Class Code

Code for the selected class.

Description

Description for the selected class.

Seq

Identifying sequence number.

Use to place assessment areas in a specific order if required.

Copy Level

How mark books are made available to other users. You can choose to:

• share mark book entries with all classes with a common assessment code
• not share mark book entries with other users.

This field applies to all mark book entries displayed. That is, when it is changed, the new copy level applies to the mark book entries.

Heading

Name of the assessment area.

Warning: If you alter the name of an assessment area, you may change the meaning of results already in the system. If you need to do this, then you should either create a new assessment area or merge it with another one. See Merging other assessment areas into the current assessment area in the Synergetic Assessments and reports manual.

Override Mask

Range of valid result values. Staff can only enter values within the range specified.

For example, an Override Mask of 0-100 restricts your values to between 0 and 100. You can have a numeric or alphanumeric result.

In most cases, it is a good idea to have a comma at the front of your mask. This allows you to select a blank value for the result. If you do not have the leading comma, you will have to enter a value for every student. Use a comma to separate each result value.

Note: You only have to select a Result Type when entering an override result mask if the results are numeric. In this case, select a numeric Result Type, for example MARK, as well as entering an Override Mask.

Numeric masks. For example:

• “,0-10”
• “,0-100”
• “,80-0”

If the higher number is first then the numbers are in descending order, rather than ascending order.

You can also:

• Specify a mask as 100-0(0.5). This generates a value list of 100, 99.5, 99, 98.5 ... 0. If you leave off the (0.5) suffix then the default increment is 1.
• Force a fixed decimal place by specifying a mask such as 100.0-0(0.5). This generates a value list of 100.0, 99.5, 99.0, 98.5, 98.0 ... 0.0.
• Specify a larger increment by specifying a mask such as 100-0(2). This generates a value list of 100, 98, 96 ... 0.

Make sure that it goes down to 0 (zero) so that even students who receive a 0 will get a grade.

Alphanumeric masks. If you want to define values like Beginning, Consolidating, Established then you set up these values as follows:

• “,B|Beginning, C|Consolidating, E|Established”
• “,G|Good, VG|Very Good, E|Excellent”
• “,A+, A, B, B+, C, C+, UG”

The pipe (vertical bar) within each type indicates that the characters before it is the value stored in the database. Those characters (for example, B) and the description after them (Beginning) are displayed when you enter results. You do not need to use the pipe but it is recommended so that you are only storing B and not Beginning in the database for each result.

Also see How the combined result is displayed in the Synergetic Assessments and reports manual.

Abbrev Heading 1 and 2

Abbreviation of the Heading field. This abbreviation is displayed in the Mark book Results window.

Result Type

Result values available for the subject assessment area.

Result types restrict the valid values that you can enter in this field. This is so that the data presented on reports is consistent.

Note: Values are maintained in the luReportResultType lookup table. See luReportResultType lookup table in the Synergetic System maintenance manual.

Result Group

Group of subject assessment areas.

Tip: Use to create groups if you have a large number of assessment areas to manage. You can work with the groups instead of each individual assessment area in Results Maintenance. See Student Results Maintenance - Single Student tab in the Synergetic Assessment and reports manual.

Note: Values are maintained in the luReportResultGroup lookup table. See luReportResultGroup lookup table in the Synergetic System maintenance manual.

Summarise to Assessment Area Seq

Defines to which assessment area this mark book assessment area is to be linked.

Mark Out of

Specify the maximum numeric value for the mark.

Show in Community Portal

Select whether the mark book results are displayed in the Community Portal.

Weighting Factor

Priority that this assessment is to take in the calculated result.

For example, a Weighting Factor of 1 is greater than a Weighting Factor of 0.5.

Adds another mark book area. The new mark book is added after all existing mark book assessment areas.

Deletes the highlighted mark book assessment area.

Launch the Import Mark Book window to import a mark book assessment area.

Move the mark book assessment area above the one immediately above it.

Move the mark book assessment area below the one immediately below it.

Update changed values and refresh the grid area.

Update changed values and refresh the grid area.

Navigate between the selected courses.

Launch the Create New Course window to add a new course to the database. Enter the details for the course and click .

Display the Course Maintenance Search Criteria window.

You can update the search criteria and search for new courses. See Searching for courses.

Customise how the bars are displayed. See Customising navigation bars in the Introduction manual.