Setting up Academic Analytics Video

This three-part video series covers Staff Kiosk academic analytics setup and troubleshooting:

Refer to these videos alongside the How to Setup for Staff Kiosk Academic Analytics guide.

This video refers to the ‘Teacher Kiosk’ portal, which has since been renamed ‘Staff Kiosk.’

Setting up Student Academic Analytics

This video walks administrators through steps 1–5 of How to Setup for Staff Kiosk Academic Analytics, focusing on preparing academic reporting data so analytics can calculate and display meaningful results. It explains the prerequisites and checklists to use, then guides viewers through identifying and enabling overall grade objectives for analytics, confirming how those objectives are graded across subjects, reviewing and configuring assessment methods (including numeric mappings where required), and ensuring consistency across subjects. The video concludes with spot‑checking and reporting steps to confirm that objectives are correctly enabled for analytics and that assessment ranges are valid, ensuring accurate data is available before moving on to the remaining setup steps.

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00:02 - Overview of setting up academic analytics
00:07 - Prerequisites and recommended guides
00:58 - Step 1: Identifying objectives for analytics
01:24 - Enabling objectives for use in analytics
01:37 - Step 2: Reviewing result formats by subject
02:22 - Step 3: Checking assessment methods
02:49 - Validation types and numeric mappings
03:49 - Handling duplicate or mixed assessment methods
04:52 - Step 4: Spot‑checking analytics settings
05:28 - Step 5: Verifying subjects and assessment ranges
07:07 - Summary and next steps

Setting up Student Academic Analytics - Analytics Parameters

This video completes steps 6–8 of How to Setup for Staff Kiosk Academic Analytics, focusing on configuring the final parameters that allow longitudinal analysis and meaningful visualisations in Staff Kiosk. It guides administrators through selecting the school’s quartile calculation method, defining how subjects are linked over time for analytics, and choosing the most appropriate subject link method based on timetable structure. The video then demonstrates, in detail, how to configure subject areas and link codes using subject grids so that student results can be accurately tracked across year levels, ensuring analytics displays consistent, comparable academic trends across subjects and reporting periods.

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00:03 – Overview of academic analytics parameters
00:10 – Navigating to analytics setup in TASS.web
00:28 – Step 6: Selecting the quartile calculation method
00:59 – Step 7: Understanding subject link methods
01:31 – Subject link options explained
02:03 – Choosing the correct link method for your timetable
03:02 – Linking subjects by subject code
03:36 – Linking by subject area and link code
05:16 – Setting up subject areas
06:09 – Mapping subjects and allocating link codes
07:29 – Worked example: English subjects
07:41 – Worked example: Social Studies subjects
09:12 – Linking by link code only
09:30 – Two‑part methodology for link code only setup
11:28 – Refining link codes by department
13:01 – Completion, analytics processing and next steps

Analytics - Multiple Assessment Methods Troubleshooting

This video explains how to troubleshoot and resolve issues caused by multiple assessment methods being used for the same objective in academic analytics, ensuring student results display correctly in Staff Kiosk. It walks administrators through identifying objectives flagged for analytics where inconsistent assessment methods have been applied across subjects or reporting periods, reviewing detailed reports to understand the differences, and safely consolidating compatible assessment methods. The video demonstrates how to align validation options, merge duplicate or near‑identical assessment methods, remove redundant methods, and confirm that objectives are correctly configured so analytics can render accurate, consistent results across all subjects and historical data.

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00:02 – Why consistent assessment methods are required for analytics
00:16 – Overview of consolidating multiple assessment methods
00:47 – Accessing the troubleshooting checklist in *TASS.web
01:11 – Step 1: Identifying objectives flagged for analytics
01:44 – Step 2: Running the assessment methods report
02:13 – Understanding differences between assessment methods
02:36 – When assessment methods should not be merged
03:16 – Aligning assessment method validations
03:55 – Confirming methods are ready to merge
04:08 – Step 4: Merging assessment methods
05:02 – Removing redundant assessment methods
05:19 – Final checks and confirming alerts are cleared

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Related Resources

How to Setup for Staff Kiosk Academic Analytics
Staff Kiosk Student Profile > Analytics
Multiple Assessment Methods Troubleshooting (for Staff Kiosk Academic Analytics)
TASS.web Reporting Setup > Analytics Tab
▶️ Student Profile Analytics Video