This guide will show you how to create a template for your student report layout.
Templates are used to choose the layout of each academic report generated. Multiple templates can be used each year for different students based on your school's reporting needs.
Summary of parts
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Video tutorial
Detailed steps
1. Select academic reports, then select templates.
2. Select create template.
3. Enter a template name.
4. Enter a template description.
5. Select create.
6. Edit the template details as needed.
Edit – detailed steps
1. Edit the name if needed.
2. Edit the description if needed.
3. Optionally expand the fonts and colours section.
4. Optionally select a table header colour.
5. Optionally select a section header colour.
6. Optionally select a font.
7. Optionally select a font size.
8. Optionally select an align text option.
The system defaults to justified.
9. Optionally expand the image settings section.
10. Optionally edit the logo scale and header logo scale.
11. Optionally select scale signature images checkbox.
12. Optionally expand the border section.
13. Optionally add border details.
Leaving the border details blank will generate a template with no border.
14. Optionally expand the watermark section.
15. Optionally select include watermark checkbox, set scale and opacity.
16. Optionally expand the header section.
17. Select the logo position.
18. Optionally deselect include header.
19. Optionally expand the footer section.
20. Optionally select use preferred student name in the footer checkbox.
21. Optionally select show generated date in the footer checkbox.
22. Optionally add footer text.
23. Optionally expand the table style section.
24. Set the vertical cell padding.
25. Select save changes.
26. Select OK.
7. Select add section.
8. Select a block type.
General text section
1. Enter text into the text area.
2. Optionally add merge tags as needed.
There are image inserts available to choose from.
3. Optionally use the formatting options.
4. Optionally select a background colour.
5. Optionally select to show table borders.
Student subject and grades table
Note - You can only add this section type to your template once.
1. Select add field.
2. Select from the available fields.
3. Continue to add fields as needed.
4. Optionally enter a subject description heading.
Optionally select format with border.
5. Optionally enter a student subject comment heading.
Optionally set the subject comment title background colour and select format with border.
6. Enter a subject achievement band heading.
By default, the achievement band value number option will be selected, optionally select percentage.
By default, the achievement band percentage display decimal option will be selected, optionally select whole number.
7. Set the subject scale options.
8. Set the subject table options.
Note - If 'Use subject rubric' option is selected, the rubric must be configured in the subjects section for the text to display on the reports. To configure the rubric refer to guide: Create the reporting period: Subjects
Grade explanatory tables
1. Optionally add a section heading.
2. Set width of table for grade with no description.
3. Optionally select to include the grade description.
4. Optionally select/deselect grade table options.
5. Optionally select to auto-scale grade tables.
If selected will scale the columns to match the text length.
Student attendance details
1. Optionally add a section heading.
2. Optionally select from the absence options.
Intentional page break
1. There are no edits required for the page break.
Attitudes to learning tables
1. Optionally add a section heading.
2. Optionally add a description.
3. Optionally select hide attitude headings checkbox.
4. Optionally add a table heading.
5. Optionally select replace table heading with attitude name.
6. Select the column quantity.
7. Optionally select the show grade legend or hide N/A outcomes checkboxes.
General teacher comment
1. Optionally add a section heading.
Optionally set the subject comment title background colour and select format with border.
Student activities table
1. Optionally add a section heading.
2. Optionally edit the columns.
3. Optionally select to show all activities.
Life Skills GO
1. Optionally add a section heading.
2. Optionally add a description.
3. Optionally select from Life Skills GO options.
Student wellbeing details
This option allows wellbeing types to display on the academic reports, for example: award types. To make the wellbeing types visible you need to activate the settings in wellbeing configuration.
Follow the guide: Configuration: Manage student wellbeing types
1. Optionally add a section heading.
2. Optionally add a description.
3. Optionally add a table heading.
4. Optionally select replace table with wellbeing category name.
If selected this will replace the table heading with the category name configured in wellbeing.
Refer to guide: Configuration: Manage student wellbeing categories