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.

5. Select the invigilator(s) to add to the class.
6. 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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Students who are writing in the spring should not be deleted from the fall list.  Instead, schools may create a grouping called “writing in the spring” and assign any students that were uploaded by your school board to that grouping if they are intended to complete the test in the spring. 

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