Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar

Use the Summary bar to maintain the overall description and the reporting details needed to format student reports for the selected subject.

 Opening the Summary bar

To open the Summary bar:

  1. Select Curriculum > Assessment Area Maintenance from the SynWeb main menu.
    The Set Subject Assessment Area Search Criteria window is displayed.
  2. Search for the assessment area.
  3. Click on the Summary bar.

    Tip:
     You can click anywhere on a navigation bar other than the caption to open it.

    The Summary bar of Subject Assessment Area Maintenance is displayed.


Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar key fields and buttons

Fields

Field

Description

Heading

Subject heading.

Overview

Description of the subject aims.
 

Tip: Click Spell Check to perform a spell check on the Overview field or any text field that has the focus.

Unit Name

Unit that the subject is part of, if applicable.
For example, Aboriginal History, Early Settlement and Australia in the 20th Century form part of the Year 8 History subject.

Comments Used

Whether overall comments are used on the student report. This enables the Comments box in the Results Maintenance window. See Maintaining student results.

Topic Comments Used

Whether topic comments are used on the student report.
Teachers are able to see the Topic Comment field in Results Maintenance, and can view or edit topic comments when they right-click in the appropriate assessment area cell.

Print Selectable

Allows users to select/deselect individual results for printing within a class report.

Result Dates Used

Whether result dates are included in the report by enabling the Date column in the Single window of Results Maintenance.
Use when an assessment area is date-based. For example, assessments are issued on a specified completion date.

Show Result Classification

Whether staff can enter result classifications against the student's results on the Single window of Results Maintenance. See Results Maintenance - Single window.
Clear this field to remove the Classification field from the Single Student tab for the assessment.
 

Note: Also see the Default Result Classification field on the Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Area bar - Area tab.

Progressive

Whether results can be transferred from one reporting period to the next.
For example, when your organisation uses outcome based reporting.

Show Markbook Results In Portal

Whether the results are publishable on the community portal. See Selecting mark books to display in the portal in the Community Portal manual.

Short Course

Whether the subject is run as a short course.

Report Style

Style of the Crystal Report (Academic report template).

Override Report Sort Seq

Select to override the order of reports when printed.
 

Note: Zero means that the sort order is not overridden.

Override Comment:
Lines
Words
Characters

Will override the number of lines, words or characters in the comment based on the report style.
 

Note: Zero means that the default is not overridden.
 

Note: Set the defaults in the luReportStyle lookup table. See luReportStyle lookup table in the Synergetic System maintenance manual.

Override Topic Comment:
Lines
Words
Characters

Will override the number of lines, words or characters in the topic comment based on the report style.
 

Note: Zero means that the default is not overridden.

Result Calculation Stored Proc Before Formula

Call the result calculation stored procedure, selected in the Result Calculation Stored Proc field, before processing any formulas.

Result Calculation Stored Proc Name

Whether a stored calculation procedure from the drop-down list. The default procedure is spuStudentResultsCalcMain.

Prior Year Class Campus / Prior Year Assessment Code

Use to set links to prior year assessment codes, if you have a situation where one assessment from one year:

  • splits into several assessment in the next year
  • is changed to another assessment in the next year.
    For example, this is used for VELS reporting.

Next Year Class Campus / Next Year Assessment Code

Use to set links to next year assessment codes, if you have a situation where multiple assessments from one year merge into one assessment in the next year.
This is used for AusVELS reporting.
For example, you may have two assessments in 2013. For each one you can specify the Next Year Campus and Next Year Assessment Code in 2014.

Buttons

Button

Description

Edit the assessment area details.

Save any edits made to the assessment area details.

Cancel the edits to the assessment area details.


Common buttons

Button

Description

Navigate between the subject assessment areas.

Delete the selected subject assessment area. See Deleting subject assessment areas.

Create a new subject assessment area.

Search for another subject assessment area.

Customise which navigation bars are displayed and their order.

Create a task relating to the selected subject assessment area.