Teacher’s manual · Chapter 9 of 12
The school and district view
Administrators · about 4 minutes
A teacher works in the classroom. A principal, a curriculum lead or a district administrator works in the school view, which sits above it.
If you open it and see *Nothing to show*, you are a teacher rather than an administrator, and your students are under your classes instead. That is not an error.
Two tabs
Progress is the drill-down described below. Staff is who has access: adding a teacher, and removing somebody who has left. The two are kept apart on purpose. Adding a teacher and reading a child's attempts are different jobs, and putting them on one screen invites doing the second while meaning to do the first.
Adding and removing staff is covered in Administrator setup.
The three rungs
The screen is a drill-down with a breadcrumb across the top, and you move down one rung at a time.
- Schools. Every school you oversee.
- Classes. Every class, or just the ones in the school you opened.
- Students. The children in one class.
Click a name to go down. Click a breadcrumb to come back up. Click a student's name to open their full page, which is the same page a teacher sees, described in Reading a student's results.
The schools table
| Column | What it means |
|---|---|
| School | Its name. no license appears beside it if the license is not active |
| Students | How many students exist at that school |
| Practicing | How many have actually written something |
| Completion | Average progress through the program |
| Seats | Places used against places licensed |
| Last activity | When anyone at that school last practiced |
Students against Practicing is the number to watch in the first month. A school with 240 students and 31 practicing has a rollout problem, not a teaching problem, and the fix is usually that the login cards never got printed or the address never got bookmarked.
Seats tells you when you are approaching the license limit. See Administrator setup.
The classes table
| Column | What it means |
|---|---|
| Class | Period, name and school year |
| School | Which school it belongs to |
| Students | How many are enrolled |
| Completion | Average progress across the class |
| Needing help | How many children have targets sitting below the pass mark |
| Last activity | When anyone in the class last practiced |
Needing help is the column that earns this screen. It surfaces the children who are stuck without anybody having to open thirty student pages, and it is the right thing to bring to a grade level meeting.
What an administrator can and cannot see
You see counts, averages and progress. You see individual students in classes within your own school or district.
You do not see anything outside your own school or district, and neither does anybody else see into yours. This is enforced by the database rules that answer every request, not by hiding buttons. An administrator at another school cannot reach your students by guessing an address.
There is also no route from a school to a child's home account, or from a home account into a school. They are separate records entirely.
Exporting
Export CSV exports whatever level you are looking at:
- On the schools view, one row per school: name, type, students, average completion, seats used, seats licensed.
- Inside a class, one row per student: name, grade, login code, targets passed, completion, current level, last active.
Print / PDF prints the current view as it appears on screen, with the navigation removed and table headings repeated on each page.
Reading the numbers honestly
Average completion across a school is a rollout measure, not a teaching one. Early in a year it mostly tells you which classes have started. Completion only becomes a quality signal once Practicing is close to Students.
If you want to know whether the program is working, open one class, sort your attention to the Needing help count, and read three students in full. Three students read properly will tell you more than any school average.
Not covered here? Write to support@skhillzacademy.org, or use the support page, which tells you what to include so nobody has to write twice.
