Analytics
Analytics shows patterns across many students, classes and subjects, where the marks grid shows one class at a time. Schools use it to see how grades spread, which students are below target, and whether teachers mark in the same way. Open it from Markbook → Analytics.
You see Analytics in the menu only if your role has the permission View analytics. Downloading the figures needs Export analytics. See Roles & Permissions.
Filters
Each tab has its own filters, usually academic year, class, template, subject and reporting period. Narrow the view before you read the figures. A narrower view also loads faster.
On Distribution, Progress vs target and At-risk, the two kinds of class mean different things:
| You pick | You see |
|---|---|
| A main class (a form class, for example Y11E) | Its pupils, with their marks from every set they are in. Pupils of other classes in the same sets are not counted. |
| A secondary group (a set, for example Group Biology A Y11) | That set, with all its pupils. |
| Nothing, and a template | Every class of the template: for a school with one template per year, the whole year. |
The Year group filter, on the same three tabs, is the quickest: pick Year 10 and you see the pupils of every Year 10 form class (all classes with that study level in Kinderpedia), with their marks from every set they are in. Form classes picked as well narrow it to those forms.
So to see Year 11 you do not need to add every set. Pick the year group Y11, or the form classes Y11E and Y11N.
On Distribution, the Measure filter chooses what is counted: Attainment grades (for example Current Grade, the default), or one rated column type such as Effort, Learning or Behaviour. Each subject's bar then shows how many pupils got each value, in the colours of its scale. Use it for a year whose Current Grade is not marked yet: Year 9 in Term 1A has no Current Grade, but it has Effort and Learning.
INFO
Progress vs target needs a grade and a target for each pupil. For a year with no grade column (for example Y7 & Y8, with only ratings and targets), the tab says so and offers Open Distribution: use Distribution with a Measure instead.
The tabs
| Tab | Question it answers |
|---|---|
| Distribution | How do the grades spread? For each subject, a coloured bar shows how many students got each grade, with counts and percentages. |
| Progress vs target | Are students above, at or below their target grades? |
| Teacher workload | How much marking is done and how much is still blank, per teacher? |
| Moderation | Do parallel classes of one subject mark in a similar way? |
| Student | What is the journey of one student across subjects and periods? |
| Parent engagement | Which parents have read the published reports? |
| At-risk | Which students fall well short of their targets? |
| Attendance | How do attendance and grades relate? |
| Coverage | How much of your curriculum aligns to a published standard? |
The Coverage tab appears only for schools that use the standards library. See Standards Library.
Distribution
Choose a year, and optionally a class, template, subject and period. Each subject gets one bar. Each segment is a grade, in the colour of that grade, and hovering over it shows the count and share.
Example: in Year 9 Mathematics, the bar shows A* 4%, A 18%, B 31%, C 29%, D 12%, E 6%. A school can see at once that most of the cohort sits at B and C.
Distributions use only attainment marks. They are summaries: you see grades and counts, not students.
Progress vs target
The first tab: who is above, on or below their target, subject by subject. It has its own page: Progress vs target.
Teacher workload
For each teacher, the tab shows the markbooks they own and how many cells are filled or blank. Use it before a reporting deadline to see who needs help.
Moderation
Pick a subject. The tab then compares its parallel classes, for example 9A, 9B and 9C Science, so you can see whether one class's grades differ a lot from the others. A difference does not prove a problem. It tells you where to look at the work itself.
If no attainment grades exist for the subject, the tab says there are no classes to compare.
Student
Choose one student. You see their marks per subject across periods. You can also record a student reflection here and tag it with a period. Student reflections and notes follow the reach rules for student records: you see only students you may see.
At-risk
This tab lists students whose attainment falls clearly under their target. Leaders can note interventions against a student. Treat the list as a prompt for a conversation, not as a decision.
Attendance
This tab places attendance beside grades. It needs the Activity Calendar to be connected. See Attendance & Timetable.
Exporting
If you have Export analytics, each table can be downloaded as a file. A file leaves MarkBook and keeps no access rules, so share it with care.
INFO
Figures update when marks change. A grade distribution may take a short time to show a mark you have just entered.
Tips
- Compare like with like: same year, same template.
- Use Distribution after every reporting period. A strange spike often means a scale was mis-set.
- Use Progress vs target and At-risk together: one shows the group, the other the individuals.