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You can hover (place your mouse icon/pointer on a certain screen
location and don't move it for a few seconds) over any of these
functions to see their roles. The lower rows function similarly.
- Add Item Add Item is used to add new assessment items like
tests or quizzes. This moves you to a screen to enter information
about this item (ie. name, description, etc. as outlined above).
- Del/Ed Item Delete/Edit Item is used to remove an
assessment item (and it's associated student scores) or to change
something about the item (ie. maximum score, group membership,
etc.). It can also remove a custom sortorder for student names (which
is stored as a assessment item called ``sortorder'').
- Rpt A Report Menu that allows printing a variety of
reports including a couple of student marks reports, an empty marks
sheet (for recoring mark entries) and a password report for
printing/viewing student passwords.
- Weight Item Weight by Item is used to adjust the weighting
of assessment items within their group, which used in determing the
students' average. It allows any item to have it's weight
changed. This is used to adjust the weighting of an individual item
within its group or subgroup.
- Weight Grp Weight by Group is used to adjust the relative
weightings of groups of (assessment) items on the student average. It
does not allow reweighting within a group (since this is done
with the item weight adjust function above).
- Post is used to copy student averages from the gradebook
into the report card system. Marks may be changed, if desired, during
this process (ie. promote to 50%, etc.). The posting process can
insert a value into any of the subject objectives. There may be up to
20 objectives defined per subject in the report card system.
- Exp Export is used to export information about this
subject into a format that may be stored locally on a teacher's
computer. This designed to help allay any fears about data loss on the
remote computer running Open Admin. It stores the data in CSV (Comma
Separated Format) so that it can be used on any type of spreadsheet
program. It can also create a compressed zip file containing marks for
all subjects of this teacher for backup purposes.
- Mtce The Maintenance Menu is used for a variety of
functions. Currently it holds:
- The SortOrder function to customize the ordering of
student names on the main screen and in reports. The default sort
order is lastname, firstname.
- The Compress/Delete function that can remove multiple
items and their scores at a time or compress multiple items into a
single item along with the scores.
- The Clone function that can create copies of (ie. clone)
assessment items from a subject and put them into another subject (or
section or the same subject). If a teacher has two sections of the
same subject, this would make it easy to create identical assessments
without having to enter things twice.
- Search The search function is used to search for text in
scores (including the * (ignore) values), scores in a certain
percentage range, or averages within a certain percentage range. This
will search over all or selected courses for the logged in teacher.
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2010-07-18