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District Benchmark Administration Walkthrough

How to Administer a District Benchmark Online in Illuminate 
 This walk through will show how to administer a district benchmark in Illuminate. It is advised that all teachers and students use the Google Chrome web browser when using Illumiante.

Table of Contents: Before The Assessment Step 1: Find The Assessment………………………… page 2 Step 2: Schedule The Assessment………..……….… page 3 Step 3: Manage Student Portal Access…….……….. page 5 During The Assessment Step 4: Facilitate Student Login…………………….… page 6 Step 5: Manage The Live Test……………….…….….. page 7 After The Assessment. Step 6: Score Constructed Response Items…….….. page 8 TroubleShooting How To Reset Student Passwords …………….……. page 9

Scheduling: Scheduling an assessment in Illuminate means opening up a window of availability for students to take the assessment through the student portal.

Testing Help: Technical Issues: (device #s/wifi/power/browser updates): [email protected] Account Issues: (login and passwords) [email protected] Illuminate Operation: Your Illuminate site rep [email protected] [email protected] Constructed Response Grading: Assessment and Accountability Department

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District Benchmark Administration Walkthrough Before The Test




Step 1: Find The Assessment

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1. Login to Illuminate. 2. Click on Assessments > List Assessments 3. Click Clear 4. On the search filters, select the current year, appropriate grade and district benchmark 5. Click Search 6. Find assessment in search results 7. Click on the assessment title

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District Benchmark Administration Walkthrough Step 2: Schedule The Assessment

Scheduling the assessment entails setting a testing window and testing roster. This will make the test available to the student through the student portal. You can open up as many testing windows as needed to complete the benchmark assessments. This scheduling process can be setup the day of the first administration or earlier.

1. Find and click on the assessment title (see page 2.) 2. Click on Online under administer

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3. Click Add Roster

4 4. Set a testing window: Be sure to not include weekends as students will be able to access this assessment from anywhere on any device.

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5. Select all students (or specify which ….students you are testing. You may ….want to select specific students for ….make-up testing.) *A black box is covering student names for privacy. You should see your students’ names.

6. Click show

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 7. Select daily window and set to school hours: Setting a daily window will close student access to the assessment before and after school. Without a daily window, students could enter the exam at home.

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8. You may leave this default options

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9. Click Save. The test is now available for aaastudents through their portal during the open aaahours. Note: You can open up as many testing windows as needed for students to complete the benchmark.

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10. After clicking Save, you should see a testing window roster that looks like this.

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The test is now open for students to take through the student portal

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Step 3: Managing Student Portal Access

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1. If your testing window shows a red X under portal, then you need to add student portal access for at least one student. If there is a green check, all students in this testing window/ roster already have portal access. In order to add student’s portal access…

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2. Click Students 3. Click Manage Portal Access

4. Click Add a Student

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5. Click Find Students 6. All students who need portal access will be listed on the bottom of the screen. 7. Click the check boxes next to their name 8. Click Custom Password 9. Enter in a password for those students and click OK

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District Benchmark Administration Walkthrough During The Test




Step 4: Facilitate Student Login

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1. Help students login to https:// twinriversusd.illuminatehc.com. There should an icon on the students’ desktop. 2. Students must click the Student tab 3. Students must enter their Student ID number for the username 4. Students must enter “twinrivers” as their default password. Students will be prompted to change their password at their first login. 5. Students must click the assessment title under pending assessments. 6. Students must click Begin Test 7. To reset student passwords go to page 9

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6 Student Password Tip When students first login they will be prompted to change their passwords. Asking students to remember this change on the following session day might be a problem. If they forget, you will need to reset it again, which will slow things down considerably. Tip: when students are prompted to reset their passwords on the first day, it might be more efficient to have them all enter the same thing. For example, they could all use teacher last name, or school name, etc.  *Refer to page 9 to reset a students password

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Step 5: Manage The Live Test

If you need to get back to the testing window/roster page… 1. Find the assessment again (page 2) 2. Click on the assessment title 3. Click Online under Administration

1. Test administrators can override some student test progress. Test administrators can force finish a test, pause a students test, or re-open a test that a student finished. 2. To manage student progress, go to the testing window/roster page. 3. Click on the the number of students.

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3 4. The options available are shown when mmclicking Actions.

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After The Test Step 6: Score Constructed Responce Items

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1. Constructed response items must be manually scored by the teacher.

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Find and Click the assessment title Click Administration Click Enter / Edit Click Find Students

6. Click Grid 7. Click Constructed Responses 8. From this screen you can score aaaconstructed response items by aaaquestion. 9. Click Show Question to see the aaaquestion and scoring rubric. Score all aaaconstructed response items. The test is aaanow completed.

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District Benchmark Administration Walkthrough Constructed Response Tips

Constructed Response (CR) items must be reviewed and scored by the teacher. Caution: Not all CR items that appear when selecting the Constructed Responses tab are CR. Any item that requires students to type their answers in a box like MER (math equation response) or ECR (explicit constructed response) will show up here as well. ECR and MER items are graded by Illuminate. They appear with the CR items in order to allow you to override a bad score from Illuminate. Example: suppose two acceptable answers to an MER item are: 12/5 or 2 2/5. If a student responds with “12/5 cups,” this will be marked incorrect because Illuminate is not expecting units as part of the answer. A CR item requires students to type in a sentence or paragraph and so can easily be distinguished from other item types. CR items will have a rubric that typically ranges from 0-1 to 0-3 depending, which is why Illuminate can’t score them. If you’re having trouble distinguishing the CR items, please contact Assessment & Accountability. Currently, Illuminate scores missing CR items as incorrect, so students will not see their full score until you review and score these items.




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District Benchmark Administration Walkthrough Troubleshooting How To Reset Student Passwords

To reset a student(s) password, the teacher must disable their portal access then add it back. When adding the portal access back, the teacher can type in a new password.

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1. Click Students 2. Click Manage Portal Access 3. Disable the students portal access by clicking the red disable button on the right hand side. 4. Click OK 5. Click Add Student 6. Click Find Students 7. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the checkbox next to the students name. 8. Click Custom Password 9. Type in a new password for the student 10. Click OK

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