Training

Heidi Plus intermediate to advanced train the trainer

Develop your knowledge of Heidi Plus to an advanced level and take away the resources you need to train the rest of your team.

  • 4 sessions
  • 4 half days
  • £600 + VAT

This course will be held on

  • 19–22 May 2025

    • Online in Teams
    • 09:00 – 12:00
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About

This course is for silver and gold Heidi Plus users who wish to take their knowledge and skills of using Heidi Plus to an advanced level.

On completion, participants have access to a training toolkit which provides everything they need to upskill colleagues to the same level.

Enjoy this interactive course which requires participants to engage in practical exercises under the supervision and guidance of an expert trainer.

Accreditation, in the form of a digital badge, is awarded to the course participant (only) after full attendance and successful completion of required tasks.

Who is it for?

The course is suitable for anyone who has completed the Heidi Plus beginner-intermediate training course and/or already knows how to:

  • Navigate the Heidi Plus system and explore its pre-designed data dashboards
  • Create and format interactive visualisations from appropriate HESA data sources
  • Export and share workbooks, applying data protection principles
  • Apply pre-defined analytics and calculated fields to visualisations to benchmark the performance of higher education providers
  • Create interactive dashboards
  • Begin to answer business intelligence questions

In addition, you must:

  • Already have your own sign in credentials to the HESA identity system as a silver or gold Heidi Plus user
  • Be able to sign in to Heidi Plus on your own device and complete tasks as the course is running

What does it cover?

On completion of the course, you will be able to:

  • create advanced data visualisations
  • blend written formula with pre-defined computations to benchmark the performance of higher education providers using HESA data
  • write complex formula to create dimensions, measures and conditional clauses, with a particular focus on using LOD expressions
  • create parameters to forecast and benchmark performance
  • link multiple data sources together
  • create visually engaging and interactive business dashboards

Joining the session

Our live online sessions (courses, clinics and webinars) are delivered using Microsoft Teams. Therefore, to benefit from the full experience, you will require a Microsoft account, either personal or organisational.

If this poses a barrier, please email training@jisc.ac.uk to discuss alternative options.

What else do I need to know?

  • You will be supplied with all necessary course documentation through an online resource hub
  • After taking part, completing all required tasks successfully and submitting a course evaluation, you will be awarded a Jisc digital credential and badge
  • On completion, you will be given access to a training toolkit which you can share with designated colleagues from your institution
  • Capacity is 5 - 15 participants per course; please note that if the minimum number is not reached, the course may be cancelled

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