SIMS Discover for Secondary Schools

SIMS Discover is the future of 21st century school analysis. A powerful tool that allows you to analyse and mine your SIMS data and present it in a variety of ways, including Venn diagrams, bar charts, pie charts and line graphs.

Its user friendly interface and use of drag and drop actions expose and simplify the challenging area of data analysis to all your staff, allowing them to easily run their own investigations into areas of data that interest them and intervene earlier.

Student analysis that previously took days to get set up and hours to do can now be done in minutes by your staff.

View our SIMS Discover video.

Key benefits

• Find trends and patterns in your pupil data
  Monitor at risk groups, assess intervention strategies - see the whole picture
   
• Find the middle 80%
  Easily and quickly create a ‘dynamic group’ that can be moved into SIMS for management and tracking, and receive automatic alerts when students enter or leave this group
   
• Automate alerts to students’ data changes
  Students joining or leaving dynamic groups can be easily exposed to staff identifying significant changes of student performance or behaviour. Other areas of SIMS will be able to use these groups for filtering etc.
   
• Intuitive and stylish user interface
  Staff will enjoy using the software - a great combination of powerful data analysis in an easy to use environment
   
• Consolidates all student data
  Rather than having to look in different software packages or on different screens, all available pupil data will be present on one screen
   
• Demystify data analysis
  Rather than it being the domain of a few, all staff will be able to easily access your school’s student data and find their own answers to traditionally complex queries
   
• Identify specific students
  Students that may have previously slipped under the radar, with positive or negative attributes, will now be identified and appropriate actions can then be taken. This will help to ensure no student goes unnoticed.
   
• Easily create Venn diagrams
  By simply clicking and dragging you can create high level queries that show which students fall into all three categories.

Your SIMS system holds an incredible amount of data and information. With SIMS Discover, you can easily unlock the full power of your entire database.

“SIMS Discover will allow teachers to take ownership of the data and analyse it themselves. This will save time and increase teachers’ ability to make strategic decisions about assessment in order to support student improvement.”
- Gill Pearson, SIMS System Manager, Hinchley Wood School, Surrey