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Achievements are the items that learners receive rewards for. These are grouped under School Activities such as Academics, Tennis, Leadership. Typical Achievements would be "Top 10 per subject", "1st Team Captain", "Head boy".
Select to view the list according to their status. One or all of these can be displayed: Active, Inactive and/or deleted.
Add an Achievement
- Select the relevant School Category and underlying Activity
- Click on +Add New
- The first three field s should be pre-populated. If not, please close and re-open the window.
- For the Academics Category, the Achievement Criteria has to be selected. These criteria rules make use of learner marks to allocate achievements.
- Select a Sponsor if it should be printed on the certificate.
- Enter the Achievement name in Afrikaans and English. This name will print on the certificate below the Activity.
The next steps have to be repeated for both the Afrikaans and English text boxes even if you are planning to print in one language only.
- To display the Achievement on the certificate, click the "Achievement" button to add it to the achievement text box. Click "Prestasie" for the Afrikaans text box.
- Additional fields can be added to the text boxes, such as "Subject" or Optional results that was set up for the criteria. These will be listed by the name of the optional result as set up in the criteria.
Best practice:
Add only the Achievements and Optional results buttons to the Achievement text box. Format the text as you would like it to appear on the certificate. The rest of the fields will be set up in the Certificate Template Process.
- Save the Achievement
- Achievements shown in bright pink have not yet been linked to a certificate template.
- Refer to "Certificate Templates" article for instructions.
IMPORTANT: Academic achievements are allocated to learners based on this setup. If you edit any information in an achievement you must re-allocate the new format to learners at My School | Achievements | Automatic Allocation to ensure that the changes will be displayed on the certificate when it is generated again.
Edit or Delete Achievements
- Choose the relevant School Activity Category
- Double click the selected Achievement in the relevant Category and Activity.
- Edit entries and selections as preferred.
- To remove an Achievement, mark the Status as "Inactive" or "Deleted".
- An Inactive status can be activated again at a later stage.