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=Setup=
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The snapshot page gives an overview of information about the student. Various pieces of information can be displayed or hidden on this page. <br> <br>
  
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==Importing Grades from SIMS==
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The following Role Option is needed to access the Snapshot page: <br>
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''General > Snapshot'' (On) <br> <br>
  
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The AM Subjects page is used to pull grading aspects from SIMS into Insight, so that grades can be seen by parents and pupils. AM stands for Assessment Manager. If you are using [http://www.tascsoftware.co.uk/software-titles/pars-connect/ PARS] and have created SIMS elements in PARS, then you do not need to use the AM Subjects page - instead you can pull elements into Insight via the [[preferences]] page. <br> <br>
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The page is accessed via: <br>
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'''General > Snapshot''' <br> <br>
  
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==The AM Subjects page==
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The page can be renamed with the following Role Option: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Alternative menu title'' <br> <br>
  
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The page will show two dropdown menus at the top which are used to select SIMS aspects. Once an aspect have been selected, a table will appear at the bottom displaying the subjects as taken from your timetable. <br> <br>
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=Notification bar=
  
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<div>[[Image:amsubjects1.jpg]]</div> <br> <br>
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[[Image:snapshot_top_bar.png|thumb|The Notification bar of the Snapshot page showing Notices, Assignments and Surveys]]
  
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==Adding aspects==
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The bar at the top of the page will show coloured boxes if the pupil has any new '''[[notices]]''' or '''[[assignments]]''', or has been invited to take part in any '''[[surveys]]'''. Each of the boxes can be clicked on; this opens an area below the box showing the new notices/assignments/surveys. <br> <br>
  
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First select the aspect you want to pull into Insight in the Aspect dropdown at the top of the page. Once you have clicked the dropdown you can use the text field to search for aspects by their name. It is not recommended that you use the Target dropdown menu. <br> <br>
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===Notices===
  
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Once you have selected the aspect you will see a list of subjects appear at the bottom of the page. An aspect is pulled into Insight when it is linked to one or more subjects so select the relevant subjects for the Aspect you have chosen. There is no save button; all you need to do is tick the subjects. <br> <br>
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The notices box can be turned on or off using the following '''[[role options|role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Notices'' <br> <br>
  
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==Reviewing linked aspects==
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Clicking on the Notices section will either take the user to the '''[[Notices]]''' page, or expand the Notices box on the snapshot page to display up to 10 recent notices. This behaviour is determined by the following '''[[role options|role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Notices > Jump directly to notices screen'' <br> <br>
  
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To see a list of the aspects that have already been configured you will need to leave the AM Subjects page. A report showing all of the linked aspects can be found via: <br>
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===Assignments===
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'''[[:Category:Reports|Reports]]''' > '''[[Linked aspects]]''' <br> <br>
 
  
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[[Image:linkedaspectsreport1.jpg]] <br> <br>
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The Assignments box can be turned on or off using the following '''[[role options|role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Assignments'' <br> <br>
  
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==Importing Grades from PARS==
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Assignments created in Insight will always be shown (providing they meet the conditions below). Additionally assignments from either SIMS or PARS can be shown. If you are not a PARS user then SIMS homework will automatically be displayed. See the '''[[PARS]]''' page for information about displaying assignments from PARS. <br> <br>
  
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==Configuring Charts==
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Clicking on the Assignments section will either take the user to the '''[[Assignments]]''' page, or expand the Assignments box on the snapshot page to display up to 10 recent assignments. This behaviour is determined by the following '''[[role options|role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Assignments > Jump directly to assignments screen'' <br> <br>
  
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The AM charts page is used to configure bar charts that appear on the [[assessments]] page (users will need the "Show progress charts" [[role options|role option]] enabled to see the charts). The charts can either be configured via the AM charts page, or by editing a text file on the IIS server that hosts Insight. <br> <br>
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The following '''[[roles|role options]]''' will determine whether certain Assignments are displayed or hidden in Insight: <br>
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{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border:solid 1 #CCC; border-collapse:collapse"
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|''General > Snapshot > Only show unfinished assignments||Assignments with a Status of Complete will be hidden
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|''General > Assignments > Earliest||Assignments created prior to this date will not be shown
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|''General > Assignments > Rolling archive in weeks||Assignments with a Due Date more than this number of weeks in the past will be hidden
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|''General > Assignments > Strip old open||Assignments with a Due Date in the past and with a Status of Pending will be hidden
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|''General > Assignments > Strip old complete||Assignments that are Complete will only be displayed if their Due Date is in the future
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|''General > Assignments > Strip future||Assignments which have an Issued Date in the future will be hidden
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|''General > Assignments > Include exceptions||Assignments with a Status of Exception will be displayed
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|} <br>
  
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In order for charts to be displayed, grades must be collected from SIMS rather than [[TASC Software Community Portal|PARS]]. The setting for this is found via [[Preferences]] > PARS > Collect grades from PARS (this is only applicable to schools using PARS). <br> <br>
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===Surveys===
  
