Player Development

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Development Across Your Teams The Development Page Skill Ratings Progress Adding an Assessment Assessing at an Event The Development Plan Writing a Plan Skills Worked On The Training Log Assessments Assessing a Whole Team Sharing With the Family Evaluation Sheets Skill Areas What We Look For Assessment Scales Assessment Periods Which Scale an Assessment Uses Related

Development Across Your Teams

Shows player development across your teams in one place. Click Development under Coaching in the menu.

Team: Shows one team's players. All Teams shows every team you can see.
Due for Assessment: Players with no assessment in their team's current period, oldest first. Between periods nobody is due, and the panel names the next period. A season with no periods uses the last 30 days instead. Click Assess to score one player, or an Assess team button to score a whole team on one grid.
Reminder: When a period ends within a week, the alert bell counts the players still to assess on each team. Click the reminder to open the team's grid.
Recent Assessments: The newest assessments. Click a date to open that assessment on the player's own page.
Goals in Progress: Open goals from active development plans, soonest due first, with the latest score against the target. Target Reached marks a goal whose score has reached its target.
Training Log: The newest lessons, camps and work at home across your players.
Setup: Links to Skill Areas and Assessment Scales, for a role that reads the organization's settings.

The page lists only the players your role reads development for. Families never see it.

The Development Page

Shows how one player scores in each skill area over time. Open a player and click the Development tab beside Profile.

Skill area: One skill that assessments score, such as Skating or Passing. Your organization keeps one list.
Assessment: The scores and notes one coach gave a player on one date.
Score: A step on the assessment's scale. Step 1 is the lowest. A higher step is stronger.

Role	What the Role Can Do
Player Development at Edit, whole organization	Opens and edits development for every player.
Player Development at Edit, chosen teams	Opens and edits development for players on those teams.
Player Development at View	Opens and reads the development page. Cannot add, edit, share or delete.
Parent or player	Sees only the assessments, plans and training records shared with the family, on the family home.

Skill Ratings

Lists the latest score in each skill area the player has been scored in.

Score: The score from the newest assessment that scored this skill area.
Change: Up, Down or Same compared with the score before it, counted in steps. Blank after the first score on a scale.
Assessed: The date of the newest score.
Scores From: Shows only the scores from the assessment period you select. Latest Scores shows the newest score in each skill area. The select appears once the player has an assessment in a period.
Compare With: Counts Change from the newest score in the period you select. A column headed by that period shows its score. Previous Score compares with the score before it.
Archived: Marks a skill area your organization no longer offers. The old scores still show.
Categories: Skill areas sit under the category headings your organization set on the Skill Areas page. Skill areas with no category come first, with no heading. An archived category's skill areas show with no heading.

Progress

Draws one small chart for each skill area the player has scores in. Each chart shows how the scores changed over time.

Points: One point for each score, joined by a line. A single score draws one point.
Steps: The scale's steps run up the side. Step 1 is at the bottom.
Dates: The first and last dates run along the foot. The points are spaced by the days between the scores.
Scale: A chart uses the scale of the newest assessment in that skill area. The scale's name shows beside the skill area.
Target: A dashed line at the target step of the active plan's goal in that skill area. Shows only when the goal's target is on the chart's scale. The line turns green once the latest score reaches it.
Earlier scores not shown: A score given on another scale does not compare with the chart's scores and does not appear. A line under the chart counts these scores.
Periods: A shaded band marks each assessment period the chart's scores fall in. The period's name shows above the band.
Categories: Each category's charts sit under its heading, in the order of the Skill Areas page. Charts with no category come first.

Hold the pointer over a point to see its date and score. A screen reader reads every date and score as a table.

Adding an Assessment

Scores the player on one date. Each assessment keeps its own notes.

Click New Assessment at the top of the development page.
Check the Date. The field opens on today's date.
Select a Score for each skill area you rated. Leave a skill area on None to skip that skill area.
Check Last and Target under a score. Both read on the scale the form uses.
Type a Note beside any score. Type an Overall Note for the whole assessment.
Click Save at the top of the page.

Last: The player's last score in the skill area on the form's scale.
Target: The step an active plan's goal aims for in the skill area. Only Open and Working goals show a target.
Another scale: A score or target on another scale does not show. Select another Scale and both read again.
Category headings: Each category's name stands over its skill areas. Skill areas with no category come first, with no heading. See Skill Areas.

