Marking Summative Assessments FAQ

This article covers common questions regarding marking Summative Assessments in Arbor. If you cannot find an answer to your query in this article, check our dedicated section of the Help Centre on this topic here.

Can we rename assessment targets and columns on marksheets?

There are three ways you can customise the language of assessments at your school:

• Target Judgement Rules - These show you how students are making progress against their target. You can customise what these are called, for example renaming 'below target' to 'working towards target': How the marksheet is colour coded - editing Target Judgement Rules
• Target columns - You can rename these columns in your marksheets and reporting to reflect the terms you use: Renaming and viewing the target columns
• Custom Marksheets - Configure the names of your columns in the Custom Report Writer to use these in your bespoke marksheets: How to set up custom marksheets.

Can we have negative grades for assessments?

Arbor doesn't allow you to input negative or minus values into Assessment Marksheets, or to import them via spreadsheet. This applies to all assessment types - Summative, Ad Hoc, and Formative.

Once you refresh or return to the marksheet page, any negative values you input are wiped.

If you want to show the difference between two columns on the marksheet to show a student is behind (such as the difference between reading age and predicted reading age), you can:

• add a custom field using custom marksheets.
• use the Summative Assessments > Analysis > Statistics page to calculate the progress gap.

Why is a student appearing on a marksheet where they should not be?

A student may appear on a marksheet even if they are no longer in the class if they were enrolled at any point during the assessment period. The marksheet reflects students based on the last day of the assessment period, and changing the date to after their unenrollment will remove them from the marksheet.

Similarly to when a teacher can't locate a student on the marksheet, you may find that a student who is no longer in the class appears on an assessment marksheet. This happens when the student was enrolled in the class at any point during the assessment period you are marking.

When using pages like Students > Assessments > Summative Tracking > Mark Entry > Marksheet, the date will auto-fill to the last day of that assessment period and if they were in the class before this date, they will appear on the marksheet.

For example, if the date range in a marksheet is set for the entire Summer term and a student left the school during this term, they will still appear on the marksheet until the date range is amended to a date where that student no longer attended the school.

Can we change the order of columns or columns in reports or assessment marksheets?

To move a column in your mark sheet, click and hold your mouse button over the column header, and drag it to the required position.

When you leave and return to the page, or refresh your page, the columns will remain in this order.

Please note that you cannot reorder rows - you would need to export or Live Feed your table.

Why can't I download the assessment import spreadsheet?

If you try to import assessment marks and the assessment has not been given a key stage, you won't be able to download the import spreadsheet.

To correct this, you'll need to:

1. Remove the assessment from your Assessment Policy following these instructions (do not remove it from your Assessment Framework)
2. Go to the assessment in your Students > Assessments > Summative Assessments > Assessment Framework > Assessment Catalogue and click into each one that's missing a Key Stage
3. Click into the blank Key Stage box and give the assessment a key stage - choose Mixed if it is not key-stage specific
4. Re-add the assessment to your policy using these instructions

You should then be able to download the spreadsheet.

How can I check who entered an assessment grade for a student?

You'll need the School: View: Assessments: Review permission to see the mark history on a marksheet. If you don't have permission, you'll need to ask your admin team to give you permission using these instructions.

Go to the marksheet of the class (you can see how to do this here for teachers or here for Administrators), hover your mouse over the mark you'd like to check and click More Information.

A slide over will then appear and you will be able to view an audit log of when the mark was added and changed.

It may say that the mark is from a different date to the date the mark was entered. The mark will show as entered on the date selected in the filters in the marksheet. So if you input marks on the 2nd, but your marksheet was set to the 1st, the marks will show as being logged on the 1st.