Monday, October 18, 2010

Creating Customized Student Roster Reports

I hear it all the time: "But in TestWiz, we used to be able to run reports by classroom!" While it's true that the data warehouse doesn't technically have this feature at this time, you can certainly produce reports for any list of students (including a classroom roster) with a few extra steps.

The 600-level (student) reports in the Data Warehouse include a feature which allows the user to customize the report for a specific roster of students. This roster can be created in several ways: by choosing students from a list, by using a series of prompts to identify the students, and in some cases, by incorporating a list of SASIDs.

Some 600-level reports will produce one page (or more) per student, which can make for a very lengthy report. Reports that include the word “Roster” in the title (for example, R-616 Test Item Analysis Roster) will produce a compact format report which will include all selected students on a single page (or several pages, depending on the length of the list.)

Attached is a document which explains how to customize these student reports in a variety of ways. It is much more manageable (and secure!) to look at a student report that only contains the desired students...rather than going through, say, an entire grade-level list with a highlighter (trust me, I've been there.)