Admins will distribute writing assessments to teachers, so they will automatically appear under "My Assessments" in yellow. To learn how to activate, review our click sheet, watch the tutorial video, or follow the steps in this article.
Activating the Assessment
- From the Dashboard, click Lessons/Assessments>My Assessments.
- Find the assessment and click Actions>Post to Student Portal.
- Click on the desired class(es). Selected classes will be in blue.
- Click Start for selected class.
- Select the desired student portal settings. Some notable settings include Text to Speech and the LockDown browser.
- Click Next.
- Review your student portal settings then click Activate.
- Click the class title in green to open the grading screen.
Monitoring and Ending the Assessment
- When a student finishes their assessment, their name displays in green with '(Finished)' below it. Click the hand icon to view their work.
- Click View.
- Adjust the AI scoring by moving the slider.
- Adjust the AI Feedback by clicking Edit Feedback For Student, typing your edits, then clicking Save Feedback.
- Click Close.
- Every student may not finish the assessment before the class period ends. If so, click Leave Session Active.
- To open the grading screen again find the session listed on the dashboard and click View/End. You may also click Quick Links at the top of the page.
- If a student appears in white indicating all the questions are answered (1 out of 1, for example), then they did not click I'm Finished. Click the hand icon next to their name to submit for them.
- Click End Student's Assessment.
- Click End Student's Assessment again to confirm. (IMPORTANT: Students cannot launch the assessment once the session is ended.)
- IMPORTANT: after all the student's finish, click End Session.
- A pop up will appear asking to add the report to a tracker. Click Add to Tracker.
Writing Assessment Report
- Click Reports>Sessions.
- Click on the title of the report to view data.
- Notable reports:
Student Analysis > Student Proficiency displays immediately, showing every student's grade. Click column headers to sort low to high.
AI: Insight to Action will provide an instant remediation breakdown of struggling student groups by rubric skill.
To view Student Work, click Student Analysis > Student Feedback by Question
Find a specific student and click View Student Work.
Click Confirm.
To post scores and feedback to the student portal, find the report in your sessions list and click Actions>Post to Student Portal. You can choose to post the full feedback report, including student work responses, or post the score exclusively.
To print student responses, click Student Work Analysis>View Feedback
"Progress Trackers" show progress over time for every standard. View Progress Trackers by clicking Reports>Progress Trackers.
If needed, click Hide Empty Columns.
Click Post to Student Portal and the progress tracker will automatically get posted to student accounts for them to track progress.
Important Notes
- Teachers must manually end the session so admin can view the data.
- Only end an individual student session when they are finished. Ending the session will block them from launching the assessment.
- Unscoring simply removes student data from a Report. It does not reset the student's session status. The system will still indicate that the student has submitted and will prevent them from reopening the session.
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