As an administrator, you can enable the SBGR feature from the Manage Optional Features page. Let's see how.
This article will guide you on:
1. Click the Sliding menu.
2. Under Manage Teamie section, click Manage Optional Features.
3. On the "Enable standards based grading" card, click Enable.
4. A confirmation prompt appears, click I understand, Enable to enable SBGR on your Teamie site. Click Cancel in case you changed your mind.
5. SBGR will be enabled on your Teamie site and users will be able to see a "Mastery View" tab in the gradebook of the classrooms in which you have set up SBGR.
Once enabled, SBGR cannot be disabled at user-end. Contact us at support@theteamie.com in case you wish to disable SBGR from your Teamie site.
Once SBGR is enabled on a Teamie site, then you can enable it in a classroom. Enabling SBGR means mapping the predefined objectives to the classroom for the purpose of grading. Each classroom will have the "Grade" and "Subject" meta fields through which the objectives will be mapped to the classrooms.
These objectives are part of the curriculum which are imported from our (Teamie's) end as per the client requirement. Once imported, the objectives can be mapped to the classrooms' assessments.
If a fresh set of objectives are imported, then it will be assigned a new version and will not affect the older objectives that could already have been mapped to some assessments. As highlighted before, the importing process, including the version control, will be done from our end. You can contact us at support@theteamie.com for further information on the objectives import process.
Let us see how the objectives are assigned for a classroom:
1. Click the sliding menu.
2. Under Manage Teamie section, click Classrooms and then select Manage Classrooms from the expanded list.
Classroom is another term (white-labelled) used for a Modules/Program/Groups/Batches. These terms are set up as per your site set up configuration and varies from client to client.
3. On the "Manage Classrooms & Groups" page, search for the required classroom using the filters.
4. Once you have filtered the classroom, click Edit from the Edit column to navigate to the "Edit Classroom" page.
You can also navigate to the "Edit Classroom" page from a classroom's landing page. Click the ellipses(...) and then select Edit classroom settings from the drop-down list.
5. On the 'Create/Edit Classroom' page, fill the required classroom details (such as title, unique code etc) and click 'Enable Mastery' checkbox to enable the standards based grading for the class. This will be manual mastery and teachers would need to record mastery manually for the standards. This view will also be shown while creating a new classroom to set up SBGR for new classes via UI or using the bulk import method.
The 'Enable Mastery' option will be shown if the mastery settings are configured to be enabled for the classroom level as discussed below.
The mastery settings can be configured, on request, at two levels - Site Level and the Classroom Level:
- Site Level: Classrooms which have an Academic Year, Subject, Grade and objectives for this combination mapped in the backend will have the mastery views shown, by default.
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Classroom Level: When mastery configuration is set for the 'classroom' level, admins will be able to:
- Enable Mastery
- Enable Mastery Automation
- Set the mastery automation calculation logic
- Latest Summative Assessment
- Decaying Average
- Statistical Mode
- Set the mastery calculation method
- Overall
- Semester Based
- Enable an overall score and grade for the mastery calculations
6. In order to enable mastery automation, tick the 'Enable Mastery Automation' checkbox.
7. Once you enable the mastery automation setting, you will have the option to set the 'Mastery Automation Calculation Logic' and 'Mastery Calculation Method'.
8. Mastery Automation Calculation Logic: We have the following 4 types of logic for calculation Mastery Automation logic.
- Latest Summative Assessment:This method calculates mastery based on the most recent summative assessment score, giving priority to the latest evaluation of a student's performance.
- Decaying Average:This method prioritises recent assessments by assigning higher weightage to the latest graded assessments while still factoring in older ones, with their influence gradually reduced over time. The mastery score is calculated based on the most recent graded assessment and the previous two graded assessments, if available. The weightage percentages for these assessments can be configured at the site level. For instance, a 50-30-20 weightage means 50% weight is assigned to the latest assessment, 30% to the next most recent, and 20% to the third.
- Statistical Mode:This method identifies the most frequently occurring mastery level among all assessments to calculate the mastery score.
- Statistical Mean:This method calculates mastery by averaging the scores of all assessments, providing an overall representation of a student's performance.
9. Mastery Calculation Method: We have the following 2 types of logic for mastery calculation methods:
- Overall: Mastery will be calculated for the entire academic year.
- Semester-Based: Mastery will be calculated for each semester separately.
10. Tick the 'Overall Mastery Score' checkbox to enable an overall score and grade for the mastery calculations. When Overall Score checkbox is checked at a classroom level an overall score and grade will be shown to the users in:
- Classroom Mastery View
- Classroom Objectives / Standards View
- Student Mastery View
- Student Summary / Standards View
While calculating the overall score and grade, we have two methods to calculate final scores and grades based on your institutions preferences:
- Separate Semester Calculation: If the separate semester method is selected, the overall score and grade will be the average of Semester 1 and Semester 2 grades. This method ensures that each semester is weighted equally in the final evaluation.
- Cumulative Calculation: If the cumulative method is chosen, the overall score will also include the Semester 2 score, which factors in all assessments across the entire year. This approach is useful for institutions that want the overall score to be reflective of the performance of the entire academic year.
11. Click and select the required academic year, grade and subject field. The standards in this class would be mapped in the backend as per this combination of Year / Academic Year, Subject and Grade.
If a new set of objectives are imported and the version is changed as per the new objectives, then the classroom will start using the new version of objectives. Regardless of the new imports, there will not be any impact on the older assignments already mapped to the previous version of the objectives.
12. Click Save to create/update the classroom.
13. Users will now be able to see a "Mastery View" tab in the gradebook of this classroom and instructors will be able to assign (map) objectives/standards to the assessments using rubrics.
We have an option at the site-level that allow users to land on the Mastery View of the gradebook, instead of the gradebook scores tab when they access the Gradebook of that classroom from any of the following places:
- Classroom card on the home page
- Classroom sidebar tabs
- Classroom Gradebook link in users' profile
In case you wish to enable this option, kindly write to us at support@theteamie.com!
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