Prepare behavior assessment for mid-term report cards

This guide walks through preparing the behavior assessment that mid-term student report cards show. You decide which behavior categories the report card has and which student behaviors each category holds, open the period in which teachers enter their assessments, and choose which categories the report card shows.

Who does what

The school:

• Defines the behavior categories: one for each subject or heading the report card assesses.
• Opens a behavior assessment and chooses the categories it includes.
• Creates the academic student reports.

Teachers enter the assessments for their own subjects in the behavior assessments the school opened, from Counseling → Behavior assessment.

1. Define the categories

1. In the Behavior assessment menu, choose Settings, then the Behavior categories card.
2. The page opens on the Assessment categories tab, which holds the scale and symbol categories a report card uses. The Point categories tab is for behavior pointing.
3. Choose Add assessment category at the top right of the table. The form opens beside the table.
4. Fill in the form:
   • Title: the heading the report card shows, up to 65 characters. Two categories of one class level cannot share a title.
   • Class level.
   • Scoring: choose Scale. With Symbol, teachers assess with faces, thumbs and similar symbols. The class level and scoring cannot change after you save.
   • Values: type the scale’s options in the order teachers should see them and add each with Add option, for example VERY GOOD, GOOD, PROGRESSING, NEEDS SUPPORT.
   • Allow a comment with each assessment: leave it on. It starts on for a new category.
   • Subject: choose the subject the category belongs to. The Class and Teachers lists then show only that subject’s classes and teachers at this class level.
   • Teachers: choose the subject teachers who assess the category. Teachers are not chosen for you: if you leave the field empty, every teacher sees the category and can assess it. Each teacher assesses only the learners in their own classes. If the list is empty after you choose a subject, no teacher is assigned to it or the subject is not taught at this class level.
5. Choose Save. The form closes and the category appears in the table.

Important: Define a separate category for each heading the report card shows.

Add behaviors to a category

1. In the category’s row, open the arrow next to View and choose Behaviors.
2. Type a few words in the Student Behavior list, choose the behavior and choose Add.
3. To add a behavior that is not in the list, type it in New behavior and choose Add new behavior. It is also added to your school’s student behaviors; if the list already holds the same text, that entry is used.
4. If you added the wrong behavior, choose Remove next to it and choose again.

Each addition and removal is saved at once; there is no separate Save.

Copy a category to other class levels

When the same category and behaviors apply to other class levels, copy it:

1. In the category’s row, open the arrow next to View and choose Copy to class levels.
2. Choose one or more class levels in Class levels and choose Copy to class levels.
3. Open each copy with Edit and choose its subject and teachers.

The title, comment setting, values and behaviors are copied; the subject, class and teachers are not. If a class level you chose already has a category with the same title, no copy is made.

2. Open the behavior assessment

1. In the Behavior assessment menu, choose Behavior assessment.
2. Choose Add Behavior assessment at the top right of the table.
3. In Title, type the name of the report card the assessment is for.
4. Under Entry dates, choose the First entry day and Last entry day for teachers. Both days are included.
5. In Categories, choose the report card’s categories for every class level. They are grouped by class level, and only scale and symbol categories are offered.
6. Choose Save.

Important: Choose the report card’s categories for all class levels in one place, in a single assessment.

Teachers enter assessments only from the first to the last entry day; school staff can still change them outside those dates. A category that already has assessments cannot be removed from the assessment, and the dates cannot be narrowed past a day with assessments. Open an assessment from the table to see or enter its assessments.

3. Create the academic student reports

1. In the Gradings menu, choose Academic student reports.
2. Choose Add.
3. Type the report card’s name as its title, and choose its classes and its report type.
4. Choose Save.
5. In the report card’s Actions menu, choose Behavior Settings.
6. Choose which categories the report card shows.

Show Comments in the same menu shows the teachers’ comments, which you can edit there if needed.