Overview

The session focuses on all the possible pre-defined reports available in Paradigm that your business or institution needs and the Report Builder menu which enables you to customise your reporting requirements. At the end of this session, you will have the knowledge and skills to generate and customise your reports in Paradigm.

Learning outcomes

• Recognise all available pre-defined reports in Paradigm and evaluate when to use each of them

• Experiment with the Reports and Report Builder User Interface in Paradigm

• Generate or produce pre-defined reports, and customise reports with conditions in Paradigm

1. Pre-Defined Reports in Paradigm

Duration: 60 minutes

Complexity: MEDIUM

This section will introduce you to all the possible pre-defined (available) reports in Paradigm which is very useful in your data reporting requirements – to your institution and to the government. We will also provide a brief description of each report, and when and how to use them. At the end of this section, we will give you the opportunity to experiment with generating some of the reports, and you are free to ask questions and clarifications.

Topics:

• Provider Reports

• Student Reports

• Financial Reports

• Letters

• HEIMS Reports

• VET HEIMS Reports

• VSR Reports

• AVETMISS – as outlined in the previous Session 8: Government Reporting

• TEQSA Reports

• QILT SES Reporting

Resource Links:

• Report Builder

2. Customised Reports using the Report Builder Menu

Duration: 60 minutes

Complexity: MEDIUM

This section will introduce you to the Report Builder Menu in Paradigm, and how and when can you customise the base and saved reports. We will provide an in-depth discussion on the operators, conditions, and all other ways how you can customise your reports. At the end of this section, we will have a demonstration on how to produce a customised report in Paradigm with operators and conditions.

Topics:

• Base Reports

• Saved Reports

• Report Builder Operators – operators available in the Report Builder menu that enable you to filter the results based on what is required

• Conditions – allow clauses to be joined together to form more complex filter clauses

• Required Fields to Save Report: Report Name, Description, Type, Scope, Status

• Output Formats for Reports

• Steps 1-5 from Introduction to Report Builder

Resource Links:

• Report Builder

3. Advanced Report Builder

Duration: 60 minutes

Complexity: MEDIUM

This section will give you some additional knowledge and skills that could help and guide you in producing more advanced reports required for your business or institution.

Topics:

• Order By Clauses

• Alternative Data Formats

• Bulk Student Select

• Complex Filter Clause Operators

• Nested Operators Using Brackets

• User-Defined Parameters

• Summarise Data

• Generic Report Query

Resource Links:

• Advanced Report Builder

4. Review

Duration: 10 minutes

Complexity: MEDIUM

After delivering the main topics, there will be some spare time for open discussion. You can ask any questions you have during the training. We will discuss and confirm a date and time for the next training session.

Topics:

• Open discussion including Q&A

• Confirm schedule for next training session

• Outline outcomes of next session

5. Extension

Duration: 10 minutes

The following tasks are recommended for users to complete at the conclusion of each training session to ensure that the content is understood and to establish familiarity with Paradigm terminology and its user interface.

Any records created during this section may be raised for review at the beginning of the next session to ensure that the data has been entered correctly, for example, meeting the relevant government reporting standard.

Tasks:

• Produce or generate one pre-defined report

• Produce a customised report with conditions and operations using Report Builder