Site Administration

Site Administration provides tools to customize and configure your site specifically for your needs including Assessment Categories, Benchmark Columns, Course Subject Mapping, and Filter Security.

Assessment Categories

Use Assessment Categories to organize different types of assessments based on the assessment's intended goal (for example, Baseline, Mid-Year, and Unit Test). Categories define a test's purpose and context to enable robust reporting.

You can choose categories to include in the Student and Parent Portal, and for those included, you can select to allow teachers to add feedback to items in that category.

Add an Assessment Category

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.

2. Click Add Assessment Category.

3. Enter the name of the Assessment Category.

4. Optionally, enter the Sort Order value. Categories will be listed in ascending order according to their value, starting with 0. If you leave the Sort Order blank, the default value 1 is assigned to the assessment category.

5. Click Save.

6. Click OK.

Modify the Sort Order of an Assessment Category

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.

2. To find a specific category, either sort by column or use Search.

3. Click Edit.

4. Change the Sort Order value. Categories will be listed in ascending order according to their value, starting with 0.

5. Click OK.

6. Click Save.

Rename an Assessment Category

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.

2. To find a specific category, either sort by column or use Search.

3. Click Edit.

4. Change the name.

5. Click OK.

6. Click Save.

Add Permissions for an Assessment Category

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.

2. To find a specific category, either sort by column or use Search.

3. Click the corresponding lock icon.

4. Click Add Group.

5. Choose from the Users and Groups dialog box.

6. Search for the user or group using the group type, organization, description, or user's groups.

7. Click the user or group row.

8. Select Access if you want the assessment category to display only for selected users, roles, or groups in the assessment editor. Performance Matters administrators and site administrators have default access to all categories.

9. Click OK.

Add OLA Student Admin Security

Enabling OLA Student Admin Security prevents teachers from moving students' test status from Finished or Submitted to In Progress for high-stakes tests. Teachers can still monitor students' test progress and can unlock or release tests as needed.

Users who are flagged as high-stakes administrators can still move students' test status in OLA student status for high-stakes tests.

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. To find a specific category, either sort by column or use Search.
3. Select the respective OLA Student Admin Secure option.
4. Click Save.

Manage Category Items and Feedback in the Student and Parent Portal

You can choose category items to display in the Student and Parent Portal. You can also allow teachers to add feedback to the category items that display in the portal.

Teachers can only provide feedback if an administrator has selected Enable Student Feedback in your site's Organization Properties.

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. To find a specific category, either sort by column or use Search.
3. Select the category's Include in the Portal option.
4. Select Allow Feedback.
5. Click Save.

Delete an Assessment Category

You can only delete categories not currently used in tests.

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. To find a specific category, either sort by column or use Search.
3. Click Delete in the category's Status column.
4. Click OK.
5. Click Save.

Benchmark Columns

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. Click the Benchmark Columns tab.

Baseball Card and Scoreboard contain a Benchmark Columns folder that aggregates test results based on the Benchmark folder assignments for any standards that are tested on state subjects.

Course Type Mapping

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. Click the Course Type Mapping tab.
3. Select the appropriate course type column for each subject.
4. Click Save.

Reporting Settings

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. Click Filter Security to adjust the filter options available to each role in the Baseball Card report. 
3. Choose a filter Module.
4. Select the user roles that should have access to the filter.
5. Click Save.
6. Click Manage Columns to adjust the column options available to each role in the Baseball Card report. 
7. Select the user roles that should have access to add the column.
8. Click Save.

Manage Course Types

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. Click the Manage Course Types tab.
3. Complete the following, as needed:
   1. Click Add Course Type. Enter a name, then click Save.
   2. Optionally, edit Course Type names, then click Save.
   3. If desired, the ability to delete a course time is limited to course types not associated with courses.

Changes in Course Type are automatically applied. These changes immediately affect the release of tests.

You must refresh your browser for changes made to Course Types to reflect in the Manage Course Type tab of Site Admin.

Course Type Overrides

1. From the main navigation menu, choose Admin, then Site Admin.
2. Click the Course Type Override tab.
3. Choose a Course Type to override an individual course.
4. Alternatively, you can select multiple courses, then choose from the Apply New Course Type options to override for all selected courses.

Changes in Course Type are applied immediately. These changes affect the release of tests.