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<div>[[Image:amchartexample1.jpg]]</div> <br> <br>
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The surveys box will appear if the user has been invited to take part in a survey. There is no role option to turn this off. Click on the name of a survey will open the '''[[surveys]]''' page. <br> <br>
  
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Charts can either be created by using the AM charts page in Insight, or by editing a text file on the IIS server hosting Insight. <br> <br>
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The surveys box can be renamed with this role option: <Br>
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''Snapshot > Label surveys as'' <br> <br>
  
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===Using the AM charts page===
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===Unexplained Absences===
  
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At the top of the page there is a "Live" option. This must be switched on in order for charts to be displayed to users. The rest of the page is used to configure the charts. <br> <br>
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The Unexplained Absences section will display automatically if the student has any N codes in their attendance, unless the following preference includes the student's year group: <br>
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''Attendance > Hide the Report Absences menu item for the following years'' <br> <br>
  
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Each chart needs to be given a title. There is an edit button which opens a window to add a column to the chart. In the window there are options to select an Aspect and Result Set, from which the data will be taken. There is also a "Column title source" option used to label the column, which can be set to either Aspect, Result Set or Both. <br> <br>
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Each date or date range where a student has N codes will be listed. Users can click on these date ranges to access the '''[[report absences]]''' page if the following '''[[roles|role options]]''' are used: <br>
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''Attendance > Report absences'' (On) <br>
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''Attendance > Report absences > Allow reporting of historical absences'' (On) <br>
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''Attendance > Report absences > Maximum age of absence in days'' (absences are not older than this many days) <br> <br>
  
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Each chart will need one or more columns added to it in order for it to be displayed to users. Multiple charts can be created and will look similar to the following: <br> <br>
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It is possible to delay attendance data from being displayed in Insight. Delayed attendance data will not be counted in the Unexplained Absences box. The following '''[[preferences]]''' are used to enable the delay in Insight: <br>
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''Attendance > Hide marks in attendance summaries in the validation range'' (On) <br>
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''Attendance > The number of days taken to validate attendance marks for attendance summaries'' <br> <br>
  
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<div>[[Image:am_charts3.jpg]]</div> <br> <br>
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=Alerts=
  
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[[Image:am_charts_labels.jpg|250px]] <br> <br>
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[[Image:snapshot_alerts.png|thumb|The Alerts section of the Snapshot page, shown without and with rules used]]
  
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===Using the text file on the IIS server===
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The alerts bar will appear beneath the Notifications bar. There are options (described below) to turn off specific parts of the Alerts section. Alternatively the following '''[[roles|role option]]''' can be used to disable the entire Alerts section: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Alerts'' <br> <br>
  
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There is a file on the server that hosts Insight which can be used to create the AM charts. The file is found in the _Personalisation folder, which is typically C:\wwwroot\inetput\INSIGHT\_Personalisation. The file will either be called assessments.charts or assessments.charts.unused <br> <br>
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The Alerts bar can show information about positive and negative behaviour, attendance and exclusions. The alerts boxes will be coloured green, yellow or red based on the pupil's number of behaviour points/attendance percentage/number of exclusions. The boundaries for these colours are set in SIMS via: <br>
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'''Tools > Setups > Student teacher view''' <br> <br>
  
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If you have a file called assessments.charts then open that file using Notepad or a similar basic text editor (not Microsoft Word!). If you do not have an assessment.charts file but do have an assessments.charts.unused file, then edit the assessments.chart.unused file, remove the .unused extension, then edit the file using Notepad or similar basic text editor. If you do not have either file, run an [[service pack|Insight service pack]]. <br> <br>
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These boundaries can be displayed or hidden using the following role options: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Behaviour <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Achievements <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Attendance <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Exclusions <br> <br>
  
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The first line of the file must always read:
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Additionally, the following role option changes the colouring for exclusions so that 0 exclusions is shown as green and any other number is shown as red: <br>
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<pre>
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''General > Snapshot > Alerts > All Exclusions are unacceptable <br> <br>
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<root>
 
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</pre> <br>
 
  
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Following that, a new chart can be created by adding the following line of text:
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===Achievements and Behaviours===
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<pre>
 
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<chart id="ENTER TITLE HERE" />
 
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</pre>
 
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Where ENTER TITLE HERE is replaced by the title for the chart. <br> <br>
 
  
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Columns are then added using the following line of text, repeated for each column on the chart:
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The following '''[[role options]]''' affect the information shown in the Achievements and Behaviours Alert boxes: <br>
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<pre>
 
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<aspect chart="ENTER TITLE HERE"  aspect="ENTER ASPECT NAME"  resultset="ENTER RESULT SET NAME"  xlabel="ENTER LABEL" />
 
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</pre>
 
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The name of the chart, the Aspect and the Result Set must be entered into the relevant sections. If the aspect is not associated with a Result Set, no text should be entered into the resultset option. The xlabel option can be set to: <br>
 
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a - for the name of the Aspect <br>
 
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r - for the name of the Result Set <br>
 
