How do I add EAL/D to my primary school reports(NSW schools)?
Many schools are required to reports of English as another Language/Dialect.here are the steps to support this function.
- Add the EAL/D Subject via Setup Academic Reports > Reporting > Subjects click on Add Subject from Repository
- Scroll down and click on Add
- This subject will then show in Setup Academic Reports > Reporting > Subjects
- Recommend that
you click on Edit for EAL/D subject and change as per below as
both mainstream English and EAL/D are named English and this will avoid
confusion when performing above).
- Creating a lifeskills cohort for the EAL/D
students. Navigate to Setup Academic Reports > Reporting > Classes
- Click on Students for the mainstream
class/es which contains EAL/D (Lifeskills) students
- Click on Add Lifeskills Cohort and
click Confirm
- Click Move to Lifeskills for the students reguired and click Confirm
Perform 2) for each mainstream class which has EAL/D students. If there is no EAL/D scale already defined, Add a scale to use for the EAL/D subject, via:
- Setup Academic Reports > Reporting > Scales
- To add a new scale click on 'Select Type' from the drop down list select achievement.
- Select the Grade Only (A,B,C) Scale Style from the list.
- Use the drop down list to Select the Size - the number of values that this scale will contain (usually 4). Once this has been saved it cannot be changed.
- Click on the Add Scale button to save your work.
- Enter scale details and click on Save.
- Navigate to Setup Academic Reports > Reporting > Assessment Scheams
- You can Create a New Schema or Copy an exisiting one.
Note: We recommend to copy and tweak the schema as per below
- Click on Assign Classes for the EAL/D schema
- Assign the Lifeskills classes, created as result of 2).
- Scroll down and click Save
- Click on Edit for the EAL/D schema
- Untick the box for the mainstream English subject (only if EAL/D students
are not doing both English and EAL/D.
- Tick the
box for EAL/D subject and set as required, then click on Save Assessment
Criteria
- For EAL/D the
scale is not the default, to set this in the schema click on the Edit next to
the subject and change the Achievement scale to the EAL/D
one as per 3).
- If required - create a EAL/D subject layout (look of printed subject) via Setup Academic Reports > Layouts > Report
- Templates > Template_Name > click on Subject Layouts
- You can Duplicate an existing subject layout template
- Click on No Subjects for the copied subject layout.
- Select the EAL/D subject and click on the Save button.
- Click on Edit Template to add/remove components.