An assessment needs at least one score. A note beside a skill area needs a score too.

Assessing at an Event

Scores players from an event's Roster tab while you review the event. Each assessment keeps the event it was made at.

Open the event and click the Roster tab.
Click Edit on a player's row. The row's panel opens.
Click New Assessment under Assessment. The Date opens on the day of the event.
Select the scores and type the notes.
Click Save at the top of the page. The Roster tab opens again at that player's row.

Edit Assessment: Replaces New Assessment once the player has an assessment from this event. A player has one assessment for each event.
Who Can Assess: A role with Player Development at Edit for the player. A role at View sees no Assessment group.

Deleting the assessment on the development page lets you make a new one from the same event.

The Development Plan

Lists the goals a player works toward. A player has one active plan at a time. Completed plans stay under Other Plans.

Goal: What the player works toward, with an optional note.
Skill Area: Optional. Links the goal to a skill area.
Target: The step on the assessment scale the goal aims for. Optional.
Progress: The latest score on the goal's scale, then the target, such as Proficient of Advanced. A bar fills one segment for each step up to the target.
By: The date the goal aims for. Optional.
Status: Open, Working, Met or Dropped. Select a status on the development page and the status saves. Met records the date.

Other Plans: Lists the player's other plans. Click View to show one in the panel.
Target Reached: Shows once the latest score reaches the target. The goal stays at its status until a coach changes it.
Mark Met: Sets the goal's status to Met and records the date.
Another scale: A score on another scale does not count toward a goal. A goal without a target shows the latest score on any scale.
Edit: Changes a plan that is not active. The active plan uses Edit Plan.
Delete: Opens a band that asks first. Click Delete It to remove the plan from the development page and the family home. You cannot undo the delete.

Writing a Plan

Sets the plan's title, dates, notes and goals.

Click New Plan at the top of the development page. For the active plan, click Edit Plan.
Type a Title and check Starts. Ends is optional.
Click Add Goal for each goal. Type the goal and select a skill area, target and date.
Use Move Up and Move Down to set the order. Click Remove to take a goal off the plan.
Click Save at the top of the page.

To start a new plan, first set the Status of the active plan to Completed and click Save.

Skills Worked On

Lists every skill the player has worked on, most worked first. Two sources count, under one name.

Source	What Counts
Team Events	Practices and training sessions marked Present or Late. Canceled and deleted events never count. An event counts only once it has started. Minutes add up from the plan blocks that name the skill.
Training	Records in the Training Log that name the skill. Minutes add up from those records.

Skill names: A team event counts the tags on its plan's blocks, the tags on the drills those blocks use and the practice's Focus.
Team minutes: A drill block adds its own minutes. A station adds its rotation. A Focus tag alone adds no minutes.
This Season and All Time: This Season counts dates inside the selected season. All Time counts every date.

A skill counts together only when the words match. Coach Binder stores every skill in lowercase.

The Training Log

Records sessions outside the team schedule. Team events count on their own. Never log a team practice here.

Click Add Record under the Training Log.
Check the Date and select the Kind.
Enter Minutes, the Skills worked and who Led By. Each field is optional.
Under Who Can See It, select Families to show the record on the family home.
Click Save at the top of the page.

Kind: Lesson, Camp, Clinic, Off Ice, Home, Practice or Other. Practice means a practice with another club.
Edit: Changes the record, including whether the family sees the record.
Delete: Removes the record from the development page and the family home. Coach Binder keeps the deleted record as history.

Assessments

Lists every assessment, newest first. The newest assessment opens under its own row.

View: Opens the scores and notes of one assessment under its row. The scores sit under their category headings.
Event: The event the assessment was made at. Blank for an assessment added on the development page.
Edit: Changes the date, scores or notes. Set a score and its note back to blank to remove that score.
Delete: Removes the assessment from the development page and the family home. Coach Binder keeps the deleted assessment as history.

Assessing a Whole Team

Scores every player on one page. Each row is a player. Each column is a skill area.

Click Assess Team at the top of the team page. From an event, click Assess Players on the Roster tab.
Check the Date and select the Scale.
Select a score in each cell. Press Tab to move across a row, then down to the next player.
Under Who Can See It, select Families to show the assessments on the family home.
Click Save at the top of the page.

