Complete an Evaluation

Principal’s Assistants will fill out data for licensed evaluations in Skyward. This data will be used for reporting to ISBE.


  1. Navigate to an employee evaluation via two methods:
    1. From Employee Profile
      1. Click the menu button ()
      2. Click Employee
      3. Click Employee Profile
      4. Choose the employee
      5. Under the Positions tab, click Evaluations
      6. Click the arrow () to the far left to open an evaluation
    2. From the home screen, click the Open Evaluations tile. Locate the employee and click the arrow () to the far left to open an evaluation
  2. In the Evaluation State Type field:
    1. Set Principals and Assistant Principals to “02 – Principal Evaluation”
    2. Set other licensed staff to “01 – Educator Evaluation”
  3. In the Evaluation Status field, enter the Summative Evaluation Rating.
  4. Check the Is the Employee Being Evaluated Tenured? box if the employee is tenured.
  5. The Evaluation to be Reported to the State should already be checked. IMPORTANT: For DC Type evaluations uncheck this box.
  6. In the Evaluation Date field, fill in the Summative Rating Date
  7. In the Evaluator field, fill in the Primary Evaluator

Note: Leave the Next Evaluation date blank and leave the Assigned To field set to the Principal’s Assistant.