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Hi, I hope you can help. I am looking for a suitable MIS for our SEN school. We have 80 pupils and currently use School Pod as our MIS. We would like to move to a new MIS which allows us to create our own custom forms such as behaviour incidents, school trips, rewards etc. and allow us to design this ourselves with input boxes, selection boxes and preferably a body map for pupils which have been hurt in school. I am also looking to get analysis in the MIS such as incident graphs, assessment progress graphs etc. We previously tried the MIS called Engage but unfortunately didn't provided the level of analysis we needed. The MIS would need to be very good in terms of the analysis it can provide. Can you please recommend a suitable MIS for our SEN pupils? Thank you

I've come across a bug in Bromcom Analysis whereby if you set cohort filter to a date range in the past and select Pupil Premium it will include students who became eligible for the Pupil Premium after the date range ended. I think the issue is pervasive across the MIS because if you add the pupil premium flag to a custom report there's no interval to say when you want to see PP eligibility. It looks like as far as Bromcom is concerned if you become eligible for PP then you've always been eligible for it, like it's an eternal truth they've discovered inside you. I guess they figured that as you can get an accurate figure for today it doesn't matter but it's a strange oversight given how important Pupil Premium is as a pupil characteristic. I guess you can work around it by deducing eligibility from FSM and LAC rolls (which are date sensitive) but that would be a lot of hassle. Has anyone come up with a better way of dealing with this when doing analysis of past cohorts in Bromcom?

Hello I am fairly new to my role as MIS Officer at a Secondary School (coming up to a year, so maybe not that new!), and I am looking at ways to develop the schools use of Assessment Manager within SIMS. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who uses SIMS/Assessment Manager to store/analyse MidYIS and YELLIS feedback data on their pupils, and if so how. I was thinking of creating a template with columns that were just free text, and then importing the feedback into them but this will only allow me to store the data and not produce any analysis on it. Apologies if there is already a thread for this somewhere, i did search to try and find a relevant one!!! Thanks, Lianne

Hi All, Think this is a long shot but thought I would post anyway. I run assessment at a large sec. modern and currently produce a report (ring bound booklet) containing lists of specific pupils (pupils on target 5A*-C, pupils with <85% attendance, pupils arriving with KS2 L4 etc) along with headlines and various bits of analysis. I have an excel spreadsheet set up which has a tab for the raw data (targets and attainment) and these feed in to the analyses to give me the headlines etc. The arduous part comes in when printing the report. There are 20 focus groups in all, which we have to filter from the raw data to start with on whatever the criteria is, then hide out the columns we dont need, then rename the header to say the name of the group then print page by page. For 20 focus groups this takes about a day or so to produce the whole thing. This is far too long and I can't help thinking there must be a quicker way. Any feedback or input would be gratefully recieved. I've spent so long staring at it I've lost any sense of objectivity or idea!!! Charlotte

Reports To: Principal Consultant Department: Consultancy Team Hours Of Work: 37.5 hours per week Mon–Fri Salary: Dependent on experience and skills Working Pattern Home-based, term time only plus one week preferred but full time could be negotiated. Contract Length Permanent Based in: London, Essex, Herts, Berks, Bucks, Surrey or Kent Job Description: Working with one of the leading providers of data solutions to schools, we are recruiting another person to join our Consultancy team to look after schools across London and the south east. Our team of consultants is made up of passionate, dedicated individuals who are committed to helping schools make effective use of data. The consultants act as the eyes and ears of the business, keeping up to date with what is happening in schools and ensuring this information is used to support our growing user base. The team supports a variety of events and represents the company at exhibitions and conferences as well as providing onsite and online training to both administrators and teachers. Consultants are also responsible for providing demonstrations of both services (Analytics and Observe) to schools online and in person (when possible), alongside supporting schools with technical queries via email and occasionally Live Chat. Consultants also host termly regional DataMeets for support staff to network with other schools. Essential: Ability to act on own initiative. 3+ years’ experience working in a school/education setting responsible for data and/or exams. Ability and willingness to travel as and when required (Consultants are generally out visiting schools around 3 days a week and then home based for 2 days). Up to date professional knowledge of DfE policy for KS2-5. Knowledge of multiple modules of at least one MIS (SIMS, Progresso, Bromcom, CMIS, Integris etc.) Driven by a genuine passion for the use of data in education. Excellent presentation skills Desirable: Current administrator of SISRA Analytics Experience of training staff in the use of educational data. Additional Duties: Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from the Directors of SISRA Limited or Principal Consultant to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description. For more information or to apply please send your CV and a covering letter to [email protected] Closing date for applications – 22nd September 2017 Interviews will be held in the London area week beginning 2nd October 2017

Evening All, I find myself tearing my hair out with Bromcom this evening - not through a fault of the MIS I'm sure. So here I am asking for some help. Teachers have graded pupil in Year 11 with their current GCSE grade. This is in Wales, so we have A*, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. So 15-30 pupils in 15 or so subjects. Teachers have completed the marksheets and all the data is in there. I now need a report that calculates percentages of A*A, A*-C and A*-G for every subject and present it in a table. A grade analysis for this set of results. I thought I had it - and I do - sort of. I can get the break down of each grade as a %age, but I want the 3 I gave in the previous sentence (A*A, A*-C and A*-G) - I'm hoping someone has an idea as I don't want to have to export everything into Excel and do it from there. Was hoping someone may have a report definition I can steal and adapt? Or some advice? Many thanks Gareth