Key stages, report settings and colour themes

The four Settings pages in CONFIG hold school-wide settings for Sisra Analytics. Colour themes and report settings change the reports straight away, for every user. A change to key stages needs student data publishing again.

Where to find them: select CONFIG, then Settings, then the page.

Who can change them: authority groups with Access Data Section, such as Admin. See Authority groups and permissions. Key Stages and KS3/4 Report Settings appear only if your school has KS3/4, and KS5 Report Settings only if it has KS5.

Colour Theme

Colour Theme sets the colours that highlight figures in report tables and charts, for every user, key stage and cohort. It has two sections, each with three themes, and you choose a theme for each section separately.

Section	Options	Default
Report Table Data	Red/Green Theme, Purple/Blue Theme, Hot/Cold Theme	Red/Green Theme
Report Charts	The same three themes	Red/Green Theme

Preview shows a theme on a sample table and grid, and changes to Hide. Use This Theme applies the theme. The active theme is marked (Active), and its Use This Theme button is greyed out. Sisra confirms “Table colour coding has been successfully updated” or “Chart colour coding has been successfully updated”. There is no need to republish.

Table sample	Red/Green Theme	Purple/Blue Theme	Hot/Cold Theme
Greater Than	Green	Purple	Red
Hit	Green	Green	Red
> Exp. Progress	Green, striped	Purple, striped	Red, striped
Less Than	Red	Blue	Blue
Miss	Red	Blue	Blue

Greater Than and Less Than mark a figure that is above or below the figure it is compared with. Hit, Miss and > Exp. Progress mark cells that meet, fall short of or go beyond expected progress. The Report Charts samples are Upper, Middle, Fail, Actual and Compare.

The three themes for report tables.

Preview shows a theme on a sample table and grid.

Key Stages

Key Stages sets where key stage 3 ends and key stage 4 begins for each KS3/4 cohort. It decides which years of a cohort use its KS3 classes, and which use its KS4 classes.

Section	What it sets	Default
Default Cohort	The boundary for cohorts created from now on. The page says “This will apply to all future cohorts”	KS3 is years 7 to 9 and KS4 is years 10 and 11
Cohorts	The boundary for each existing cohort, from the current year 7 to the oldest leavers	The boundary set when the cohort was created

To change a boundary, select Edit in the section, select the point between two years where KS4 starts, then select Save. Sisra confirms “Key Stage(s) successfully updated”. Then republish student data for each cohort you changed. See Publish student data.

The default split, used for every cohort in the demo school.

KS3/4 Report Settings

These are the starting options for every user’s KS3/4 reports. Users can still change each option inside a report. When you change a value, a Save bar appears. Changes reach the reports without republishing, and Sisra confirms “Default Report Settings have been successfully updated”.

Report Options

Report Feature	What it sets	Options	Default
Whole/Sub	Whether subgrades count in on-track figures, comparisons and colour coding	Whole, Sub	Sub
Count/Percent	Whether grade columns show counts or percentages	Count, Percentage	Count
Standard/Cumulative	Single grades, such as 9, 8 and 7, or ranges, such as 9-8 and 9-7	Standard, Cumulative	Standard

Customisation Settings

Setting	What it sets	Default
Replace ‘EAP’ in column headers with:	Your own word to replace EAP (Expected Attainment Pathway) in report column headings, such as Target. From 2 to 15 characters	EAP

Report Home Page Settings

These choose the report that opens from each level button on the REPORTS home page.

Report Level	Options	Default
Whole Cohort	Summary, Dashboard, Charts or Filters: the four Headlines views	Summary in the demo school
Qualifications	Grades - Overview or Grades - Totals	Grades - Overview in the demo school
Students	Grades - Totals	Grades - Totals

For Whole Cohort and Qualifications, the table gives the demo school’s settings. Juniper Education’s guides do not give a new school’s starting values.

KS3/4 Report Settings in the demo school.

KS5 Report Settings

These work in the same way for the KS5 reports. The last column gives the demo school’s settings, which match the KS3/4 defaults where the two pages share an option.

Report Options

Report Feature	What it sets	Options	Setting in the demo school
Whole/Sub	As at KS3/4	Whole, Sub	Sub
Count/Percentage	As Count/Percent at KS3/4	Count, Percentage	Count
Standard/Cumulative	Single grades, such as A*, A and B, or ranges, such as A*-A and A*-B	Standard, Cumulative	Standard
Trend Report - Covid Years	Whether the trend reports include results from 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021, when exams were cancelled	Include, Exclude	Include

Trend Report - Covid Years has no effect on the trend reports in the 2026 to 2027 academic year.

Report Home Page Settings

These choose the report that opens first in each group of KS5 reports.

Report	Options	Setting in the demo school
Performance Cohorts	L3 Overall - Students, A Level - Students, Academic - Students, Applied General - Students, Tech Level - Students or Tech Cert - Students	L3 Overall - Students
Eng/Mat Progress	English Progress - Students or Maths Progress - Students	English Progress - Students
Grade Analysis	Grade Summary - Qualifications or On Track - Qualifications	On Track - Qualifications

KS5 Report Settings in the demo school.

Related pages

• Find your way around
• Report tools and options
• KS5 report tools and options
• Headline Trends and Qualification Trends
• Import student data