Launch a Writing Assessment from a Link in a Lesson Plan

This article is for Fort Worth ISD's initiative to administer frequent writing ESL DOL SCR assessments for quick intervention and progress monitoring data by embedding a link to the assessment in their Instructional Planning Calendar (IPC), akin to lesson plans. 
 

The following video, click sheet, and steps cover the process for teachers, students, and admin data review:

See the click sheet here!
 

Steps for teachers:

1. In your IPC - lesson plan - you may have an embedded link to an ALL In Learning assessment. Click it.
2. Your default browser will try top open the page. If you are not logged into ALL In Learning, you'll be asked to log in. If you are logged in already, you'll land on the activation type screen. 
3. Click "Post to Student Portal," select your class and "click Start for Selected Class."
4. For the assessment settings screen, follow your leadership's instructions. Generally, the default settings will work, but here are some settings to note.
   • If you have an IEP student whose demographic info has not have been synced by your admins into ALL In Learning yet, the accommodations will not automatically work. You can disable the IEP restriction so that any student that needs them can access them temporarily.
   • You can also select only a subset of students to activate the assessment for - ideal for remediation and enrichment assignments.
   • If you need to require Respondus Lockdown Browser for this assessment, click Yes for the setting.
5. After settings are selected, click Next.
6. Click "Activate" and click on your class name in green.
7. You now see the grading screen, showing students' progress. At any time, you can navigate away from the assessment in your browser or click Leave Session Active. The session will stay active. Just click the View/End button in your Dashboard screen's "Assessments In Progress" section to return the grading screen. 
8. When a student is finished, you can click the hand icon to View their work, the AI scoring, and the immediate feedback, and make adjustments .
9. During the assessment, you can monitor incoming scores and plan immediate intervention.
10. When all students have finished, click End Session.
11. You'll be prompted to add the data to a Progress Tracker. We recommend you say yes as it's automatic and you get great data.

Looking at Teacher Data

Steps to utilize some of the most popular reports follow, but the video and click sheet above are recommended for clarity!  

1. After finishing the assessment, you'll automatically be taken to the Reports>Session tab. Click your session's title.
2. Look around! There are lots of instant reports ready for you to use. Below are some favorites.
3. You can post student's immediate feedback on their work to the Student Portal in the "Student Analysis > Student Feedback By Question" report. You can also View Student Work in this report.
4. "Student Work Analysis" has a handy "Print Student Work" button, printing for each student on a separate page.
5. "AI: Insight to Action" will group students by strength and weakness per writing skill. Click the skills listed on the left to view analysis.

6. Over time your progress tracker will become more and more useful. To view it, go to the left menu, click Progress Trackers, and select your tracker's name. A Progress Tracker is based on the class and the body of standards. Along the top of the Tracker is all of the standards in this body of standards. Any time an assessment has questions on a given standard, the scores for that standard are listed chronologically so you can see if each student is growing. This puts a lot of data points in one place to see in context.  You can also quickly identify gaps and standards coverage.

    

Reports for Admins

See the admin reports sections in the end of the video and click sheet above.

FAQ:

How do I get the embed link to include in the Instructional Planning Calendar?

See the click sheet here.