This form is the heart of MemoryKids. All assessment information is entered with this form.

Select a class with the top drop down box. The toggle boxes allow you to select whether to edit by Indicator, Element, or by Domain. The drop down boxes next to the toggle boxes allow you to select the specific one that you want to update. If you are editing by Indicator the form is reconfigured to show all Assessments for that Indicator simultaniously. If more that one screen is required to show the Element or Domain, a set of controls appears allowing you to frame from one screen to the next. The form automatically calculates the count and percent complete for each Indicator, student, and class. If partial mastery is used then a user defined decimal value is counted for the indicator.

MemoryKids remembers each Assessment individually. The Assessment drop down box allows you to choose which Assessment that you want to edit. WARNING! It is easy to get confused and edit the wrong Assessment. After selecting the Class, always make sure that you have selected the correct Assessment to edit. This setting may also be changed by selecting SETUP.

The toggle box group with "Count" "Percent" and "Both" can be used to display only the counts, only the percents, or as shown both.

From the drop down box select a Default Value and then select a cell defined by a column / Indicator and a row / Student. The cell is automatically filled with the Default Value. A group of cells may be filled by fencing in an area of cells.

The changes that you make are held temporarily until you exit the form or select another class to edit. If you have then made changes the Class button wil become enabled. By clicking on the Class button you save the changes to the database. If you want to return to the data as it was when you last saved the Class just select the Undo button. Once you change Classes, the new one becomes the current one and any changes are then history. Be sure that you are editing the correct Class before proceeding to the next one.

The students with special needs as defined by the active grouping are identified by the astrix after their name. Another form is used to define the groupings up to nine different groups, and which one is active. The students are listed first by the sort order from the biographical data, if one exists. Then by last name alphabetically. This makes if possible to specifically position a student in the list. Indicators are listed starting with the smallest ID number increasing to the greatest.

The label SETUP is a button to call the form with default settings. This form can be used to define how many columns are displayed, what Indicator value is default, whether the Indicators run from left to right or right to left, and whether the student names are on the right or the left.

If there are more Indicators for an Element or Domain than can fit on a page, framing buttons are diplayed which will shift left or right to the next page of Indicators. The Indicator descriptions are displayed so that they will be readable on a printed sheet in portrait orientation. You may also view them horizontally on the screen for easier reading by double clicking on the description.

The buttons with arrows next to the student names can be clicked to fill or clear all Indicators for that student on the displayed page. In the same way all students may be cleared or filled for a particular Indicator by clicking on the Indicator ID label or the Indicator stat label. The entire class may also be cleared or filled with the arrow button above the first student name. A check box labeled Clear is used to determine if these buttons clear or fill. A specific Indicator and a specific student may be marked complete by clicking on the corresponding cell. A double click will clear the cell. Holding down the shift key temporarily checks the clear checkbox until the shift key is released. These buttons are clicked to fill down or across, they will not overwrite existing information in any box unless the Overwrite checkbox is checked. An group of adjacent indicators for a group adjacent students may be marked by "fencing" and are on the screen. Start by holding down the mouse button in one corner and dragging the mouse to the opposite corner and releasing the button. An entry may also be cleared by double clicking on a cell.

The toggle boxes below SETUP let you limit the Framing. The left box Frames through the entire Framework. The center one restricts Framing to the current Domain. The right one restricts Framing to the current Element.

The "Carry" check box allows you to decide if you want to enter each Assessment from scratch or if you want to Carry the data from an earlier Assessment into later ones.

When you check the "Goals" check box much of the text on the screen changes to italic. This is to let you know that you are no longer editing Assessment data, but are then editing Goals. Goals may be recorded by any indicator value from No Mastery to Super Mastery. Currently MemoryKids makes no distinction between the values. In the future reports may allow you to do some analysis beyond Goal or no Goal.

By selecting from the dropdown box next to the printer icon, the user can select a variety of ways to print the page or groups of pages.

A Grantee / District may choose to print these forms and let teachers fill them in with colored markers, and then collect them periodically to let a designated person update the MemoryKids file for reports and graphs. Another way to use this is to distribute copies of MemoryKids to each site and then periodically email them to a central site and use the tools provided to recombine them into a single file for reporting. Either way MemoryKids will save many many hours of work compiling the data and preparing reports and charts.

If you hold down the Ctl key before selecting an Indicator and Student, a form will appear to edit the Markers associated with that Indicator and Student. This only works for those Indicators that have Markers. They are identified by the … leading the description.