Tracking your quality rating (QRIS)
Keeping your own score against your state's quality standards — and what the tab isn't.
What this is, and isn't
Most states run a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) that awards centers a level for meeting quality standards — Oregon's is Spark. The QRIS tab is a place to track your own progress toward the level you're aiming for, one standard at a time.
It's a self-tracking tool. Nothing here is sent to your state, and a score in RoundUp isn't a rating: your state's program decides that through its own process.
Where to find it
Open More → Compliance → QRIS. Directors, assistant directors and admins can use it. If you don't see Compliance, your center may have it turned off.
The standards come from your center's state. A center in Oregon sees Spark's five: Learning & Development, Health & Safety, Personal & Professional Development, Family Partnerships and Administration & Business Practices. Programs revise their standards from time to time, so compare the list against your program's current materials.
Set your target first
Under Target rating, choose the level you're working toward and tap Save target. Do this before entering any scores — until your center has saved a target once, scores you enter aren't saved.
The button only shows when your choice differs from what's already selected. The first time you open the tab, Level 3 is selected, so if 3 is your goal, save a different level first, then choose Level 3 and save again.
Scoring a standard
Each standard shows points earned out of points possible, a percentage and a progress bar. Tap Edit to update it:
- Points earned and Points possible — your own scale. Possible starts at 100; set it to whatever you're measuring against, such as the number of criteria in that standard. Earned can't go above possible.
- Notes — what evidence supports the score.
- Evidence URL — a link to where that evidence lives, such as a shared folder.
Tap Save. After your first few edits, leave Compliance and come back to check they stuck.
Notes are where the value is. Six months from now, "72" tells you nothing; "family survey done, conference records in the Q3 folder" tells you what to pull out for the visit.
Reading the score
The top card's Score adds up points earned across every standard as a percentage of points possible. It's only as meaningful as the scales you set — a standard out of 100 weighs ten times as much as one out of 10 — so keep the scales comparable, or read the standards one at a time.
The rating stars on that card aren't something you set in the app, and they read Not yet rated. Your official level is whatever your state's program last awarded you.
States without a QRIS tab
Hawaii, South Dakota and Wyoming don't run a statewide system that awards quality levels, so centers there see only Overview and Drills. If your center is somewhere else and there's no QRIS tab, check that your center's state is set correctly.
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