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Protect your Semester One data - Accelerus Full

Locking the semester's data

Lock Assessment Items

Go to Manage Data > Assessment Items to lock all of the assessment items that were used to assess in semester 1. If your subjects are:

  • In annual academic cycles, this would usually mean using the Tags field to identify the items belonging to semester 1, term 1, etc. Alternatively, the assessment items may have a 1 suffix.
  • In semester or term-based academic cycles, select the items by the academic cycle. You may select all semester 1 items if all your subjects are semester based.

Lock academic cycles

Where you are using semester and/or term based academic cycles:

  • Go to Management > School Settings and Tools
  • Click Cycles in the left panel.
  • Highlight the Semester 1 cycle, where it exists and there is no lock icon beside its name.
  • Click the Edit icon.
  • Check the Locked box and save.

Update academic cycles

Skip this step if you have already setup all your academic cycles for the year and there are no changes.

  • If you have all annual subjects and want to continue in this way, nothing is required under this step.

OR

  • If your subjects are in semester or term-based academic cycles, if you have not already done so, add the cycles to be used in semester 2 via Management > School Settings and Tools > Academic Cycles > Cycles, clicking the Add button to add a new one.
  • You may need to select the correct academic cycle, if the semester 2 academic cycle did not exist:
  • If the current date falls in the date range of semester 2, refresh the web page after you have added the cycle to open Accelerus in semester 2.
If the starting date of semester 2 is in the future, but you want to work on semester 2, click the calendar in the top right of Accelerus and select a date that falls in semester 2.