Creating new subject assessment areas

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Last updated: Sept 01, 2022 by Richard Kennedy (Unlicensed)
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You can:

  • Add a new subject assessment area after the existing areas, as described below.
  • Insert a new subject assessment area before the selected area using the Subject Assessment Selector window. See Inserting new subject assessment areas.

To create a new subject assessment area for a selected subject:

  1. Open the Set Subject Assessment Search Criteria window. See Searching for subjects and assessment areas.
    The Subject Assessment Selector window and the Subject Assessment Maintenance windows are displayed.
  2. Open the Area tab of the Subject Assessment Maintenance window. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Area tab - Area sub-tab.
    The Area sub-tab of the Area tab of the Subject Assessment Maintenance window is displayed.


    Note: To create a new subject assessment area, you must be in the Area tab. To create a new subject assessment, you must be in the Summary tab. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Summary tab - Summary sub-tab. Click  and to toggle between the different tabs.

  3. You can:

    • click on the Area sub-tab of Subject Assessment Maintenance
    • click on the Subject Assessment Maintenance toolbar
    • select File > New from the main menu
    • right click on the subject assessment area of the Subject Assessment Area Selector grid and select New
    • press Ctrl + N.

    The Create New Subject Assessment - Subject Assessment Area window is displayed.



  4. Select the result group and result type.
  5. Enter the name of the assessment area. For example, Final Grade.
  6. If this is the student's overall assessment:

    • select Overall Assessment
    • select the location of the assessment in the student's report in the Overall Seq field, if required.

  7. Click .
    The new subject assessment is displayed in the subject assessment area grid of the Subject Assessment Selector and Subject Assessment Maintenance windows.
  8. Move the area to a different sequence number, if required. See Moving an assessment area to another sequence.
  9. Update the details of the subject assessment area. See Maintaining subject assessment areas.


Create New Subject Assessment Area window key fields

Field

Description

Seq

Automatically generated identifying sequence number for the subject assessment area.

Use to place this assessment area in a specific order on the report if required. This is also the order that the assessment areas appear on the Student Results Maintenance window.

Result Group

Group of subject assessment areas.

Tip: Use to create groups if you have a large number of assessment areas to manage. You can work with the groups instead of each individual assessment area in Student Results Maintenance. See Student Results Maintenance - Single Student tab.

For example, results for a work requirement or parts of an overall project might be grouped together.

Result Type

Result values available for the subject assessment area.

Result types restrict the valid values that you can enter in this field. This is so that the data presented on reports is consistent.

Note: Values are maintained in the luReportResultType lookup table. See luReportResultType lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

Note: If you change the Result Type so that the values do not map properly to the information you have already entered, you are prompted with an error message.

Heading

Subject heading.

Overall Assessment

Select if this is the student's overall assessment for the report.

For example, the Overall Assessment field is:

  • selected for a student's overall grade for the term
  • cleared for an assignment that merely contributes to the overall grade for the term.

Overall Seq

Order that subject assessment areas appear on the reports, if the Overall Assessment field is selected.