Result Group

Group of subject assessment areas that this area is a part of.

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 Results Maintenance - Single window.

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

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.

Result types also define how the result is displayed on the Community Portal.

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

External Link

Identifier to link to a relevant external learning standard. AusVELS (Australian Education Learning Standards) and NCEA (New Zealand National Certificate of Education Achievement) are currently supported.

Note: The Result Type selected must have the relevant SynergyMeaning specified in the lookup table. Currently, result types with a SynergyMeaning of AusVELS and NCEA are supported.

Default Result Classification

Result classification to use by default when entering student results. See Results Maintenance - Single window.

Note: The Classification field is only displayed in student results if the Show Result Classification field is selected for the subject assessment. See Subject Assessment Area Maintenance - Summary bar.

Heading

Assessment area name.

Abbrev Heading 1 /

Abbrev Heading 2

Abbreviation of the heading field.

Overview

Subject overview of what this area represents or covers.

For example, a science class area for biology might explain how the class looks at genetics, the role of gender in animal reproduction and inherited characteristics, and so on.

Provider

External course provider.

Context

Subject that the external course provider is responsible for.

This is required for NCEA exports from New Zealand schools. NCEA is part of the New Zealand National Qualifications Framework. See the National Certificates of Educational Achievement web site.

Find the external organisation associated with the selected Result Type.

Save changes to the assessment area.

Move the assessment area to another position in the list.

See Moving an assessment area to another sequence in the Synergetic Assessment and reports manual.

Merge one or more assessment areas with the current assessment area.

See Merging other assessment areas into the current assessment area in the Synergetic Assessment and reports manual.

Generate the Abbreviated Heading fields based on the Heading field.

Show on Screen

Select this field to have the result as well as the heading for the subject assessment area displayed on the Results Maintenance window.

If you clear this field, the assessment area is not displayed. This is useful for:

• Calculated 'assessment areas' that are used for calculating or summarising results, and used in subsequent formulas. You may decide that the teachers do not need to see these intermediate calculations.
• Old 'assessment areas' such as Average, which have been superseded by the Weighted Average 'assessment area' that you want to keep for the present.

Print on Report

Print the assessment area item on the academic report.

Overall Result

Select if this is to be the overall result for the students.

Force Read Only

Clear the field to allow users to enter or edit results on the Results Maintenance window. This is the default setting.

Select the field to prevent the assessment area from being updated on the Results Maintenance window. The heading and the values are greyed out, preventing users from overriding the calculated results.

Mark Out of

Specify the maximum numeric value for the mark.

Summarise to Seq

Sequence number of the subject that this subject assessment is linked to.

See Traditional method of summarising and linking assessment areas in the Synergetic Assessments and reports manual.

Overall Seq

If Overall Result is selected this:

• is the sequence this assessment area will appear on the report within any other overall results
• can be used to identify one overall result from another for the reports.

Overall Seq 1 and Overall Seq 2 results appear in the Classes tab of Current Student Maintenance. See Current Student Maintenance - Classes tab in the Synergetic Current students manual.

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.

Button

Description

Navigate between the subject assessment areas.

Create a new subject assessment area.

Search for another subject assessment area.

Customise which navigation bars are displayed and their order.

Create a task relating to the selected subject assessment area.