As a school administrator, you can configure the DP core section in your progress reports to report student’s progress on Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS), Extended Essay, and Theory of Knowledge. Within the progress report template, you can customize sub-sections within these components to include key details like evaluation criteria, status, comments, overall progress, etc. Read this article to learn more!

Begin by navigating to the ‘Progress reports’ module under Programme level configurations for DP in the Admin portal. Once inside this module, go to ‘Progress report templates’, where you can select a new template or access an existing one.

Within a report template, navigate to ‘Layout configuration’ and locate the ‘DP core’ section. Click the arrow icon next to ‘DP core’ to enter this section.

Inside the ‘DP core’ section, you can configure various sub-sections and decide how they should appear in your progress report. Start by setting up the ‘Display settings,’ which allow you to choose whether to display the DP core components on the progress summary page, as a separate DP core section, or both.

💡Please note that by default, ‘DP core’ and all its sub-sections are enabled in new templates. However, you can easily change this by unchecking the boxes next to any of the sub-sections you don’t wish to include.

Under the ‘DP core’ section, select which DP core components to include in your progress report - Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS), Extended Essay (EE), and Theory of knowledge (TOK).

💡Please note that even if a DP core component is enabled in the template, it may not appear for a student if they are not involved in that specific component.

Let’s take a closer look at each DP core component to see how its sections are displayed in the progress report, along with the specific editing options available to teachers for each section.

You can configure the following sections within Creativity, Activity, Service:

1. Status: The status displayed in the top right corner of the report is directly pulled from the CAS module on Toddle, indicating whether the student’s CAS status is in progress or completed. Teachers cannot edit the status directly in the report. If they wish to update the status, they need to make changes in the CAS module itself; these changes will be reflected in the progress report until it is locked.

2. Description: You can enable this option to allow teachers a space to add a description of the student’s CAS experiences directly in the report.

3. Basic details: This section includes the adviser’s details, and the total number of hours spent by the student across the CAS strands. You can select which of these sub-sections to display in the report. All information under ‘Basic details’ is pulled directly from the CAS module and cannot be edited in the progress report.

4. CAS learning outcomes: You can enable the ‘CAS learning outcomes’ section to display the seven learning outcomes defined by the IB, along with each student’s ‘Achievement status’ for these outcomes. Information on the achievement status is pulled directly from the CAS module in Toddle and cannot be edited by teachers within the progress report. Additionally, there is an option to rate students on custom evaluation criteria for these outcomes. For example, the screenshot below highlights ‘Score’ as a custom evaluation criterion enabled for CAS in this report template. Remember that the option to rate CAS learning outcomes using custom evaluation criteria is available only in progress reports and does not appear in the CAS module itself.

💡Pro tip: You can enable custom evaluation criteria for DP core components under the ‘Evaluation settings’ section in your report template. Refer to this article to learn how you can configure custom evaluation criteria under the ‘Evaluation settings’ section in DP progress reports.

5. Grade Summary: You can enable the ‘Grade summary’ option to display the student’s ‘Overall progress’ which is automatically filled based on the progress marked by the teacher in the CAS module. Teachers can also edit this section directly in the progress report, with any edits syncing back to the CAS module. Keep in mind that any changes made in the CAS module will appear in the report only when the report is unlocked.

Here you can also provide an overall rating on any custom evaluation criteria (i.e., ‘Score’ in this case) enabled for this module in the progress report.

💡Please note that the option to rate on a custom evaluation criterion is only available in progress reports and doesn’t show in the CAS module itself.

6. CAS experiences: You can enable this option to display information about the experiences the student is involved in. You can configure this section by choosing the details you wish to include, such as experience title, experience status, duration, and CAS strands. This data is pulled from the CAS module and will appear in the report in view-only mode.

7. Adviser’s comment: You can enable the ‘Adviser’s comment’ section to allow the CAS adviser to add an overall comment about the student’s involvement in various CAS experiences during the relevant grading period. This comment is then displayed in the student’s report.

💡Please note that this field is not there in the CAS module and teachers will need to add this comment directly in the report.

Lastly, if you wish to add a new section use the ‘Add section’ option. Following are the different kinds of sections you can add using this option:

You can configure the following sections within Extended essay:

1. Status: The status displayed in the top right corner of the report is directly pulled from the EE module on Toddle, indicating whether the student’s essay status is started, approved, or completed. Teachers cannot edit the status directly in the report. If they wish to update the status, they need to make changes in the EE module itself; these changes will be reflected in the progress report until it is locked.

2. Description: You can enable this option to allow teachers a space to add a description of the student’s extended essay directly in the report.

3. Basic details: This section includes the essay title, research question, subject, supervisor details, and supervision hours. You can select which of these sub-sections to display in the report. All information under ‘Basic details’ is pulled directly from the EE module and cannot be edited in the progress report.

4. Assessment criteria: You can enable the ‘Assessment criteria’ section to display criterion-based marks for the extended essay. Teachers can view the marks they have assigned in the EE module, and can also edit these marks directly in the student’s progress report.

