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ON THE
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UPCOMING TRAINING:
Do you have any questions about term-end submissions? Keen to learn more about accessing DDD via your mobile phone? Get all the answers and more by joining one of the upcoming DDD Dashboard training webinars. Click any link below to learn more, or to book. |
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TOPIC: End-of-term data submissions. In this webinar, you will gain a deeper understanding of end-of-term submission guidelines; re-submission rules; common challenges experienced when submitting school data, and how to overcome these. |
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TOPIC: Using your mobile device to access DDD.
After this webinar, you will know how to log in to the DDD Dashboard and access the Learning Hub from your mobile; plus how to use the PowerBi app to ensure a better dashboard experience when using your phone. |
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DATA NEWS
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Meet the province that's using data to “rise and shine”! |
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May was the month for all things data-related in Mpumalanga. Seen above is Head of Department Mrs Lucy Moyane (alongside DDD’s Mrs Monki Gabashane), after planning to put new quarterly meetings in place to discuss learner improvement across all four districts.
Also above are school and circuit officials from Bohlabela District, at intervention support sessions. |
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SUBMISSION TIP #1 Green is for go!
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SUBMISSION TIP #2 Confirm first
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SUBMISSION TIP #3: Log in later to check
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Before you can extract your data, every critical metric in Valistractor’s Verification Summary Report must show green. If any are red or amber, the Extract Data button stays greyed out.
Click on any flagged metric to see what needs correcting in SA-SAMS. If you're unsure how to fix it, click the question mark icon for step-by-step guidance. |
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Once you’ve accepted the User Agreement and your data begins uploading, keep the Valistractor open and stay connected to the internet.
If your submission succeeds, a “Submission Success” message will appear (take a screenshot and save it in case you have queries later). If this screen doesn't appear, your data has not been submitted. |
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After a confirmed submission, your school's data will take 24-72 hours to appear on the DDD Dashboard. Log in after this to check that everything is showing correctly. If your data isn't reflecting after 72 hours, email the DDD helpdesk.
Click below to download step-by-step guides:
1. Submissions guide
2. How to re-submit your data |
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WHY YOUR BEST TERM 3 DECISIONS DEPEND ON SUBMITTING YOUR DATA EARLY |
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Term 3 is the shortest term of the year, and the last full stretch before final exams. Yet many principals walk in on day one already on the back foot, because the insights that could guide their first decisions aren't available yet.
Here's why: most schools only submit their end-of-term data to SA-SAMS and the DDD Dashboard after the new term has already begun. By the time the insights appear, the critical first-week planning window has passed.
If you submit before Term 3 starts, then three of the term's biggest challenges become far more manageable:
1. Re-engaging learners who drifted over the break. The long mid-year holiday is a known risk point for disengagement and dropout. Term 2 attendance data shows you in week one which learners ended the term with worrying patterns, so follow-up starts on day one, not week four.
DDD tools to use: Learner Attendance button (on the Detail page); Principal's Overview.
2. Launching academic interventions while the window is open. Term 3 is your last full term to lift results before finals. Mid-year marks reveal who is struggling (and who is close to achieving distinctions), and in which subjects. This helps you act before the recovery window narrows.
DDD tools to use: Subject table (on the Achievement page); School Achievement and Learner Chart reports; Top 20 Subject Performers report.
3. Planning a packed term with real workforce data. Know which subjects fell behind and where to deploy teaching support before the timetable is locked.
DDD tools to use: Task mark tracking (at the bottom of the Term To Date page); Educator Information report; Subject Trends report (on the Trends page).
The schools that submit early start Term 3 already knowing where to look. Make sure yours is one of them. Watch this video for submission tips. |
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WHERE SCIENCE MEETS
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Every term, before he opens anything else, Mr Kagiso Kameel opens the DDD Dashboard. For him, it’s the starting point for every decision that follows.
As Deputy Chief Education Specialist for Teacher Development and the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Science Centre in the Northern Cape, Kagiso relies on dashboard data to understand learner achievement, identify struggling subjects, and pinpoint exactly where support is needed most. It's an approach he sums up simply: don't just intervene, intervene informed.
But his use of data doesn't stop at exam results. The same evidence-led thinking shapes how he inducts newly appointed teachers and how he runs the district's science centre, helping him spot where interest in science is growing and where a renewed push is needed. He describes the centre as far more than a physical space. To him, it's the engine room for science education across the district.
Because for Kagiso, data on its own changes nothing. What it offers is direction, a way to stop guessing and start acting with confidence.
How is one district official turning dashboard insight into decisions that change learners' futures? Click here to read the full story and find out. |
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