Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Welcome to PearsonAccess Session Two The Training Center

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 PearsonAccess is the entry point to all Pearson services used by Minnesota districts and schools. PearsonAccess Website:

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3 Objectives of this Training 1.Log in to the Training Center in PearsonAccess 2.Create and manage students 3.Set up and manage test sessions At the end of this training, you should know how to:

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4 Who should use the Training Center? Districts preparing for online testing New staff who will have responsibilities for online testing Technology Coordinators using the Full-Length Sample Test to ensure that sites are ready for online testing (Site Readiness) What is the Training Center? The Training Center is designed to provide opportunities for practice and training on using PearsonAccess to set up and manage online testing. It also provides an option to deliver Item Samplers to students in TestNav.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5 Online Demo

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6 Logging In District Assessment Coordinators who do not have user accounts for the Training Center should contact or District Assessment Coordinators are responsible for creating user accounts for other district staff in the Training Center.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7 How to Tell You’re in the Training Center You can tell when you’re working in the Training Center by the color scheme: brown for the Training Center and blue for the PearsonAccess Live Site. Live Site: Training Center:

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8 Creating Sample Students Create fictitious or sample students to work with in the Training Center. Editing student data in the Training Center never updates real student records in the PeasonAccess Live Site or in MARSS. To create sample students, first change the current organization to the school you wish to add students to.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9 Creating Multiple Sample Students To create up to 99 system-generated sample students, click “Create Students” on the Home page.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10 Adding Individual Sample Students To add new students one at a time, click “New Student” under Manage Student Data.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 11 Registering Students in the Training Center New Students added must be registered before they can be added to test sessions. Select the Test Management tab and click “Register Students” to locate new students. The following steps will complete registration: Registered Student Record, Assign Groups, and Assign Tests

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12 Setting up a Test Session Use the Training Center to practice setting up and managing online test sessions. Select item samplers to use as the test to be administered with students or for staff training. –Item Samplers can also be delivered via the standalone Item Sampler/ePAT Launcher software. Technology staff can select the Full-length Sample Test to check software and network configuration.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 13 Adding Students to a Test Session After entering the Test Session Details, add students by Group or by selecting student names. Additional students can also be added after the session is saved.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14 Managing Test Sessions Locate and select session Add Students Start session Print authorization tickets and seal codes Proctor cache