The change log

Open the menu behind your photo — at the foot of the sidebar, or the top of the screen on a phone — and choose Change log. It records marks, notes and absences; children, their classes and their moves; templates put on classes and taken off; templates made, renamed, shared or deleted, and the questions, units and documents inside them; standards added, reworded and retired, and the state, grades and subjects a district follows; districts, schools and teams; people's places in them and their invitations; and every two-step sign-in reset.

A school's administrators read their school's entries, a district's administrators their district's, and Mastery Board's administrators all of them. Teachers cannot read it. Nobody can change or remove an entry through the app.

Finding a change

Entries are newest first, a hundred at a time, and each says When, Who and What. A district's administrators see a School column as well.

1. Narrow it with the buttons across the top: Everything, Marks and notes, Children and classes, People and access, Templates, or Standards.
2. Type a child's name or Student ID, or a member of staff's name or email, into Search. A child finds every change about them; a member of staff finds the changes they made and the ones about them, such as being put on a team or given a place at a school. An invitation is found by searching for the person who sent it.
3. Choose the days From and To — and, for district and Mastery Board administrators who can see more than one, a District or a School. Then choose Search. Clear takes the search and filters away.
4. Choose a name in the Who column to see only the changes that person made. Everyone's changes undoes it.
5. Choose Older changes to go back further, and Newest changes to come back.

Edits to a template come one entry per person per hour: someone working on a template for a while is one “Edited a template”, with a line for each thing they changed — the template's name, a unit, and each question, saying what its name and marks were before and after and which words or standards were added and removed. Something changed and put back as it was isn't listed. An hour later, or once someone else has edited the template, a new entry starts. Moving questions or units up and down isn't recorded, and nor is building a new template in its first hour — “Made a template” covers that. Handing a template to someone else, moving it or archiving it is still an entry of its own.

A standard is its own kind of entry rather than part of a template's, because "who changed the standards our reports run on" is a question a district asks on its own. Each says which standard, by its code or by its words. A standard your district wrote is your district's entry; one a school wrote, or a teacher typed into the Template Builder, is that school's.

The address in your browser holds the search, so you can bookmark it or send it to another administrator — they see only the entries they are allowed to.

An entry says what was done and what to: “Changed marks”, with the child, the unit and class, and each question's mark before and after; “Took a child off a class”; “Invited someone”; “Reset someone's two-step sign-in”.

Marks come one entry per child per unit. A teacher marking a child's unit over a few minutes is one “Marked a unit”, saying how many questions she marked. A mark tapped and cleared again isn't there at all. A mark that was already there and is changed shows what it was and what it became. An hour later, or once someone else has marked that child's unit, a new entry starts, so a correction made later stands out. Absent, exempt and the unit's note go in the same entry.

Only what someone did directly is an entry. Deleting a class is one entry, not one for every mark that went with it. For a template, it records the template being made, renamed, shared, moved or deleted — not each edit inside it.

Deleting stays deleting. A child deleted for good takes their entries with them and leaves one entry saying the record was deleted, by whom and when. A school or district deleted takes its entries too.