Creating and managing groupings  

The Classes/Groupings tab is populated by your school board’s Student Data Collection upload to EQAO.

The Classes/Groupings tab allows you to: 

  • create new grouping(s) 
  • edit or delete grouping(s) 
  • move an inactive grouping to an active test window 
  • view the list of grouping(s) 
  • manage the assigned Teacher/Invigilator 
  • view the total number of Students for each grouping 
  • preparing for guest students 

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Sort classes or groupings by any fields when clicking the header of each column.

Creating a new grouping

Administrators may want to create a new grouping for students who may be writing in a different location within the school, or who may be writing on a different day, or another reason to support the administration process.

  1. Access the Classes/Groupings tab. 
  2. Click Create New Grouping
  3. Fill in the fields: 
    • Class code / Grouping 
    • Teacher (Can assign later) 
  4. Click OK. Now students can be added to the class/grouping from the Students tab.

NOTE
If a new grouping does not appear right away, try refreshing your browser.

Editing a grouping

Administrators may want change the name of a grouping or change the main teacher assigned to the grouping.

  1. Access the Classes/Groupings tab. 
  2. Select the Class/Grouping from the list.
  3. Click Edit.
  4. Edit the fields:
    • Class code / Grouping 
    • Teacher (Can assign later) 
  5. Click OK

  

Assigning additional invigilators to a class or a grouping 

If you require more than one teacher to have access to the invigilation page for a grouping in your school, you will follow the steps to add additional invigilators

  1. Access the Class/Groupings tab. 
  2. Select the Class Code/Grouping from the list. 
  3. Click Edit
  4. Click Add/Remove Additional Invigilators.  

NOTE
Only teachers with active accounts will appear in this list. Refer to Teachers/Invigilators.

  1. Select the invigilator(s) to add to the class.
  2. Click OK

Removing additional teachers from a grouping 

Use this feature if a teacher that is attached to a grouping will not be administering the assessment.

  1. Access the Class/Groupings tab. 
  2. Select the grouping from the list. 
  3. Click Edit
  4. Click Remove.  
  5. Click OK

Deleting a grouping 

  1. Select the Class Code / Grouping box(es). 
  2. Click Delete
  3. Click OK

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If you plan to be assigning this grouping to a future administration window, do not delete it. Assign the grouping to a different administration window using the drop down list. 

Updated on October 1, 2024