Actual coverage
Once you have an established curriculum, and your teachers are regularly planning and assessing lessons, the next step is to regularly review its impact on teaching and learning and to make any adaptations or changes.
Actual coverage is a record of what has been covered (and attained) in each subject by a class during this academic year. It is populated by teachers clicking 'Taught' or 'Assess this lesson'.
Analysing actual coverage
- Go to Plan and assess > Actual coverage.
- Choose a class and select a subject (and aspect if required).
Down the left, you will see the programmes of study for your selected subject.
Across the top are your chosen projects.
- A project with a green clipboard is a project that is in your planned curriculum
- A project with an orange i is a project that is not in your planned curriculum, but some lessons from that project have been taught to the selected class.
- A project with an orange hat is a programme of study that has been taught by a discrete lesson
The Actual coverage column shows how many times a programme of study has been planned, and how many of those planned programmes of study have actually been taught. For example, 5/13 (there are 13 planned lessons that cover the programme of study, and it has already been taught 5 times).
Under each project title, you can see how many times a programme of study is planned in that project, and how many of those planned programmes of study have actually been taught. Click on any of the outlined numbers to see details of when those statements have been taught.
If a teacher has taught a lesson more than once, this will count towards actual coverage. For example, the programme of study below has been taught twice in Tomorrow's World, and the coverage is showing 3/2 (there were 2 planned lessons that cover the programme of study, but it has been taught 3 times).
If coverage has been achieved by teaching a lesson from a project not in your curriculum, this will show in the Actual coverage column as +1 (or the number of additional times it has been covered). For example, the first programme of study was planned to be taught once in Frozen Kingdoms, and has been taught, but it has also been covered in Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The Actual coverage shows 1/1 +1 (there was 1 planned lesson and that has been taught, there was also 1 unplanned lesson that has been taught).
Assessing gaps via actual coverage
When analysing your actual coverage, you may know that some of the planned activities have already been taught, but have not yet been marked as taught. You can assess this lesson directly from this page using the steps below:
- Click any outlined number (e.g. 3/5 ).
- Click on the title of the lesson that has the message 'This lesson has not yet been taught'.
- In the top right corner of the box, change the date (and time if necessary), and click "Assess this lesson".
- To edit pupil attainments for individuals or learning groups, click "Edit attainment"
- To continue looking at Actual coverage, click "Cancel".
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