KSimp

We don't have any supervisors listed in course manager so they don't appear in our missing results report. This means the missing report only shows class teachers. To give our HoY and HoD access to marksheets that aren't their classes we increase their permissions so they can see all marksheets. This may not be the best way to do it but it hasn't caused us any problems so far!

No, the supervisor in Course Manager is blank, I don't deal with that side of SIMS so hope that isn't going to cause us a problem....it hasn't so far!

If I look at HoD in Manage Classroom staff they only have their own classes listed. There are no classes listed with supervisor against them, this maybe the difference?

We have our class marksheets assigned to class teachers only. If your HoD see the marksheets that are assigned to the whole course rather than classes then it wouldn't duplicate as by sorting by the marksheet type before selecting the marksheets you would be excluding any 'course' marksheets.

To check for missing results in marksheets I use the report in Reports | Assessment | Missing Results Report. Select the relevant Result Set(s) e.g. Year 9 Summer Term and click search This brings back all marksheets with a blank in an aspect with the corresponding Result Set(s).I then click on 'Type' so all the class marksheets appear in the list together and bulk tick them. Click on Populate and the Missing Results screen will populate (this sometimes a while to generate depending on the number of marksheets that are selected. I then export this to Excel and produce a Pivot Table ordered by Teacher, Marksheet Name (which includes the class code) and aspect. This gives me a nice table of how many results each teacher is missing. If I re run the report at a later date to check for updates I just export the data again and refresh the pivot tables. The whole process takes about 10 minutes which we found much quicker than checking the marksheets manually and also ensures every missing result it picked up as it's often easy to miss one missing result on a marksheet. We have used Profiles Comment banks. As others have stated, they are a bit of a pain if someone spots a mistake in a comment bank after the session is open as the comment bank can be amended, but any selections already made will not be updated. They are also a pain as you can't add classes once the session is open. Having said that we still use them, we are just stricter with checking the comment banks and classes before they go live. Kate

We haven't used SLG so I can't compare the two, but we have used School Comms for almost two years and think it is great. It is really easy to use to send Linked Documents/timetables from SIMS so we email all our assessment update reports to parents that way. It is also great for general email and texts to parents. We have School Comms Online Reporting and parents really like being able to see the live behaviour information. We now have the option to show assessment data via Online Reporting but we haven't taken this leap yet! The support is brilliant, queries are responded to very quickly. We also have Room Booker and the online Parents' Evening booking system which are equally as good.

FFT produce a decimal KS2 points in Aspire - when I have compared it to data I previously downloaded from Key to Success the scores are slightly different, I have contacted them to ask why as I also need a source of this data.

Yes please ICTLady

I am looking for Data Manager Forums so will try and join the group set up, are people aware of any other good forums/email groups?