Training Course

Quick Start Assessment Managers

Secondary Schools

Target Audience |

The Assessment Managers training is recommended for delivery to the

following people from your school:

Assessment Team (Members of staff responsible for

Assessment)

Deputy Head teacher/Senior Teacher

Facilities/Requirements |

The training will be delivered on a training database with representative data from a fictitious secondary school.

If you are bringing your own device to connect to the training data then you will need to ensure that your internet connection is fast and reliable and can access the URL found on the following page.

A projector will be in use to guide delegates through the session so ensure that you can seat yourself comfortably and have a clear view of the projector screen.

Objectives of the Session & Timings |

The attendees will work together with their trainer to learn about the host of features which pertain to key processes within the Assessment, analysis and Reporting modules and how best they can take advantage of these. These sessions will teach you how to operate and manage the Assessment module of your Bromcom MIS system on a day-to-day basis.

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Introduction |

A brief overview of the session and breakdown of how the day will run.

The session is divided into four parts. There is an appendix of additional optional tasks for delegates who wish to challenge themselves.

Space for note taking is provided on each page.

The first actions to take before the training begins are:

Open up your web browser

Enter the following URL into the address bar of the browser

Enter the school ID. The school ID for the training database is:

Enter your login ID Your login for the training database is:

Enter your password Your password for the training database is:

School ID

Username

Password

URL https://cloud.bromcom.com

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Agenda Overview |

This is a list of the agenda items in sequence

Part One Setting up assessment

o User Defined Assessment Management

o Template Creation, Maintenance and Management

Short break for Refreshments (10 minutes)

Part Two

Assessment Data Entry (Teachers)

o Accessing teacher’ Assessment Sheets

o Useful functions

o Saving and Closing sheets

Built-in Reports

Short break for Refreshments (15 minutes)

Part Three

Webmerge Assessment Reporting

Short break for Refreshments (10 minutes)

Part Four Analysis

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Part One

Setting Up Assessment |

User-defined Assessment management

o Definition, Creation and Maintenance of Basic Components

Grade Sets & Marksets

Assessment Types

Associations

Notes:

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Part One

Setup Assessment (continued) |

Template Creation, Maintenance and Management

o Assessment Tracking Templates

o Importing Data from Spreadsheets

Notes:

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Part Two

Assessment Data Entry (Teachers) |

Accessing teachers’ Assessment Sheets; opening and editing Sheets.

o Entering Assessment Tracking data

o Useful Functions and Options

o Saving and closing Sheets

Notes:

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Part Two

Reporting – Part 1|

Built-in Reports

o View Grades by Student report

o View Grades by Class/Tutor Group report

o View Grades by Subject report

Notes:

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Part Three

Reporting – Part 2|

User-Defined Reporting

o Assessment Reports via Web-Merge – How to create user-defined

reports for parents e.g. Interim Report

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Part Four

Analysis |

Configuration

Subject Weighting

Exam Option Subjects

Data Transfer Process

Notes:

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Part Four

Analysis |

Assessment Analysis Templates

o Summary

o Trends

o Grade Distribution

o Residuals

o Student Analysis by Subject

Student Analysis Summary

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Appendix A –Exercises

If you find yourself in need of additional training challenges then attempt one or

more of the tasks below.

You are not required to complete these as part of the training and the trainer will

expect you to cease work on these tasks when the training needs to continue to the

next section.

Create a gradeset for new GCSE grades 1-9

Create an assessment type that uses a grade set

Create an assessment type that uses a integer definition

Create an assessment type that uses a comment definition

Add an exception to an assessment type using the grade set.

Create a Master template for a year group to collect Assessment data

Place a formula column on your templates to generate a mean value for a set of grades

Export the information from a template into Excel, modify it and then reimport the data into the marksheet

Change the due date on all of the templates for a particular subject or year group

Create a Summary Analysis template and include 4 different summary conditions

Create a Residuals template

Create a Grade Distribution template

Create a Student Grade Analysis by Subject template

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