Creating your MEG Check Gradepoint

Creating your MEG Check Gradepoint

The MEG Check Monitoring Point Gradepoint in Connect can be a useful monitoring tool for all of your year groups, as it allows you to see what your analysis would look like if all of their students hit their Minimum Expected Grades generated by Alps.

More info on how the MEGs (minimum expected grades) are generated can be found here. 

Step 1 - Create your MEG report

The first thing you need to do is to import your Student, Prior Attainment and Teaching data as this will create your MEG report. 

Step 2 - Exporting the MEGs

Once all of the relevant data has been imported to generate your MEG report, you need to go to the Reports and Downloads section, that you can find from the homepage, and then click on the MEG Reports section:


In here you can choose from a number of different exports - please choose the Excel Row Per Subject (Alps MEGs and and Personalised Targets) or the Excel Marksheet (Alps MEGs) options and download either of these files and open them in Excel:


Once they are open in Excel, you then need to edit your split grades - the split grades are the grades that look like the highlighted column in the screenshot below. You need to remove the lower of the two grades in this Excel file because when you come to import this data the software won't accept split grades. For example, for students who have a 'B/C' split grade, you need to remove the '/C' from the cell in Excel. 



Step 3 - Importing the MEGs

Once all of lower grades are removed from your split grades, you can then delete everything from the file other than the Student ID, Subject and Min. Exp. Grade columns so the file looks like this:


Then just import this data as a monitoring point - the video below will show you how to do that:


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