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| What do you find the most challenging about working with downloaded data from DDD reports? Scan the code with your phone or click here to respond. |
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ON THE
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UPCOMING WEBINARS:
Last month our webinars covered the FET Phase. This month the profiling series moves down to the Senior and Intermediate Phases, with a dashboard navigation refresher in between. Click any link below to book your seat. |
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TOPIC: Profiling Grade 7-9 learners using the Senior Phase Promotion Profiles report. This webinar will teach you how to locate the report on the dashboard; profile your Senior Phase learners; pinpoint why some didn’t meet promotion criteria; and see exactly which subjects need support. |
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TOPIC: DDD Dashboard login and navigation.
Whether you’re logging in for the first time or it’s simply been a while, this session will help you access the dashboard, find your way around its main sections, and get comfortable with its features. |
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TOPIC: Profiling Grade 4-6 learners using the Intermediate Phase Promotion Profiles report. This session shows you how to locate the report on DDD; profile your Intermediate Phase learners; pinpoint why some didn’t meet promotion criteria; and see which subjects need the most support. |
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DATA NEWS
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Data-minded mastery at work! |
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Edward Thavhanyedza, FET Curriculum Coordinator in Ngaka Modiri Molema District, North West, is determined to make data work for his schools. He is seen above at a recent DDD Dashboard training session. |
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Extended downloads: WHAT ARE THEY?
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Extended downloads: WHY THEY HELP
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Extended downloads: HOW TO FIND THEM
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From early next month, an additional extended data download option will appear on some of the most-used DDD reports, which will allow you to export much larger volumes of detail (eg, across several districts at once).
Click for a quick overview of this new download feature. |
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Until now, pulling large amounts of data slowed dashboard performance, or simply wasn’t possible.
The new download option removes that limit, giving you a secure way to reach the richer data behind the reports if you want to do your own deeper analysis to better support your schools. |
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Once the feature goes live, you can click the relevant “Extended Data Download” button on the “Reports” page.
You’ll get an emailed link to your file once it is ready. As the files are large, they are in CSV format rather than the colour-coded reports you are used to. This guide will help you open and read them. |
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IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINK: START WITH THE QUESTION, NOT THE SPREADSHEET |
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Next month, a new option appears on some of your most-used DDD reports: extended data downloads, built for officials who need far more detail than a standard report can hold. It is a real step up in what the dashboard – and education data in general – can give you.
For many officials, however, it may seem technical and intimidating. Sound familiar?
The good news is that being data literate does not mean understanding how the technology works. It means knowing what you are looking for.
Clarissa Abrahams, the Foundation Phase specialist profiled in this edition, works from four questions: Who is struggling? What are they struggling with? What are we doing about it? And is it working?
None of those require you to know how a dashboard report is built, where the data sits, or what a machine-learning model is doing behind a forecast. All they require is that you know your schools, which you already do.
The same is true of the reports that sound the most technical. The Term 4 Promotion report, for example, uses machine learning to show you where learners are heading if nothing changes. How it calculates that is our job. Knowing which learners you’re looking for, and opening the report early enough to help them, is yours.
So start there. Pick one question and one school. Find the report that speaks to it – and if you can’t find it, that is precisely what our helpdesk, our webinars and the DDD Learning Hub are for.
Nobody expects you to arrive fluent. All you need to know is what you’re looking for. We’ll help with the rest. Log in to DDD today. |
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WHAT THE PERCENTAGE
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For Foundation Phase curriculum specialist Clarissa Abrahams, a low mark is where the conversation starts, not where it ends.
Working at district level in Nelson Mandela Bay, Clarissa uses the DDD Dashboard to compare mathematics and language performance across schools, grades, terms and years. It helps her team identify trends, and arrive at school visits already knowing where to start asking questions.
But in the Foundation Phase, an overall mark only tells part of the story. A low language result may point to difficulties with phonics, fluency, comprehension or reading for meaning. Understanding the real challenge means looking past the percentage to the learner and their work.
So Clarissa’s message is a simple sequence: find out who is struggling, then what they are struggling with, before deciding what to do about it – and then check whether it worked.
Because when it comes to literacy and numeracy, early insight creates an opportunity for early action.
Click here to read Clarissa’s full story. |
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