Alaska Measures of Progress District Test Coordinator Webinar Webinar Logistics: Audio will be streamed through Adobe Connect. Audio is also available by calling Pin: —If using the phone as the audio source, MUTE the Adobe connect sound to prevent feedback. On the phone, press *6 to mute yourself. Please hold questions until the end. All questions must be asked through the chat box in the bottom right corner. January 12 th, 2015 James Herynk

Review Four Three Test Types Resources What’s New: Dec 19 th Release Local Caching Server (LCS) Release AMP It Up! Day Testlets —Defined —Rollout —Setup Report Data Extracts Paper/Pencil, Braille, and Large Print Heads Up Upcoming Webinars Agenda

Review of Past Topics KITE Educator Portal vs. KITE Client Upload: Users, Enrollment, Rosters, TEC Add Manually: Users, Enrollment, Rosters Edit: Users, Enrollment, Rosters

Technology Practice Tests —Generated by AMP (for all to access) —Currently available Testlets —Generated by teachers (for rostered students) —Currently available Summative —Generated by the system (for TEST records) —March 30 th, 2015 Amp It Up! Day —Generated by the system —January, 29 th 2015 Preface: Four Test Types

Resources akassessments.org akassessments.org A.KITE Client Windows Macintosh iPad Chromebook B.Educator Portal (Updated Dec. 19) Educator Portal Manual Educator’s Guide to KITE Client.CSV Templates for Users, Enrollment, Rosters, TEC C.Local Caching Server (Will Update Feb. 6) Manuals for Mac, Windows, and Linux Request the Local Caching Server (LCS) Software

Resources akassessments.org akassessments.org D.Videos vimeo.com/aaimediavimeo.com/aaimedia Teachers –View and Verify Student Data: Teachers –Assign Students to a Test: Teachers –Access and Edit the PNP –Welcome/Getting Started (COMING SOON) District Test Coordinators –Upload User Template –Upload Enrollment Template –Upload Roster Template –Add User Manually –Add Student Manually –Add Roster Manually

Dec 19 th : EP Release, KITE Updates, Documentation Test Record/TEC Report Data Extract PNP settings adjustments “Spoken Audio” —Non Visual (no longer an option) —Text Only (no longer an option) —Subject selection for Read Aloud Math only Math and ELA —All students will have Read Aloud for directions New upload limit of 5k entries Chrome is now supported for Educator Portal OS is now supported

Dec 19 th : EP Release, KITE Updates, Documentation Updated Educator Portal Manual —Change log at the end of each chapter —Table of contents now links in Adobe —Report data extracts Updated Educator’s Guide to KITE Client —Change log at beginning of Educator Guide KITE Client —TTS player is now integrated —Enhanced Notes saves across sections of a test

Local Caching Server (LCS) A local computer or server that is set up to store data from students testing in KITE Client and then send that data all at once. This is how the current LCS functions No called “Semi-Offline” mode.

LCS: 2015 Release planned for February 6 th, 2015 Expansion of the LCS Admin features —Two Modes Semi-Offline Fully Offline Ability to begin testing with no internet if tests have been downloaded to the LCS LCS-2014 will no longer work once the LCS is available.

LCS: Fully Offline Mode

LCS: Reasons to Use Fully Offline Mode No internet will be available the day of testing. Internet is expected to be unreliable do to weather, maintenance by your service provider, or limited bandwidth due to other local event. Remote location with no internet where testing machines and LCS machine will be delivered. Limited bandwidth

LCS: Semi-Offline vs. Fully Offline Modes We suggest you set up the LCS in one mode and stick with it throughout testing. In most cases, Semi-Offline is sufficient. —Protection against temporary loss of Internet —Variable Internet —Low bandwidth

LCS: Admin Logging In Open the LCS Admin Page —In a browser address bar enter: IP address:port number/TDE/admin/index.htm —Enter username and password from

LCS: Admin Dashboard

LCS: Admin in Fully Offline, Fetch Student Tests

AMP It Up! Day AMP It Up Day is scheduled for Jan. 29 th. EED webinar for Amp It Up Day planned for Jan. 14 th at 3:30. How to Prepare? —Have KITE Client installed on machines where students will test. —If using an LCS, have LCS running. Only semi-offline mode is available —Use the same configurations that you intend to use during summative assessments

Testlets: Assessment for Learning Designed to provide teachers and students with information to help gauge the level of students’ understanding item testlets with items clustered by concept for grades 3-10 in ELA and math. Teacher selected. Immediate feedback to teacher and student. Flexible use: formative tool, pre-test, check for understanding.

Testlets: Rollout Began January 5 th, testlets are available for every grade and subject. Rollout continue through January and February of Soft expectation to have all testlets released by the end of January. Around 5-6 testlets total for every grade and subject.

Testlets: Setting Up Test Sessions as a Teacher Test Session defined —In Educator Portal, a Test Session is the combination of: a single testlet, students assigned to that testlet, a name given by the person who creates the session, tickets generated with the student username and password, and the testlet populating the assigned students’ KITE Client account. Quick Links —Add New Test (Testlets) —Generate Tickets —Monitor Test p. 7.2

Data Extract Reports in EP: Summary EP Previous Extract Abilities —Current Enrollment —Accessibility Profile (settings by student) —Roster —Users New Extract Abilities —Test Records Upcoming Extract Abilities, early February —Test Administration —Test Tickets —Accessibility Profile Summary (count by feature, DLM/non-DLM)

Data Extract Reports in EP: Reusable EP Previous Extract Abilities —Current Enrollment —Accessibility Profile (settings by student) —Roster —Users New Extract Abilities —Test Records Upcoming Extract Abilities, early February —Test Administration —Test Tickets —Accessibility Profile Summary (count by feature, DLM/non-DLM)

Data Extract Reports in EP: Reusable EP Current Enrollment —Can update/edit/add students, but CANNOT change student ID Roster —Can remove a student from a roster. —Can add a student to an existing roster, so long as that student is not on another identical roster. —If you try to add a student to an existing roster, but either the Roster Name, Subject, Course, School Identifier, or Educator are different, then the system will create a new roster. —If you add a line of data to the.CSV upload, and the exact same line of data already exists, the system will not duplicate the data. For example, if I have two lines of data with the exact same student, teacher, subject, roster name etc, the system only creates/updates 1 record. Test Records —Extract ONLY contains Test Records, NOT all enrollment

Data Extract Reports in EP: Coming Early February EP Test Administration Test Tickets Accessibility Profile Summary (count by feature, DLM/non-DLM)

January 5 th was the deadline for assigning students to a Paper/Pencil summative assessment through the TEC. —The PNP (Access Profile) also needed to have Paper/Pencil, Large Print, Braille, and Read Aloud checked if being assigned as an accommodation for summative assessments. p TEC: Paper/Pencil Test Record Deadline

Heads Up Known —Fractions appearing as whole numbers on Chromebooks (1/2 appears as 1 2 [12]) Investigating —Testlet items not appearing after hitting next, only a white screen. —System is slow at login when multiple users are logging in simultaneously. —Select multiple points not allowing selection of multiple points. Hint —If a student moves to another district or school... do a TEC upload to CLEAR any Test Records. then do a TEC EXIT to remove the student from your district... or, do an enrollment re-upload to change the school.

Technology DirectorFebruary 12 th, 2015 District Test CoordinatorFebruary 17 th, 2015 Technology DirectorMarch 12 th, 2015 District Test CoordinatorMarch 17 th, 2015 Upcoming Webinars

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