Assignments in standards-based systems are called assessments. To add a new assessment, click the Assessments button.
Then click Add New Class Assessment.
Assign a name for the assessment, choose one or more skills to evaluate and then click Save.
The data entry form opens up where the teacher enters numeric values depending upon the rubric. For the Proficiency rubric values of 1 through 4 are used. Decimals are permitted.
Use the letter M to indicate missing assignment. A score of M calculates as a zero. There are reports which find students with missing assignments. If you enter any letter other than M, the value is ignored in the average, and essentially excused. In the above example you can see that the score of M displays a red box meaning 0 where as the Exc is ignored and essentially excused.
Closing the data entry form, we see:
Because there is only one assessment, the averages are exactly the same as the single score.
When another assignment is added the averages then will be displayed.
Averages are visible now and the decimals indicate that averaging is taking place.
If you click on one score average cell and then look at the right side of the screen, the assessment details are displayed.
Add Individual Assessment
Best Practice Don't use this method. Some teachers have used it and then added individual assessments for each student in the class. This makes a huge mess.
It is possible to add one or more assessments for just one student. This should never be used to add assessments for the entire class. One scenario where you would use this might be when the grading calculation method is 75% decay and a student did poorly on the latest assignment. The teacher might allow the student to retake an assessment, thereby improving the student's average where the retaken score would be more recent and essentially override the previous poor score. The previous score would still calculate in the average but not at the 75% weight.