Student Testing Interface Exploring the Student Testing Interface What it’s like to take an online test. 1
Additional Equipment Required for Testing 2 Headphones are required for the listening portion of the ELA assessment and for students requiring text-to-speech Scratch paper will be provided for note taking and problem solving as necessary for all online assessments; Graph paper is required for Grades 6-8 Math Note: Hand-held and external calculators or other math tools are not permitted; an embedded calculator will be available for some mathematics items in grades 6-8 Summative and EOC Math I & Math II.
Accessing the Assessments 3
Select the Test 4
Confirmation Screen 5
Instructions to the Students Before seeing any test questions, the student will go through instructions on how to respond to the test. 6
Tools and Navigation 7
Sample ELA MC Item 8
Sample ELA Short Answer Question 9
Sample ELA Listening Item 10
Review Screen Prior to Ending Test 11
Confirmation to End the Test 12
Embedded Universal Tools 13
Highlight, Cross-off, Sticky Notes 14
Color Chooser 15
Masking 16
Student Practice Opportunities Nevada Portal > ; launch from the DRC Insight platformhttps://wbte.drcedirect.com/NV/ Online Tools Training (OTTs) Interactive practice tests with tools tutorial and sample items (launch using Google Chrome browser). Student Tutorials Video with voice-over of how to take the tests and use test tools. Access one student at a time or show to a whole classroom. Smarter Balanced Portal > not in DRC Insighthttp://practice.smarterbalanced.org/student/ Grade Level Practice Tests and Performance Tasks Practice grade level specific items; for individual or whole class review. Tools, navigation and general appearance differ from OTT and actual test. 17