Each term Support will be preparing to bring you the latest news on available training courses, webex’s, release dates and much more. Summer’s right around the corner so don’t miss out on what’s still to come. Here in Support we will also be busy preparing for the next term, training the team on Data Transfers, [...]

The Summer Census is on Thursday 16th May 2013 for English schools. To help make things run as smoothly as possible we would recommend you make a start on preparing for the School Census at least a week before the census date and we’ve compiled this list of tips to help you along the way:

1. Reading the Census documentation
2. Access to relevant areas of Progresso
3. Tips to View missing data without having to generate the census

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Tips For a Pain Free Census Day

The next School Census is on the 16th May 2013 for English schools. It can be one of the busiest days of the year in school and obviously stressful as well.
So to try and help make things run as smoothly as possible we can suggest you try a few of these tips below:

1. Ensure you are on the latest version of Facility Administration
2. Download the latest guidance and data checking reports from the firstline knowledge base
3. Check your census date is correct

Now we’ll look at each of these tips in a bit more detail:

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Hi everyone, welcome back to the firstline blog. This is the start of a new exciting year for Advanced Learning and we hope you find some interesting and helpful information which we will provide throughout the year. Keep an eye out for the Progresso and Facility English Census checks coming soon, release updates and lots of exciting new blogs. Don’t forget to check out our Faces of Firstline which will also be posted soon.

To get started this year, Scott in support has written the first blog on backups…

Just imagine it’s Friday morning and you walk into your office to find your colleagues have left messages wondering why ePortal isn’t available or why no one can access Admin. Even worse, you know the head of the school will be heading your way with only two questions to ask; what’s wrong? How long until it’s fixed?

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On behalf of everyone at Serco Learning, we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year when we will return as Advanced Learning having completed the transition from Serco to Advanced Computer Software (ACS) Happy Holidays!

The School Workforce Census is on the Tuesday, 6th November 2012 for English schools. To help make things run as smoothly as possible we would recommend you make a start on preparing for the School Workforce Census a week before the census date and we’ve compiled this list of tips to help you along the way:

1. Reading the SWF documentation
2. Checking access to relevant areas of Progresso
3. Enabling the ‘Generate Census’ option

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The School Workforce Census is on the 6th November 2012 for English schools. To help make things run as smoothly as possible we would recommend you make a start on preparing for the School Workforce Census a week before the census date and we’ve compiled this list of tips to help you along the way:

1. Import the latest pay scales available to download from Firstline.
2. Read the latest documentation.
3. Ensure you are on version 12.2.
4. Check the census date is correct.

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Tips to make your census run smoothly…
The next School Census is on the 4th October 2012 for English schools. Census is always one of the busiest days of the year in support, and is obviously a stressful day in school for everyone concerned. To help make things run as smoothly as possible we’ve compiled this list of tips:

1. Ensure you are on the latest version.
2. Download the latest guidance and data checking reports from the firstline knowledge base.
3. Check your census date is correct.
4. Do test runs before the census day to identify errors.
5. Run the Data checking reports to highlight missing data.

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For two days in August exams officers across the country have a short space of time to download and import their exam results in time for their students to come and collect them. They also need to produce analysis reports for their local media and their teachers.

With Progresso, the process is easy and there is no need for checking subject clashing, converting results or downloading and importing reports. This guide outlines how to read your exam results into Progresso.

1. Make sure your subject mappings are correct.
2. Reading results into Progresso.
3. Generating exam reports.

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For two days in August exams officers across the country have a short space of time to download and import their exam results in time for their students to come and collect them. They also need to produce analysis reports for their local media and their teachers.

We’ve collected a list of seven things that you can do to help make this day go as smoothly as possible.

1. Follow the pre-results day and results day checklist.
2. Make sure your subject mappings are correct.
3. Import the new analysis reports and lookup tables.
4. Familiarise yourself with the reports.
5. Make sure you are including ‘left students’.
6. Check the results day Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
7. Check which result types are converted.

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