Access Tracker Report

Click Reporting from the navigation menu at the top of the page
Select Lessons from the dropdown
Select Tracker

Tracker Report

The list below will guide you through the different elements displayed on the Tracker report, and the functionality available with each of the action buttons:

(1) View by Formatives or Standards

Click on the corresponding action button to switch between viewing your students' performance on assignments (formatives) or your students' performance on tagged standards

(2 + 5) Filters

Click on the Filters button (5) to define your tracker's view range by adjusting any of the following filter options:

Activities: search for specific lesson(s) by title, or narrow down the report to view lessons tagged to certain parameters such as grade, subject, academic year, and activity type. You can also filter the report to display lessons that were last answered within a specific date-range;
Class: when selecting specific classes, you can further narrow down the results by the Grade(s) level and/or the Subject(s) tagged to the class(s);
Student Demographics: if your district has opted into sharing this information with Formative, you will be able to filter results by your students' race, gender and sub-group (ED, LEP, SPED)

Each of the filters chosen will then appear above the tracker display (2). You can click on the pencil icon next to each indicator to adjust the range or remove the filter.

(3) Display Overall Performance

This area will display the overall performance for the class(es) chosen.

(4) Sort Results

Click the sorting display button to define both the order students will be displayed (by name or by score) and the order the lessons will appear (by title or by date answered)

(6) Adjust General Settings

Click into the general settings menu for the following options:

Toggle on "Show Archived students" if you'd like to include results by students who were archived from your existing class(es) in the displayed data
Toggle on "Show Archived Sections" if you'd like to include results for classes that are no longer active on your account and have been archived
Toggle on "Hide Names" if presenting this page to hide student names for privacy reasons
Adjust 'Max formatives to load" if you need your report to display more than the default 100 lessons

(7) Save Report (Quick Link)

If you run the same tracker report repeatedly you can generate a quick link to a specific report (along with the settings defined on it). Click this button and save the link to use again in the future.

(8) Export

Click the "Export" button to export the data presented as a CSV/Spreadsheet or as a Google Sheet. You can choose to export all rows or only the rows you have expanded, and choose the layout of the export (Score Grid or Table).

A CSV/Spreadsheet will download directly to your computer, while selecting Google Sheets will direct you to login to your Google account and then you will be redirected to your Google Sheets page.

When you export your results you'll be able to see the standards you've tagged to your questions too!

Track Student Performance

By lessons (formatives)

When displaying results by lessons ("Formatives", top left), click on individual student names to view their overall performance on all assignments. The data will open in a right-side panel, which you can enlarge to full screen. A list of the lessons will be organized in this panel by score thresholds and color-coded accordingly:

**Note: Students who have not taken a lesson yet will have a blank score in the Tracker.

By standards

You can aslo see how students performed against the standards tagged in the assignments. To do so, click on "Standards" (top left), expand the standards by clicking on the carats to see the sub-standards in detail if you want, and then click the student's name. The side panel will open up again, this time presenting the list of standards organized by score thresholds and color-coded accordingly:

You can click on any average within the grid to bring up a list of questions tagged to that standard, along with the student's scores for those questions:

Score Calculation

The Tracker is a great tool to measure student progress over time so it is helpful to understand how the scores are calculated.

To calculate the scores, we sum up all the points that were awarded to the answers (=points earned), and we sum up all the points available for those answers (the point value on the questions = points possible) and divide the former by the latter.

For example, let's say a student completes just one lesson with two questions. Question one is worth five points. Question two is worth ten points. The student get two points on the first question and six points on the second. Their score for that lesson is as follows: (2 + 6)/(5 + 10) = 8/15 = 53%.

When multiple lessons are being calculated, all questions are considered and basically treated as if they were one big lesson. For example, let's add a lesson to our previous example. This lesson has one question worth five points and the student earned four points. This student's overall grade is now as follows: (2 + 6 + 4)/(5 + 10 + 5) = 12/20 = 60%

This means that a lesson or question with more available points will be weighted more heavily in the overall score.

NOTE: If a student did not submit the assignment, unanswered questions are not counted toward possible points. When the assignment is submitted with an unanswered question, it will then be counted towards the total possible points, reducing their score. Read about how to force submit a formative here.

If a teacher adds a new question at a later time that students did not answer, the tracker will not count the points for that question in their score.