Create assessment groups, assessments or learning outcomes in a subject

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Create assessment groups
• Add an assessment to an assessment group 
• Edit or delete an assessment  

Introduction

After a subject is created for a learning area, you can add assessments with learning criteria and/or outcomes and weighting to streamline learning and grading. 

You can also create assessment groups to house related assessments. Assessment groups are a useful way to organise assessment data, so that teachers can control the way information is sorted and presented in a marks book and grade students against learning outcomes. Assessment results are also passed through group weightings automatically calculate students total scores.  

If your syllabus is assigned to the subject, the learning outcomes (from your learning area) will be available to add to the assessment.

This guide shows you how to create assessments, learning criteria, outcomes and weighting to a subject. 

Create assessment groups

Assessment groups allow you to group related assessments, so they can be graded together in marks book. 

To add an assessment group to a subject, go to Subjects and assessments.
1. Select the subject you want to add an assessment group to.
2. Select Add and then select Assessment groups.
3. Next to the three-dot symbol , select Add > Assessment groups and complete the fields below.

• Name: Add a name for the group you’d like assessments to sit in. For example, if the subject is Year 4 Maths, the group name could be ‘Semester 1 assessments’; The following group could be ‘Semester 2 assessments’.
• Colour: Select a colour to assign your groups. This can help teachers quickly identify other  assessment groups in a subject.

You’ve added an assessment group for your subject. Next, you can add assessments that will be graded as part of this group .

Add an assessment to an assessment group 

If you create an assessment without assigning it to an assessment group, fear not – it will automatically be added to All assessments as the default group.

To create a new assessment, go to Subjects and assessments.

1. For the subject you want to add assessments to, select Add > Assessments.
   You can also select the subject to open it up, then Add.
2. In Add assessment, fill in the details for the assessment:
   • Name: Add a name for the assessment activity. For Year 9 English, this could be ’Written literature review’.
   • Description: Add a description of the assessment. For example, 'Explain how authors creatively use the structures of sentences and clauses for particular effects.’
   • Assessment group: Select from the groups available if once has been created previous, otherwise, it will default to ‘All assessments’ and you can update the group later.
   • Class: Links the assessment information so it’s visible within the marks book.
   • Due date: Add the date the assessment is due.
   • Grading scale: Select the grading scale you'll be using to mark the assessment.
   • Criteria: Describe one or more criteria that students should demonstrate or meet once completing this assessment.
   • Learning outcomes (optional): Assign a custom or syllabus outcome if available/defined within the related subject. Adding both means you can surface both descriptors in marks book for teachers to grade against.

        3. Select Save, and you’ll see confirmation once the assessment is added.

Now it will be visible in Marks book so students can be graded and ranked efficiently.

Edit or delete an assessment  

You can only edit and delete an assessment if it has no grades recorded against students. You’ll need to delete student grades from the Marks book first, and then edit the assessment. 

To edit an assessment go to Subjects and assessments:

1. Select Assessments and find the relevant assessment.
2. You can either select the name or the 3-dot icon  from within the table row.
3. Select Edit or Delete.