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ra - for the name of the Aspect and Result Set <br> <br>
 
  
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The lines above can be repeated to create multiple charts and columns. The final line of text must read:
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{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border:solid 1 #CCC; border-collapse:collapse"
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<pre>
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|''General > Snapshot > using behaviour incidents in the range''||This is the date used to calculate the numbers shown in the Alert boxes
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</root>
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</pre> <br>
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|''General > Snapshot > use points instead of events for behaviour''||The Alerts will either show the number of incidents that the student has received, or the number of points from those incidents
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|} <br>
  
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This example represents a chart showing nine samples of a single aspect over Key Stage 3:
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The following '''[[role options]]''' also must be enabled for the user to see the Achievements and Behaviour Alert boxes: <br>
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<pre>
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{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border:solid 1 #CCC; border-collapse:collapse"
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<chart id="KS3 Science Level" />
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|''Behaviour > Achievements''||This is must be On for the user to see the Achievements Alert
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 7 Autumn Term" xlabel="r" />
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 7 Spring Term" xlabel="r"/>
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|''General > Snapshot > including Achievements''||This is must be On for the user to see the Achievements Alert
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 7 Summer Term" xlabel="r"/>
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|''Behaviour > Behaviour''||This is must be On for the user to see the Behaviour Alert
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 8 Autumn Term" xlabel="r"/>
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 8 Summer Term" xlabel="r"/>
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|''General > Snapshot > including Behaviour''||This is must be On for the user to see the Behaviour Alert
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 8 Spring Term" xlabel="r"/>
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|} <br>
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 9 Autumn Term" xlabel="r"/>
 
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 9 Spring Term" xlabel="r"/>
 
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<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" aspect="Science Attainment Level" resultset="Year 9 Summer Term" xlabel="r"/>
 
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</pre> <br>
 
  
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This example shows different Aspects sampled from the same Result Set:
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Behaviour incidents will not be included if they were issued within the number of days set in the following '''[[preferences|preference]]''': <br>
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<pre>
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''Behaviour > The number of days taken to validate negative behaviour records'' <br> <br>
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<chart id="GCSE Targets" />
 
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<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" aspect="GCSE Art Target"            resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
 
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<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" aspect="GCSE Biology Target"        resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
 
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<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" aspect="GCSE Chemistry Target"      resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
 
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<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" aspect="GCSE Computing Target"      resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
 
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<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" aspect="GCSE Dance Target"          resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
 
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<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" aspect="GCSE Drama Target"          resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
 
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<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" aspect="GCSE English Target"        resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
 
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</pre>
 
  
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==Advanced Configuration==
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Users can be prevented from accessing the Achievements or Behaviours pages using the following '''[[preferences|preference]]''', but this will not hide the Alert boxes on the snapshot page: <br>
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''Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years'' <br> <br>
  
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The files in the _Personalisation folder allow you to make specific changes to Insight which cannot be put in place through either the [[role options]] or [[preferences|preference settings]]. <br> <br>
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===Attendance===
  
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All the files will initially have an extension of '.unused'; in addition to any actions below you will need to remove the 'unused' extension for the file(s) to take effects. <br> <br>
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The Attendance Alert box will show the student's percentage attendance based on sessions (AM and PM only). This can be turned off using the following '''[[role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Including attendance for years'' <br>
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(Setting this option as an asterisk will display the alert for all year groups. Alternatively, each year group can by type, separated by a plus symbol e.g. 7+8+9) <br> <br>
  
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===aspect.priorities===
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===Exclusions===
  
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This folder allows you to make amendments to the priority of Aspects and the priority of the Subject and Year Group within the Aspect.
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The Exclusions tab will show the number of days that a student has been excluded in exclusion in SIMS. The Exclusions alert can be turned on or off using the following role option: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Including Exclusion'' <br> <br>
  
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In order for this to work the settings for the role must be set correctly.  Within subjects ensure the setting for 'use_Personalisation\aspect.priorities file' is set to 'on'. <br> <br>
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=Information panels=
  
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===blacklisted.aspect.resultsets===
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===Today's attendance===
  
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There may be specific aspect and resultset combinations that you never want to display in Insight. In the file you will need one line for each aspect/resultset combination that you want to blacklist. The name of the aspect should appear first, then a comma, then the name of the result set. For example: <br> <br>
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[[Image:snap_today.jpg|thumb|The Today's Attendance section of the Snapshot page]]
  
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End of Year Grade, Preliminary results <br> <br>
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This will show the pupil's attendance to school today. This panel can show the AM and PM registers, lesson registers, or both. <br> <br>
  
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=Parent and Student View=
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{{Note|Note that this panel does not take account of the [[preferences#The number of days taken to validate attendance marks for attendance summaries (-1 for current week)|validation range preference]] and will show today's attendance in real time, including registers that have not been completed.}}
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<br>
  
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The assessments page shows a list of grades taken from SIMS aspect or PARS elements. The aspects/elements shown are chosen via the [[AM subjects]] or [[preferences]] page, respectively. <br> <br>
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====Hiding attendance====
  
