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Hi, Yes indeed. It's all up the creak at the moment. https://customer.support-ess.com/csm?id=community_question&sys_id=744962341b649154551b8557d34bcb58&anchor=answer_cd29bef81b24d154551b8557d34bcbcb&view_source=searchResult&fbclid=IwAR05fgiCMteEaLDeMvXm0OvdisSyfyD6-muJ0NIkGbk2mjSxNi5cU5Nf9zc

I've avoided jumping so far. Best tip from my Boss (He's a Deputy Head) is to have separate accounts for - in his case - Deputy Head, Teacher, Personal Regards Gary

Hi, The thinking here is that anything that could contribute to P8 is worth having If we can shoehorn or crowbar it in. These exams are taken offsite, usually privately, by the student. That's why I'm hoping we can add them at Data Checking time. We have 4Matrix and I've tested with a Grade 6 Rock & Pop award which gets put into the 'Other' bucket in P8, In this particular case, the student's P8 went up a little bit and the award trumped his A in PE. Regards Gary

Thanks everyone, Scrabble around we will! Regards Gary

Thanks Bob, I could see them in the document you mentioned. I just wanted to check that 'outside' awards would count on our figures for Progress 8 if we add them in August or Tables Checking time. Does this sound reasonable to you? (or anyone else...) Regards Gary

Hi all, Wonder if anyone could help here. We have a student (probably tip of the iceberg stuff) who has achieved a Grade 8 in 'Rock and Pop' QAN 6003959X. This was achieved outside of school. I've had a play with our friendly 4Matrix system and if I shoehorn this result in, 4Matrix slots the result into bucket 3 (Other) part of the Progress 8 Calculations. A grade 8 pass is worth 66 points according to the QAN code. So, If we were to add these results to the student's results data in school , would they count in the school's performance measures? In this case, the student's P8 score went up from +0.41 to +0.41, displacing PE A grade in the process because this was better. Before staff get over excited and start looking for multi instrumentalists in our cohort, I wanted to check that it was worth the effort for us. Thanks in advance Regards Gary

Hi, 4Matrix will convert +/- to 1 and 3 internally when you import a spreadsheet. you won't have to convert. Not sure about any other naming conventions you may be considering. Regards Gary

Hi, CAM is right - the way the aspects are named is a nightmare. If you think the old Data Manager had inconsistencies... Best thing to do is to have a look at the results broadsheet from Examinations and then, one by one, try and find the aspects for the results in SIMS. Add these bit by bit to a master marksheet template and then cross check to see if the grades are what you thought thy were. You can then change the column description to something meaningful...

Hi CAM, Exactly how I understand it as well. Slightly more complex if (like us) you have a three year KS4. I'm just as unprepared and it looks like the summer will be taken up with creating new marksheets and converting historical data to the new grade sets. In addition, Legacy GCSE Point Scores will be changing. See https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415486/Progress_8_school_performance_measure.pdf Here: https://dataeducator.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/the-regression-of-progress-8/ And here: https://principalprivate.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/what-i-am-learning-about-their-determination-to-perpetuate-unfairness-in-accountability-systems/ Regards Gary

This is like the Hokey Cokey

Just waiting for this button to become active again:

Hi, That's fine but it's all the valuable old stuff that's gone. Only yesterday I was asked about creating a Photo Medical Conditions report, which I could quite easily do myself. However, a SupportNet user had created one and uploaded it to file sharing on the old site. I was able to produce something in a couple of minutes using that. It's such a shame they couldn't leave the old site open for read only. Having said that, considering how well it's been going this morning, I reckon we might be back on there by this afternoon! Then I might sit and download loads of stuff anyway! Gary

Well... I was on.... Got the same error as above now. Maybe my single new thread and one reply was enough to break the Camel's back...

Hi, I'm in - got on the site at about 7:45. Posted my first new thread asking what happened to all the user files that had been uploaded. All gone now... Gary

Hi there, Try going to the template - Focus/Assessment/Templates. Find the templates that the marksheets are created from, open them and delete the marksheets. Then rename the template with, perhaps, a 'z' at the beginning of the name. That way you can easily find the templates you have 'retired'. Hope that helps Regards Gary

Hi, You should see some sort of message count at the top of your screen. If you go into this it will tell you how it's doing. I think I had to a 'continue' at some point before it eventually finished. Didn't take too long though. regards Gary

@South CoastSaint - I've also tried adding students that weren't on the database with partial success. 4 Matched and added, 4 not matched - the line says 'Not matched. This pupil cannot be updated in Aspire' 3 of these are from abroad - I'm investigating the fourth who has been in a couple of primary schools. Regards Gary

I had to order some more green ink for my printer...

@Jenis, or ELSE what?

Hi, For our Year 11s we adjust En/Ma/Sc Predictions every two weeks. We then plug the data into 4Matrix and Discover. Discover gives us a Venn Diagram and 4Matrix gives us the rest. We have a board in the Staffroom with pictures of all students mounted on House Colour card and laminated. These are split into a square approximation of the Venn Diagram Layout and posted along with: Discover Venn Diagram 4Matrix School Overview 4Matrix 5A*-C Analysis 4Matrix Press Release 4Matrix Subject Summary Movers and Shakers Report This shows the students who have moved category since the last data collection (two weeks ago). For example, Johnny has moved from 5A*-C Inc En Ma to 5A*-C En but NOT Ma. This is produced using the export of the 4matrix Press Release and some excel jiggery pokery. Regards Gary

We've also gone for timetabled hours for the year.

Hi, Just wanted to give a thanks for the excellent document. Made my download and apply a breeze. No Year 6(7)s for us yet in the standard download - I had to upload all me new Year 7 UPNs. Still got a file with Y09 in them though... Thanks again Gaz

Hi Emm, In FFT (can't remember exactly where) you can show Expected Progress Grade (EP) and Better than Expected Progress Grade (BEP) This may help? Regards Gaz

Hi Teaboy, Can't be done as you describe. It depends where the Higher ups want to see that information. Focus/Assessment/Marksheet Entry shows the Owner (the teacher) in the list. Regards Gary

Hi Matt, I can see where you are coming from and totally agree that feedback should be due as soon as a new method comes out. And I'm the first person to welcome change, believe me... However, the original functionality was left in the system (for four years!) and I have continued to use this as I find it fits our needs perfectly. I have nearly made a useable timetable report now from the new method and it'll do. Chris Sherwood has promised that they will look at my gripes as a future project. Those being: Finally, wouldn't this have been better introduced in the Spring Upgrade? At least then people wouldn't have been in the midst of timetable creation for next year. I'm quite handy with configuring this type of thing but I'll bet there are some staff who will struggle to make their timetables look right (and that's not being derogatory in any way). I really don't mean to be a whinger, I love most of what Capita does to improve our lives... Regards Gary