General
How can I determine how many department or school documents remain unsigned?
You can run the Unsigned Documents Report in Strive. This report displays evaluation documents the evaluator has made viewable but which are not electronically signed by one or both parties.
How do I access Strive on my mobile device?
There is no separate app for Strive in the app stores. To access Strive, open a browser window on a mobile device, and navigate to your district website to access your Eduphoria link. Sign in with your username and password. Click on Show Desktop Applications and select Strive.
Where can I find additional information about Strive?
Eduphoria provides articles and videos to help you navigate Strive. Browse through the options below to learn more.
Staff Members
How do I get the right to select my educators? I set myself to Principal in my profile, but I can’t access my educators.
For security reasons, the Appraise Staff right is a Management setting and is unavailable in profile settings. To access the Appraise Staff right, contact someone in your district who has access to the Management tool and can change the rights. Once they assign you the right, you can select your educators. Learn more about setting up and understanding Strive roles and rights.
How do I add new staff members to Strive?
To read step-by-step instructions for adding new staff members, see Creating User Accounts.
If the staff member is new to your district, they need to be added to the district Eduphoria account first. Some districts wait until certain contract start dates to add new users. Reach out to your district’s Eduphoria manager for more information.
Ensure new staff members complete their profile setup to appear in School View. District staff members transferring to a new school must update their profiles to reflect the change. Learn more about updating your profile.
How do I remove a staff member who is no longer at my school?
Contact someone in your district who manages user accounts to find out when the staff member’s user account will reflect the change. Sometimes, districts manage user accounts in their own system and wait until specific contract days to remove staff. Learn more about deleting and un-deleting user accounts.
I have new staff members who cannot select dimensions when entering a new goal. None of their teacher dimensions show for them to select. How do I fix this?
An evaluator must select staff members and assign them an Appraisee Type to allow staff members to connect their dimensions. Each evaluator at each school completes this task. Learn more about selecting your staff.
Can a staff member have more than one evaluator?
For someone with two or more evaluators, one evaluator must be listed as the Formal Evaluator by selecting the employee in the School View. Other evaluators in the same department or school can evaluate the staff member, but they are not listed as the Formal Evaluator. Other evaluators must select the staff member’s name on the School View and select the New Evaluation button to access the evaluation templates for that Appraisee Type. Learn more in Creating an Evaluation Document.
Note: Some districts set limitations for what Assistant Principals/Limited Appraisers can access. This role may be limited to viewing and appraising only their formal educators. However, the Campus Walkthrough Appraiser role can complete walkthroughs for all school staff.
Evaluations
Why is the electronic signature button missing on an evaluation?
The electronic signature button only appears once an evaluation is completed and the staff member has viewed the evaluation. When both criteria are met, the electronic signature button will appear on an evaluation. Learn more about how to authorize electronic signatures.
There is an electronic signature button, but it is not allowing me to sign the document. What should I do?
To follow the complete step-by-step guide, see Electronically Sign a Document.
Log in to your Eduphoria account.
Access your profile from the main apps screen and review the prompts to ensure the information is correct.
Reset the security question and answer by selecting any question from the drop-down menu and typing in your answer. Pay attention to capitalization and spacing as the answer must be typed exactly.
Return to electronically sign the document using your selected security question and answer.
I made a mistake on an evaluation document and need to fix it, but I already signed it. Can I unlock it and fix my mistake?
If one person signs an evaluation document, it is locked and cannot be edited. If an evaluation needs to be reopened for editing and the second person has not signed, clearing the signature unlocks the document. The person who signs the document first must clear their signature to reopen the evaluation. Only the signee can clear the signature. An evaluator cannot clear a signature on behalf of an educator and vice versa. Learn more about clearing your electronic signature.
After both parties have signed the document, the document becomes permanently locked and cannot be reopened for editing. You must recreate the document as a new document and delete the locked document. Learn more about deleting or removing a locked document.
How do I delete a locked evaluation?
Contact someone with the Strive Appraisal Administrator role in your district to delete and remove the evaluation document. Learn more about deleting or removing a locked document.
Copying Observation Data
What should I do if my questions did not copy over?
Look at your Observation and Summative documents side by side. If they are completely different, they will most likely not copy.
Make sure that the questions in both your Observation and Summative templates are connected to or tagged to a Framework/Dimension.
Confirm the text in the questions match.
For comments to copy from an Observation to a Summative, the Item Name for both Comment boxes must match exactly. This includes spacing and punctuation.
If the Observation Comment Box is named "Evidence 1.1:" and the Summative Comment Box is named "1.1 Evidence:", then the comments will not copy from the Observation to the Summative.
If I tagged my questions in the Observation template, will that copy over to my new Summative template if I create a new Summative template with the Copy feature?
Yes, tagged questions will be copied over.
What if I have not tagged my templates to the framework dimensions? Can I still do that?
Yes, you can go in and tag your questions to the dimensions at any time. Just be sure to Save and then select Update Existing Documents.
What happens if I remove the existing Summative document and someone has used that form to do a Summative?
If you remove a Summative document from the Appraisee Type and Summative documents are already created, those documents are moved to the Other Documents section.
Will it copy comments and ratings from another administrator or only the evaluator of record?
Regardless of who created the Observation, it will copy any rating or comment into the Summative.
When I check the box to import the Observation data in the Template Options, do I have to select Update Existing Documents?
No, you do not. This setting cannot be retroactive, so there is no need to update any documents that have already been created.
I see that I can copy an Evaluation Template into a Summative. Does that mean that the comments will copy over just like the Observations?
Not at this time. We know this will be requested, but to ensure we got the feature out for Observations, this will happen for next year.
How does the data copy from the Observation to the Summative?
An algorithm matches data based on the question type, tagged dimensions, and matching text.
First, the logic looks at the question type, such as the number of columns for a matrix question. Next, the logic looks for tagged dimensions. Lastly, the logic looks for matching text.