As a district administrator, you have access to powerful tools to track student progress, monitor usage, support instructional decisions, and manage assessment access across schools. This guide walks through your key features and how to use them effectively.
What This Help Article Covers:
📊 District Report
View dimensional mastery across your schools.
The District Report gives you a high-level view of NGSS proficiency across all schools in your district. Use it to compare performance, identify trends, and guide district-wide priorities.
Key Features:
View average scores by dimension (DCI, SEP, CCC) per school.
Filter data by:
Assessment
Time range
School year
Export data as a CSV for deeper analysis or reporting.
📖 Learn more: The District Report
📈 Dimensions Report
Drill into student learning across NGSS dimensions.
The Dimensions Report allows you to explore dimensional performance from multiple perspectives—by class, teacher, school, or district—giving you the flexibility to analyze trends at any level.
Key Features:
Usage Graph: Track total assessments completed by teacher.
Click a teacher’s name to filter usage.
Double-click to isolate one teacher’s performance.
NGSS Dimension Breakdown:
View district-wide or school-wide accuracy in DCIs, SEPs, and CCCs.
Click into dimensions to explore performance by grade band and element.
💡 Pro Tip: This report is especially valuable for identifying strengths and gaps before state science tests. Use it to guide reteaching, target professional learning, or design summer curriculum work.
📖 Learn more: The Dimensions Report
📝 Assignment Report
Track assessment completion and analyze student performance.
The Assignments Report shows all assessments assigned across the district. It’s your go-to for checking completion progress and digging into student-level and question-level data.
Key Features:
View a list of all assigned assessments and completion rates.
Click “View the Full Report” for question-level and student-level data.
Scroll down to analyze trends using the Answers by Question matrix.
Export results into various CSVs for deeper review.
📖 Learn more: The Assignment Report
📒 Gradebook
View and export assessment scores across the district.
The Gradebook provides a snapshot of student scores across all assessments. Use this view to explore grading trends and ensure consistency across classrooms and schools.
Key Features:
Access all gradebooks across your district.
Adjust filters to customize your view.
Export to CSV with the Download Gradebook button.
📖 Learn more: The Gradebook
🚌 School Tab
Track usage and manage administrator access.
The School Tab gives you visibility into key metrics across your district, such as the number of rostered students, assigned assessments, collected answer sheets, and login activity. It’s also your hub for managing admin-level permissions at each school.
Key Features:
Create new admin accounts using the "+ Create New Accounts for School Admin” button.
Enable or disable school or district admin access for existing educators.
Monitor usage by school, including assessments assigned and student logins.
📖 Learn More: Managing Administrator Access
✍️ Grading Free Response
Track grading progress for free-response questions.
The Grading tab allows you to view and manage the grading status of open-ended questions district-wide. Admins can step in to help with ungraded assessments.
Key Features:
View ungraded free-response questions.
Grade questions district-wide.
Monitor grading progress across the district.
📖 Learn more: Grading Free Response Questions
🔒 Locking Assessments
Control access to common assessments across your district.
Use the Lock feature to temporarily hide assessments from teachers while developing or reviewing common assessments. Teachers will not see these assessments until you unlock them.
How To:
Go to your Library tab.
Click the 3 dots on the assessment tile.
Select “Lock for the district” to hide it from view.
Unlock when you're ready to share with teachers.
📖 Building a district benchmark?
Learn more about how to select the right mix of 1D, 2D, and 3D questions to match your goals. Read: Which Questions Should I Select for My Assessment?
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