Assessment
Overview
The Staff Kiosk ‘Assessment’ menu contains programs and tools for teachers to create and manage learning objects from a central or personal repository (resources, questions, online tests and activities), publish them to students via Student Café, and track engagement using statistics. It also allows teachers to enter and manage assessment results and comments (including activity-based marks and final results), and administrators to set up the program usage parameters.
This menu can be accessed by navigating to the Staff Kiosk Toolbar, and selecting ‘Assessment'.
User Security Permissions
Access to the programs within this menu is controlled by security points in the ‘Assessment’ section of TASS.web System Admin > Users > Portal Security Permissions for Staff Kiosk. Each program has its own separate security point. Refer to the relevant program article for more information or contact your school’s TASS System Administrator for access.
About the Assessment Menu
The programs in the Staff Kiosk Assessment module allow you to:
View Subject Class information and send emails.
View and maintain Subject Class Homepages, Resources and Activities visible to students in Student Café.
Create, maintain and assign Learning Objects such as Resource, Online Tests and Activities.
Set up electronic submission from Student Café , track submission status, grant extensions and mark submissions electronically.
Enter Assessment Results and Comments and provide feedback to students and/or parents via Student Café and/or Parent Lounge.
Enter Final Results and Comments in preparation for Academic Reporting.
View a list of all Activities assigned to a particular Department, Year Group, Subject Area or Subject Class.
Manage the Central Learning Repository (Learning Objects and Topics)
View Statistics for Learning Objects, Blogs and Discussion Forum Threads, and Resources and Activities assigned to Subject Classes.
Setup the program usage Parameters.
For information on assessment processes, consult the following articles:
Assessment-Related Workflows
Several concepts need to be explained before you use Staff Kiosk Assessment.
Learning Objects (Resources, Online Tests, Questions, Activities and Activity (Standalone))
Learning Objects
There are 5 different types of Learning Objects that can be created in Staff Kiosk Assessment. Click on each Learning Object below for more information:
Resources can be digital files such as PDF documents, PowerPoint® presentations, Word® documents, etc.
Resources can be:
Assigned to a class in Staff Kiosk programs:
Assessment > Learning Objects (Maintain & Assign)
Homepage > My Timetable. Use the Hamburger menu and select 'Create Resource(s)',
Rollcall > Class Rollcall. Use the Hamburger menu and select 'Create Resource(s)',
Assessment > My Classes.
Assigned to a custom group of students in Staff Kiosk program:
Assessment > Learning Objects (Maintain & Assign).
Attached to an Activity in Staff Kiosk programs:
Assessment > Learning Objects (Maintain & Assign).
Homepage > My Timetable. Use the Hamburger menu and select 'Create Activity'.
Rollcall > Class Rollcall. Use the Hamburger menu and select 'Create Activity'.
An example of a Resource that is attached to an Activity could be a rubric that outlines to the students what they need to do to achieve a certain mark.
Attached to a Question (using Staff Kiosk Assessment > Learning Objects (Maintain & Assign)).
Attached to a Blog (using Staff Kiosk Assessment > Blogs).
The core building blocks for the Staff Kiosk Assessment programs are Activities.
An Activity is defined as ‘a task for students to complete'. Activities can be non-assessable tasks like Homework or assessable tasks with Learning Objectives and Assessment Criteria contributing to final grades.
Staff Kiosk has several programs that allow you to create Activities:
Staff Kiosk Home Page > My Timetable. Use the Hamburger menu and select 'Create Activity'.
Staff Kiosk Home Page > My Timetable. Use the Hamburger menu and select 'Create Homework' (this would only be used for Homework Activities that are non-assessable).
Rollcall > Class Rollcall. Use the Hamburger menu and select 'Create Activity'.
Assessment > Learning Objects (Maintain & Assign). Use the 'Create Learning Object' button and select 'Activity'.
Assessment > Markbook > Activity Setup. Use the ‘New Activity’ button to create a new Activity.
Activities added using these programs can:
Optionally require students to submit a file online.
Be added into the school's Central Repository.
Allow for digital Resources to be attached.
Be assigned to a Subject class.
Be assessable (using Assessment Criteria Objectives) or be non-assessable.
Several ‘Assessment Methods’ are available for Activities:
Not assessable (e.g. Homework).
Using Objectives with Assessment Criteria and Calculation Rules to the calculate students' final grades. You can mark these types of Activities using Staff Kiosk Assessment > Markbook > Activity Assessment.
Using Objectives with Assessment Criteria that do not need to be calculated. You can mark these types of Activities using Staff Kiosk Assessment > Markbook > Enter Results and Comments.
The Objectives to be used and not used in calculations are defined by the ‘Progressive Assessment Type’ setup in TASS.web Student Admin > Academic Reporting > Setup Information > Assessment Setup on the 'Result Formats' tab.
The Learning Objects that are created are stored in the Learning Object Repository.
Learning Object Repository
This is best described as a filing cabinet for Learning Objects. Every Learning Object that you create in Staff Kiosk Assessment will be filed in this repository.
The repository is divided into:
My Learning Objects. This is where you store your own Learning Objects that you do not want to be available to other teachers.
Central Repository. This repository is available to all teachers. Learning Objects that you elect to store here will be available to all teachers to use.
Assessment and Results
Activities with the ‘Will you be assessing this Activity?’ field set to ‘Yes’ can have Objective results entered in:
Staff Kiosk Assessment > Activity Planner
Staff Kiosk Assessment > Markbook > Activity Assessment
Staff Kiosk Assessment > Enter Results and Comments > Activity Assessment
Access to these program menus is set up by your Administrator in TASS.web System Admin > Users > Reporting User Maintenance and Portal Security Permissions.
During the Activity setup process, you can:
decide which Subject-based Objectives result(s) to use for the Activity.
decide the weighting of each Objective result.
During the Markbook setup process, you can:
decide which Objective results to contribute towards the calculation of students ‘Final Results’ and which ‘Calculation Rule' will be used to calculate it.
decide which Objective results to contribute towards calculating students ‘Overall Subject Grades’ and which ‘Calculation Rule' will be used to calculate it.