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We have used the Person_ID and linked this into students AD accounts as this is how we link students in Insight so they can access Insight using their AD Username and Passwords, the reason we used Person_ID is as Vik said this is sourced from the same table and everyone in SIM's has one not just students so long term I want to try and extract the Data out of SIM's analyse this and use the Person_ID to direct specific data at specific user on logon so their data and progress would be displayed to each user so Progress is updated centrally and this would be automatically updated. At the moment students put the Progress information in their Hand books and we conduct and Analyse Surveys to check students understanding of targets and assessment which is then fed back and has been analysed over the last three years to check that departments are progressing with this, which works well just wanted to make this seamless so as soon as information is updated centrally as regards Assessment this feeds through.

We use Ricoh with Papercut MF and linked to AD accounts for staff early days but seems ok so far although some departments are going to get big bills.

Been trying this as well and trying to extract the data through Reports(with some advice from Vikpaw and other people) but as Vikpaw has said it is complicated specifically around linking different fields so Classes and Grade sets end up with multiple data so classes multiple times etc. Need to use Filters to filter the data I am confident I could get all Grades out but linking thoses to classes in SIM's report without multiple data being produced is tricky. See image if this helps.

My Missis isn't impressed that I am off and she has to go in that will teach her working in retail they never close . All staff that want to do any work are working remotely including me save me tracking into work just adjusted our Gateway to allocate more resources for Staff and Students.

Just had the Phone call from our Head all Solihull schools closed tomorrow blanket closure, so we are closed Monday.

Not sure if this is of Interest to anyone Network and ICT Manager https://www.wmjobs.co.uk/fe/tpl_wmp01.asp?s=aYhJgMRoBzQChEeQzw&jobid=54038,1423726225&key=23637614&c=257252594056&pagestamp=serynblemktfswvpph Term Time only. Closing Date Friday, 25th January 2013 at 4:00pm Grade Band E, SCP 26 - 31 (£22,221 - £26,276) pro rata (£11.52 - £13.62 per hour) Location Eaton Valley Primary School, Dagger Lane, West Bromwich, B71 4BU and Moat Farm Junior, Brookfields Road, Oldbury B68 9QR

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Been snowing here Birmingham\Solihull last few hours but only light flakes side roads still look a bit dodgy but main roads pretty clear and traffic seems to be flowing ok.

Nationwide here as well to be honest been pretty good odd teething problem at the start but no more than any new system, I always find if you can build up a good repour with any company provider when they first set up and you know who to contact and they get to know who you are and who they are dealing with has a reasonable amount of understanding it usually works fine like with everything I try and work out who it is best to contact to get things done and keep this information. I used Cunnighams before and to be honest these were fine also although this about three years ago. I think the reporting side in Nationwide is better Revals seem a little stabler than Cunninghams, probably now it is bedded in slightly less issues than I had with Cunninghams overall. I think the Cunnigham Fingerprint readers were slightly better. One tip if you do change to Nationwide you can take a copy of the Impact folder and have a copy of your past data which was handy for a couple of months as I had our Finance officer trying to tidy up her Finance side of things for a month or two after we changed over.

A picture paints a thousand words I think the saying goes.

I echo Vikpaws sentiments:whoo: well done and the stats make very interesting reading.

This is a brilliant site so thanks to all the Edugeek Team, used to use multiple sites for various technical support but now mostly come here. Well done and congrats again.

Someone posted this on my Facebook seems a reasonable excuse to me and has cheered me up a bit.

School closed at twelve here don't drive, buses were all over the place 2 hour walk home

Completely agree with Ben about transforming the school. As regards support I only expected them to pick up with it the next day but to work that late into the evening well impressed. Then to add the opt into Emails feature in profiles the next day what can I say.

Hi Just thought I had to report this as I thought this was exceptional support I use PAR's for Attendance, Behaviour etc and Insight for Parental Portal, anyhow I found an issue with a custom report I use in PAR's its a long story but I create a custom report in PAR's export it and import this into a SIM's Marksheet to get info into SIM's student reports as I said long story so don't want to go into why I do it this way. Any how I noticed that the figures weren't quite right for lates in the custom report so I put a call on their Helpdesk, five minutes later email back saying the incident had been updated so we exchanged a few messages on the Helpdesk to try to resolve the issue and tried a few things all the same day. I leave work have my tea etc then login to work about 7.0pm just to check a few things as we all do and check my email and have one from their Helpdesk just after I left so I think might as well update the issue on their Helpdesk thinking they will pick this up tomorrow, 7.30pm get another email saying my incident has been updated which I totally wasn't expecting anyhow we update the Helpdesk incidents and they have investigated this further and explain their is an update that should fix this issue install update job done all fixed so in essence they were replying and sorting my issue out until 8pm. This was last night by the way. I then thought perhaps I might be better getting info about updates extra functionality etc in an Email that I could opt into as you needed to login to see download updates when you want so not forced to update (some companies no names though) any how raised this on the same incident, Tasc software no problem we will take a look at this added this to my profile so login to helpdesk click a couple of check boxes received email saying their was an Insight update, oh wasn't quite what I wanted as I wanted what was included in the update so extra fuctionality or whatever, so back on the Helpdesk mentioned this 20 minutes all sorted so they have updated their website just from my request. So if anyone is using PAR's or Insight if you logon to the Helpdesk and update your profile if you want to opt into receive emails about PAR's and Insight updates with what has changed. It is not the fact that I can now opt into if I want to receive Emails about updates etc it is the above and beyond way they go about their support to be honest nothing less than I have come to expect except I really do think this was above and beyond.

Cheers Vikpaw we were able to work it out from the info you provided, as always really appreciatted we can kinda see where we could develop this more.

Quite agree is great site not only for problem solving but also people come up with great ideas that they are happy to share and can give you heads up at products you may be looking at and much more. Welcome.

Cheers this is the way we would like to do it I just wanted to make sure it was workable and try and get a feel for all the pit falls

Good point about the likely hood of Sylabus or Course change and would if this were the case probably look at using a different Aspect but haven't looked at UMS before and how this relates and just trying to think everything through before we agree with departments to set this up I was thinking of just setting this in Excel lookup tables and then staff enter the grade but have staff saying this is a lot of extra work even though we set up the sheets if they want so am just seeing how many issues it would cause if we tried to do it in SIM's directly with the conversions.

Cheers not to sure about a diiferen't Result set as I think this might cause confuison elsewhere and start to make it complicated with too many result sets but hadn't realised the Version field so date range applied deffinately sounds like a good one to try and test first thanks.

Chers again my only concern is if UMS points change and Historic data what do you think would be the best way to handle this if a points score changed for a grade would this cause an issue with Historic data and the Historic Grade if we changed this aspect. But your right just need to mess with this and test.

Cheers Vikpaw your a Star, thanks the reason we are looking at this is we have always had a central system for Assessment\Progress based on reports three times a year and this is really well used year but classes and subjects do their own module tracking and progress in their own systems but we want to do this in SIM's. Thanks again Vikpaw really appreciatted.

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Hi Is their any easy way to create a Grade Aspect in SIM's to convert UMS marks to a Grade so something like 240, 239, 238 etc to 201 all equals A* 200, 199, 198 to 180 equals B etc. Without having to list each integer. So link a grade to a Value Range A* to 240-201 etc or a difefrent way of doing this.