Smartgrade concepts explained

Here are some frequently used concepts in Smartgrade:

1. Publisher is the organisation or individual listed as the publisher of an Assessment. This is important as it’s who users will see associated with the Assessment. The Publisher can be a MAT, school or individual.
2. Audience is the set of people the publisher wishes to be able to view and assign the Assessment in the marketplace. There are several options:
   1. Self, meaning that only you can view and assign the assessment in the marketplace. While you will be able to assign the assessment to other teachers according to your permission level, and those teachers will be able to enter marks, only you will be able to see the assessment in the analysis module.
   2. School, meaning that any school user can view the assessment in the marketplace, and any school admin can assign the assessment to classes. All school users and admins will be able to view the results of the assessment in the analysis module.
   3. MAT, meaning that any school or MAT user can view the assessment in the marketplace, and any MAT admin can assign the assessment to classes. All MAT users and admins will be able to view the results of the assessment from all the MAT's schools in the analysis module. All school users and admins will be able to view the results of the assessment for their school in the analysis module. School admins may also be able to see aggregated results from other schools in the MAT. 
   4. Global, meaning that any user at any MAT can view the assessment in the marketplace, and any school or MAT admin can assign the assessment to classes. Some "global" aggregated analysis across all schools and MATs may be available, though the names of schools/MATs outside one's own MAT will be anonymised. Student-level data will only ever be accessible to one's own school or MAT.  
3. Assessment Families are groups of Assessments that the publisher wishes to link together for the purposes of easy access and analysis.  
4. Smartgrade Subjects are a standard list of subjects that are mapped to a school's MIS subjects. That means that you may see slightly different names for subjects in Smartgrade than you’d see in your MIS.  
5. Window means the part of the school year for which the Assessment is intended. Smartgrade has a window for each half term, so if you’re using the platform to record one assessment at the end of each term, you’d put them in Windows for Autumn 2, Spring 2 and Summer 2. Smartgrade does not take into account when during the half term an assessment was sat.
6. Questions in Smartgrade are the individual questions that an Assessment contains. The number of marks for each Question is set by the publisher.
7. Topics are groupings of questions within an Assessment, which allow for topic-level analysis. A question can be linked to multiple topics. Questions do not have to be grouped by topics; this is decided by the publisher. 
8. Assessments are the actual tests taken by students. Each Assessment has a family, subject, year group, window, academic year and a number of questions. An Assessment may also have Topics, though this is optional. 
9. Marketplace is the area where Assessment details can be viewed and shared by anyone. Think of it as a library for all the assessments available to a user. 
10. Teaching group is the class, or more specifically a list of students associated with a teacher and subject that is used to create markbooks.
11. Standardisation. Smartgrade creates calculated grades based on a Standardisation process taking into account all the results across the sample. For "Global" assessments (e.g. assessments provided by our partners), this sample contains schools from across the country. For MAT/school internal assessments the sample will be all students taking the assessment in that school or MAT. See this Knowledge Base article for more information about the grades included in assessments.