Thursday, May 1, 2008

Skills Tutor Tip: Finding and Using the Gradebook Report

Skills Tutor breaks down its reports into two main groups: Assignment Reports and Class Reports. After clicking on the Reports link on the left side of a Skills Tutor page, you will see all of the Class reports, but you will have to click on Assignment reports to find the Gradebook report.

After clicking on an assignment on the right and then clicking Gradebook, you will get a report that matches our expectations of what we might find in any gradebook. One feature that is unique however, is that Skills Tutor will display a "-" rather than a score for a student who has been assigned a prescriptive pretest and has tested out of a particular skill.

There are two things to remember. First, this is a report for only one assignment, not for everything that a student has done in Skills Tutor. The second point to remember is that this report is a bit slow to download, especially if your class is large and your assignment is comprehensive. There is a lot of data in this report!

The Gradebook report displays the student's last, best score. If you need to see all of the information on a given student, take a look at the Student Detail report.

If you have comments on how you are using the gradebook, please take a moment to give your feedback in the comments. If you need more assistance in using this report, please contact your project leader.

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