Create reporting standards for your classes

Reporting standards are rubric criteria that you can align to your assignments. Then, you can enter scores for each standard to indicate a student's progress in meeting each standard.

Note: If you are an elementary teacher, your district probably creates your reporting standards for you, and they automatically appear on your Reporting Standards side-tab. You can view the reporting standards to familiarize yourself with which you should apply to which assignments.

There are two ways for reporting standards to appear on your Reporting Standards side-tab on the Gradebook tab:

  • If your district creates specific reporting standards for the classes you teach, those reporting standards automatically appear.

  • They might also be aligned with learning standards, such as Common Core standards. Reporting standards are course-specific. You must select the course on the Gradebook tab, Class List page, then click the Reporting Standards side-tab to view the reporting standards assigned to a class.

  • Or, you can create your own reporting standards to track student progress in very specific skills within your assignments. For example, you might be a secondary teacher who uses a rubric to score all of your students' essays.

Create a reporting standard for each rubric criteria. For example, 1. Thesis is clearly worded, 2. Topic sentences address the thesis, 3. Body paragraphs have two quotes and analysis to support topic sentence, 4. Address all questions in topic selected and make outside connections, 5. Strong conclusion, and 6. Grammar.

Optionally, you can also align each of these reporting standards to the appropriate learning standard(s). For example, you might align essay reporting standard #5 Strong Conclusion with Common Core standard CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.2f Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).

Note: If you create your own reporting standards, the scores you enter are for your information only; Aspen does not use these scores when calculating progress or end-of-term averages.

To create or view reporting standards for a class:

  1. Log on to the Staff view.
  2. Click the Gradebook tab.
  3. Select a class, and click the Reporting Standards side-tab.

  4. If your district created reporting standards for your class, they appear. If your district aligns learning standards to each reporting standard, they appear in the Standards column.

  1. To create a reporting standard for your classes only, on the Options menu, click Add. The New Section Reporting Standard page appears.

  1. In the Name field, type a name for the reporting standard.
  2. In the Column header field, type the text that appears at the top of this grade column on the Scores page.
  3. Under Rubric Rating Scale, at the Name field, click Search icon. to select the rubric rating scale you want to use to enter scores for this standard. For example, you might select a 1-4 rating scale.
  4. Below Learning Standards, click Multi-Add to align this reporting standard with any learning standards in your district's system. These are the learning standards represented by the score a student receives for this reporting standard.
  5. Click Save. Now, you can select this reporting standard when creating new assignments.
    Note: Remember that reporting standards you create and the scores you enter for them are for your information only; Aspen does not use these scores when calculating progress or end-of-term averages.
    Note: An administrator can merge your class sections if they occur during the same class period. If your course sections are merged, a message appears with a link directing you to the "primary" class section.