Class Tests

1. Log in as the owner (or as someone with plenty of permissions) 
2. Follow this path: Toolbox => Setup => Options => Class & Event Options => Use Class Testing
3. Refresh your Internet browser (Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Apple's Safari)

 

Follow this menu path: Clients => Class Tests

• Examples of test names would be "Running Test" "Weight Loss" or "Heart Rate Test"

Follow this menu path: Clients => Class Test Questions

• Examples of test questions are "Weight on scale?" or "Time running 50 yard dash" or "Resting heart rate"
• Units - You would type "Seconds" or "Inches" or "LBs" in this box. It wants you to describe the "units" of measurement.
• Answer Type - Use this dropdown box to specify whether the test question answer will be entered numerically or with text.
• Show Best Value - If this column is checked, only the score for a class test question with multiple trials will display. For example, if a client recorded three time trials for a 20-yard-dash for one class, then checking this box would only display his or her best time on the client's Assessment Report.
• Precision - This column allows you to determine how many decimal places the scores displayed on the Assessment Report will be rounded. This only applies to numerical answers. For example, you might want to round to the fourth decimal place (5.2342 seconds) if you're measuring short sprints, but if you're measuring clients running half-marathons, then you may possibly only want to round to one decimal place (105.6 minutes).
• "Units Measured In" - The Assessment Report displays the unit of measurement (e.g., inches, feet, laps) beneath each class test question.

The Class Tests feature has a way to record trial information. In a few months, reports will be able to generate best trial scores for each class test. With this release, you can track multiple trials for one test. For example, if you are tracking running trials and your clients run the 40-yard-dash five times in an attempt to set their best time, you can now enter the five different trial times. In the near future, another feature will compliment this one and display the best time for each client.

 

Trials can now be recorded on the Class Sign-In screen and each client's Profile screen. It's up to you to determine if a low score is best (e.g., golf class) or high score (e.g., calories burned on a treadmill) is best.

 

To set up multiple trials for a class test answer:

1. Follow this menu path: Clients => Class Test Questions
2. For each test question, set the number of trials, i.e., how many different test scores will be recorded for this test question.
3. If you want the system to only display the highest or lowest results from multiple trials, then use the dropdown box titled Calculated Result to choose (the outcomes will be calculated in a future MINDBODY feature, but it's good to start gathering the client data now)

• None - The system will display all trial results on the Profile screen and Class Sign-In screen
• Largest Value - The system will display the client's greatest trial score for that test question (ideal for events where a higher score is better such as spinning classes, weight lifting, Scrabble.)
• Smallest Value - The system will display the client's lowest trial score for that test question (ideal for events where a lowest score is better such as timed races, golf, Hearts).

1. Click the Update button

 

Now, when you enter the client's scores on the Classes screen, you'll be able to enter a value for each trial. You determined how many trails would occur on the Class Questions screen.

 

1. Follow this menu path: Clients => Class Tests
2. Click Edit Test button on the far right for the test that you want to add a question to
3. Use the drop down box beneath the word "Question" to choose which question that you want to assign to the test.
4. Adjust the sort order to make one question come before another. Questions with lower sort number will be asked first. For example, if "What was the heart rate?" has a sort order of "0," it will be asked before "How many calories were burned?" which has a sort order of "2." 
5. Click the Add Question button.

1. Click on the Classes tab
2. Click on the name of the Class that you want to assign a test to.
3. At the bottom, click on the "Assign New Test" button once you have chosen the test that you want to add.

1. Click on the Classes tab
2. Click on the class Sign-In link
3. Click on the pencil/paper icon next to each person's name
4. Answer the question with the correct test score

As long as a client has completed at least two class tests and scores have been recorded, you'll notice a [View Progress Report] link on each client's Profile screen. You can use this report to compare the scores between two tests completed by a client.

 

How to see a progress report:

1. Lookup a client
2. Click on the [View Progress Report] link
3. Choose a test
4. Compare two trials

 

The Question Notes feature allows you to add notes beside the Units Fields. For example, if you're recording high jumps, your note could be "Round to the nearest centimeter e.g., 170." That way, when units are being entered after a trial, your staff members won't be typing inches or millimeters into the results field.

 

To enter the notes:

1. Follow this menu path: Clients => Class Test Questions
2. Enter notes into the Question Notes field
3. Click the Update Questions button

Trial Notes allow for you to enter descriptive information beside each score to account for an anomaly. You can enter notes next to each score, if needed; and the notes will appear on the client's progress report to help explain the data. For example, maybe you're recording 800 meter trial races. And your client pulls a hamstring at the end of her last trial. You can now enter a trial note that explains the poor time for her last race, such as "Pulled hamstring in the last 50 meters."

 

You enter the note by clicking on the tiny note icon that is located on the following screens:

• Classes tab => Sign In => Click the Class Test icon beside a client's name
• Client's Profile screen => Click the link for a previous test
• Client's Profile screen => Click [View Progress Report] link => Compare two trials

Question Categories let you categorize test questions. The categories will be used to organize results on the Progress Report Screen, which also gives the printed Progress Report more division and clarity (e.g., categorize running trials as either: Sprints, Middle Distance Events, or Long Distance Events)

 

How to put questions into categories:

1. Follow this menu path: Clients => Class Test Questions
2. Click on the [Question Categories] link in the upper right corner
3. Add a new category (e.g., Sprints)
4. Click on the [Class Test Questions] link
5. Use the dropdown boxes on the far right to assign categories to questions
6. Click the Update Questions Button at the bottom

You can view the categories by comparing two tests on any client's Progress Report.

Your clients' height and weight are compared in little gray windows at the top of their progress report for class tests. For this to happen, you must carefully name the questions "Body Weight" or "Height" - it's case-sensitive too.

 

Where to name class tests questions:

• Clients => Class Tests Questions

 

Note: If you're going to express height in mixed units, like 5 foot 6 inches, please separate the digits with a decimal (e.g., 5.6). Do not separate mixed units with an apostrophe or quote (e.g., 5' 6").