18.1 Overview

Joan Cooney, Joan Lake, Yanisha Mann

Victoria BC | Wed Feb 22, 9:30-10:15

Thursday 9:30-10:15, 10:30-11:15

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Ppt http://bit.ly/schoolnet181

Claim a student

http://bit.ly/snstudent (Teacher

tab, put your name beside a

teacher, write down the

number)

Test Site

http://bit.ly/sntraining1

(use the student number,

password: homebase)

Site Access

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– Feedback Button

– Word for MAC will now work – in Docx format

– New look and feel on landing page - Widgets

– Assessment Scoring – Fractional pts

• 2 decimal pts

– Rich Text Editor

• Supports superscript and subscript within the toolbar

– Student Data -LEP

Assessment Scoring: Fractional points

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● All item types support up to two decimals of precision when awarding points

• Example for a multiple choice question:

‒ Answer Choice A: 1 point

‒ Answer Choice B: 0.5 points

‒ Answer Choice C: 0.25 points

‒ Answer Choice D: 0 points

Rich Text Editor: Subscript and Superscript

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● Subscript and superscript buttons have been added to the rich text editor

throughout Schoolnet to aid in creating content

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Additional Enhancements

● LEP Status shows on the Student Profile, grouped together with

Special Ed and Gifted status

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• Multiple Standards

– Selection of Primary Standard

• Gap Match

– new TestNav item

• Analysis Spreadsheet

– Can pin and rearrange

• Student Test Scoring page for Admins

– Results appear in correct section or you get to select

which section

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• Multiple Standards

– Selection of Primary Standard

Multiple Standards Alignments: Assessment Item

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● Multiple standards from the same standards document can be aligned to items within an

assessment. This allows teachers and administrators to report on their student’s

progression, learning both primary and secondary standards within a single assessment.

● A new configuration has been added to turn this on/off. It will default to on.

● A second configuration has been added to leverage secondary standards in standards

analysis calculations. It will default to on.

A primary standard must be selected

Multiple Standards Alignments: Classroom Reporting

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● The Item Analysis, Trends Analysis, Standards Mastery, and Skills Analysis classroom reports were

updated

● Primary standards are displayed by default

• De-selecting the Primary Alignments Only checkbox will displays both primary and secondary

aligned standards

● Ability to select a single, subset or all standards document to further define the list of standards

reported on

● .pdf and Excel exports have been updated to reflect these changes

Primary standards are differentiated by a P icon

The standards

detail level

being displayed

can be selected

Multiple Standards Alignments: School & District Data

Reporting

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● The Pre-formatted setup was updated to include a new checkbox “Primary Alignments

only”

• If selected on the primary aligned standards will display

• If not selected all aligned, primary and secondary, standards will display

● The Primary standard can be selected as a specific topic and secondary standards as

subtopics allowing users to display specific standard data

● The standards document(s) can be selected to further define the returned standard set

Multiple Standards Alignments: Student Profile

Reporting

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The Student Profile Student Overview, Benchmark test and Classroom test tabs have been

updated to show both primary and secondary standards, allowing users to have more

information while looking at each individual student's performance.

• By default only the primary standards are displayed

• De-selecting the Primary Alignments Only checkbox will display both primary and

secondary aligned standards

Primary standards are differentiated by a

P icon

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• Gap Match

– new TestNav item

Gap Match: Introduction

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● Gap Match is a new item type that allows a student to drag an answer choice

to a gap

● Answer choices can be plain text and / or mathematical equations

● Gaps can be placed within text, within tables, or within lists

Gap Match: Presentation Options

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● The following presentation options of a Gap Match item can be specified by a

content creator:

• Whether answer choices appear above, below, to the left, or to the right

of the main question content

• How wide and how tall the gaps appear

Gap Match: Scoring Options

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● Gap match items support "all or none" scoring

• Points are awarded only if every gap is answered with a correct answer

choice

• They qualify to be used as the first activity in a "pattern scored" task

‒ If the first activity is incorrect, no points are awarded for the entire

task, even if the student answered the second activity correctly

● The author can restrict how many times an answer choice can be used

Gap Match: Categories

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● Answer choices can be grouped into categories

Gap Match: QTI and Reporting

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● All reports, portals, item / test details pages, and Word / Excel / PDF / CSV /

QTI exports support Gap Match

● QTI import of Gap Match items is supported and all documentation has been

updated with examples

● A "brace" is used throughout Schoolnet to differentiate an "all or none" scored

Gap Match item from a "default" scored item

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• Analysis Spreadsheet

– Can pin and rearrange

Filters for each column

(filter type varies by the

data type)

Hide columns or

pin columns to

the left from the

column Menu;

click on a column

title to Sort

Export only your

filtered data set

Show in

full screen

mode

Save selected

students to a

new Student Set

(from School &

District Data)

See up to 5,000 students

(not just 500!)

