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Accessing and interpreting reports

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Written by Richard Boyd
Updated over 3 weeks ago

Sparx Maths provides several detailed reports to help you track student progress, homework completion, and engagement. This article explains how to access and interpret the different reports available to you.

Student Activity Report

The Student Activity Report can be downloaded via Reporting -> Downloadable Reports -> Student Activity Report.

Building your report

When you click Create report, you'll be asked to choose the categories of data that you want to include, and the timeframe for which you wish to generate the report (defaults to the current academic year).

Default data

  • Student data - first name, surname, class, year group and registration group

  • Weekly completion % - for Compulsory, XP Boost and Target homework, as well as completion date and aggregate data for the timeframe selected.

  • Student homework settings - Homework Difficulty Level, homework type and default homework length

Optional data

  • Rewards data - XP earned both weekly and in aggregate for your selected timeframe. In aggregate, we'll include a breakdown of XP earned, so you can see whether they've earned it via their compulsory or optional homework, or via Independent Learning

  • Additional student data - PP (pupil premium), FSM (free school meals), EAL (English as an additional language), Gender

    • This data can only be included if we sync data from your MIS and your school's Wonde administrator has granted Sparx access to this data (if we've been granted access to some, but not all data, we'll include the data that we're able to)

  • Teacher names - includes the name(s) of any teachers associated with a class

Using filters to analyse your report

  • Most popular spreadsheet software allows you to easily filter and sort the data in your spreadsheet

  • You can use these features to help you to analyse the data in your student activity report

  • For example, in Microsoft Excel you can:

    • Use the dropdown arrows to the right of each column header to filter or sort the rows

    • Hide entire rows and/or columns that you are not interested in, in order to see a more streamlined view by right-clicking on the column letter or row number and selecting "Hide column/row"

Times Tables Report

The Times Tables Report can be downloaded via Reporting -> Downloadable Reports -> Times Tables Report. It includes:

  • Overview of how students are performing in times tables by year group

  • Class summary showing percentage of students held back

  • Individual student progress including:

    • Initial and current assessment club

    • Status (Held back, Not Fluent, or Confident)

    • Target times tables to practice

    • History of when the student changed club

Homework Statistics

The Homework Statistics page can be accessed via Reporting -> Homework Statistics page. It allows you to view:

  • Year group and class-level completion rates for the last 6 weeks

  • Overall average completion rates comparing year groups

  • Detailed breakdowns for:

    • Compulsory homework

    • XP Boost homework

    • Target homework

Hand-in Summary report

The Hand-in Summary Report can be downloaded via Reporting -> Downloadable Reports -> Hand-in Summary Report.

Classes tab


This report provides a detailed overview of homework completion for the previous week from Monday to Sunday, focusing on compulsory homework tasks. It includes a class-by-class and school-by-school breakdown with several key metrics:

  • The number of students in each class or school.

  • The number of compulsory homeworks set.

  • The compulsory on-time completion rate.

  • The compulsory on-time no completion/non-starter rate.

  • The compulsory on-time low completer rate (students who have completed some but less than or equal to 50% of their homework).

  • The compulsory on-time nearing completion rate (students who have completed over half but not all of their homework).

Schools tab


School vs school homework completion leaderboards can be found in the Schools tab of the Hand-In Summary report.

FAQs


Why might student numbers differ between reports?


Completion statistics only include students with homework switched on. Students set to Optional Only or with homework switched off may not be included in some metrics.

Why is my student activity report taking a long time to download?


Adding more data categories will mean that the report takes longer to generate. The report can also take longer to generate later in the school year when there's more data to process. If you're a larger school and generate a report containing all data categories towards the end of the school year, the report could take up to 2 minutes to generate.

How does the date filter work?


The student activity report reports by week. It's not possible to generate a report for a time period of less than a week. When you select a start and end date for the report, we'll include data for the full weeks that encompass your selected dates.

Can I add SEND data to the reports?


We don't include SEND data in any reports. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) consider such data to be 'special category data', which needs more protection than other categories of data.

How is rank calculated in the school leaderboard?


The schools leaderboard sheet is ranked by the compulsory completion rate. Students set to Optional Only will not affect the data in this column.

Why is my school not in the leaderboard this week?


Only schools with homework due in the previous week will be included in the report.

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