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<div>[[Image:assessments.jpg]]</div>
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{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border:solid 1 #CCC; border-collapse:collapse"
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|''General > Snapshot > Current Attendance''||Show/Hide the entire panel
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|''General > Snapshot > show sessions for years''||Use * to show sessions for all years, or enter years separated by a plus symbol to display for specific years only. Use 99 (or another non-existent year) to hide for all students
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|''General > Snapshot > show lessons for years''||Use * to show lessons for all years, or enter years separated by a plus symbol to display for specific years only. Use 99 (or another non-existent year) to hide for all students
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==Options to Configure==
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The following '''[[preferences]]''' can also be used to hide attendance codes: <br>
  
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*'''For these years
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{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border:solid 1 #CCC; border-collapse:collapse"
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:Enter a list of year groups, separated by the plus symbol, for which this menu item is to be shown.
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|Attendance > Only use AM sessions||PM registers will not be displayed
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*'''Show data from how many previous academic years
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:Select the number of years of data you want the user to see.
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|Lesson marks > Hide all references to lesson marks||All lesson marks will be hidden
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:*'''or specify other amounts for specific yeargroups
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|} <br>
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::Enter amounts in the form yeargroup:amount, separated by a plus, for example 7:0+8:1+9:2+10:0+11:1+12:0+13:1
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*'''Alternative menu title
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Additionally the settings in SIMS affect whether or not AM and PM registers are shown. The settings in SIMS are found via: <br>
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:Enter a word to use in menus in place of Assessments.
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''Tools > Setups > Attendance Setup > Registration Organisation'' <br>
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*'''Earliest
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(If Lesson Groups AM/PM are selected, the corresponding AM/PM register will be hidden from the Today's Attendance section in Insight) <br> <br>
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:Assessment data entered before this date will not be shown
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*'''Latest
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====Hiding Information====
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:Assessment data entered after this date will not be shown
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*'''Latest first
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The rooms, times of lessons and student's attendance to each lesson can be displayed or hidden using the following role options: <br>
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:Turn this option on to attempt to order the assessments with the most recent at the top.
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*'''Limit to current subjects
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{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border:solid 1 #CCC; border-collapse:collapse"
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|''General > Snapshot > show Rooms''||Show the room in which each lesson or session is taking place
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*'''Use column headings in place of aspect name
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|''General > Snapshot > show times''||Show the start and end time of each lesson and session
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*'''Use gradeset description in place of result
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:Where a result has a description within its gradeset, use this instead of the actual result.
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|''General > Snapshot > show attendance symbols||Show the student's attendance to each lesson or session
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*'''Expand by default
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|} <br>
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:This options sets whether groups of assessments start out expanded or collapsed.
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*'''Show result block
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If you are showing students' attendance, the following symbols will be used: <br>
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:To show assessments by resultset or reporting period.
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{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="border:solid 1 #CCC; border-collapse:collapse"
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|[[Image:snap_pres.png]]||Present
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|-
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*'''Limit Targets to main grade result block
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|[[Image:snap_absent.png]]||Absent
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:Limit to main grade result block
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*'''Attempt level split on aspect name
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|[[Image:snap_late.png]]||Late
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:Useful only if your aspect names begin with a recognisable level, results can be arranged in levels.
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|-
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*'''Show grade help popup
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|[[Image:snap_nomark.png]]||Register not taken
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:Will provide help popup regarding grades.
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|-
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*'''Show progress charts
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|[[Image:snap_future.png]]||Register in the future
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:Hide or show progress charts
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|} <br>
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*'''Hide comments where a result exists
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:Just show grade not comment
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If attendance symbols are being displayed then you can also allow users to hover over the attendance symbols to see the student's actual attendance code using this role option: <br>
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Snapshot > show hover over descriptions <br> <br>
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===Cumulative Attendance===
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The Cumulative Attendance section shows a student's attendance as a line chart over the course of the academic year. This chart can be turned on for students in selected year groups using the following role option: <br>
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Snapshot > Cumulative attendance <br> <br>
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This chart is affected by the following preference, which determines whether or not PM marks are counted for the student: <br>
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Attendance > Only use AM sessions <br> <br>
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===Cumulative Behaviours===
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The Cumulative Behaviour chart will show a running total of the student's negative behaviour over the course of the academic year. This chart can be turned on or off using the following role option: <br>
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''Snapshot > Cumulative behaviour'' <br> <br>
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The following preference will cause the chart to show no data: <br>
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''Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years'' <br> <br>
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This role option will hide behaviour incidents issued prior to a certain date: <br>
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''Behaviour > Behaviour > Earliest'' <br> <br>
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The following preference sets a validation period in days. During this period, behaviour incidents added will not be visible in Insight, including on the Cumulative Behaviour chart: <br>
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''Behaviour > The number of days taken to validate negative behaviour records'' <Br> <br>
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If the following role option is enabled then behaviour incidents with a points value of zero will be hidden from the chart: <br>
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''Behaviour > Hide zero point items'' <br> <br>
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===Cumulative Achievements===
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The Cumulative Achievements chart will show a running total of the student's positive behaviour over the course of the academic year. This chart can be turned on or off using the following role option: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Cumulative achievements '' <br> <br>
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The following preference will cause the chart to show no data: <br>
