Your Settings Page

Your Settings Page

The Settings page is where you personalise how ReportRocket generates report comments for your classes. Everything here is year-level specific: changes you make apply only to the year level you have selected.

Getting There

Click Settings in the navigation sidebar from any page. To return, click the Back to Dashboard button at the top of the Settings page.

Choosing a Year Level

There are two ways to switch between year levels:

• Year level pills: colour-coded buttons across the top of the main content area. The selected year is highlighted so you always know which one you are editing.
• Year level dropdown: in the sidebar on desktop, or in the header bar on mobile.

Tip: On your first visit, a guided tour highlights the year level selector and explains how per-year-level settings work. After completing it once, a Take a Tour link appears at the bottom of the sidebar so you can replay it any time.

Sidebar Navigation

The sidebar organises settings into three groups:

Click any section to load it in the main content area. On mobile, tap the menu icon to open the sidebar.

Subjects

Subjects are the top-level curriculum areas (e.g. English, Mathematics, Science).

Three Types of Subjects

"Managed by school" Badge

If your school administrator has disabled a template subject, you will see an amber Managed by school badge and the toggle will be locked. Contact your school admin if you need this changed.

Adding a Custom Subject

1. Click Add Custom Subject
2. Enter the subject name (e.g. "Creative Writing")
3. Click Add Subject

A subject name can be up to 100 characters, and it must be different from every other subject at that year level, including the standard curriculum subjects. Capitals and extra spaces don't make a name different, so "the arts" counts as the same name as "The Arts". If a name is already taken, ReportRocket tells you and asks you to pick another. The same check applies when you rename a subject.

Editing and Deleting

• Click the pencil icon next to a custom subject to rename it
• Click the bin icon to delete it (this also removes all its categories and criteria)

Template and school subjects cannot be renamed or deleted, only toggled on or off.

Categories

Categories organise criteria within a subject (e.g. "Reading" and "Writing" within English).

1. Select a subject from the dropdown at the top of the section
2. Expand a category card to see its criteria
3. Use the Add Category button to create a new one
4. Use the Import button to copy criteria from another year level

Categories follow the same template, school, and custom pattern as subjects: template and school categories can be toggled but not edited.

Category names follow the same naming rules as subjects: up to 100 characters, and different from the other categories alongside them in that subject, ignoring capitals and extra spaces.

Proficiency Scales

Proficiency scales define rating levels used during report generation (e.g. High, Medium, Low).

Creating a Custom Proficiency

1. Click Create New
2. Enter a name (e.g. "Reading Comprehension Levels")
3. Add your levels using the Add Level button
4. Click Save

Changing a Category's Scale

Once a category has criteria written for its proficiency scale, its scale can't be changed. Criteria are written against the levels of one scale, so switching would hide them on Settings and on the generate page. If you try, the edit dialog explains why and Save Changes stays unavailable. Delete or move the criteria first, or keep the current scale.

Review Team

School Users

If you belong to a school, your reviewers are managed through school membership. When you assign a Review Pack, you choose from your school's members directly. The Review Team section shows an information card explaining this.

Individual Users

If you are not part of a school, you can add colleagues manually:

1. Enter their name and email address
2. Click Add Colleague. They receive an invitation email.

Each colleague shows a status badge:

• Registered (green): they have a ReportRocket account
• Needs Account (amber): they have not signed up yet. Use Resend Invite to send the email again.

To remove a colleague, click the bin icon on their row.

Examples

Example comments show ReportRocket your preferred writing style and tone.

A badge at the top shows where your current examples come from:

• Using Template or Using School Default (green): you are using the defaults
• Customised (blue): you have made personal changes

Adding an Example

1. Click Add Example
2. Paste a high-quality report comment
3. Click Save. A character count appears beneath each example.

Copy-on-Write

Editing a template or school example does not change the original. ReportRocket automatically creates a personal version for you. Your school's originals are preserved.

Reverting

Click Revert to Template or Revert to School Default to discard your personal changes and restore the originals. You can revert individual examples or all examples for the selected year level.

Style Guide

The style guide controls how ReportRocket writes your comments. It has three sections:

Each section says where its settings come from, for example Following your school or Your version.

If You Belong to a School

Your comments follow your school's style guide. Your school admin sets it once for the whole school and adjusts it for a year level where needed.

Usually your school manages the style guide, so this section is read-only: you can see exactly what your comments follow, and changes go through your school admin. If your school admin has turned School-Managed Style Guide off, you can keep your own version of a section with Customise for your ... guide (the button names your year level). Everything you leave alone keeps following your school, and Use your school's puts a section back on the school's guide.

If You Are Not Part of a School

Your comments follow the ReportRocket template for that year level. Click Customise for your ... guide on a section to make it your own, and Use the template to go back.

Unsaved Changes

If you switch year level or move to another Settings section while style guide changes are unsaved, ReportRocket checks first. Choose Keep editing to go back and save them, or Discard changes to leave them behind.

Tip: Word-level rules belong in Word and phrase preferences, not in the free text. Use the tone and structure box for instructions like "Use encouraging language. Start each comment with the student's name. Avoid educational jargon." rather than "Write nicely." See Style guides and examples for how the school's guide is set up.

Mobile

Settings are read-only on mobile. You will see a banner that says "Settings are read-only on mobile. Use a desktop or tablet to make changes." You can still browse subjects and view your settings, but adding, editing, or deleting requires a larger screen.

Settings Tour

On your first visit to Settings, a three-step guided tour highlights the year level selector and explains how per-year-level settings work. After completing it once, a Take a Tour link appears at the bottom of the sidebar so you can replay it any time.

Next Steps

• Style guides and examples: how the school-wide style guide works, and choosing good examples
• Understanding criteria selection: how to select criteria during report generation
• Generating your first report: a step-by-step guide to generating your first comment