VELS_Quick Setup Procedures

As all Victorian Catholic and Government schools must produce reports in a set format, assessing and reporting on AusVELS, quick setup features may be utilised to produce these standard report formats.

The VELS reports must conform to a set format, including an A to E scale and graphical presentation of the student's domain scores

A Summary

The Quick Setup procedures in Accelerus used by schools to produce AusVELS reports are:

•	Importing an appropriate Quick Setup structure for your school, eg Catholic Primary structure, Government Secondary, etc.

•	Importing a Student Details XML file for students in Prep up to and including Year 10.

•	Creating a Quick Setup instance.

•	In the Quick Setup window, setting up the Quick Setup instance so that it includes the subjects to be assessed and reported upon, and the school's requirements for the AusVELS reports.

•	Building the subject and report parameters, which produces all of the assessment items and report templates.

•	Importing an absence XML file (Government schools only).

•	Calculating the overall domain results once teachers have finalised the assessment of their students.

•	Once reporting has been finalised, exporting a Student XML file that contains the overall domain scores.

•	Optionally, exporting prior AusVELS scores to an Excel file.

•	Copying the subjects and subject selections from one Quick Setup instance to another, eg from semester to semester or year to year.

•	Optionally creating a prior scores XML where prior scores are missing from your school's administrative database.