Assessments and reports Overview

Before starting, review key concepts. See Concepts used in student assessments.

The Assessments module allows you to enter and maintain:

• Curriculum frameworks. See Maintaining curriculum frameworks.
• Subject assessments, including an overview of the subject content to be assessed. See Maintaining subject assessments.
• Subject assessment areas. See Maintaining subject assessment areas.
• Class details, including the teacher responsible for the class. See Maintaining classes.
• Student results when connected to your organisation's network. See Maintaining student results.

You can:

• Configure Synergetic to automatically assign awards to students who fulfil certain criteria. See Setting up automatic awards.
• Export classes, allowing you to enter results when you are not linked to your organisation's network. See Working on assessments off-line (Standalone). Alternatively, you can use SynWeb using a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, to connect to the web server if your organisation is running SynWeb. Refer to the SynWeb Assessments and reports manual.
• Use the User Forms tab to define your own tabs or programs within Synergetic. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - User Forms tab.
• Use the Documents tab to maintain documents that are displayed for classes under the Results tab of the Community Portal. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Documents tab.
• Use the DocMan tab to maintain documents for internal use only relating to the subject assessment area. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Area tab - DocMan sub-tab.
• Copy subject assessment definitions from one year to the next. See Copying subject assessment definitions.
• Process result checks and calculations for Victorian Curriculum, Religious Education (RE), Religious Education Renewed (REN) or WAAR (Western Australian Assessment Reporting) data. See Processing result checks and calculations.

You can view and print student reports and other reports. See:

• Processing student reports.
• Key assessment and reporting reports.
• Key courses reports.

You can also monitor data using the assessments and reports Power BI dashboards. See Monitoring assessments and reports data using Power BI Dashboards.

Department administrators can define and alter the style of reporting independently of how results and comments are entered by staff. If required, department administrators can enforce:

• result types, using their own edit masks
• lengths of comments, to ensure comments will fit on a uniform report layout
• comments to be used, if they want to restrict staff to standard department agreed comments.