Assessment Skills
Assessment skills are qualitative phrases that describe a measurement of student performance. Assessment skills are what Assessment grade plans rely on to determine what skills are associated with courses.
The Assessment skills list contains all assessment skills across all grade plan groups. Assessment skills are reusable, and each instance of an assessment skill is represented in the Grade plan groups column. The Type column is populated based on the Group that the assessment skill is added to within a grade plan.
To get started:
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From the persona menu, select Academics.
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Select Grades, then select Grading setup.
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Choose Assessment skills.
Tip: For a tutorial on setting up grading at your school, see The Guide to Grading Setup.
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Select the plus button (+) to create a new skill.
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Enter a Description (for example, "Counting by fours," "Shares with others," "Contributes to class discussions").
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Set the Status to Active.
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Select Save & Close or Save & Add Another.
The Assessment skill is now available to be added to an Assessment grade plan within School Year Setup.
To change which information appears on the Assessment skills page, select Columns, make your selections, and then Apply changes.
To narrow down the list, use Filters. You can filter the list by Status and Type. Select Apply filters when you have made your selections.
To download the list of assessment skills as a CSV spreadsheet, select Export. The file will save in your internet browser's download folder.
After a few years of creating and using assessment skills, your school's list might become overly long and difficult to navigate. To help cut down on redundant or outdated entries, you can merge multiple existing assessment skills into a single assessment skill going forward.
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Select Clean up entries.
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On the left side of the screen, select the assessment skill(s) you would like to replace.
Tip: Inactive assessment skills will display the label "(Inactive)" in this view.
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On the right side of the screen, select the assessment skill you would like to use going forward.
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When you are finished, select Save.
Each assessment skill can be set to Active or Inactive status. You can modify the status of assessment skills one at a time or in bulk.
To modify a single assessment skill status:
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Select the context menu beside an assessment skill, then select Edit assessment skill.
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Change the Status to Active or Inactive.
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Select Save & Close.
To modify assessment skill statuses in bulk:
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Select Update multiple statuses.
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Update status to Inactive or Active.
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Inactivate those entries NOT used in the following:
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In the current [year] and future years
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In future years only
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In specific years: select the years to update.
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Select Update status.