CM Academy, Teacher Pathway, Level 2
Outcome: Able to store evidence of pupils’ learning in Classroom Monitor
Why it matters: Recording evidence in Classroom Monitor can be used for:
Informing your planning
Sharing with parents
Internal and external moderation
Time to complete: 15 minutes
Types of evidence
You can collect and store a variety of evidence of learning in Classroom Monitor:
Notes: A note may be to describe an observation, give reference for where the evidence can be found e.g. Science book- Separation experiment write-up 21/12/17 or simply to record the type of note you might write on your planning for easy future reference.
Photos: A photo of learning in action or of the end product; for example, a picture of a D&T project or a snap of work in a maths book or on a mini whiteboard. Any image can be attached as type ‘photo’ so this could be a range of things such as a scanned image of work or an image that a pupil has created on a computer.
Short videos: The maximum file size you can store is 40MB; so not enough for the whole school play but enough for a pupil to explain how they solved a problem or perform a short role play.
Audio clips: This could be pupils performing poetry, audio clips of their reading or explaining their understanding.
Documents: This could be documents where you have placed a number of pieces of evidence or a document that a pupil has created themselves.
As with all aspects of assessment, you should make sure that anything you record is for a specific purpose to avoid creating extra work for yourself. Many people focus on evidence for showing what a pupil can do, but it is also valuable for showing what they can’t. Evidence saved in the markbook will be easy to find as it is linked directly to pupil records along with assessment objectives where appropriate.
Saving evidence
The first thing you will need to do is load a relevant markbook and then switch into ‘Evidence’ mode using the markbook control bar.
Adding evidence for one pupil on one assessment tile
Click on the coloured tile for the relevant pupil and objective (this can be an assessed or unassessed tile)
Click ‘Add’ in the top left.
This will take you to the evidence window shown below. The pupil and objective that the evidence is being attached for is shown at the bottom of the window. Add details:
Notes: Add any note required
Evidence Type: Select the type of evidence that you want to attach.
Recorded Date: Defaults to today's date. Clicking in the box will give you options to easily change the date.
If adding a file: Click ‘Select a file’ and navigate to your file or drag and drop a file into the window
Press 'Save Evidence' to save the evidence record