Standards-based Grading in Term Grades pages of Gradebook

Index

• Create Rubrics
• Select Standards to assess
• Assess Standards
• Show assessed Standards on Report Cards

Create Rubrics

The first step to assessing standards in your Term Gradebook is to define the assessment rubrics. Administrators need to navigate to Settings > Select Programme > Assessment > Assessment Models > Term > Standards.

Use the Add Rubric button to configure a rubric to be used to assess Standards in classes linked to the programme the rubric is configured for.

Once at least one rubric has been created, these can be reordered, which affects the order they appear in the Gradebook and Reports, and can be disabled if they are not required for a particular term for assessment.

Select Standards to assess

To configure the standards navigate to a Class > Gradebook > Term Grades. Then click the Manage Standards Assessment button in the top right corner.

For Subjects, the administrators will be able to select standards through two methods:

• Standards that have been selected in units within classes are pre-populated in the Manage Standards Assessment page and would need to be selected to be assessed.
• Standards that have not been previously selected in can be added by searching for them.

Configure the standards in the following steps:

1. Select the term for which you want to configure the Standards Assessment
2. Add new standards by clicking the Add Standards button and searching for the ones to be assessed or just use standards displayed in 5. from units linked to the academic term to be assessed.
3. Select the checkbox to enable Standards Assessment.
4. Select the rubrics you want teachers to use for assessment. Multiple rubrics can be selected but please note that selecting several rubrics could impact how well they’re displayed on Report cards.
5. Select the standards that have been populated from units and been added by ticking the checkboxes to select them for assessment.
6. When satisfied with the standards selection click the Save Changes button.

Assess Standards

Once the configuration step is completed teachers will be able to navigate back to the Term Grades page of the Gradebook and assess the standards they have selected using the dropdown menus.

A “Mark all as” option is a shortcut to mark all standards and it appears if more than one standard is selected for assessment.

If multiple rubrics are selected, they will be listed from left to right. Once space runs out a horizontal scroll bar will appear.

A Standards View Option will be automatically added for Terms in classes where Standards are selected for assessment.

Showing Standards Assessments on Report Cards

To enable Standards Assessment on Report Cards, administrators will have to navigate to a Next Generation Report Card Template and include the Assessment component.

In the Assessment component there will be a new checkbox called Standards Assessment.