Creating new AusVELS Curriculum subject assessment areas

AusVELS Curriculum has a defined set of assessment standards:

• Strands. These are the three core, interrelated strands of learning:
  • Physical, Personal and Social Learning.
  • Discipline-based Learning.
  • Inter-disciplinary Learning.
• Domains. Within each strand of learning, the essential knowledge, skills and behaviours are organised into domains.
• Dimensions. Divisions within each domain which have standards written for them.

To create an AusVELS Curriculum subject assessment area:

1. Open the Set Subject Assessment Search Criteria window. See Searching for subjects and assessment areas.

   The Subject Assessment Selector window and the Subject Assessment Maintenance windows are displayed.

2. Open the Area tab of the Subject Assessment Maintenance window. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Area tab - Area sub-tab.

   The Area sub-tab of the Area tab of the Subject Assessment Maintenance window is displayed.

   

   Note: To create a new subject assessment area, you must be in the Area tab. To create a new subject assessment, you must be in the Summary tab. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Summary tab - Summary sub-tab. Click and to toggle between the different tabs.

3. You can:
   • click on the Area sub-tab of Subject Assessment Maintenance
   • click on the Subject Assessment Maintenance toolbar
   • select File > New from the main menu
   • right click on the subject assessment area of the Subject Assessment Area Selector grid and select New
   • press Ctrl + N.

   The Create New Subject Assessment - Subject Assessment Area window is displayed.

   

4. Select one of the AusVELS Curriculum result types from the Result Type drop-down list.

   

   Tip: Right-click the field to create an AusVELS Curriculum entry in the lookup table if required.

5. Click .

   The AusVELS Search window is displayed.

   

6. Select the domain from the Domain drop-down list.

   The AusVELS Search window is redisplayed with the available dimensions.

   

7. Select the required dimension.
8. Click .

   The new subject assessment is displayed in the subject assessment area grid of the Subject Assessment Selector and Subject Assessment Maintenance windows. An external link is created with the AusVELS dimension.

   

9. Move the area to a different sequence number, if required. See Moving an assessment area to another sequence.
10. Update the details of the subject assessment area. See Maintaining subject assessment areas.

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