Results Maintenance - Single window

You can use either the Single window or the Class window to maintain assessment results for individual students. The window you use is determined by your individual preference.

With the Single window you can:

  • Only see the results for one student at a time. On the Class window, you can see the results for several students. See Results Maintenance - Class window.
  • Enter topic comments and overall comments.
    Tip
    : The class information at the top of the window can be modified. For example the default setting can be modified to display a shortened version . See PanelHeader configuration setting in the Synergetic System Maintenance manual.

    Tip:
    Click the hyperlink at the top of the Student results window to launch Subject Assessment Area Maintenance. See Maintaining subject assessments.


 Opening the Single window
  1. Select Curriculum > Results Maintenance from the SynWeb main menu.
    The Results Maintenance Search Criteria window is displayed.
  2. Search for the class. See Searching for student results.
    The class grid is displayed.
  3. Click the launch link of the class you want to manage results for.
    The Single window of Results Maintenance is displayed.


    Tip:
     Click the  control the information displayed on the window. See Filtering results on the Single, Class (legacy), Class and Assessment windows.


Entering results

Note: If you or another staff member have marked the results as exported, the following message is displayed at the top of the window. You cannot edit exported results.


Note:
Results maintenance now checks the Rprts Prntd and Athr Stppd fields under the Year Level area in File Semester Maintenance. This allows the user lock out results for a single year level without affecting other levels. See Student File Semester Maintenance - File Semester tab in the Synergetic Curriculum manual.


Note:
If another staff member is already editing the results for that class, the results are locked and you cannot add or change any results. If results are locked, a message appears at the top of the Results Maintenance window.



You enter results for students by:

  • choosing the relevant grid cell
  • typing or selecting the result.


To move around the grid:

  • use the mouse and click in the required cell
  • press the Tab key to move to the cell immediately to the right

Note: In some instances you need to tab more than once to bypass buttons, particularly on the Single window.

  • press the Shift and Tab keys at the same time to move to the preceding cell.

When the cursor is positioned in a cell, you can use the Alt + down arrow key to select a result and down arrow to cycle through the available options.

Note:
SynWeb will display the following window if changes have not been saved.


You must always click before you move to another screen to avoid losing your changes.

Tip: Use the Minutes until Autosave field at the bottom of the browser to check when you last saved your changes.

To select another student, either:

  • select the student's name on the student selector grid
  • click one of the navigation buttons .


Results Maintenance - Single window key fields, icons and buttons
Display fields

Field

Description

Show report

Select to display the available SSRS reports next to the results entry. See Configuring Student Results Maintenance in the System maintenance manual.


Fields


Note:
The fields displayed depend on the filter
settings. See Using the Results Maintenance filter.

Field

Description

Name

Student's name.

Result

Student's result for the assessment area.

Note: Organisations using the Victorian Curriculum framework can select the Did Not Participate (DNP) result when a student is unable to complete an assessment.

When this option is selected you must select a result classification to indicate why the student could not complete the assessment. See the Classification field below.

Date

Date of the assessment.

Note: You can determine whether this field is displayed using the Results Dates Used field on the Summary bar of Assessment Area Maintenance. See Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar.

Classification

Select the result classification, if enabled for the subject assessment.

Note: You can determine whether this field is displayed using the Show Result Classification field on the Summary bar of Assessment Area Maintenance. See Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar.

The result classification is used in: 

  • Australian organisations to indicate students whose results are not comparable to other students in the class, such as students in a modified program 
  • New Zealand schools to withdraw students from an NCEA standard 
  • organisations using the Victorian Curriculum to indicate the reason why students given the Did Not Participate (DNP) result were unable to complete the selected assessment.

Note: You must enter a result classification when a student is given the Did Not Participate (DNP) result.

See:

Print

Select if this assessment is to appear on the student's report.

Note: You can determine whether this field is displayed using the Print Selectable field on the Summary bar of Assessment Area Maintenance. See Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar.

Topic Comment

Comment for the assessment area.

Note: You can determine whether this field is displayed using the Topic Comments Used field on the Summary bar of Assessment Area Maintenance. See Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar.

Overall Comment

Overall assessment comments for the selected student.

Note: You can determine whether this field is displayed using the Comments Used field on the Summary bar of Assessment Area Maintenance. See Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar.

Note: The overall comment relates to the selected student.

Character, word and line restrictions for overall comments are defined in the luReportStyle lookup table. See luReportStyle lookup table in the Synergetic System maintenance manual.

An error message is displayed if your comment length exceeds these restrictions.

Note: The lines for the comment are calculated as they will appear on the report, not as they appear in the browser.


Field icons

Icon

Description

Perform a spell check on the text in the Comments field.

See Checking the spelling of comments.

Open the Comment Bank window to enter stored comments for the student.

See Entering stored comments.

Copy the text in the Comments field, for later use with other students.

See Copying and pasting information into comments.

Note: The and icons can only be used with this function, as it does not use the Windows or Mac's clipboard for copying and pasting.

Paste the text in the Comments field that was previously copied from another student.

See the icon immediately above.

Open a PDF file containing the student's report. You can then view or print the report.

Buttons

Button

Description

Launch a hot report for the selected student. See Configuring hot reports in the System maintenance manual.

Go to the previous student, if you are not at the first student record.

Go to the next student, if you are not at the last student record.


Common buttons

Button

Description

View and maintain:

  • results for individual students
  • topic comments
  • overall comments.

See Results Maintenance - Single window.

View and maintain results for all students in the class. See Results Maintenance - Class (legacy) window.

View and maintain results for all students in the class simultaneously with other staff members. See Results Maintenance - Class window.

View or modify results for any student belonging to the assessment code of the class you are currently processing, if you have security access. See Results Maintenance - Assessment (legacy) window.

View or modify results for any student belonging to the assessment code of the class you are currently processing, if you have security access. See Results Maintenance - Assessment window.

Maintain the mark book assessment results for all students in the class. See Results Maintenance - Mark Book window.

Maintain the parent teacher interview request statuses for all students in the class. See Results Maintenance - PTI window.

Show results for other classes the student is taking. See Results Maintenance - History window.

Maintain defaults applied to individual students and classes. See Results Maintenance - Utilities window.

Add or remove fields from display on results pages. See Using the Results Maintenance filter.

Display the Results Maintenance Search window to select a different class.

Save all changes made to results.

Find or replace a word or phrase within the comment fields.

Spell check all fields.