Drill into Student Data using the Stats Wheel

Now, I don’t know about you, but I love a good chart and a good graph. In fact, we’re looking at maths software here, so probably quite a lot of us like good charts and graphs. And you’re in luck - I’m going to show you the Skills Wheel in Magma.

When I tap onto my assignment, I get the Heat Map that we’re all used to at this stage. But I can also tap onto Stats Wheel at the top, and this brings up a new interface. Straight away, we see this lovely pie chart, and the colours give away pretty much immediately what we’re looking at here.

Sections that are green are areas your class are really confident with. Red ones are areas they’re perhaps not so confident with. And we can drill down into this, because in the centre of the pie chart are the different areas that the assignment has covered, with more specific breakdowns around the outside.

So, while the class might generally be struggling with fractions, some of the areas on the bottom here are green - meaning that particular topic is well understood. I can tap onto any area of the pie chart to see exactly what topic it is and how many students are getting it correct. I can also use the right-hand side to drill down into the data.

This immediately gives me a whole-class overview of areas that I might want to focus on, particularly after an end-of-unit assessment. In fact, I’d say that’s the best time to use the Stats Wheel - not for one single lesson, but for an end-of-term or end-of-unit assessment where you can see multiple areas and objectives covered.

At the top, we can toggle between the whole class, a group of students, or even an individual pupil. This is great because I can see how my Yellow intervention group are getting on compared to the Blue intervention group. Or, I can look at individual students - like Callum here - to get a pie chart just for that pupil.

The individual student wheel is also a great conversation starter with your pupils. Together, you can make a plan if revision is needed, or decide if smaller intervention groups are required in class.

So that’s the Stats Wheel in Magma. Do dig in, explore, and I think you’ll agree it’s a really useful tool.