Middle School Reports

Middle School reports (also called MSA or curriculum topic reports) let schools running rotation-based topic classes — typically Years 7 and up — report an attainment mark, an effort mark and a comment for each topic a student takes, then moderate, print and publish the results. The tools live under Reports > Middle School and have four pages: Curriculum Topic Settings, Data Entry, Report Moderation, and Print and Publish.

Middle School reports (also called MSA or curriculum topic reports) let schools running rotation-based topic classes — typically Years 7 and up — report an attainment mark, an effort mark and a comment for each topic a student takes, then moderate, print and publish the results. The tools live under Reports > Middle School and have four pages: Curriculum Topic Settings, Data Entry, Report Moderation, and Print and Publish.

Set up curriculum topics

Open Reports > Middle School > Curriculum Topic Settings (requires the Manage Courses permission). The page has three sections and a single Save button. A Create New Course button at the top right takes you to course creation if you still need to build your topic classes.

Attainment and effort names

1. Under Curriculum Topic Attainment and Effort Names, enter a name (up to 20 characters) for each of the five Attainment Names values and five Effort Names values.
2. Values run 1 to 5, where 1 = Lowest and 5 = Highest. These names appear as the marks on students' reports.

Report settings

1. Enter the Report Title (up to 50 characters) and Report Introduction (up to 500 characters) that appear on the printed report.
2. Under Publishing, tick Include unmoderated reports when publishing if you want caregivers to see reports even before moderation is complete. Leave it unticked to hold reports back until moderation has been recorded.

Rotation settings

Rotations group your topic classes into blocks of the year:

1. Click Add new Rotation and enter a Rotation Name, Start Date and End Date.
2. Add topic classes to the rotation using the Add dropdown — click Add this Class or Add All Classes. If a rotation has no classes yet, the page prompts you to add unassigned classes from the list.
3. Each class row shows With Data and Completed counts (students with data / total students), so you can see entry progress at a glance. Use the cross to remove a class or a rotation.
4. Click Save.

Screenshot: Curriculum Topic Settings page showing attainment/effort names, report settings and a rotation with its classes

Enter data

Reports > Middle School > Data Entry signs you into the Achievement site, where teachers record results for their topic classes. Access requires the Teaching Interface permission, and the Achievement site must be enabled for your school — contact support if the link does not appear. The completion counts on the Curriculum Topic Settings page update as teachers enter data.

Moderate topic reports

Open Reports > Middle School > Report Moderation (requires the Manage Student Reports permission).

1. Select the Topic Class, then the Student.
2. Review the Assessments for [student] taking [class] table showing the results entered for that student.
3. Under Report details, enter or edit the Comment (up to 500 characters) and tick Moderated when the report has been checked. A comment is required if the student is marked as moderated.
4. Use Next Student and Previous Student to work through the class, then click Save.

Screenshot: Report Moderation page showing a student's assessments and the comment and Moderated fields

Print and publish

Open Reports > Middle School > Print and Publish (requires the Manage Courses permission).

Publish rotations

1. The Publish Rotations table lists each rotation with its Status (for example "Published 12/Jun/26" or "Not Published").
2. Tick or untick the Publish checkbox for a rotation — changes to the publish status take effect after saving.
3. Click Save.

Once a rotation is published, a student's generated MSA report becomes available to their caregivers as MSA Report in the caregiver portal's report list. If Include unmoderated reports when publishing is off in Curriculum Topic Settings, the report only appears once the student has a moderation record in a published rotation class.

Print reports

1. Under Report Printing, choose a Filter By option and select one or more items (multiple items can be selected), then click Get Students.
2. Review the student grid and untick anyone you want to exclude.
3. Choose your print options:

• Print in booklet format — pads and reorders pages so the PDF prints as a booklet.
• Automatically merge two per page (booklet mode).
• Print only moderated results — untick this for a preview run.
• Print only this rotation — restrict output to a single rotation.

1. Click Print Reports. The PDF (MSAReports.pdf) downloads when generation finishes. If some students didn't generate a report, a warning tells you to use the moderation page for their classes to supply comments and completion information.
2. The Download File button re-downloads your most recently generated report file.

A Report Preview pane is also available — it uses data entered for a student within the selected rotation.

Screenshot: Print and Publish page showing the Publish Rotations table and Report Printing filter

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