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''Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years'' <br> <br>
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This role option will hide achievements issued prior to a certain date: <br>
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''Behaviour > Achievements > Earliest'' <br> <br>
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If the following role option is enabled then behaviour incidents with a points value of zero will be hidden from the chart: <br>
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''Behaviour > Hide zero point items'' <br> <br>
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===Recent behaviours===
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The recent behaviour panel will show the three most recent behaviour incidents for the student. These could be positive or negative. Positive incidents will be displayed if the [[Achievements]] role option is turned on and negatives will show if the [[Behaviours]] role option is turned on. <br> <br>
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The Recent Behaviour panel will show the three most recent behaviour incidents for the student. These could be positive or negative. The Recent Behaviour panel can be turned off using the following '''[[role option]]''' which will also remove the [[#Behaviour Summary|Behaviour Summary]] section from the Snapshot page. <br>
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General > Snapshot > Behaviour <br> <br>
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The panel can also be renamed using the following role option: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Use this title'' <br> <br>
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Behaviour incidents will only be shown in the Recent Behaviours panel if they could also be shown on the '''[[Achievements]]''' or '''[[Behaviours]]''' pages in Insight. Therefore you can use the role options and preferences for Achievements and Behaviours to hide bheaviour incidents from the Recent Behaviours panel. <br> <br>
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There is a preference to hide behaviour menu items for students in selected year groups. This preference also applies to the Recent Behaviours panel: <br>
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Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years'' <br> <br>
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===Detentions===
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The detentions panel shows the three most recent detentions for the pupil. If any detentions are scheduled for the future they will take priority over detentions that have already passed. The '''[[role options|role option]]''' to enable this panel is found via: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Detentions'' <br> <br>
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Detentions earlier than the date set here will not be shown: <br>
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''Behaviour > Detentions > Earliest'' <Br> <br>
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===Extra curricular===
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The Extra Curricular panel shows the three most recent extra classes for the pupil. If any extra classes are scheduled for the future they will take priority over extra classes that have already passed. The '''[[role options|role option]]''' to enable this panel is found via: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Extra Curricular'' <br> <br>
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Detentions earlier than the date set here will not be shown: <br>
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''Attendance > Extra Curriculum > Earliest'' <Br> <br>
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===Recent reports===
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The reports panel will display any documents that have been recently added. The documents are pulled from the Linked Documents section in SIMS. This panel is enabled using the following '''[[role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Recent reports'' <br> <br>
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Documents will only be displayed if the '''Last modified date''' from SIMS is within the number of days set in this '''[[role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Maximum age in days'' <br> <br>
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Documents will only be displayed on the Snapshot page if they are also displayed in the '''[[subjects]]''' section of Insight. See the Subjects page for a list of role options and settings that determine whether or not documents are displayed. <br> <br>
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===This Term's Attendance===
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This Term's Attendance is chart which shows the student's attendance to each week at school. Attendance is shown week-by-week, so if a pupil is absent for a week their attendance will drop down to 0 on the graph, for that week. The chart can be turned on or off using the following role option: <br>
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Snapshot > This term's attendance <br> <br>
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During the first week of a new term, this chart will be blank. This is because Insight needs at least two data points before it can draw a line. You should have data showing from the second week of term onwards. <br> <br>
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===Custom Panels (snapshot.bolton.xml)===
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You can also add custom panels to the Snapshot page. Each custom item needs to be created as a html page and saved in the _Personalisation folder. Once an item has been created, create a bolton file. You can have several bolton files. The filename will always be "snapshot_" followed by a distinct number e.g. snapshot_1.bolton snapshot_2.bolton etc.
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The bolton files need to be in the following format: <br> <br>
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<root>
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<title>Guidance</title>
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<url>https://[your Insight URL]/_Personalisation/example.html</url>
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<height>50</height>
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</root>
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{{Note|Replace [your Insight address] with the URL you use for Insight}}
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The title will be shown on the snapshot page about the new item. The "example" part of the URL should be replaced with the name of the html file in the _Personalisation folder and the height is the number of pixels tall that the item will be. Items are always 300px wide. <br> <br>
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Multiple snapshot.bolton files can be used by creating a new file and adding a number to the end of "snapshot" e.g. snapshot1.bolton.xml <br> <br>
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=Behaviour Summary=
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[[Image:snap_behaviour_summary.jpg|thumb|The Snapshot Behaviour Summary]]
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The following '''[[role option]]''' must be enabled to show the Behaviour Summary section. This role option will also enable the '''[[#recent behaviours|Recent Behaviours]]''' section of the snapshot page: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Behaviour'' <br> <br>
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There are sections for positive and negative behaviour within the Behaviour Summary section. Each can be turned on or off independently using the following '''[[role options]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Showing Achievements summary'' <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Showing Behaviour summary'' <br> <br>
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The Behaviour Summary will show behaviour incidents from the range specified in this role option: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Using incidents in the range'' <br> <br>
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A Cash-In section may also be shown, which will display the number of points that the student has spent on rewards, and the number of points currently available for them to spend. This feature is only available to '''[[PARS]]''' users. See the '''[[Cash In]]''' and '''[[PARS]]''' pages for more information. <br> <br>
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By default the Behaviour Summary section will show data based on the number of incidents given to a student. This can be changed to show the number of behaviour points from those incidents, using the following '''[[role option]]''': <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Use points instead of events for behaviour'' <br> <br>
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There is a preference to hide behaviour menu items for students in selected year groups. This preference can also apply to the Behaviour Summary section of the Snapshot page. The preference is found via: <br>
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''Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years''
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In order for this preference to affect the Behaviour Summary section, the following '''[[role option]]''' must also be enabled: <br>
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''General > Snapshot > Follow Hide behaviour menu preference'' <br> <br>
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Negative behaviour incidents will not be shown if this preference is used to hide them: <br>
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''Behaviour > The number of days taken to validate negative behaviour records'' <br> <br>
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The Behaviour Summary section will not take account of any incidents that have been hidden from the '''[[Achievements]]''' or '''[[Behaviours]]''' pages, which both have their own role options that can cause incidents to be hidden. <br> <br>

