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The Assessments page will show grades to parents and students. Some setup is required in order to pull grades into Insight and also to configure charts, if required. Grades can be pulled in from either PARS or SIMS.

This is not the same as the Reports page, which shows the students' Linked Documents.

Should a link to SELF ASSESSMENT GO HERE?

Setup

Importing Grades from SIMS

The following Role Option is required to import grades from SIM:
Manage > Assessment Manager subjects (On)

To begin go to the following page:
Manage > AM subjects

Select the Aspect that you would like to pull into Insight from the Aspect dropdown at the top of the page. A list of subjects will then appear at the bottom of the page. Tick the subject(s) that the aspect is related to to pull the aspect into Insight. There is no save button; ticking the subjects is all that needs to be done.

To delink an aspect from Insight, select the aspect from the Aspect dropdown then untick all subjects.

Reviewing linked aspects

There is a report which shows a list of all the aspects that have been pulled into Insight, and which subject(s) each aspect is linked to. The Role Option required to access this report is:
Reports > Linked aspects (On)

The report is accessed via:
Reports > Linked aspects

Importing Grades from PARS

If you want to import grades from PARS you will need the following Role Option:
Manage > Preferences (On)

To import grades from PARS go to:
Manage > Preferences

Scroll down to the PARS section and look for an option called Collect Grades from PARS - this must be turned on. Click the Choose Elements option to the right to select the grade elements to import. Tick all of the elements to import then click OK.

What does "Set Subject group row affinities" do?!

iGrades can be pulled from SIMS or PARS but not both. You can however pull grade elements from PARS which themselves are pulling grades from SIMS into PARS.


Configuring Charts

An example of an Assessment Chart. Examples of the three possible options for Column title source are also shown.

Insight can be used to configure bar charts that appear on the Assessments page for students and parents. There are two methods for creating and editing these charts, described below.

iIn order for charts to be displayed, grades must be collected from SIMS rather than PARS.


Using the AM charts page

Assessment charts can be configured within Insight using the AM Charts page. The role option needed to access this page is:
Manage > AM Charts (On)

The AM Charts page is accessed via:
Manage > AM Charts

At the top of the page there is a Live option. This must be enabled for charts to be displayed. The rest of the page is used to configure the charts.

There will be one section for each chart. At the top of each section is a Chart Title option which is used to name the chart. Beneath this will be a list of columns to be shown on the chart, each with an Edit button to the right. At the bottom of this section is a blank row also with an Edit button to the right.

To create a new chart scroll to the bottom of the page to find a chart that has no columns associated to it. Enter a Chart Title for your chart then click the Edit button on the right. This opens a window which is used to add a column to the chart. Use the Aspect and Resultset dropdowns to select the data to be used in the column. The column will be given a title on the chart, which is either the name of the Aspect, the Result set or both. Select the title using the Column title source dropdown.

To remove a column from a chart, click the Edit button next to the column. In the next window click the Delete button.

Using the text file on the IIS server

There is a file on the server that hosts Insight which can be used to create the AM charts. The file is found in the _Personalisation folder, which is typically C:\wwwroot\inetput\INSIGHT\_Personalisation. The file will either be called assessments.charts or assessments.charts.unused

If you have a file called assessments.charts then open that file using Notepad or a similar basic text editor (not Microsoft Word!). If you do not have an assessment.charts file but do have an assessments.charts.unused file, then edit the assessments.chart.unused file, remove the .unused extension, then edit the file using Notepad or similar basic text editor. If you do not have either file, run an Insight service pack.

The first line of the file must always read:

<root>


Following that, a new chart can be created by adding the following line of text:

<chart id="ENTER TITLE HERE" />

Where ENTER TITLE HERE is replaced by the title for the chart.

