Adding Assessment Groups

Assessment Groups are how you group assessments of your choosing together. For example, you may have letter grades A, B, C, for upper school, and use something completely different for the lower school like E, S, N, U. The benefit of grouping is that you can assign those groups to specific courses so that a teacher can only see the Assessment Group that belongs to that course. If the Assessment Types are not grouped, then a lower school teacher may accidentally give a student and upper school grade. Here is how to add Assessment Groups. See Editing Assessment Groups for more information on editing groups you already have created.

1. Start by going to System > Type Management > Assessment Groups (Grade Groups)
   
2. Click New to add your new Assessment Group. 
   
3.  Add a Title for your new group. Make sure to title it so that you know which grades or section of the school uses this assessment group. For example, Grades 1-5 Assessment Group, Middle School Assessment Group, or High School Assessment Group.
   1. Select if you want this to be the Default Assessment Group. Making this the default will mean that whenever you add a new course or course template to the system this will be the default group (you can edit the group used when you add the course or course template).
      
      
4. The next step will be to go to the Assessment Types (Grades) table to add your assessments to your new group. Go to  System > Type Management > Assessment Types (Grades).
   
5. Select and edit the Assessment you would like to add to your Assessment Group (don't forget you can double-click on records to edit them!).
6. Select your group from the Assessment Group drop-down menu. Click Save and Back when you are done.
   
   
   
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each Assessment you would like to add.