Learning areas and competency assessment

Young children are not given marks and ranks. In a class whose Assessment Mode is Competency, a teacher rates each child on skills grouped into learning areas, such as Numeracy or Language. The report card then tells the child's story in sentences, not percentages.

Before you start

• Set the class's Assessment Mode to Competency (Academic Management → Classrooms → Edit). Only those classes appear in the steps below. See Classes and streams.

Step 1: Create the learning areas

1. Open Assessment → Learning Areas. The list shows each area with its class, its subject, how many competencies (skills) it has and whether it is active. Use the Class filter to narrow it.

   

2. Click New learning area.

3. Click Create. To load many at once, click Import learning areas.

   

Step 2: Add the skills (competencies)

1. Open the learning area and click Edit.
2. On the Competencies tab click to add one. Write the Skill, and write it as just the skill: for example recite numbers 1 to 20. ShuleOS turns it into a full sentence at each rating, such as "She is able to recite numbers 1 to 20." You can use {possessive}, {object} and {subject} so the sentence uses he/she/they correctly.
3. Optionally write the exact sentence for a rating (Rating 1 to Rating 4) instead of the generic one.
4. Keep Active on, and save.

Step 3: Rate the children

1. Open Assessment → Competency Assessment.
2. Choose the Exam and the Class. Then pick a learning area.
3. For each child choose a rating for each skill. The four ratings are:

Your school can change these words in Account → Settings → Exams and Reports → Competency rating scale. 4. Save. Ratings belong to the exam, so each exam has its own.

Class teachers can rate from the teacher portal (Behaviour and competencies).

Where it shows

The sentences appear on the child's report card in place of marks, and in the parent portal.

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