Setting up an Assessment Task

• Navigate to Curriculum>Tasks.

• Click on the Create Task button.

• Enter the Task Name…

  • This will be visible to parents and students when they log in.

• Set the Task Type as Assessment.

• Enter a Description of the Assessment you are setting.

• Select whether you wish to set a Due Date…

  • If no Due Date is set, the Assessment Task will be available for submissions until the Class expires, which is usually the end of the year.

  • Select whether to allow Late Submissions. If this option is unticked, Students cannot hand in their work after the entered due date.

• The Student Task Understanding Scale to use option, will ask Students to rate their understanding of the task, using a simple thumbs up / thumbs down rating scale.

• Release task to students and parents to allow them to see and action the task when they login to uEducateUs...

  • This can be done later on, after the Assessment Task is created if you wish.

• You can select to send notifications to the relevant class Teachers on creation of the task.

• In the Classes and Students section, select the Classes this Task is for, then click on Populate Student List…

  • A list of the individual Students within these Classes will appear…

    • All students are selected by default, so if required, deselect any students that do not need to do the task.

The Overview tab will detail the following:

• Teachers who have access to this Task.

• The Classes to which the Task has been assigned.

• The date the Task was assigned to the Classes.

• The date the Task is due.

• The date the task was released to parents and students…

  • If the Task has not been released yet, you are able to click the Release Task button from here.

  • If the Task has been released but it needs to be edited…

    • Click the Unrelease Task button to edit the task.

• To the top right will be a cog-wheel icon, which when clicked will display more actions for this Task…

  • Edit Task - will allow the details of the task to be edited.

  • Delete Task - will delete the task completely.

The Grade Students tab gives you the ability to grade the students, as well as detailing the following:

• All Students who have been assigned the Task.

• The current Status of the Task.

• Whether or not the Student has actioned the Task.

• The date the Student submitted their work, if applicable.

• Their result, when applicable.

To grade students

• Tick the checkboxes next to the Students to be marked.

• Click the Grade Selected button.

• Click the Score drop-list next to each Student to assign their grade…

  • If the same grade is to apply to all students, click the drop list next to the Apply to All button at the top of the screen…

    • Select the grade to apply to all students

    • Click apply.

• Click the Feedback Comment button below each Student to open a textbox within which a feedback comment can be written…

  • If the same feedback is to be given to every student…

    • Select Yes for the Give the same feedback to students? setting…

      • This will open a textbox to write a feedback comment which will apply to all students.

  • For both individual and bulk student feedback comments, a document containing the comment can be uploaded if required.

  • The Give no feedback checkboxes are optional.

  • Once the students are graded and feedback has been given…

    • Click the Save button to update.