Last edition you voted that progressed learner support was your top concern this term. Now scan the code or click here to tell us what’s standing in your way.  
   
 
  ON THE
DDD CALENDAR
   
  UPCOMING TRAINING:
  Our upcoming webinars include term-to-date sessions to support timely, accurate data submissions; a spotlight on Foundation Phase; and how to use DDD insights to improve learner performance. Click any button below to book your seat:
   
  TOPIC: Term-to-date submissions
In this session, you'll learn what's required for timely, accurate weekly submissions and how to avoid the most common challenges schools run into when submitting their data.
   
 
   
 
   
  TOPIC: Dashboard basics for beginners. Whether you’re logging in for the first time or it’s simply been a while, this session walks through accessing the dashboard, finding your way around its main sections, and getting comfortable with its features.
   
 
   
 
   
  TOPIC: Using DDD in the Foundation Phase to improve learner performance
This webinar shares how to use DDD to monitor attendance, identify challenges and implement targeted interventions to improve Foundation Phase performance.
   
 
   
 
  DATA NEWS
AND UPDATES
   
  Term 2 data analysis underway
   
 
   
  TOP: Sekhukhune East District Director, Dr F Malatjie attended a Term 2 performance review meeting with a special focus on the learner performance in Grade 9, 11 and 12. ABOVE: Meanwhile, school management teams from Ekurhuleni South District are analysing Term 2 data to identify learners who require intervention.
 
 
     
 
   
                     
 

16 473 SCHOOLS SUBMITTED ON TIME

Eastern Cape (99%), Limpopo (97%) and Mpumalanga (96%) led the country by having the highest percentage of schools submitting Term 2 data within the first week of Term 3.

   

92 506 DOWNLOADS IN 2026

The Learner Chart report is the most downloaded report on the dashboard. This report offers individual learner level insights per subject. If you haven’t benefitted from it yet, log in today to try it out. 
 

17 517 USERS LOGGED IN

In Term 2, this is a 26% increase on Term 1. Each term more education officials benefit from the value of DDD. Remember,
the dashboard doesn’t change how schools work. The people using it do. 
 
                     
 
     
 
         
  THE LIST YOU MADE IN JUNE IS ALREADY OUT OF DATE... AND THAT’S GOOD NEWS.  
 
 

Nothing on the DDD Term 4 Promotion report looks different this week. But while the report hasn’t changed, the data within it has. 

Machine learning is only ever as good as the information you feed it. Until the end of June, this report was working from Term 1 data alone — an early signal, and a useful one, but based on a single term with nothing to measure itself against.

Term 2’s marks are now in and settled, which means the report is drawing on twice the evidence it had since you last opened it. Same report, but with a sharper (and in some cases, different) answer.

Here’s where to start: 

1. Re-sort, don’t just re-read: 
Open the Term 4 Promotion report, scroll to the table at the bottom, expand your circuit or cluster and sort “Forecast vs PY” ascending. If you built a "watch list" in June, put the two side by side.

2. Watch the movers, not just the bottom: 
A school sitting at the bottom of both lists, is one you already knew about. A school that has dropped ten places between June and now is telling you something a single ranking can’t. 

3. Then check who’s missing: 
A high count of learners with no forecast isn’t a group of learners without a trajectory — it’s a records problem. If your “Other” numbers look wrong, speak to your EMIS official. 

Eight weeks left, and the numbers have caught up with you.

Log in to DDD today.

 
         
 
       
 
    THREE BUCKETS. ONE GOAL. BETTER LEARNER OUTCOMES.
 
 

Three buckets. It sounds simple, but for Eastern Cape Chief Education Specialist Ernest Loggenberg, this system has become the foundation of better decision-making in schools.

His Three-Bucket System includes weekly data extraction, regular database backups and monthly submissions, to ensure that schools work with reliable information. Combined with the DDD Dashboard, it helps identify struggling learners, strengthen teaching strategies and guide timely interventions before small challenges become bigger ones.

For Ernest, however, the dashboard is about more than reports.

"Data means power," he says. Behind every graph is a learner, every report tells a story, and every informed decision has the potential to change a life.

In this edition of DataPoint, Ernest shares how his simple system is helping schools turn data into action — and why every education official should learn to use the DDD Dashboard with confidence.

Click here to read Ernest's full story.

 
           
           
 

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