If you have been using SMART you have probably been using groups.  Groups are a way to differentiate between different sets of data.  You might make Group 1 to be Company A, Group 2 to be Company B or some other classification system you have come up with.  SMART only allows you to have up to ten groups which is rather limiting.

Quality Indicators Pro uses tagging which not only makes groups obsolete but you are allowed to have unlimited tags!  If you haven’t already please be sure to watch the help video above on tags as they go above and beyond using groups.

When you import your SMART  data Quality Indicators Pro will look at your data and automatically create Tags for each Group Number you have been using in SMART.  So if you had used group number 1, 2 and 3 you’d now have three Tags in Quality Indicators Pro called: ‘Group 1′, ‘Group 2′ and ‘Group3′.  Of course you can rename Tags in Quality Indicators Pro so you could now apply meaningful descriptions to these Tags.

Importing data into Quality Indicators Pro is easy:

1. Import your existing SMART data file into Quality Indicators Pro

Go to the ‘Data Maintenance’ tab.

Select the file you want to import.

Import the file.

We’ve successfully imported 91 Learner Questionnaires and 5 Tags were created.

2. Change the Tag description

Click Maintain Tags.

Edit a Tag.

Updated list of Tags.

3. Use with Learner Questionnaires and Reports

So now rather than being restricted to a maximum of ten groups you can import your existing groups and Quality Indicators Pro will convert them to Tags.  You can then also create unlimited additional tags which will help you further segment your data.

Somes examples of Tags you might create are: the names of your clients, the names of your trainers, the names of the different units/modules/courses you offer, the state/region the training was conducted in, the year/month the training occurred, the industry/sector the training was conducted for.

The only thing Tags are limited by is your imagination on how far you want to segment your data and what comparisons you may want to make.

Quality Indicators Pro Team

There are other competing products out there for complying with quality indicators mandatory annual reporting; however, we feel that they are inferior products to Quality Indicators Pro.  To convince you even further be sure to read of the benefits and features of Quality Indicators Pro.  To gain an insight as to what Quality Indicators Pro looks like view our short introduction video.

The emails have been sent, the production server is ready, the support team is waiting so sign up for a 30 day free trial.  You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain!

• Testing and trialling different email campaign services
• Honing the sales email
• Tag maintenance screen so you can delete or rename tags

Stay tuned for the big announcement on launch day!

• Short Introduction to Quality Indicators Pro video
• Help Video #1 – Entering Questionnaires
• Help Video #2 – Tags or Tagging
• Help Video #3 – Reports

The Help videos are included in the confirmation email that is received when someone signs up for a 30 day free trial.  These Help videos are really key to truly understanding the full potential and power of Quality Indicators Pro so make sure you watch them several times each!

• Sample data now provided when someone signs up for a free 30 day trial
• Smart Tag lists on filtering screens
• Added a Comments Report as well as filtering
• Created the sales email that will be distributed to prospective leads

• Paypal integration using the subscription payment method and Instant Payment Notifications
• Email notifications when 30 day free trial is about to finish and has finished
• Development of background processing jobs

• Report Dashboard completed
• Tagging completed
• Added features to data entry screens (auto tabbing, auto complete fields, tooltips
• On the technology side added several components in preparation for going live: error notifications, performance monitoring, deployment to production servers
• Internal private beta conducted and list of refinements addressed

Stay tuned for more information shortly!

This months saw the basic functionality of QIPro developed including the following:

• Basic data entry of Learner and Employer Questionnaires
• Data importing/exporting as per the SMART data file
• Text reports: Registering Body, Group, Learner/Employer Item Average and Variation, Learner/Employer Summary Statistics
• Graphical Reports: Group Average Score, Learner/Employer Average Score Timeline, Learner/Employer Summary Statistics
• Filtering on graphical reports by using tags

Quality Indicators Pro is going to go way beyond that though with the following goals in mind:

• Stunning graphical reports that give you a visual representation of your data
• Using the concept of tagging rather than being limited to ten groups
• Being an online web application so you can access your data from anywhere
• Help with making real-time decision, not just once a year
• Allow you to keep your historical data rather than having to purge each year
• Intelligent data entry screens that save you time

Keep an eye out from more exciting news shortly.

Quality Indicators Pro Team