Latest revision as of 10:23, 11 April 2019

The snapshot page gives an overview of information about the student. Various pieces of information can be displayed or hidden on this page.

The following Role Option is needed to access the Snapshot page:
General > Snapshot (On)

The page is accessed via:
General > Snapshot

The page can be renamed with the following Role Option:
General > Snapshot > Alternative menu title

Notification bar

The Notification bar of the Snapshot page showing Notices, Assignments and Surveys

The bar at the top of the page will show coloured boxes if the pupil has any new notices or assignments, or has been invited to take part in any surveys. Each of the boxes can be clicked on; this opens an area below the box showing the new notices/assignments/surveys.

Notices

The notices box can be turned on or off using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Notices

Clicking on the Notices section will either take the user to the Notices page, or expand the Notices box on the snapshot page to display up to 10 recent notices. This behaviour is determined by the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Notices > Jump directly to notices screen

Assignments

The Assignments box can be turned on or off using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Assignments

Assignments created in Insight will always be shown (providing they meet the conditions below). Additionally assignments from either SIMS or PARS can be shown. If you are not a PARS user then SIMS homework will automatically be displayed. See the PARS page for information about displaying assignments from PARS.

Clicking on the Assignments section will either take the user to the Assignments page, or expand the Assignments box on the snapshot page to display up to 10 recent assignments. This behaviour is determined by the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Assignments > Jump directly to assignments screen

The following role options will determine whether certain Assignments are displayed or hidden in Insight:

General > Snapshot > Only show unfinished assignments Assignments with a Status of Complete will be hidden
General > Assignments > Earliest Assignments created prior to this date will not be shown
General > Assignments > Rolling archive in weeks Assignments with a Due Date more than this number of weeks in the past will be hidden
General > Assignments > Strip old open Assignments with a Due Date in the past and with a Status of Pending will be hidden
General > Assignments > Strip old complete Assignments that are Complete will only be displayed if their Due Date is in the future
General > Assignments > Strip future Assignments which have an Issued Date in the future will be hidden
General > Assignments > Include exceptions Assignments with a Status of Exception will be displayed


Surveys

The surveys box will appear if the user has been invited to take part in a survey. There is no role option to turn this off. Click on the name of a survey will open the surveys page.

The surveys box can be renamed with this role option:
Snapshot > Label surveys as

Unexplained Absences

The Unexplained Absences section will display automatically if the student has any N codes in their attendance, unless the following preference includes the student's year group:
Attendance > Hide the Report Absences menu item for the following years

Each date or date range where a student has N codes will be listed. Users can click on these date ranges to access the report absences page if the following role options are used:
Attendance > Report absences (On)
Attendance > Report absences > Allow reporting of historical absences (On)
Attendance > Report absences > Maximum age of absence in days (absences are not older than this many days)

It is possible to delay attendance data from being displayed in Insight. Delayed attendance data will not be counted in the Unexplained Absences box. The following preferences are used to enable the delay in Insight:
Attendance > Hide marks in attendance summaries in the validation range (On)
Attendance > The number of days taken to validate attendance marks for attendance summaries

Alerts

The Alerts section of the Snapshot page, shown without and with rules used

The alerts bar will appear beneath the Notifications bar. There are options (described below) to turn off specific parts of the Alerts section. Alternatively the following role option can be used to disable the entire Alerts section:
General > Snapshot > Alerts

The Alerts bar can show information about positive and negative behaviour, attendance and exclusions. The alerts boxes will be coloured green, yellow or red based on the pupil's number of behaviour points/attendance percentage/number of exclusions. The boundaries for these colours are set in SIMS via:
Tools > Setups > Student teacher view

