Classes and pupils

Classes sit between a school and its pupils. A class has a teacher and a year, and pupils belong to it.

The Class page

Opening a class shows:

• Class record: its details, including its teacher and its year.
• Pupils: the pupils in the class, with Add pupil (administrators) to add one.
• Internal Evaluations: evaluations carried out for that class.

The usual actions are there for managers and project staff: Edit for the class details, Merge for when the same class was recorded twice, and Delete.

The Pupil page

A pupil’s page, opened from the class’s Pupils list, shows their record and the assessments taken for them over time. It is the closest the dashboard gets to following one child, which makes it the page to open when somebody asks whether a particular pupil has progressed.

Where the year group in reports comes from

The impact tables do not read the class year

The year group that groups results in the impact tables comes from the assessment itself: the answer the monitor or teacher gave to the year question when assessing the pupil. The class’s own year field is descriptive; it helps keep the register readable, but a class with no year set does not remove its pupils from any report.

If an impact table shows a smaller sample than you expect, look at the assessments’ own year answers and at the period selected, not at the class records.

Pupils and assessments

Some monitor workflows and historical assessments can record a name without a registered pupil. Current teacher class rounds require a registered pupil and reuse the form chosen for the round. When an assessment is taken through a class with registered pupils (as internal evaluations are), it lands on the pupil’s record, which is what allows one child’s results to be followed across a year.

Adding classes

Classes are added from the school page, where the Classes table has its own add action (administrators). Fill in the teacher and year where you can: no report depends on them, but they are what make the register readable.

Next: School visits and teacher visits

In the app, Total learners is the class size, separate from the number of registered pupil records. Pupil registration uses a Name field followed by the information questions assigned to the form. Saved information is reused in later assessments; edits can update in-progress work while completed assessment records retain their historical information.