Creating and managing Assessment groups

This article contains the following sections:

• Creating and Managing Assessment Groups
• Assigning assessments to groups
• Setting an Assessment group a Reportable 
• Setting an Assessment group to a weighting of '0' 

Creating and Managing Assessment Groups

1. Go to the Teaching Workspace > Timetable > My Classes/My Day/Traditional/Calendar.
   
2. 'Load Programme' for the class, then select the 'Cover Page' from the sub-page menu.
3. Click on the 'Marks Book Settings' button.
4. Under 'General Settings'  locate the 'Assessment Groups' section.
   • To create a new group select  '+ ADD GROUP'.
   • To delete a group select the "X" button. The Undo Arrow will display, the change will not apply until 'SAVE' is selected. Any assessments assigned to the group will automatically be relocated to the previous group.

     

5. Configure assessment group as required:
   
   • Label: The name of the Assessment group, this displays in the Marks book. It also is used in the marks book to sort assessments into alphabetical order.
   • Colour: The selected colour will display as an indicator on the assessment title under 'Overview of Assessments'.
   • Weight: The weighting at which the results for each assessment group contribute to the overall calculated scores in proportion to the other assessment groups.
   • Available on Reports: Some academic reports have been customised to draw assessment data, syllabus scores and results onto the report.
   • Hist Mean and Hist stDev: These are set values through which marks book raw data can be parsed in the Adjusted view of the marks book to indicate how scores may be moderated based on historical performance.
6. Click SAVE

Assigning assessments to groups

1. Go to the Teaching Workspace > Timetable > My Classes/My Day/Traditional/Calendar
   
2. Click the Load Programme icon on the class
3. Click on the Marks book settings button
4. Select Overview of Assessments from the sub-page menu
5. Select the assessment
6. Under Group select the Assessment group
7. Click  SAVE

Setting an Assessment group a Reportable 

The Available on reports option prevents assessments and syllabus linked to assessments from appearing on reports. This includes printout from the Marks book such as the assessment group.

1. Go to the Teaching Workspace > Timetable > My Classes/My Day/Traditional/Calendar.
   
2. Click the Load Programme icon on the class
3. Click on the Marks book settings button
4. Toggle Available on reports to ON
5. Click Save

Setting an Assessment group to a weighting of '0' 

This stops the Assessments from contributing to the Contributing to the Overall grade (CalcG and Calc%). Typically used for Formative assessments.

Independent of this setting is one in the Marks book called CONTRIBUTES TO OVERALL can be toggled off.

1. Go to the Teaching Workspace > Timetable > My Classes/My Day/Traditional/Calendar.
   
2. Click the Load Programme icon on the class
3. Click on the Marks book settings button.
4. Set the 'Weighting' if set to 0
5. Click SAVE