How do I manage Focus Area exemptions and masteries for students?

How do I exempt students from completing Focus Areas?
How do I grant Focus Area masteries?

How do I exempt students from completing Focus Areas?

Note: This feature is only available to users with admin level accounts.

You can exempt students from completing focus areas when they transfer to your school mid-year. You should not use this tool if a student is behind and want to catch him or her up, or if a student scored a 7/10 on a Content Assessment.

Click Setup
Click Students
Find the student who needs a focus area exemption
Click the three dots next to the student's name
Click the Manage Focus Areas tab
Select Exemptions or Mastery
Type in the name of the focus area
Enter the reason for the exemption
Check I understand when to exempt focus areas for a student
Click Add Exemption
Click Close

At the end of the week, all admins at your school will receive a confirmation email with a summary of exemptions from the past week.

When a student is granted mastery for a focus area, those focus areas will turn green and remain on the Power, Additional, or Challenge focus area row.

When a student receives exemptions for focus areas, those focus area will move to the Other Focus Areas row on their Year page. All focus areas in this row do not count towards a student's grade. The remaining focus areas will be redistributed evenly across their respective rows.

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You may also consider exempting students from Projects.

How do I grant Focus Area masteries?

Note: This feature is only available to users with admin level accounts.

You can grant students masteries for focus areas directly on the Summit Learning Platform. Focus areas masteries may be granted when you want the student to have the focus area shown in the Year Page as mastered or green. If you'd like the focus area to not appear at all, please see this article on how to exempt students from Focus Areas.

Click Setup
Click Students
Find the student who needs a focus area mastery
Click the three dots next to the student's name
Click the Manage Focus Areas tab
Click Mastery
Type in the Focus Area name (be sure that the focus area ID matches the 6 digits at the end of the focus area URL)
Type in a Reason for Mastery
Check I understand when to grant mastery for focus areas for a student
Click Add mastery
Click Close

Comments

4 comments

HOLLAN GRAVLEY
December 06, 2017 16:27

Where do you type in to request exempting a student from the focus area?

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Sadaf
December 06, 2017 19:30

Hi Hollan!

Admins will have the ability to exempt focus areas from the students' "Focus Area Exemptions" window. When Admins begin typing key words or phrases a focus area has, the search bar will populate various focus areas matching what is being typed in.

Hope that answers your question!

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David Wright
February 02, 2018 23:49

I see how to exempt a student and this is helpful for transfer students that have joined the class at the Semester mark. The problem I've now noticed is that it adjusted their calendar and two Power Focus Areas automatically went red/incomplete. Is there a way to exempt focus areas but not have the overall calendar change?

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Becca Dastrup
September 26, 2018 16:10

Is it possible for me as a special educator to exempt students from certain focus areas on a case by case basis (per a student's IEP) without needing administrator privileges?

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