Analysis Spreadsheet: New Interface

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• Student Test Scoring page for Admins

– Results appear in correct section or you get

to select which section

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Student Test Scoring Page for Administrators

● Updates for the Student Test Scoring page:

• Schoolnet will automatically associate an assigned class/section to the student on

the scoring page if they are enrolled in one

‒ Previously the first class/section was automatically selected

• Administrators are prompted to select a class/section when a class/section cannot

be automatically assigned to the student

‒ Previously the first class/section was automatically selected

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• Take a few minutes to log into our Training

site

• https://homebasetraining.dct.schoolnet.com/Authentication.aspx

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• Classroom – Standards performance over time

– Drill into standards

• KPI Dashboard

– New look and feel

• New Kind of Student Set & KPI Filter

– Add it to KPI – max of 2000 students

• Text to Speech(TTS)/Read Aloud-Test Nav

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• Classroom – Standards performance over time

– Drill into standards

New Classroom Report: Standards Performance

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What is it?

A new Classrooms report focused on analyzing

longitudinal standards performance, accessible

from a “Standards Performance” link in the

Classrooms sub-navigation menu. (This link

appears according to the same security rules as

Student Performance).

Default selections:

For teachers without the Manage

Instruction operation, this report

opens directly to selecting the first

course’s sections, and all tests in

the last 6-week period for the

tests in that course’s subject.

Admin Experience:

Users with the Manage Instruction

operation will need to search and

select a teacher first.

Select students by

section (multi-select)

or personal student

group membership

Select up to 30

current year

tests from any

test category

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Standards Performance DashboardFor the students and tests selected, the user sees a visual dashboard of standards performance data for

the “rolled up” standard domains. This is performance data on primary alignments for up to 30 test from

any category.

Click on a

standard title to

focus the

dashboard on

subordinate lower

level standards

Hover over a

dashboard chart for

a pop-up list of the

tests charted and

test-specific metrics

Click on a chart to

open the Standards

Performance Detail

view

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In this example, the

CCSS.ELA-Literacy standard

has been drilled into

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7, so

the performance tiles that show

are for assessed child

standards of RI.7

The breadcrumb links allow navigation

back to higher level standards’

performance dashboards

Child standards that were not

assessed in the selected tests

are listed in a section beneath

the dashboard tiles

Standards Performance Dashboard: Drilling into standards

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Standards Performance Detail

TOP SECTION: Aggregate Data

For the selected standard, a bar

chart illustrates student score group

distribution per test.

Hover over a bar for a popup of test

details.

Click on a segment of a bar to select

the corresponding students.

BOTTOM SECTION: Student Data

In the bottom section, the same data

is disaggregated by each student in

the selected section(s) or group.

Selected students in the list are

charted in the line graph against the

dotted “All Students” line.

An option is available to add selected

students to a student group; clicking

on a student name opens their profile

in a new browser tab.

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• KPI Dashboard

– New look and feel

KPI Dashboard: New Look for End Users

A new framework for

displaying KPIs, allowing

System Operators to

customize the size and

placement of KPIs within

each category.

“Featured” KPIs can be

sized larger, to elicit more

attention

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• New Kind of Student Set & KPI Filter

– Add it to KPI – max of 2000 students

A New Kind of Student Set and KPI Filter

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From the KPI Dashboard, any user has a quick

entry point to a new Student Set creation

screen. Select students by Name to add them

to the set.

Then, view the KPI dashboard for the students

in that set!

Student Sets: New Features, Existing Pages

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A new “Student Name” filter type

on the Define Student Set page

offers the same ‘hand-picking’ of

students in the pre-existing student

set creation screen

Any student set containing 2,000

students or fewer can be added to

the KPI dashboard as a filter

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• Text to Speech(TTS)/Read Aloud-Test Nav

Text to Speech: Item Preview

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● Text to Speech supports passage, question, and

answer choice content

● Items can be previewed in TestNav with Text to

Speech

• Select the Preview -> “In TestNav with Text to

Speech” option

● Text to speech content require generation however it

is not re-generated if the content does not change

● If the Question Language is set to Spanish, the

content will be read with a Spanish accent. All other

languages will be read with an American English

accent

The preview with text to

speech option is

available from the Item

Central, Test Details,

and Edit Test pages

Text to Speech: Test Details

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● Tests can be flagged to generate text to

speech content

• System > Assessment Admin > Test

Properties setting > Text to Speech

setting

● New Test Properties:

• Text to Speech

• Text to Speech Language (English

or Spanish)

● New Test Action:

• “Generate Text to Speech” launches

a background task to create the Text

to Speech content

● If the test content has not changed, the

text to speech content will not need to be

re-generated

● During Test Publishing, the text to speech

generation is run as a background task.

Student Profile TestNav PNP Tab

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● The Text to Speech Accommodation can be selected for students

● The default Voice Speed and Voice can be set

● The bulk student PNP import has been updated

● Text to speech is stored at test submission for the student as a received

accommodation

Text to Speech: Replacement/Alternate Text

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● Alternate Text can be defined for:

• Word or phrases

• Images

• Mathematical equations

• Tables (read instead of the table content)

● Alternative text can be part of the test instructions, question, answer, and passage content.

● The replacement word will be read instead of the original content.

● An orange dotted border will highlight content that havs replacement/alternate text provided. A

tooltip will display on hover showing the replacement/alternate text.

● A phonetic guide is included on the Replacement/Alternate text dialog giving phonetic suggestions

to specific words for better phonetic pronunciation.

Text to Speech: Student Test Taking

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● Assessment instructions, question and answer content, and associated

passages can all be read to the student

● Words are highlighted in blue as content is being read

● Students can select the toggle button to start reading the item content from a

specific point

● Students can adjust the voice speed (slow, medium, and fast) and voice type

(male or female)