Columns are then added using the following line of text, repeated for each column on the chart:

<aspect chart="ENTER TITLE HERE"   aspect="ENTER ASPECT NAME"   resultset="ENTER RESULT SET NAME"   xlabel="ENTER LABEL" />

The name of the chart, the Aspect and the Result Set must be entered into the relevant sections. If the aspect is not associated with a Result Set, no text should be entered into the resultset option. The xlabel option can be set to:
a - for the name of the Aspect
r - for the name of the Result Set
ra - for the name of the Aspect and Result Set

The lines above can be repeated to create multiple charts and columns. The final line of text must read:

</root>


This example represents a chart showing nine samples of a single aspect over Key Stage 3:

<chart id="KS3 Science Level" />
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 7 Autumn Term" xlabel="r" />
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 7 Spring Term" xlabel="r"/>
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 7 Summer Term" xlabel="r"/>
	
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 8 Autumn Term" xlabel="r"/>
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 8 Summer Term" xlabel="r"/>
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 8 Spring Term" xlabel="r"/>
	                                        
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 9 Autumn Term" xlabel="r"/>	
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 9 Spring Term" xlabel="r"/>
	<aspect chart="KS3 Science Level" 	aspect="Science Attainment Level" 	resultset="Year 9 Summer Term" xlabel="r"/>


This example shows different Aspects sampled from the same Result Set:

<chart id="GCSE Targets" />
	<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" 	 aspect="GCSE Art Target"             resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
	<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" 	 aspect="GCSE Biology Target"         resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
	<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" 	 aspect="GCSE Chemistry Target"       resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
	<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" 	 aspect="GCSE Computing Target"       resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
	<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" 	 aspect="GCSE Dance Target"           resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
	<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" 	 aspect="GCSE Drama Target"           resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>
	<aspect chart="GCSE Targets" 	 aspect="GCSE English Target"         resultset="Year 10 Target" xlabel="a"/>

Advanced Configuration

The files in the _Personalisation folder allow you to make specific changes to Insight which cannot be put in place through either the role options or preference settings.

All the files will initially have an extension of '.unused'; in addition to any actions below you will need to remove the 'unused' extension for the file(s) to take effects.

aspect.priorities

This folder allows you to make amendments to the priority of Aspects and the priority of the Subject and Year Group within the Aspect.

In order for this to work the settings for the role must be set correctly. Within subjects ensure the setting for 'use_Personalisation\aspect.priorities file' is set to 'on'.

blacklisted.aspect.resultsets

There may be specific aspect and resultset combinations that you never want to display in Insight. In the file you will need one line for each aspect/resultset combination that you want to blacklist. The name of the aspect should appear first, then a comma, then the name of the result set. For example:

End of Year Grade, Preliminary results

Parent and Student View

The assessments page shows a list of grades taken from SIMS aspect or PARS elements. The aspects/elements shown are chosen via the AM subjects or preferences page, respectively.

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Options to Configure

  • For these years
Enter a list of year groups, separated by the plus symbol, for which this menu item is to be shown.
  • Show data from how many previous academic years
Select the number of years of data you want the user to see.
  • or specify other amounts for specific yeargroups
Enter amounts in the form yeargroup:amount, separated by a plus, for example 7:0+8:1+9:2+10:0+11:1+12:0+13:1
  • Alternative menu title
Enter a word to use in menus in place of Assessments.
  • Earliest
Assessment data entered before this date will not be shown
  • Latest
Assessment data entered after this date will not be shown
  • Latest first
Turn this option on to attempt to order the assessments with the most recent at the top.
  • Limit to current subjects
Turn this option on to only show assessments for currently taken subjects, or leave switched off for all subjects
  • Use column headings in place of aspect name
The aspect's column heading will be displayed, rather than the aspect name itself
  • Use gradeset description in place of result
Where a result has a description within its gradeset, use this instead of the actual result.
  • Expand by default
This options sets whether groups of assessments start out expanded or collapsed.
  • Show result block
To show assessments by resultset or reporting period.
  • group by result block
Use this option to cluster assessments by resultset or reporting period.
  • Limit Targets to main grade result block
Limit to main grade result block
  • Attempt level split on aspect name
Useful only if your aspect names begin with a recognisable level, results can be arranged in levels.
  • Show grade help popup
Will provide help popup regarding grades.
  • Show progress charts
Hide or show progress charts
  • Hide comments where a result exists
Just show grade not comment