote a report to display it. We also managed to get it linked to a copy of the teaching groups widget so teachers can click the arrow under SN for their class to see all the info available.

Ah, there is an answer. I didn't know this. 1. Go to Source | select the Timetable Details for the previous Academic Year. 2. Click OK. 3. Go to Timetable | Timetable Views. 4. Select 'View for Individual' and filter to the learner. 5. Select 'View timetable for' and set it to Date Range. 6. It is possible to view the timetable for a six week period. - - - Updated - - - Ah, there is an answer. I didn't know this. 1. Go to Source | select the Timetable Details for the previous Academic Year. 2. Click OK. 3. Go to Timetable | Timetable Views. 4. Select 'View for Individual' and filter to the learner. 5. Select 'View timetable for' and set it to Date Range. 6. It is possible to view the timetable for a six week period.

We have just had another request to see what a student timetable was for last year. Does anyone know how we can get this with Progresso? And while I am asking is it possible to get previous years attendance too? Thanks for your help I haven't been able to get an answer anywhere else.

Regarding attendance data from last year. I logged a call with Advanced a couple of weeks ago but they have not yet provided a solution. Hey Ho

Progresso question. Is there anyone using Progresso successfully with KS5 assessments? And is there anyone near Suffolk who has used Progresso successfully for years that we could visit? Also how many students do you have on roll at your Progresso school?

Thank you, however we are now Progresso not SIMS.

Thank you for that. I have done this for head of Maths and English so far and it seems to be working. We will get there in the end, it is just knowing the best way to set things up as the manuals are not all that great. Cheers.

Hi, what is the best way to give head of department e.g. Maths, access to all other Maths teacher's classes to be able to add grades for an absent teacher. I don't really want to add the hod to each class as we have about 8 classes x 5 year groups and would have to do that for other subjects too. The moderator screens are not so easy to look at and they can't seem to add grades to empty cells although they can change grades already entered. The best way I have found so far is have a hod role which has view and enter permissions for all screens but they can see and edit all subjects not just their own. Any other ideas? Thanks

Just wondering if you sorted this in the end?

I agree it would be better if you don't want historical behaviour or assessment but as we are migrating mid academic year we are trying to bring this year's data over. However today it is painfully slow......

Well I can definitely see why the need for pain killers.

Thanks for all your replies. I'm going to get to help out for a little while to see if it's what I want to do. Thanks.

Hi, I have worked in IT for many years, firstly on those big old lovely mainframe things, and for the last 9 years as an ICT Technician in a school. I have no desire to be a Network Manager but now there is a Data Manager vacancy at my school. I'm interested but it all looks a bit daunting so far. Lots to get my head around. So what is the general opinion? "Don't touch it with a barge pole" or "it's great, go for it"? Thanks.

What about student ones? Has anyone had any problems getting devices back after they leave or do you have an arrangement where they get to keep the device?

Just wondering what action schools have taken if 1:1 devices provided to the students are not returned when they leave as per the AUP. Do you phone, write, small claims, or 'send the boys round'

Well I emailed them back, pointing out that SQL 2012 is not backward compatible with 2008 R2 so I can't provide a backup that will restore onto 2008 R2, they will need to restore onto 2012. I also pointed out that they have supported SQL 2012 since the Autumn 2012 release. Got this response. Many thanks for your reponse, I will email the developers to work on the 2012 SQL Server, rather than work on 2008, you are correct that we certaily do support SQL2012 You would think they should know that rather than have a customer point it out to them.

Just wondering if Capita managed to resolve this as we have just been told the same. **Replication steps confirm data is on 2012. You cannot downgrade SQL databases, and we support 2012** Dataset Backup is not correct. while restoring on SQL Server 2k8 R2 Version it gives error. Provide correct dataset backup for SQL Server 2k8 R2 Version Thanks