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The Teacher Dashboard aggregates and displays data about student performance, progress, and teacher responsiveness. Access it from your Home page.
Tips for using the Teacher Dashboard summaries
- These summaries list an enrollment as Active for 14 days after the enrollment's end date, giving teachers time to finalize and return grades.
- These summaries are updated on a daily basis, so they do not reflect changes in real time.
- The status threshold defaults used in these summaries are set by Buzz and can be modified by your system admin: How do I set up Teacher Dashboard data?
- If a submission has remained ungraded for over 1 year, it is no longer included in the Needs grading numbers listed.
Performance summary
The Performance summary card displays:
- Bar graphs comparing the number activities that you have Graded on each day against the number of activities that still Need Grading at the end of the day.
- Hover over a day in either graph to get the specific numbers.
- A summary of ungraded items and how long they've waited; click it to open the Needs grading tool.
- A Student performance summary; click it to open the People tool with the data filtered to show students who are failing or falling behind schedule.
- A Student pace summary; click it to open the People tool with the data filtered to show students who are failing or falling behind schedule.
Course and Student summaries
- The Course summary card summarizes information such as the number of active courses and which courses have students who need critical attention. Click the summaries for details.
- The Student summary card summarizes information like the number of active students and how many students need critical attention. Click the summaries for details.
Active courses
The Active courses card:
- Lists the number of students in each active course and allows you to sort the courses with it.
- These columns surface the total number of ungraded items in each course, list how long they've been waiting, and use a color-coded status indicator on the Needs grading: total count to indicate responsiveness.
- Click the column headers to sort the courses by Needs grading counts.
- Click Needs grading: total to open the Needs grading tool for that course.
- This column uses a color-coded status indicator to show aggregated Student performance for each course.
- Click the icon to sort the courses by Student performance.
- Click a course's status indicator in this column to open the People tool for that course which includes data filtered to show critical students (students at risk of failing).
- This column uses a color-coded status indicator to show the overall Student pace for each course
- Click the icon to sort the courses by Student pace for each course.
- Click a course's status indicator in this column to open the People tool for that course which includes data filtered to show students who are behind schedule.
Color-coded status indicators (Needs grading, Student performance, & Student pace)
By default, Buzz uses the following thresholds to evaluate Teacher responsiveness, Student performance, and Student pace; however, your administrators can customize them for your school.
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Needs grading columns: The color signal on the Needs grading: total count indicates the following statuses:
- Green: All submitted gradable items have been graded within 2 days or fewer.
- Yellow: One or more submitted gradable items have remained ungraded for 3-5 days.
- Red: One or more submitted gradable items have remained ungraded for 5 or more days.
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Student performance: Assesses overall student achievement based on scores and recent submissions in each course.
- Green: Students, in aggregate, are performing more than 10% above the course's minimum passing grade.
- Yellow: Students, in aggregate, have failed 1 of their last 5 submissions or are within 10% of the minimum passing grade.
- Red: Students, in aggregate, have failed 2 of their last 5 submissions or are below the minimum passing grade.
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Student Pace: Evaluates how closely students are staying on schedule with submissions in each course.
- Green: Students, in aggregate, are submitting work on time, with fewer than 10% of gradable items past due.
- Yellow: Students, in aggregate, have 10-30% of gradable items past due.
- Red: Students, in aggregate, have 30% or more of gradable items past due.
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