Power BI Course
About this SIMS course
You need to attend all Modules to complete this course.
About Power BI
Transform data into clear vizualizations that help you understand the big picture.
Simplify the data. Create custom dashboards and Reports.
Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligience capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports.
SBS has created a remotely delivered training course to provide basic skills for using Power BI and how it links to SIMS.
The outcome of this course is to create your own Attendance Dashboard so you can look at attendance data over time.
- Why do i need an analytics package?
- Why use Power BI?
- Downloading and installing Power BI Desktop
- Exporting data from SIMS
- Connecting to Data
- Creating your first charts
SIMS report design and considerations in more detail- Refreshing your data
- Reformatting data in power query
- Adding fomulas to the data
- Creating more charts
Measures- Introduction to relationship model
- Creating and using relationships
- Creating more charts
- Culminating in a working attendance dashboard and student demographics page with a map
- The idea is 'learn and make'.
Target audience
- Data Managers
- Attendance Officers
- SLTs
Knowledge required
Ideally need general reporting knowledge, but PowerBI knowledge is not essential.
Should you require any further information please talk to us on 0345 222 1551 - Option 3
, email training@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk or complete the form below
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