Create at-risk indicator groups

After you create at-risk indicators, you can combine them into indicator groups.

Indicator groups let you flag students based on relationships between at-risk indicators. Indicator members of an indicator group do not need to have the same category. For example, you could create an indicator group to identify students with poor first quarter grades (Grades category) and poor assessment scores (Assessments category).

Note: When you put an at-risk indicator into an indicator group, it can no longer be used as an indicator on its own. Once it is a group member, its points are ignored, and it can only be used by its indicator group. If you want to reuse an indicator, create a copy of it.

You can also copy or delete an at-risk indicator group.

To create an at-risk indicator group:

  1. Log on to the District (Root Organization), Intermediate Organization, or School view.
  1. Click the Tools tab.
  2. Click the At Risk side-tab.
  3. Select the checkbox next to the at-risk definition you want to create an indicator group for.
  4. On the side-tab, click Indicators.

    5. Note: To view a list of indicators that are in the indicator group, click . To return to the list of individual indicators and indicator groups, click ROOT in the breadcrumbs just above the list.
  1. On the Options menu, click Add. The New At Risk Indicator page appears.
  2. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:
  3. Field Description

    Type

    Select Indicator Group from the drop-down.

    Name

    Type a name for this at-risk indicator group.

    Points

    Type a number of points that this indicator group is worth.

    Description

    Type a description for this indicator.

    Indicator Group Members

    Criteria

    Click Add. The At Risk Indicator pick list appears.

    At the Operator drop-down, select And or Or. (If this is the first indicator to be added to the indicator group, the Operator drop-down does not appear.)

    Select an indicator, and then click OK.

    Note: The Indicator pick list displays indicators that belong to this indicator group and indicators that do not belong to any indicator group. Once an indicator becomes part of an indicator group, it cannot belong to another indicator group or be used as an indicator on its own. To use an indicator in several indicator groups, create a copy of it for each additional indicator group. To use the same indicator on its own, create a copy of the indicator. If you Remove an indicator, it is no longer a member of any indicator group and can be used as an indicator on its own. It can also be selected to belong to any indicator group.

    You can highlight indicator members, remove one or more highlighted indicator members, or add parenthesis around highlighted indicator members to specify the order of operations. Indicators are joined to the previously-selected indicator by the selected operator.
  1. Click Save.