SMARTER BALANCED Universal Tools

S MARTER B ALANCED Smarter Balanced Assessments  Neither portions of the test are timed; students will be allowed to continue working as long as they are making progress.

S MARTER B ALANCED Pause Rules  Tests can be paused at any time; students get a warning message to verify they want to pause.  If a CAT test is paused less than 20 minutes, students may review questions already answered.  If a CAT test is paused more than 20 minutes, students may not review or change questions already answered.  When resuming after a pause, the student sees the first page that has unanswered questions.  If a test is idle for over 20 minutes, the system will automatically pause the test and log the student out.  There are no pause limits for the performance task portion of Smarter Balanced tests.

S MARTER B ALANCED Smarter Balanced Student Interface

S MARTER B ALANCED Paginated Items

S MARTER B ALANCED Print on Request

S MARTER B ALANCED Context Menu

S MARTER B ALANCED Scrubber for Embedded Audio Enables a student to drag to the desired position in the audio for pre-recorded audio (Note: does not apply to text-to-speech)

S MARTER B ALANCED Click to adjust the volume Volume Control: Text to Speech Click to adjust the volume

S MARTER B ALANCED Expanding Passages

S MARTER B ALANCED English/Spanish Stacked Translations

S MARTER B ALANCED Masking

S MARTER B ALANCED Glossary

S MARTER B ALANCED ELA Performance Tasks Embedded Tools  Dictionary  Notepad  Formatting features  Bold, italic, underline, remove format  Insert numbers or bullets  Indent, outdent features  Cut, copy, paste  Undo, bring back  Spell Check (must click on icon to activate and again to exit.)

S MARTER B ALANCED Notepad in the ELA Performance Task

S MARTER B ALANCED Dictionary

S MARTER B ALANCED Math Performance Tasks Embedded Tools  Calculator (grades 6-11)  Digital notepad  Math tools Non-embedded Tools  Scratch Paper  Graph Paper

S MARTER B ALANCED Calculators (Scientific, Graphing, & Regression)

S MARTER B ALANCED  This slide presentation was borrowed and adapted from the Oregon Department of Education ( Works Cited