Additionally, you can enable or disable comments for each criterion by clicking on the comment icon next to the checkbox. Enabling comments will display the comments added by teachers for each criterion in the EE module, while also allowing them to edit these comments directly in the report.

💡Please note that if a teacher updates the marks in either the progress report or the EE module, these changes will automatically sync and reflect in both places. However, any changes made in the EE module will appear in the report only when the report is unlocked. Comments, however, don’t sync automatically. The system pulls comments from the EE module only when generating the report set. Any changes you make to the comments afterward, whether in the EE module or the progress report, won’t sync.

5. Grade Summary: You can enable the ‘Grade summary’ option to display the student’s ‘Overall progress’, and ‘Grade’ which is automatically filled based on the assessment done by the teacher in the EE module. Teachers can also edit this section directly in the progress report, with any edits syncing back to the EE module. Keep in mind that any changes made in the EE module will appear in the report only when the report is unlocked.

Here you can also provide an overall rating on any custom evaluation criteria (i.e., ‘Score’ in this case) enabled for this module in the progress report.

💡Please note that the option to rate on a custom evaluation criterion is only available in progress reports and doesn’t show in the EE module itself.

6. Supervisor’s comment: You can enable this option to display the supervisor’s comment from the Extended essay in the report. If a teacher has added a comment in the EE module, it will be pulled into the report and can be edited directly within the report.

💡Please note that the system pulls the supervisor’s comment from the EE module only when generating the report set. Any changes you make to the comment afterward, whether in the EE module or the progress report, won’t sync.

Lastly, if you wish to add a new section use the ‘Add section’ option. Following are the different kinds of sections you can add using this option:

In the ‘Theory of knowledge’ section, you’ll find separate sections for the TOK essay, the TOK exhibition, and an additional section for overall TOK grades and comment. Here, you can select elements under each section individually, customizing how they appear in your progress report.

1. Status: The status displayed in the top right corner of the report is directly pulled from the TOK Essay/Exhibition module on Toddle, indicating whether the student’s essay/exhibition status is started, approved, or completed. Teachers cannot edit the status directly in the report. If they wish to update the status, they need to make changes in the TOK module itself; these changes will be reflected in the progress report until it is locked.

2. Description: You can enable this option to allow teachers a space to add a description of the student’s TOK essay/exhibition directly in the report.

3. Essay details/IA details: This section includes the essay title/IA prompt, supervisor’s details, and the total number of hours spent by the supervisor. You can select which of these sub-sections to display in the report. All information under ‘Essay details/IA details’ is pulled directly from the TOK essay/exhibition module and cannot be edited in the progress report.

4. Grade summary: You can enable the ‘Grade summary’ option to display the student’s ‘Overall progress’, ‘Marks’, and ‘Grade’ which are automatically filled based on the assessment done by the teacher in the TOK essay/exhibition module. Teachers can also edit this section directly in the progress report, with any edits syncing back to the TOK essay/exhibition module. Keep in mind that any changes made in the TOK essay/exhibition module will appear in the report only when the report is unlocked.

5. Supervisor’s comment: You can enable this option to display the supervisor’s comment from the TOK essay/exhibition in the report. If a teacher has added a comment in the TOK essay/exhibition module, it will be pulled into the report and can be edited directly within the report.

💡Please note that the system pulls the supervisor’s comment from the TOK essay/exhibition module only when generating the report set. Any changes you make to the comment afterward, whether in the TOK module or the progress report, won’t sync.

1. Grade summary: This section displays a cumulative grade of the student based on the evaluations done for the TOK essay and TOK exhibition. If you enable the ‘Grade summary’ option you can see the total marks (out of 30) and grade (A to E) which are pulled directly from the TOK essay/exhibition module. Teachers can override the calculated score and grade of TOK directly in the progress report, with any edits syncing back to the TOK essay/exhibition section in the gradebook. Keep in mind that any changes made in the TOK essay/exhibition module will appear in the report only when the report is unlocked.

Here you can also provide an overall rating for TOK on any custom evaluation criteria (i.e., ‘Score’ in this case) in the progress report.

💡Please note that the option to rate on a custom evaluation criterion is only available in progress reports and doesn’t show in the TOK essay/exhibition module itself.

2. Supervisor’s comment: If you enable the ‘Supervisor’s comment’ option for the ‘Overall TOK evaluation’ section, it allows TOK supervisors to provide detailed feedback for both TOK components in the progress report.

💡Please note that this overall comment is only available in the progress report, not within the TOK modules on Toddle.

Lastly, if you wish to add a new section use the ‘Add section’ option. Following are the different kinds of sections you can add using this option:

Back on the ‘DP core’ page, under ‘More settings,’ you also have the option to enable/disable the adviser/supervisor comments for DP core on the Progress summary page. These comments are editable by teachers, and any changes made here will sync with the DP core page within the report and vice-versa, reflecting updates in both places.

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