Who is listed: The players you may assess. A team lists its roster today. An event lists every player on its Roster tab.
Striped cell: A skill area the player is not rated on. The cell has no score.
Category row: Names each category over its skill area columns. Shows once a skill area has a category.
A player with no score: Gets no assessment.
Saved Assessment: From an event, a player keeps one assessment. Save updates its scores. Its date, scale and notes stay.
Saved on a team: A team's grid opens with each player's assessment from the current period. With no period, it opens with today's. Save updates them.
Last: Each cell shows the player's last score in that skill area.
Attendance: From an event, each name shows its attendance. Absent, Injured and Suspended players come last.
After Save: A team's grid stays open. An event's grid returns to the Roster tab. From the Development page, Save returns to the Due list.
Who Can See It: Applies to every assessment this Save writes. A saved assessment you leave unchanged keeps its choice.

Print the Roster Evaluation Sheet for the same grid on paper. See Evaluation Sheets.

Sharing With the Family

Every assessment, plan and record starts at Coaches. A family sees one only after a coach picks Families.

Who Can See It offers Coaches and Families. Public stays greyed out, since public pages never show a child's records.

Open the assessment with View, or show the plan in the Development Plan panel.
Under Who Can See It, click Families. A band opens and asks first.
Click Share With the Family in the band. Shared With then reads Families. Or click Keep It to close the band.
To hide the assessment or plan again, click Coaches. Coaches does not ask first.

What the family sees: A shared assessment's date, scores and notes, and its points on the Progress charts. A shared plan's title, dates, notes, goals, targets and statuses. A shared training record. The skill area descriptions and What We Look For words for those scores and targets.
What the family never sees: Anything you did not share and every other child's development.

You can also select Families under Who Can See It on the assessment, plan or record form before you click Save.

Evaluation Sheets

Prints on Letter paper in black and white. Each sheet but the roster sheet takes one page per player.

Sheet	What It Prints
Evaluation Sheet	One assessment, filled. Each score, the score before it, the change, the notes and the active plan's goals.
Blank Evaluation Sheet	Every skill area with the scale's steps to circle and a line for a note. Use it on evaluation night.
Evaluation Sheets on the team page	One blank sheet for each player on the roster on the Roster On date.
Roster Evaluation Sheet on the team page	The whole roster on one grid. Players run down the sheet and skill areas run across.

Click Print at the top of the development page.
Select Evaluation Sheet or Blank Evaluation Sheet. For an older assessment, click View and then Print.
Click Print on the sheet's bar. Or click Save PDF to save the sheet as a PDF file. See Saving a PDF.

A sheet shows the birth year at most, never the birthday. The skill areas print in the same order as the assessment form, under the same category names.

Skill Areas

Sets the skills every assessment scores. A role with Organization Settings at Edit manages the list on the Player Development tab under Organization. The Skill Areas tab under Development opens the same list.

Starting list: Skating, Puck Handling, Passing, Shooting, Positioning, Hockey Sense, Compete and Goaltending.
Add Skill Area: Click Add Skill Area in a category's head. Type a name and click Add. The new skill area goes last in that category.
Rated For: Sets who the skill area is rated for. All Players, Skaters or Goalies. Goaltending starts as Goalies.
Who counts as a goalie: A player whose position includes G. A player who plays both, or has no position, sees every skill area.
An area that no longer fits: Editing an assessment keeps every skill area it already scored.
Drag: Hold a row's dots and drag the skill area to its new place, in its own category or another one. The whole order saves when you let go.
Move Up and Move Down: Moves one skill area a place at a time within its category. The order holds on every assessment.
Categories: Groups of skill areas, such as Skating Skills or Hockey Sense. Each category is a panel of its own. Click Add Category at the top of the page. Type a name and click Add Category in the form.
Moving a category: Drag a category's panel by the dots in its head, or click its arrows. Its skill areas move with it. Skill areas with no category stay first.
Archiving a category: Its skill areas stay and show under No Category. Click Restore under Archived to put them back in the category.
Where categories show: The assessment form, the Assess Team grid and the evaluation sheets group the skill areas under the same headings.
Edit: Opens the skill area's page. A new name shows on every past and future assessment.
Archive: Stops new assessments from offering the skill area. Past scores keep the skill area.
Restore: Brings an archived skill area back to the end of the list.