These boundaries can be displayed or hidden using the following role options:
General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Behaviour
General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Achievements
General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Attendance
General > Snapshot > Alerts > showing rules used for Exclusions

Additionally, the following role option changes the colouring for exclusions so that 0 exclusions is shown as green and any other number is shown as red:
General > Snapshot > Alerts > All Exclusions are unacceptable

Achievements and Behaviours

The following role options affect the information shown in the Achievements and Behaviours Alert boxes:

General > Snapshot > using behaviour incidents in the range This is the date used to calculate the numbers shown in the Alert boxes
General > Snapshot > use points instead of events for behaviour The Alerts will either show the number of incidents that the student has received, or the number of points from those incidents


The following role options also must be enabled for the user to see the Achievements and Behaviour Alert boxes:

Behaviour > Achievements This is must be On for the user to see the Achievements Alert
General > Snapshot > including Achievements This is must be On for the user to see the Achievements Alert
Behaviour > Behaviour This is must be On for the user to see the Behaviour Alert
General > Snapshot > including Behaviour This is must be On for the user to see the Behaviour Alert


Behaviour incidents will not be included if they were issued within the number of days set in the following preference:
Behaviour > The number of days taken to validate negative behaviour records

Users can be prevented from accessing the Achievements or Behaviours pages using the following preference, but this will not hide the Alert boxes on the snapshot page:
Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years

Attendance

The Attendance Alert box will show the student's percentage attendance based on sessions (AM and PM only). This can be turned off using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Including attendance for years
(Setting this option as an asterisk will display the alert for all year groups. Alternatively, each year group can by type, separated by a plus symbol e.g. 7+8+9)

Exclusions

The Exclusions tab will show the number of days that a student has been excluded in exclusion in SIMS. The Exclusions alert can be turned on or off using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Including Exclusion

Information panels

Today's attendance

The Today's Attendance section of the Snapshot page

This will show the pupil's attendance to school today. This panel can show the AM and PM registers, lesson registers, or both.

iNote that this panel does not take account of the validation range preference and will show today's attendance in real time, including registers that have not been completed.


Hiding attendance

General > Snapshot > Current Attendance Show/Hide the entire panel
General > Snapshot > show sessions for years Use * to show sessions for all years, or enter years separated by a plus symbol to display for specific years only. Use 99 (or another non-existent year) to hide for all students
General > Snapshot > show lessons for years Use * to show lessons for all years, or enter years separated by a plus symbol to display for specific years only. Use 99 (or another non-existent year) to hide for all students


The following preferences can also be used to hide attendance codes:

Attendance > Only use AM sessions PM registers will not be displayed
Lesson marks > Hide all references to lesson marks All lesson marks will be hidden


Additionally the settings in SIMS affect whether or not AM and PM registers are shown. The settings in SIMS are found via:
Tools > Setups > Attendance Setup > Registration Organisation
(If Lesson Groups AM/PM are selected, the corresponding AM/PM register will be hidden from the Today's Attendance section in Insight)

Hiding Information

The rooms, times of lessons and student's attendance to each lesson can be displayed or hidden using the following role options:

General > Snapshot > show Rooms Show the room in which each lesson or session is taking place
General > Snapshot > show times Show the start and end time of each lesson and session
General > Snapshot > show attendance symbols Show the student's attendance to each lesson or session


If you are showing students' attendance, the following symbols will be used:

Snap pres.png Present
Snap absent.png Absent
Snap late.png Late
Snap nomark.png Register not taken
Snap future.png Register in the future


If attendance symbols are being displayed then you can also allow users to hover over the attendance symbols to see the student's actual attendance code using this role option:
Snapshot > show hover over descriptions

Cumulative Attendance

The Cumulative Attendance section shows a student's attendance as a line chart over the course of the academic year. This chart can be turned on for students in selected year groups using the following role option:
Snapshot > Cumulative attendance

This chart is affected by the following preference, which determines whether or not PM marks are counted for the student:
Attendance > Only use AM sessions

Cumulative Behaviours

The Cumulative Behaviour chart will show a running total of the student's negative behaviour over the course of the academic year. This chart can be turned on or off using the following role option:
Snapshot > Cumulative behaviour

The following preference will cause the chart to show no data:
Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years

This role option will hide behaviour incidents issued prior to a certain date:
Behaviour > Behaviour > Earliest

The following preference sets a validation period in days. During this period, behaviour incidents added will not be visible in Insight, including on the Cumulative Behaviour chart:
Behaviour > The number of days taken to validate negative behaviour records

If the following role option is enabled then behaviour incidents with a points value of zero will be hidden from the chart:
Behaviour > Hide zero point items

Cumulative Achievements

The Cumulative Achievements chart will show a running total of the student's positive behaviour over the course of the academic year. This chart can be turned on or off using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Cumulative achievements

The following preference will cause the chart to show no data:
Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years

This role option will hide achievements issued prior to a certain date:
Behaviour > Achievements > Earliest

If the following role option is enabled then behaviour incidents with a points value of zero will be hidden from the chart:
Behaviour > Hide zero point items

Recent behaviours

The recent behaviour panel will show the three most recent behaviour incidents for the student. These could be positive or negative. Positive incidents will be displayed if the Achievements role option is turned on and negatives will show if the Behaviours role option is turned on.

