Maintaining mark books

Seq

Identifying sequence number.
Use to place assessment areas in a specific order if required.

Heading

Name of the assessment area.
 

Warning: Altering the name of an assessment area changes the meaning of associated results. If you need to do this, then we recommend that you either create a new assessment area or merge it with another one. See Merging other assessment areas into the current assessment area in the Synergetic Assessments and reports manual.

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 Synergetic System maintenance manual.

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.

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

Mark Out Of

Specify the maximum numeric value for the mark.

Weighting

Priority that this assessment is to take in the calculated result.
For example, a Weighting Factor of 1 is greater than a Weighting Factor of 0.5.

Override Mask

Range of valid result values. Staff can only enter values within the range specified.
For example, an Override Mask of 0-100 restricts your values to between 0 and 100. You can have a numeric or alphanumeric result.
In most cases, it is a good idea to have a comma at the front of your mask. This allows you to select a blank value for the result. If you do not have the leading comma, you will have to enter a value for every student. Use a comma to separate each result value.
 

Note: You only have to select a Result Type when entering an override result mask if the results are numeric. In this case, select a numeric Result Type, for example MARK, as well as entering an Override Mask.

Numeric masks. For example:

• ",0-10"
• ",0-100"
• ",80-0"
  
  If the higher number is first then the numbers are in descending order, rather than ascending order.
  You can also:
• Specify a mask as 100-0(0.5). This generates a value list of 100, 99.5, 99, 98.5 ... 0. If you leave off the (0.5) suffix then the default increment is 1.
• Force a fixed decimal place by specifying a mask such as 100.0-0(0.5). This generates a value list of 100.0, 99.5, 99.0, 98.5, 98.0 ... 0.0.
• Specify a larger increment by specifying a mask such as 100-0(2). This generates a value list of 100, 98, 96 ... 0.
  
  Make sure that it goes down to 0 (zero) so that even students who receive a 0 will get a grade.
  
  

Alphanumeric masks. If you want to define values like Beginning,Consolidating,Established then you set up these values as follows:

• ",B|Beginning, C|Consolidating, E|Established”
• “,G|Good, VG|Very Good, E|Excellent”
• “,A+, A, B, B+, C, C+, UG”

The pipe (vertical bar) within each type indicates that the characters before it is the value stored in the database. Those characters (for example, B) and the description after them (Beginning) are displayed when you enter results. You do not need to use the pipe but it is recommended so that you are only storing B and not Beginning in the database for each result.

Also see How the combined result is displayed in the Assessments and reports manual.

Show in Portal

Select to display this mark in the Results tab of the Community Portal. See Markbook_DisplayMode configuration setting in the Community Portal Configuration manual.
 

Tip: Mark books can be displayed or hidden in the Community Portal at the level of the individual assessment, the class, or subject assessment.

Test Date

Date that the test or examination is held.

Launch the Mark Book window to add another mark book area after all existing mark book assessment areas. See Mark Book window.

Delete the selected mark book assessment area.

Move the mark book assessment area up or down the list of assessment areas.