Category Archives: Teacher FAQ
Creating a screen capture with Apple
When writing LabLogs or Reports you will want to include an image of the Time Trend graphs or XY Scatter graphs. If you already have your image saved, and just want to add a screenshot to your Lablog, then click … Continue reading
Taking a Screen Capture
When writing LabLogs or Reports you will want to include an image of the Time Trend graphs or XY Scatter graphs. If you already have your image saved, and just want to add a screenshot to your Lablog, then click … Continue reading
Why can’t I register with my old email address?
If you’ve previously registered on DecipherMyData, then we will still have your details on the system. You can use the same account, however you will still need to get consent from your headteacher again. Alternatively if you’d rather set up … Continue reading
Who was the first ever person to discover flu?
Dr Nigel: I had to look this one up! Lots of people have written that Hippocrates was the first person to describe the flu nearly 2,500 years ago. He was living in Greece at the time and wrote about an … Continue reading
Do we know who was the first person to get the flu?
Dr Rob: Unfortunately we don’t know who the first person to get the flu was as we think flu has been around for hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years and in those days it wasn’t even possible to test whether someone … Continue reading
What is the best way to recover from a flu?
Dr Charlotte: Unfortunately there isn’t really a cure for flu. Though it is not pleasant having symptoms like fever, cough and sore throat, people usually get better by themselves within a week. As flu is caused by a virus, antibiotics … Continue reading
What is the most dangerous disease?
Dr Nigel: This is a really interesting question. The word ‘disease’ covers all aspects of illness, from infections like flu caused by influenza virus to illnesses like arthritis or cancer and even things to do with the brain like epilepsy … Continue reading
How did swine flu start?
Dr Rob: We actually don’t know exactly how it started, however, the first outbreaks were spotted in Mexico and it’s quite likely that there had been ongoing cases for a couple of months by the time it was detected by … Continue reading
How many types of Flu viruses are there?
Dr Rob: There are three main types of flu virus: influenza A, B and C. Influenza A tends to cause the most severe illness in humans and is typically associated with epidemics. Wild birds are the natural host for influenza … Continue reading
How do I deal with holiday weeks?
When it comes to entering data for the holiday weeks please select “Holiday” for the number of half days. That’ll tell our system not to add those figures to any national data.
What is a Trusted Student?
Trusted Students are given the responsibility of uploading data instead of their teachers. Teachers can nominate students by emailing flu@deciphermydata.org.uk with the student usernames and we’ll upgrade them for you. You might find this really handy if you’re letting some … Continue reading
Should I upload old or just current data?
Both please! Schools should backdate their data to the beginning of the year (05/09/2011). This will be really helpful as it allows us to establish what sort of range that the levels of school illness vary between when there are … Continue reading
How will our data be protected?
Data protection is a very important issue and one that we take very seriously. The data we are collecting from schools, is the weekly absence data on the number of children off sick for each year group. At no point … Continue reading
What happens if I enter some inaccurate data?
We’ve been asked by a teacher about what to do if a student enters incorrect data. Firstly, DON’T PANIC. You can go back to the data entry page, select the week with the inaccuracies and enter the correct figures. This … Continue reading
Where is my school’s absence illness data?
Your school’s absence illness data is on your school’s information system. It can be obtained from your school’s absence administrator, who you may find very useful to have on board the project. School absence is typically monitored using Capita (SIMS) … Continue reading
How do I describe this to other people?
Flu is the first in a planned series of Decipher my data! projects, which allow students to become real scientists! Students will be working alongside leading scientists on genuine scientific studies to produce better results than either could achieve on their … Continue reading
What’s going to happen with that data?
First it will be collected anonymously so that other schools and the public will not be able to identify your school or child. Absence data will not be shown on a per school basis. It would only be available as … Continue reading
What type of data?
The type of data we will be collecting is: a breakdown by year group, the type of school (faith, state or other), the percentage of pupils on Free School Meals, the location and weekly levels of illness absence by year … Continue reading
Will my school’s data be anonymous?
Anonymity has been a major focus for the project being passed by the ethics committee at UCL. We have ensured that the anonymity and security of schools is protected by the following actions: Only the principal researchers and project management … Continue reading
Ask a question
Once your account has been activated you’ll be able to ask the team questions from virtually any page on the site. But until then please see if your question has already been answered in our FAQ and if not leave … Continue reading
