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How to record CBC formative assessments via the Sematime Academics app

Ceee Beee Ceee! Yeah, I know it's a good curriculum with great intentions. No doubt. But if there is one thing we teachers have grown to love to hate is - burdensome formative assessments recording. Found this description by Gemini AI very apt:

A "burdensome formative assessment recording" refers to the process of documenting formative assessments (used to monitor learning progress) in a way that feels overly time-consuming, complex, and adds unnecessary stress to teachers, often due to excessive paperwork or inefficient recording methods, taking away from their primary focus of teaching and providing feedback to students; essentially, the act of recording formative assessments becomes a heavy administrative burden.

Need we say more? Today, we can all say goodbye to manual CBC assessment books thanks to Sematime Academics' support for CBC formative assessments automation. Forget about carrying those dusty books around, that often get lost or damaged and make generation of student or class assessment results as easy as abc.

To get started, login to your Sematime Academics account and select 'Assessments' from the 'Home' view menu and then choose the lesson to assess by specifying the academic year, class and subject on the sidebar. The system will show two main sections: (a) insights and summary showing the recorded performance of the class for each strands and distribution of grades overall (b) assessment results for each substrand on the lower section.

How to record CBC formative assessments

To save you time during data entry, your Sematime Academics comes preloaded with strands, substrands and assessments for each subject. However, you can still add your own data from your 'Settings' under the 'Assessment' section. We use of Excel files to import subject data. Open this link to see the prescribed format - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14tE4WPedOnvKmckJkjKoCvIjIi9fqGiB

To record assessment results, start by choosing the strand you wish to assess for example 'Creation' in the image below. Secondly, choose the respective substrand, for example 'Self Awareness', and click on the 'View Results' button of the assessment whose results you want to capture. By default, only the assessments of the first substrand are shown but you can click on the down arrowhead or caret “ ⌄” to show or hide the rest.

You are now ready to record the assessment results for every student by clicking the appropriate check box as shown in the image below. For example, student Victor Kyma[0144] is shown to have a score of ' E.E (Exceeds Expectations)' while student Ruth Wambui[0283] has a score of ' B.E (Below Expectations)'. Remember to click ' Save Changes' when done .

There are times when all students have scored the same grade. While you can go clicking the check box next to each student name, we have provided an even faster way of doing so using the ' Mark all students as' dropdown menu items as highlighted below.

If you prefer to record assessment via the Sematime mobile app, then the process is rather similar: login to the app and choose ' Lesson assements' under the ' Home' view section. From here, follow the onscreen instructions and you are good to go.

How to record CBC assessments on the Sematime mobile app

Updated on: 30/12/2024

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