Reporting Student Achievement and Progress Foundation to 10

Reporting to the department

Schools must upload their student achievement data (teacher judgements) for each curriculum area taught for every student enrolled at the school. This is uploaded to the department twice yearly via CASES21. The first upload occurs at the end of semester 1 and must be completed by June 30. The second upload occurs at the end of semester 2, prior to December 31 and prior to the school running the CASES21 Admin end of year rollover task.

To enable the department to process the data, schools must manage their student achievement data in two mandatory steps:

1. upload the data to CASES21
2. aggregate the data.

Video guides showing how to complete these steps are available below.

Schools can view the data they have uploaded into CASES21 via the School Information Portal. This achievement data from CASES21 is included in the Annual Report to the school community.

Student reporting software packages provided by commercial suppliers enable schools to report on student achievement against the Victorian Curriculum F–10 achievement standards, as reflected in the school's teaching and learning plan.

The reporting software must include certain functional specifications in order to meet the minimum mandatory requirements for:

• reporting student achievement to the department
• producing student reports for parents and carers.

Software packages enable customisation of report formats to suit schools’ and individual students' needs. Schools are advised to contact their reporting software vendors to discuss their specific needs.

Using software from a commercial supplier is not mandatory. Schools may elect to develop their own version for importing the data into CASES21.

Schools with very small student enrolments, including special developmental schools, can manually enter achievement data into CASES21 for reporting to the department. This process cannot be used to generate student reports for reporting to parents and carers. Information on the direct entry method is found in the annual CASES21 administrative guide, chapter 23, student achievement (PDF) (staff login required):

• Vendor software specifications student reporting (DOCX) – provides commercial software suppliers with information to meet the minimum mandatory requirements for the production of student reports in Victorian government schools. They contain:
  • the requirements for student reporting against the Victorian Curriculum F–10
  • technical information
  • links to supporting documentation.

Video guidance is available demonstrating how to upload and aggregate student achievement data to the CASES21 platform:

• watch Achievement Data Part 1 – Importing Student Achievement Data into CASES21 on Vimeo
• watch Achievement Data Part 2 – Aggregate Student Achievement Data in CASES21 on Vimeo.

Additional resources are also available to support reporting to the department:

• CASES21 importing and exporting interface specifications (DOCX) – defines the specific business systems requirements to enable the import and export of Victorian Curriculum F-10 report data to CASES21
• Victorian Curriculum F–10 reporting codes and scoring range (DOCX) – includes all the unique reporting codes for each curriculum area (learning area and capabilities), and the scoring range for each curriculum area. Further information is provided in the chapter on assigning scores for student reporting.

Schools should contact the service desk prior to the end of the semester if they have data-entry concerns.

Self service: Services Portal (staff login required)
Phone: 1800 641 943
Email: servicedesk@education.vic.gov.au