Creating the W@S survey tools

How to use the W@S surveys and tools

The Wellbeing@School surveys and tools are free to use for all New Zealand schools and can be administered from the Dashboard area once you have logged in to your school account.

Log in to Wellbeing@School at https://www.nzcerassist.org.nz/login

To set up a new account go to https://www.nzcerassist.org.nz/register, or for password renewal please visit https://www.nzcerassist.org.nz/password/reset.

Survey administration area

After logging on as an Admin, administer your school surveys and view your reports from the Current Surveys page within the Dashboard.

There are a number of functions available for surveys in the Current survey list:

Preview option to establish user experience of sitting the survey.

Download PDF option for the survey (Student Survey, Teacher Survey or School Self-Review Tool).

Manage Groups to set up / edit students groups in the Student Survey, or invite staff to participate in the Teacher survey.

Reports to view reports from collated data once a minimum of 5 responses have been submitted to a survey.

Data Entry for entering paper-based student responses against the Student Survey.

Edit to change Survey Type or amend survey start date.

Disable/Enable to amend participant access to a survey.

Remove to delete a survey if no responses have been submitted.

1. Creating the W@S Student Surveys

All Wellbeing@School surveys are set up by the school Administrator within the Wellbeing@School toolkit.

  1. After logging on as an Admin, go to the Dashboard page and expand Wellbeing@School Toolkit (W@S) under the Subscribed Products heading to display access to the W@S SURVEY toolkit link. This will take you to the Surveys page where you can set up, administer or delete surveys.
  2. Click the + CREATE SURVEY link to the right of your screen, then click in the Select Survey Type box to choose the survey.
  3. Complete the Start Date field (note: the system will automatically assign a 10 week end date).
  4. Both the Primary Student Survey and the Intermediate Student Survey require a minimum of 1 Group for password generation. Enter a relevant Group name against the ‘Group 1’ field (eg. Michael’s class) and click CREATE at the bottom right to have a unique token automatically assigned against every Group created. (Click the + symbol if more than one Group is required.)
  5. The survey is now created and you will be returned to the Surveys page.

Note: when the children are ready to sit the survey, go into the survey to retrieve the tokens by clicking the Manage Groups icon listed beneath the Actions heading.  The Group names and tokens are displayed and can be given to the relevant teachers along with the https://www.nzceronline.org.nz/ link (displayed above the list of groups) for the children to enter into their browser.

 

Selecting the online or paper version of the W@S Student Survey

You can choose to sit the Wellbeing@School Student Surveys either as an online OR paper (hard copy) survey.
Schools can data enter the survey scripts through the online facility; see below for further detail. Once this is complete, you can view a range of reports of your school data.
 

Data entering the paper W@S Student Survey scripts

Once the paper W@S Student Survey scripts have been completed you will need to data enter these. For W@S Student Surveys you will also need to know what group the student scripts have come from.

To data enter the student scripts:

  1. Make sure you are logged in as an Admin and at your Survey summary page.
  2. Select the data entry icon for the W@S Student Survey you are data entering.
  3. Identify the respective group and click on the data entry icon.
  4. Use either keyboard or mouse to select the answer which matches the survey script responses – make sure you mark on the scripts to indicate that they have been entered.
  5. Click + CREATE at the bottom of the page.
  6. Repeat this for each student script.

Please Note: NZCER no longer offers a data entry service for student scripts.

2. Creating the W@S Teacher Survey

The Administrator sets up the Teacher Survey and invites teachers to join.

Note: Teachers are required to have their own account – this enables them to complete the survey at a time that suits them, or re-visit the survey.

Part 1: Creating the W@S Teacher Survey

  1. After logging on as an Admin, go to the Dashboard page and expand Wellbeing@School Toolkit (W@S) under the Subscribed Products heading to display access to the W@S SURVEY toolkit link. This will take you to the Surveys page where you can set up, administer or delete surveys.
  2. Next, click the + CREATE SURVEY link to the right of your screen, then click in the Select Survey Type box to choose W@S Teacher survey.
  3. Complete the Start Date field (note: the system will automatically assign a 10 week end date).
  4. Click the CREATE button to the right of the screen.
  5. The survey is now created and you will be returned to the Surveys page.

Part 2: Providing Teacher access to the survey

Each teacher must have their own account within Assist to sit the W@S Teacher Survey. The Admin should invite them to self-subscribe by sending them the unique and automatically generated ‘Survey Link for new and existing users’ web address. This link is located by clicking the ‘Manage Users’ icon beneath the Actions heading on the Surveys page. (Note that teachers will only need to create an account once.)

Copy the unique aqua coloured website link and email it to each teacher so that they can self-register and be automatically added to the survey. Once they log on, their token to sit the W@S Teacher Survey will be visible when they access the MY ASSIGNMENTS tab within the Dashboard.

3. Creating and Completing the W@S School Self-Review Tool

Complete the SSRT online after you have results from the Teacher Survey. Only one copy of the SSRT can be completed for each survey timeframe. The SSRT should be completed through collaborative agreement by the review team.

Read more about completing the SSRT.

Part 1: access the School Self-Review Tool:

  1. After logging on as Admin, go to the Dashboard page and expand Wellbeing@School Toolkit (W@S) under the Subscribed Products heading to display access to the W@S SURVEY toolkit link. This will take you to the Surveys page where you can set up, administer or delete surveys.
  2. Click the + CREATE SURVEY link to the right of your screen, then click in the Select Survey Type box to choose the survey.
  3. Complete the Start Date field (note: the system will automatically assign a 10 week end date).
  4. Click the CREATE button to the right of the screen.
  5. The survey is now created and you will be returned to the Surveys page.

Part 2: completing the School Self-Review Tool:

  1. Make sure you are logged in and at your Surveys page as the Administrator.
  2. Click on the administration icon  SSRT admin for the SSRT.
  3. This will take you to the SSRT admin page.
  4. Click on the SSRT link and begin answering the questions.
  5. Responses can be saved. The SSRT can be completed over a number of days.

Viewing the reports

Reports for the W@S surveys and tools automatically start generating once a minimum of 5 students have sat a survey.

Currently only the Item at a Glance Report is available. The Aspect and School at a Glance reports are coming soon.

  1. After logging on as an Admin, go to the Dashboard page and expand Wellbeing@School Toolkit (W@S) under the Subscribed Products heading to display access to the W@S SURVEY toolkit link. This will take you to the Surveys page where you can set up, administer or delete surveys.
  2. Click the Reports icon under the Actions heading to display the report.
  3. Filter as preferred (aspect, group, year level, gender, ethnicity etc). Note that filtered reports will only display if there are 5 or more responses.
  4. You can print the report by clicking on PRINT button at the top right of the page.

For help interpreting your school reports, see the help file Interpreting your school’s W@S reports.

Copying/printing the reports

All reports can be printed directly from the browser page.

NOTE: to print reports from your browser make sure your browser is set to Print background colours/images (select Page setup and then tick Print background colours/images).

Currently, only the Item at a Glance Report is available.

To print the Item at a Glance report:

  1. Open the report icon from the Actions heading on the Survey page.
  2. Click the PRINT button at the top right of the page.
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Samples of the W@S surveys/tools

Please note that the samples below contain only the first two pages of each survey/tool. The full surveys/tools are available to New Zealand Schools that have registered for access to Wellbeing@School.

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