Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Teacher evaluation in eVAL can't be coded as Comprehensive, is stuck on Focus

On of our principals discovered this bug in the eVAL system.  What she discovered was that if an administrator has already created an observation cycle for a teacher when she was marked as Focused in eVAL, even when the teacher was switched back to Comprehensive, the setting for the observation cycle previously created was stuck as Focused, and couldn't be changed. 

The resolution the principal found was to delete that "stuck" observation cycle, and create a new one, which would then come up as Comprehensive.  

We believe this would be the same issue and resolution regardless of whether the teacher started as Comprehensive or Focused, but got changed after a cycle was started.  This prevents the principal from appropriately coding the evaluation text, as it will only provide a subset of the coding tools for a Focused evaluation.