What We Look For

Describes a skill area and each step of a scale in that skill area. Every coach then scores against the same words.

Description: What the skill area covers, such as stride, edges and stops.
What We Look For: What one step looks like in this skill area, such as glides on both edges for a 3.
Scale: The words belong to one scale. A 3 on a five step scale means something else on a ten step scale.
Save New on a scale: The new scale keeps the words for every step it carries over. A new step starts blank.
On an assessment: The description shows under the skill area's name. The words for a step show once a coach picks that score.
On the family home: A shared assessment shows the words for each score. A shared plan shows the words for each goal's target.

Open Organization and click the Player Development tab.
Click Edit on a skill area.
Type a Description.
Select a scale in Scale. Type what you look for at each step.
Select another scale to write its words. The words you typed stay until you click Save or Cancel.
Click Save at the top of the page. One Save keeps the words for every scale.

Families see the words on a shared assessment and a shared plan. Printed sheets do not show them.

Assessment Scales

Sets the steps an assessment scores on. An organization keeps as many scales as it needs. A role with Organization Settings at Edit changes the scales on the Player Development tab under Organization. The Assessment Scales tab under Development opens the same page.

Step: One score a coach can give. Step 1 is the lowest. A scale has 2 to 100 steps.
Long scales: A blank evaluation sheet prints up to 10 steps to circle. A longer scale gets a box to write the score in.
Label: The word or number a score shows, such as 7 or Proficient. Each step needs its own label.
Description: What the step means. Assessments, family pages and evaluation sheets show the descriptions as a key.
Scale description: What the whole scale is for, typed under Name. Coaches see it under the scale's name and above its key. Families see it on a shared assessment. Evaluation sheets do not print it.
Starting scale: 1 to 10, with no descriptions. The starting scale is the Organization Default.

Open Organization, click the Player Development tab and click Assessment Scales.
Click New Scale, or click the name of a scale.
Type a Label and a Description for each step.
Click Add Step, Move Up, Move Down or Remove to change the steps.
Click Save at the top of the page.

Button	When It Shows	What It Does
Save	No assessment or goal uses the scale yet.	Changes the scale in place.
Save New	The scale is in use.	Saves the steps as a new scale in the old scale's place. Past scores keep the old scale.
Update Current	The scale is in use and no step was added, removed or moved.	Changes the name, labels and descriptions in place. Past scores show the new words.

Assessment Periods

Sets the windows each season when coaches assess, such as Tryouts in September and Midseason in December. A role with Organization Settings at Edit sets them on the Assessment Periods tab under Organization, Player Development. The Assessment Periods tab under Development opens the same page.

Period: A name, a first day and a last day. Both days are in the period.
Season: Each season keeps its own list.
Team periods: A team may keep its own list. Then the team uses only its own. Open the team's Edit page and click Edit Periods.
An assessment's period: The period its date falls in, on the list of the event's team, else the player's team. A coach may pick another period or No Period on the form.
Archive: Takes a period off the list. Its assessments keep its name.
Added later: A period added or moved takes each assessment with no period in its dates. An assessment with a period keeps it.

The period's name shows on the player's assessments, the open assessment, the evaluation sheet and a family's shared assessment. Skill Ratings compares one period with another, and the Progress charts shade each period.

Which Scale an Assessment Uses

Each new assessment picks one scale. The Scale select on the assessment starts on the first match below.

Order	Scale
1	The scale of the event's team, for an assessment made from an event.
2	The scale of the player's team this season.
3	The Organization Default.

Two teams: A player on two teams with different scales starts on the Organization Default.
A team's scale: Set on the team's Edit page, under Player Development. Select Organization Default to follow the default scale.
Make Default: Makes a scale the Organization Default. Teams with no scale of their own use the new default.
Archive: Stops coaches from picking a scale. Teams on that scale go back to the Organization Default.
Restore: Lets coaches pick an archived scale again.
Saved assessments: A saved assessment keeps the scale it was given on. Another scale never changes an old score.
Change across scales: Change stays blank when the score before was given on another scale.
Goal targets: A first target uses the player's scale. A goal keeps that scale until the target clears.

Players The player page and its notes.
Family Accounts What a family sees on the family home.
Organization Settings The General tab under Organization, where the skill areas are set.