About managing rosters

A roster associates students with locations. This association determines the groups in which students can be tested and the way data will be reported.

DataManager allows you to create one or more rosters for specific reporting purposes. The scenarios described below will help you decide whether you need a single roster or multiple rosters.

Single Roster

If your school system requires a single reporting structure for all class locations, then you will need a single roster that associates each student with a class location. For example, if your school system is planning to administer Iowa Assessments Form G to all third graders at Emerson, Longfellow, and Whittier elementary schools, and you want the results reported by classroom teacher in each building, you would need a single roster that associates each student with a single classroom teacher.

Multiple Rosters

If your school system requires a custom reporting structure for each class location, then you must assign multiple rosters that associate students with multiple class locations.

For example, your school system is planning to administer the IowaFlex Mathematics and the IowaFlex Reading in the same testing window, and you want results reported by teacher. You would need one roster that associates students with their math teachers and another roster that associates students with their reading teachers.

Riverside Insights creates rosters for your organization using the location, staff, and student data files you submit. See Creating and Submitting Data Files for more information. After the initial creation of rosters, the Manage Rosters page allows you to add, edit, delete, export, deactivate, and activate rosters.