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STARS HELP
How can I help you?
Tell me how to manage students’ work.
STARS is an ambitious student tracking system devised and created by Mike Appleyard and Jon Priest in ICT. It replaces the previous tracking system, a highly successful reporting and assessment package created by Mike in 2006 and used in ICT and elsewhere between 2006- 2010: ask any member of the ICT staff if you want to know how much easier it made all aspects of their jobs!
STARS has been enhanced and improved from the ground up to enable teachers, students and managers to use it quickly and efficiently. It has been linked to the college registers and CIS to produce one of the most advanced student tracking systems in the UK.
The rollout of the system is agreed between Jon, Mike and a cross-college steering committee who meet every month to discuss priorities and progress.
Mike and Jon are always happy to receive suggestion as to how STARS could be improved further: they have created a forum where you can suggest enhancements to the current system, or simply agree with other peoples ideas. Follow this link to go to the forum.
This STARS help system is being created by Chris Thomas in ICT. Currently there are only tutorials available for managing assignments and assessments: in time, he hopes to have a series of tutorials for all aspects of the system, and a help screen for every screen of STARS.
Chris is always happy to receive suggestion as to how the help system could be improved further: in the forum, you can suggest enhancements to the current help system, or simply agree with other peoples ideas. Follow this link to go to the forum.
Does the work you plan to set your students result in them attaining criteria?
Yes No
How should I explain about assessments?
I want interactive
instructions. Detailed. Take me through it
screen by screen.
I want you to print a series of
annotated screen shots that tell me what to
do, step by step ( 9
pages)
• Concise instructions for assessments
• Concise instructions for assignments
You’ll find it a lot easier if you close down all programs apart from STARS and this tutorial.
On your keyboard, hold down [Alt] and press [Tab] to move between the tutorial and STARS.
Try it now!
If you want to leave at any time, press [Esc].
The full monty.
Just like in real life, you go through a number of steps with assessments. As STARS is so user friendly, none of these take very long: do you want to do something specific, or just go through everything?
Creating assessments.
Launching assessments.
Receiving assessments.
Marking assessments.
Choose the first course and tutor group for
whom you are setting an assessment.
From the Staff Hub, click on
the STARS link.Click
Manage Assessments
Click ‘create a new
assessment’
You can see the assessments you
have already
created here.
Add your assessment number, a
description and press [create now]
Your new assessment
appears here.Do you want to issue it to your
students?
Yes Not yet.
Choose the first course and tutor group for
whom you are setting an assessment.
From the Staff Hub, click on
the STARS link.Click
Manage Assessments
Select the assessment you
are going to issue.
Tell STARS when you are going to
issue the assessment and
when you expect it to be
submitted, then click [issue now].
STARS confirms that you have
issued this assessment to
your tutor group.
If the assessment needs to be linked to an assessment
point, tell STARS here.
The next step is to tell STARS which students have submitted the work. Are you ready?
Yes Not yet.
See those tabs at the top of your browser? If you move your
mouse over each one, one of them should display a little
message box like this one – click on it.
If this doesn’t work for you, don’t worry – just click on the STARS
link on the Staff Hub again.
Choose the course and tutor group from whom
you are receiving an assessment.
Click on ‘Manage Submissions’
Choose which assignment you
are receiving.
You should get a screen like this: if STARS tells you
that you haven’t yet issued the
assessment to the group, click here.
Just like on the register system, it is usually
fastest to tell STARS that all students have
submitted work then click on the red buttons to un-submit the naughty ones.Alternatively, just press the Record Now button
for the students who have submitted work.
By default, all these dates are
set to the current date. You can change them
using the arrows to tell STARS that
students submitted earlier
or later.
The next step is to mark the students’ work. Are you ready?
Yes Not yet.
See those tabs at the top of your browser? If you move your
mouse over each one, one of them should display a little message box like this one. If this doesn’t work for you,
don’t worry – just click on the STARS link on the Staff Hub
again.
Choose the course and tutor group for whom you are marking an
assessment.
STARS now shows you the students in the
tutor group and the
assessments. Click on the assessment you want to
mark.
Click Marking
Screen (basic)
Now you’ve selected the assessment, you can
mark the students’ work – but only those who
have submitted it.
Use the dropdown boxes to mark
students as Pass, Merit or Distinction. This allows STARS to record the level
to which the student is currently
working.
Click On this icon
to add written
feedback
Add the feedback and press [save]
How should I explain about assignments?
I want interactive
instructions. Detailed. Take me through it
screen by screen.
I want you to print a series of
annotated screen shots that tell me
what to do, step by step (10
pages)
You’ll find it a lot easier if you close down all programs apart from STARS and this tutorial.
On your keyboard, hold down [Alt] and press [Tab] to move between the tutorial and STARS.
Try it now!
If you want to leave at any time, press [Esc].
The full monty.
Just like in real life, you go through a number of steps with assessments. As STARS is so user friendly, none of these take very long: do you want to do something specific, or just go through everything?
Creating assignments.
Launching assignments.
Receiving assignments.
Marking assignments.
Choose the first course and tutor group for
whom you are setting an assignment.
From the Staff Hub, click on
the STARS link.Click
Manage Assessments
Click ‘create a new
assignment’
You can see the assignments you
have already
created here.
Add your assignment number, a
description, and the first criterion it
offers- then press [create now]
Your new assignment
appears here.Do you want to issue it to your
students?
Yes Not yet.
Choose the first course and tutor group for
whom you are setting an assignment.
From the Staff Hub, click on
the STARS link.Click
Manage Assessments
Select the assessment you
are going to issue.
Tell STARS when you are going to
issue the assignment and
when you expect it to be
submitted, then click [issue now].
STARS confirms that you have
issued this assignment to
your tutor group.
If the assessment needs to be linked to an assessment
point, tell STARS here.
You have already told STARS about the first
criterion included in your assignment. Click these buttons to add more .
The next step is to tell STARS which students have submitted the work. Are you ready?
Yes Not yet.
See those tabs at the top of your browser? If you move your
mouse over each one, one of them should display a little
message box like this one – click on it.
If this doesn’t work for you, don’t worry – just click on the STARS
link on the Staff Hub again.
Choose the course and tutor group from whom
you are receiving an assignment.
Click on ‘Manage Submissions’
Click the assignment you
are receiving.
You should get a screen like this: if STARS tells you
that you haven’t yet issued the
assignment to the group, click here.
Just like on the register system, it is usually
fastest to tell STARS that all students have
submitted work then click on the red buttons to un-submit the naughty ones.Alternatively, just press the Record Now button
for the students who have submitted work.
By default, all these dates are
set to the current date.
You can change them using the arrows to tell
STARS that students
submitted earlier or later.
See those tabs at the top of your browser? If you move your
mouse over each one, one of them should display a little message box like this one. If this doesn’t work for you,
don’t worry – just click on the STARS link on the Staff Hub
again.
The next step is to mark the students’ work. Are you ready?
Yes Not yet.
Choose the course and tutor group for whom you are marking an
assignment.
STARS now shows you the students in the
tutor group and the
assignments. Click on the assignment you want to
mark.
Now you’ve selected the assessment, you can mark the
students’ work – but only those who have submitted it.
NA = not attemptedMK = awaiting markingNM = not metPM = part metMET = met.
Use the dropdown boxes to mark
students as Pass, Merit or Distinction. This allows STARS to record the level
to which the student is currently
working.
Click On this icon
to add written
feedback
Add the feedback and press [save]