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It's your method of constructing the date that's the issue I would say. Not at a PC so can't check exactly what's happening, but the two date fields ought to be no different. Wrapping your expression in DateSerial() might work I tend to do this kind of operation with dateadd =DateAdd("d", 1 - Day(Today()) , Today())

Specifically in the context of the timetabling software he means - which is generally only used by one or two people.

This is not quite true. It's perfectly acceptable to say negative things about someone in a reference provided they are accurate.

Definitely caused by word. If you have to open an XML file to do manual edits, use plain old Notepad (or Notepad++). Word tries to do a lot of stuff in the background like formatting and stuff that tends to ruin things like .xml files.

It's an additional module that you have to buy so it won't appear unless you get them to assign it to your school. Actually I think in the next release (I think, could have gotten the release date wrong) they're finishing the on screen reporting thing which is supposed to be like a much simpler, easier to use reporting engine so staff without the skills for SSRS can get custom lists out and things - that'll probably help rather than the Analytics module (which is still fairly technical, even if moderately easier than SSRS) Also, this is really true. The majority of people can get all they need by adding extra columns to the learner list:

This relies as much (or more) on the staff as the providers, so I'm not sure you're ever going to hit that point.

There's not just Google SSO tbf, we have it working with O365 via I Am Cloud, you can run your own ADFS server etc. One suspects there's more to it given we're 5 years down the line and it's still a nightmare at times. It's definitely more than that anyway as you'll often experience vastly different speeds with different sections of the software.

Quoting for truth.

There's a field in the Census that differentiates, and prior to that identify Progresso.

Kind of you but in reality I just pulled the number out of my... Too lazy to go check what they actually cost!

If we spread £10k for a new server across the 5 years then our SIMS quote works out about £3k cheaper year on year. Like I say though, the front year of SIMS costs so much that there's not much difference in the 5 years as a whole. And I have no idea how often servers need replacing!

I've not had a recent quote for a 5 Year Progresso renewal, but my recent 5 year SIMS quote was cheaper than the 5 year Progresso license we're just coming out of. EDIT: Scrap the word significantly, I'm bad at math. It's slightly​ cheaper. Although that's heavily weighted in the first year of SIMS being lolwtf expensive, the year on year costs are more different.

We also use Inventry, and it does indeed seem to be ok. Only word of warning is; they have "Big" and "Small" consoles. Turns out student registration doesn't work via the Small consoles, so you have to buy the big ones if you want to use it for that purpose.

We also use Inventry, and it does indeed seem to be ok. Only word of warning is; they have "Big" and "Small" consoles. Turns out student registration doesn't work via the Small consoles, so you have to buy the big ones if you want to use it for that purpose.

I have never tried this; but you can export the Assessment Structure to an XML file (so that MATs can easily set up a homogenous assessment structure) and colour conditioning does appear in that XML file: So presumably you could set up a screen, export it and simply use Notepad++ to change the Screen, Column and Template names as necessary, then simply import the file. Again though...never tried it. Can't see why it wouldn't work though.

I think Progresso's cluster functionality won't work as they're wanting here (if I'm understanding their requirements properly); it's basically a way to let MAT level staff see everything they need without having to set them up individually in each school's database, but it's still designed to work with a) A Trust and b) schools that are actually separate schools as well as legally separate schools. So for example, you can't set up a class containing Students from multiple schools to take attendance, or schedule into the timetable (at least to my knowledge).

You just need to set up the filtering effectively, which takes a bit of practice but is then pretty easy. It only works obviously on data that's datetime stamped, so attendance, group populations etc. Example report. This will filter to Learners who are active on a particular date as well as the groups they were in on that date. To do that all you need to do is set the filters to looks for "Start Date" (be it of the group, or the Learner or whatever) before the date parameter and "End Date" after the date parameter or empty (because sometimes End Dates will be empty in Progresso. For example periods of FSM eligibility or SEN Provision that are ongoing). https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92753882/Groups%20Effective%20On.rdl

I would do it similarly to Mic I think - probably just edit the text box of the field and use IIf(IsNothing()) to fetch the current year's data if the previous year's is blank

I don't think there's a way to dynamically include all students within a particular Year group on an Assessment screen unfortunately - as far as I know you'd have to add them to Ad Hoc group as you said.

Have you confirmed that your school's entry on Edubase is right? They tend to lock stuff down if you don't do that as gentle reminder that you really should do it.

Graham has pretty much nailed it, except I would put availability in "don't like" - it's down / running slow too often imo.

We use a report so we can see which specific columns have been filled in / left empty. PM me an email address if you like and I'll send it to you (I tried uploading here but it's not letting me do it for some reason). It's configured to look for our assessments, so you'd have to edit the LookUps and filters, but will give you the idea how to do it. Alternatively, the moderation functionality in Progresso includes a progress bar to show you how many of the columns marked as "Mandatory" have been completed if you prefer that - it works quite well we just found the report a bit easier.

I am definitely under the impression you can do it like this: 1) Edit the reporting template 2) Go to "Formula Definition", which is the Fx button top right 3) Pick the column you want the data to pull through to 4) In the "Choose Function" picklist set "COPYFROM" 5) In the "select template for additional columns" field pick your markbook templates All the columns from the markbook show up, and you can just pick the one you want it to drag through from. We don't actually use this but I can't see why it shouldn't work. Side note; calculated columns like this only actually calculate after a set period of time (maybe 15 mins...I forget) or when you press the "Calculate" button on the assessments entry window.

Yeah maybe. I do actually like the look of the one posted above...I tend to use Scheduler's Free Resource tool to find rooms quickly but letting teachers sort it all themselves is pretty tempting...

I confess we also don't use the markbooks, but I don't understand why you think ordinary assessments couldn't be fed into the report assessment screens? If you have an Assessment Template set up to be used as a markbook and another to be used for reports, you can have the report template automatically calculate grades based on the data entered in the markbook assessment template pretty easily.