Attitude To Learning Reports

Attitude To Learning (ATL) lets teachers record periodic judgements of each student's attitude — against categories your school defines, on a five-point scale, with an optional comment — and publish them to caregivers and students. Everything is managed from Reports > Attitude To Learning, which has four pages: Configuration, Data Entry, Report Summary, and Print and Publish. ATL becomes available once your school selects its ATL year levels in School Settings; the pages require the appropriate staff permissions (configuration requires Manage Attitude To Learning).

Attitude To Learning (ATL) lets teachers record periodic judgements of each student's attitude — against categories your school defines, on a five-point scale, with an optional comment — and publish them to caregivers and students. Everything is managed from Reports > Attitude To Learning, which has four pages: Configuration, Data Entry, Report Summary, and Print and Publish. ATL becomes available once your school selects its ATL year levels in School Settings; the pages require the appropriate staff permissions (configuration requires Manage Attitude To Learning).

Turn ATL on for your school

ATL is enabled by choosing the year levels that will use it in your school settings. Once at least one ATL year level is set, the Reports > Attitude To Learning menu appears.

Configure ATL

Open Reports > Attitude To Learning > Configuration. The Attitude To Learning Configuration page is set up per academic year and has three sections.

Cycles

Each ATL year level has its own row. For each year level, set:

1. Reported By — the class grouping reports are organised by. Depending on your school type this can be your vertical group, horizontal group, or Subject Class (available from Year 8 up in non-contributing schools).
2. Start Date and End Date — must both fall within the selected year, with the start before the end.
3. Frequency — how often a reporting cycle occurs (for example each term). The system generates the reporting cycle periods between your start and end dates based on this.

Things to be aware of:

• Once any ATL data has been entered, the page shows "Reported By, StartDate and EndDate fields are locked. ATL data has been entered." and those fields can no longer be changed. If a change is genuinely needed after data entry has begun, contact support.
• If last year's settings are pre-filled, a note reminds you they won't apply to this year until saved.
• "Attitude To Learning data entry may begin once configuration has been completed." appears until a frequency is set.

Categories

Define up to four attitude categories (for example Engagement or Effort):

1. Enter the Attitude Category Name (up to 50 characters).
2. Each category has exactly five attitudes with fixed values 1–5 — enter a name for each (these are the descriptors teachers pick from during data entry).
3. Use Add Category to add another, or the delete cross to remove one that can still be deleted.

A category must be fully complete (a name plus all five attitude names) or left entirely blank; otherwise saving reports "There are categories that are not complete." Note that changing the text of an attitude or category applies to all of the current year's marks using it.

Mobile Push Notifications

Two checkboxes control whether caregivers and students are notified of published entries via a mobile app push notification (within 24 hours). The student option is not shown for early childhood services.

Click Save Configuration when done — you'll see "Saved configuration successfully".

Screenshot: Attitude To Learning Configuration page showing the Cycles table and Categories section

Enter ATL data

Open Reports > Attitude To Learning > Data Entry (teachers may also have a teacher-portal version scoped to their own class).

1. Select the Class and the reporting Period. Only periods whose start date has passed are available — before the first cycle starts, the page tells you when data entry becomes available.
2. The first time data is entered, a warning explains that entering ATL data will disable certain configuration fields — click Continue.
3. In the grid, each student has a dropdown per category (listing that category's five attitudes), a Comment box (up to 250 characters), and a Completed checkbox. A header checkbox marks all students completed at once.
4. Expand a student's name to view their results from prior periods.
5. Auto Save is on by default ("Allow auto saving after every minute, to prevent data loss"), or click Save manually.

Screenshot: ATL Data Entry grid with category dropdowns, comments and Completed checkboxes

Monitor completion with Report Summary

Open Reports > Attitude To Learning > Report Summary to track how data entry is progressing.

1. Select the Year Level, then the Report By grouping, then the Reporting End Cycle.
2. The grid drills down from year level to class to student, showing Completion as completed/available counts (for example 12/25).
3. From a class row, click Enter Result to jump straight to Data Entry for that class and period. Student rows show completion and a download link for the student's generated report file where one exists.

Export ATL data

Two exports are available from this page:

• Export ATL data for this cycle — downloads a CSV of the selected cycle immediately.
• Export ATL data for this year level — runs as a background job; the page shows "ATL Year Level Data Export in progress..." and you're notified by email when it's ready, after which a dated download link appears.

Print and publish

Open Reports > Attitude To Learning > Print and Publish.

1. Choose a Filter — by year levels, your horizontal or vertical grouping, an individual student, or subject class (options depend on your school's setup) — then pick the specific group.
2. Optionally tick Include incomplete reports when publishing.
3. The grid lists each reporting cycle period with its Completed and Published counts, plus Last Generated and Last Published Date.
4. Click Print to generate the printable reports — this queues a background job ("Report has been put on the queue for processing") and the download link appears under Last Generated when finished. Only one report job can run at a time.
5. Click Publish to make the cycle's entries visible to caregivers and students in their portals (with push notifications within 24 hours if enabled in Configuration), or Unpublish to withdraw them. The Publish button hides once everything is published, and Unpublish hides when nothing is.

Screenshot: ATL Print and Publish page showing cycle periods with Print, Publish and Unpublish buttons

Quick reference