During BETT Microsoft presented several areas which included the Microsoft Learning Gateway and future technologies such as SilverLight, Surface and PopFly.  Another one of the presentations was on a new graphical interface the UK educational team are working on for excel tracking sheets.  The aim is for it to work both with Excel and SharePoint.

The interface is built with SilverLight and pulls information on the pupils from fields and deliveries it both to pupils and staff.

The teacher can see the pupil's data including attendance, average grade and emotional intelligence and can also filter these by sex, reading age above/below average and grades above/below average.

The image below shows the front page as a staff member would see with average grade and no filters.  The image below that shows a filter with just females.

It may look like the images of the pupils are random but the higher they are to the top right the better score they are receiving according to their attendance and average grade.

The interface also allows you to select pupils and compare them, click here for image 1 and image 2.

You can also see each pupil in a report view - taking the image below you can see the attendance for the user and see that his attendance isn't the best.  Where there is a 1 an intervention has taken place.  Whether this is a letter home or just a chat you can see if a difference has be made by looking at the line graph.

Other features at the moment are a careers program that the users have to fill in while the member of staff can help and monitor their progress.  Information can be sent to the parents and the pupils mentors around the school.

Can't wait to get this on my SharePoint - I'm really starting to like SilverLight more and more.