You may wish to edit the structure/layout of your subjects. This may involve adding new components for a subject like Times Tables in Maths, or adding your own customised subject if you follow a specific curriculum.
You may also wish to edit/create statements for your subjects. This may involve adding your own curriculum objectives entirely, or breaking down some of the more complicated statements into smaller ones.
To do any of the above, navigate to the Manage KS1-3 Library page located in the top left hand side of the navigation menu under the header 'Administration'.
Once you have selected your subject and pressed 'go', you will notice there are 2 tabs:
- Units of Study: these are the components in the same format as the rest of iTRACK, where you can put your usual iTRACK language/data in (ie. Addition & Subtraction in Maths).
- Additional Assessments: these are for adding any extra data you may need to include, where you can select what type of data is required (ie. Book Bands, Reading Ages further test scores etc.).
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Units of Study
1) Component Editor - Editing Subject Structure/Layout
The component editor screen is where you can add or remove components of a chosen subject, and pick and choose which year groups you teach them in.
Adding or Editing a Component
To add a component simply click the pencil icon (edit button) on an unused component. You can use the same method to modify any existing component you wish to edit.
Taking the above example of Maths. By using a blank option, in this case ‘Option 3’, you need to turn the component on by clicking the red switch. Once the switch turns blue, click the 'edit' icon and a window will open requiring you to:
- Name the component with a full title (e.g. Times Tables).
- Name the component with a short title, this will appear in the column heading on the ‘Summative Assessment’ page (e.g. TT).
- Tick which year groups you wish to include the new component (e.g. 456).
- Choose whether you want Continual Assessments - when yes is selected here, any data entered will be projected forward into all future assessment points, this is a quick way where only AP1 requires a full data drop, then the rest can be adjusted where necessary.
Press 'save' and you should now see your newly created component in the component table. This will now appear throughout iTRACK in the year groups you selected.
Disabling a Component
You may also disable a component at any time by clicking on the switch icon. This quickly disables or enables a component.
- Enabled: blue switch and blue table
- Disabled: red switch and greyscale table
Re-Ordering Your Components
If you wish to re-order your components, simply 'click, hold and drag' the '3 dashes' icon until the component is where you would like it to be. Do this for all your components until you are happy with your new order. There is no need to press save, the order will save automatically.
2) The Statement Editor - Editing Your Curriculum/Objectives
Within Manage Subjects, you can add or edit any curriculum statements/objectives for both the core and foundation subjects. Here is a list of everything you can use this tool for:
- Edit existing statements’ text, font, colour or add a highlighted/colour-coded background.
- Add your own statements (up to 75 per year and topic).
- Delete any of the current statements.
- Break some of the lengthier NC statements down into smaller objectives. E.g. 1 statement containing 3-4 points/sentences can be broken down by writing 3-4 new statements containing each individual point, re-ordering them and then deleting the original one.
- Rearrange the order of objectives. This allows you create your curriculum in an ascending order of difficulty, by moving commencing statements to the top and the more difficult lower down.
To add or edit statements for a component, click on any available (light blue) cell for the component and year group you wish to edit (in the case below, we are looking at the 'Y4 Multiplication & Division' curriculum):
When you hover over an available cell, the 'edit' icon will appear. Click on the cell and you will be redirected to the statement editor page:
From here you can now navigate to all the subsets related to that subject using the drop downs and the 'GO' button. These statements will show when you select 'full assign' in the 'Enter Pupil Results'.
Adding & Editing a Statement/Objective
Much like adding a component, click the 'edit' icon on the statement you wish to edit, or on an unused blank statement [Not in use] if you want to create a new one.
A text box will then appear for you to write your statement in:
Once you have written or edited your statement click the 'Save' button.
Formatting a Statement/Objective
You may wish to highlight the statement text in different colours, or format the text to suit your requirements. Once the editable textbox appears, use the toolbar at the top of the to use the formatting tools as shown below:
- Bold.
- Italic.
- Underline.
- Erase/remove formatting.
- Change font colour.
- Highlight/colour-code text.
Please remember that once you have finished editing your statement, you must click the 'Save' Button at the bottom of the text box.
Deleting a Statement/Objective
To delete a statement click the 'bin' icon (delete button) in the statement row.
Changing the Order of Statements
Click, hold and drag the ‘3 dashes’ icon to move the statement and let go when you are happy with its new placement. Once you are finished moving one or more objectives, you must remember to press blue ‘SAVE ORDER’ button.
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Additional Assessments
If you flick across to the 'Additional Assessments' tab, here you can add any supplementary columns to your 'Enter Pupil Results' page, where you can choose what type of data you wish to include. If you require assistance, your Education Consultant will be happy to assist you with this.
Adding/Editing Additional Assessments
You will notice there are (up to) 5 components you can add, so in order to begin, firstly turn one on using the red switch in the 'status' column, then click the 'edit pencil' on the right-hand side:
You will then see a box pop up, where you can choose what you want the column for, and what type of data you wish to record. I will use the common example of 'Book Bands':
1) Name the component with an Assessment Title (e.g. Book Bands).
2) Add an Abbreviation of the title, this will appear in the column heading on the ‘Enter Pupil Results’ page (e.g. BB).
3) Choose the Type of data from the following list:
- Numeric - this will give you a textbox allowing you to type in ONLY numbers, so should be used for test scores, reading ages etc.
- Free Text - this will give you a textbox allowing any character, so should be used for effort, behaviour, attitude to learning etc.
- Select From List - this allows you to build your own list from scratch, so should be used for things like Book Bands. You can do this by using the row below, type each value into the textbox, then click 'add'.
- Yes/No - this will give you a pre-populated yes or no column.
4) Choose whether you want Continual Assessments - when yes is selected here, any data entered will be projected forward into all future assessment points, so should be used for things like CAT4 papers or targets etc.
5) Press Save.
You will now notice your new component from the list of additional assessments, which will look as follows on 'Enter Pupil Results':
You will see some additional tickboxes appear above the table. Once ticked, your additional columns will appear, and will remain displayed unless unticked.