Student Reports: Teacher User Guide
Your school has chosen to use Learning Ladders student reports, an excellent next step to make your assessments work harder.
We understand that using any new reports system for the first time can be daunting and you may be wondering how Learning Ladders will be different.
Learning Ladders reports:
- Save you time- there's no sense in doubling up work. You're already recording formative assessment into the system, so benefit from reports that pull in personalised objectives for strengths and challenges.
- Offer efficient sign-off processes- no more shared drives, lost reports or confusion over who is signing off reports.
- Provide clear visibility- filter reports by student, class, status and report type.
- Encourage improved parent engagement with reports- parents have the option to translate reports into over 100 languages, view reports online or download a copy as well as contribute with their own comment, following up with questions via 2 way messaging.
Follow the steps to get started with creating your first student reports.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Step 1: Access your student report dashboard
Click on students> student reports on the blue navigation menu.
Why do I see this page when I click on student reports?
Your school's admin user is required to create templates for student reports in the admin settings before teachers can create reports. Please direct the admin user to Student Reports: Admin User guide.
If your admin user has customised the templates, you will access your dashboard for creating, editing, signing off and publishing reports.
If this is the first time creating reports there will be no reports in 'Your Reports'. If you have created reports before, this is where you will view your reports for the classes you are assigned to. Search by student name, class, status or report view.
You will have complete visibility of your reports from 'Draft' through to 'published' status.
Draft-A user is still creating the report, clicking on 'Save Draft' to update changes before clicking 'Send to Sign Off'
Sign off requested-A teacher has sent the report to 'Sign Off' and is awaiting 'Sign off approved' or 'rejected'
Sign off refused-The user with sign off responsibilities (set by the admin user) has refused sign off and the teacher will receive feedback.
Ready to Publish-The user with sign off responsibilities has approved sign off. The report is 'ready to publish'.
Published- The report has been 'published' and shared with parents (if Ladders at Home is enabled).
Draft-A user is still creating the report, clicking on 'Save Draft' to update changes before clicking 'Send to Sign Off'
Sign off requested-A teacher has sent the report to 'Sign Off' and is awaiting 'Sign off approved' or 'rejected'
Sign off refused-The user with sign off responsibilities (set by the admin user) has refused sign off and the teacher will receive feedback.
Ready to Publish-The user with sign off responsibilities has approved sign off. The report is 'ready to publish'.
Published- The report has been 'published' and shared with parents (if Ladders at Home is enabled).
Step 2: Create new student reports
This step requires an Admin User to Create reports. Admin users with enhanced user permissions can change a teacher users' permission to be able to create/ delete reports if necessary.
To find out how to create new reports, watch the video below or read, Student Reports: Create new student reports
Step 3: Edit draft student reports
Step 4: Send reports to 'Sign Off'
Whilst creating the student report templates, your school's admin user will have identified which users will have sign off responsibilities for each year group.
Read Student Reports: Sign off process to find out more about what happens when you click 'send to sign off'.
Step 5: Publish reports and share with parents
There are two ways to share student reports, either automatically via Ladders at Home (our parent portal), or downloading PDF versions of reports to email to parents.
Read Student Reports: publish reports to find out the options for publishing and sharing reports with parents.
Read Student Reports: publish reports to find out the options for publishing and sharing reports with parents.
Step 6: Parent feedback
If shared via Ladders at Home, parents have the choice to view student reports digitally or download and print the report (If 'Generate PDF' in Publish Options' has been completed- see Student Reports: publish reports).
In a digital version of the report (View Report with the eye icon), parents have the option to translate the report into any of 100 languages.
The parent can also add a 'parent comment' to the report.
- Once submitted, parent comments cannot be changed
- The original version of the report in Learning Ladders will be updated with the parent comment
- The comment will not appear on PDF versions of the report
Parents can choose to engage in 2 way messaging with the user who published the report if the admin user has enabled 'two way messaging' in Ladders at Home settings. Read about two way messaging settings here.
If Ladders at Home is not live in your school, parents will receive a PDF copy of their child's report via email/printed copy. You can find an example PDF report attached to this guide.
Visit the Help Centre and benefit from the help articles for student reports or watch the student reports workshop.
If you have any questions about any stages of creating student reports, reach out to the team at support@learningladders.info
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