Changing Reporting Time Period

Changing the reporting time period allows you to view test results from a previous point in time. There are two time period settings: you can select a school year for which to view tests, and you can enter a date for which to view students.

• When you set a school year for which to view tests, the reports show data for test opportunities Instances of a student taking a test completed in the selected school year.
• When you set a date for which to view students, the reports show data only for the students who were associated with you as of the selected date. Students' enrollment and demographic information is all given as of the selected date as well. You can use this setting to view students who have left or recently joined your school, or district.

If you don't change the reporting time period, or if you reset it to the default, all the reports in Reporting show test opportunities only for the current school year (except Student Portfolio Reports, which always retain the ability to look back to previous years), with current student data.

Some examples of how you can use this feature:

• You may want to view the past performance of your current students, including new transfer students. In that case, set the school year for which you want to view test results and keep the date set to today. Note that if no current students have been added in TIDE as of today's date, no data will be available.
• You may want to view the performance of your former students in order to compare them with that of your current students. In that case, set the date to a time when your former students belonged to you and had started testing, and set the school year to the same time. Then switch back to the present to compare.

To change the reporting time period and view a record of past data:

1.From the My Settings menu in the banner, choose Change Reporting Time Period. The Change Reporting Time Period window appears.

2.From the school year drop-down list, select a school year. This is the year for which you will view test results.

3.In the View results for students who were mine on field, use the calendar tool to select a date, or enter it in the format mm/dd/yyyy. You will be viewing all the students who belonged to you on that date, and only those students.

• To view your current students' past performance, keep the date set to today.
• To view the performance of your former students, set the date to a day when they were associated with you and had started testing.

4.Click Save. All reports are now filtered to show only data for the selected school year and date. All filters are cleared. The header of each report shows school year and date.

5.Optional: To go back to viewing the latest data, open the Change Reporting Time Period window again, click Reset to Today in the lower-right corner, then click Save. The settings return to their defaults and all filters are cleared. The reporting time period also resets when you log out, but persists when you switch roles.