Charting allows users to generate pointed searches to narrow down student data. This lesson guides users through using the District, Grade, and Class Searches within Charting.
Where to Start
- Go to Charting.
- Select the District, Grade, or Class Search tile to get started.
Student Population
- Select a School Year. Only 1 can be selected.
- Select one or more Schools. All Schools may be selected.
- Select one or more Grade Levels. All Grades may be selected.
- Open the menus for Assessment, Demographics, Intervention Status, and/or Active Student Filters to further filter the students in the search.
The Active Student Filter, Student Active Status, is automatically set to Active, meaning that only currently active students will appear on the charts. Select Both to view both active and inactive students.
- Select Next to continue.
Assessment Data Type
- Select Assessment to add an Assessment Data Type to the search.
- Select one or more Categories. All Categories may be selected.
- Select one or more Assessment Groups. All Groups may be selected.
- Select one or more Assessments based on the chosen Assessment Groups. All Assessments may be selected.
- Select one or more Windows. All Windows may be selected.
- A Summary of selections appear.
- Select Search to view data or select additional Data Types.
Incident Data Type
- Select Incident as the Data Type.
- Select one or more Incident Types. All Incident Types may be selected.
- Select one or more Incident Codes based on the select Incident Types. All Codes may be selected.
- Select one or more Responses. All Responses may be selected.
- Select Search to view data or select additional Data Types.
Attendance Data Type
- Select Attendance as the Data Type.
- Use the checkbox to Include Attendance within the search.
- Select Search to view data or update/add additional Data Types.
View Data
- Select Edit Search to update the search parameters.
- Select Save Search to save search parameters. After selecting Save Search, enter a same for the search to access later via the Saved Searches tab within Charting. Saving a search is for advanced users who don't want to select the same data over and over.
- Toggle through the different selected Data Types using the left hand menu to access additional charts.
Editing the search parameters may break the Search if not careful. For example, if changing the Assessment Category from Literacy to Math, but leaving Literacy specific assessments selected, data will not appear.
Next Steps
To learn more about charting, visit Custom Data Walls.