The Recent Behaviour panel will show the three most recent behaviour incidents for the student. These could be positive or negative. The Recent Behaviour panel can be turned off using the following role option which will also remove the Behaviour Summary section from the Snapshot page.
General > Snapshot > Behaviour

The panel can also be renamed using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Use this title

Behaviour incidents will only be shown in the Recent Behaviours panel if they could also be shown on the Achievements or Behaviours pages in Insight. Therefore you can use the role options and preferences for Achievements and Behaviours to hide bheaviour incidents from the Recent Behaviours panel.

There is a preference to hide behaviour menu items for students in selected year groups. This preference also applies to the Recent Behaviours panel:
Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years

Detentions

The detentions panel shows the three most recent detentions for the pupil. If any detentions are scheduled for the future they will take priority over detentions that have already passed. The role option to enable this panel is found via:
General > Snapshot > Detentions

Detentions earlier than the date set here will not be shown:
Behaviour > Detentions > Earliest

Extra curricular

The Extra Curricular panel shows the three most recent extra classes for the pupil. If any extra classes are scheduled for the future they will take priority over extra classes that have already passed. The role option to enable this panel is found via:
General > Snapshot > Extra Curricular

Detentions earlier than the date set here will not be shown:
Attendance > Extra Curriculum > Earliest

Recent reports

The reports panel will display any documents that have been recently added. The documents are pulled from the Linked Documents section in SIMS. This panel is enabled using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Recent reports

Documents will only be displayed if the Last modified date from SIMS is within the number of days set in this role option:
General > Snapshot > Maximum age in days

Documents will only be displayed on the Snapshot page if they are also displayed in the subjects section of Insight. See the Subjects page for a list of role options and settings that determine whether or not documents are displayed.

This Term's Attendance

This Term's Attendance is chart which shows the student's attendance to each week at school. Attendance is shown week-by-week, so if a pupil is absent for a week their attendance will drop down to 0 on the graph, for that week. The chart can be turned on or off using the following role option:
Snapshot > This term's attendance

During the first week of a new term, this chart will be blank. This is because Insight needs at least two data points before it can draw a line. You should have data showing from the second week of term onwards.

Custom Panels (snapshot.bolton.xml)

You can also add custom panels to the Snapshot page. Each custom item needs to be created as a html page and saved in the _Personalisation folder. Once an item has been created, create a bolton file. You can have several bolton files. The filename will always be "snapshot_" followed by a distinct number e.g. snapshot_1.bolton snapshot_2.bolton etc.

The bolton files need to be in the following format: 

<root>
<title>Guidance</title>
<url>https://[your Insight URL]/_Personalisation/example.html</url>
<height>50</height>
</root>
iReplace [your Insight address] with the URL you use for Insight

The title will be shown on the snapshot page about the new item. The "example" part of the URL should be replaced with the name of the html file in the _Personalisation folder and the height is the number of pixels tall that the item will be. Items are always 300px wide.

Multiple snapshot.bolton files can be used by creating a new file and adding a number to the end of "snapshot" e.g. snapshot1.bolton.xml

Behaviour Summary

The Snapshot Behaviour Summary

The following role option must be enabled to show the Behaviour Summary section. This role option will also enable the Recent Behaviours section of the snapshot page:
General > Snapshot > Behaviour

There are sections for positive and negative behaviour within the Behaviour Summary section. Each can be turned on or off independently using the following role options:
General > Snapshot > Showing Achievements summary
General > Snapshot > Showing Behaviour summary

The Behaviour Summary will show behaviour incidents from the range specified in this role option:
General > Snapshot > Using incidents in the range

A Cash-In section may also be shown, which will display the number of points that the student has spent on rewards, and the number of points currently available for them to spend. This feature is only available to PARS users. See the Cash In and PARS pages for more information.

By default the Behaviour Summary section will show data based on the number of incidents given to a student. This can be changed to show the number of behaviour points from those incidents, using the following role option:
General > Snapshot > Use points instead of events for behaviour

There is a preference to hide behaviour menu items for students in selected year groups. This preference can also apply to the Behaviour Summary section of the Snapshot page. The preference is found via:
Behaviour > Hide behaviour menu items for the following years In order for this preference to affect the Behaviour Summary section, the following role option must also be enabled:
General > Snapshot > Follow Hide behaviour menu preference

Negative behaviour incidents will not be shown if this preference is used to hide them:
Behaviour > The number of days taken to validate negative behaviour records

The Behaviour Summary section will not take account of any incidents that have been hidden from the Achievements or Behaviours pages, which both have their own role options that can cause incidents to be hidden.

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