1. KITE Updates October 11, Presented by: Susan Martin director ATS James Herynk project manager ATS
Agenda
Test Windows
KITE Platform
Whitelisting
Practice Tests
Resources
Roles & Permissions
Interim & Summative Updates
Monitoring
KIDS and KITE
TASC & TEST
Extracts
Scoring
Dashboard

2. Test Windows Kansas Test Windows Data Test Type Summative 3/13–4/27
Kansas Test Windows
Data
Test Type
Summative
3/13–4/27
KIDS - TEST
KELPA2
2/1–03/09
KIDS – TEST & TASC
Interim Instructional
09/15-4/27
KIDS - TASC
Interim Predictive
fall
10/16–10/27
winter
12/4–12/15
spring
2/5–2/16
DLM
ITI
9/20-2/28
EP Roster & FCS
3/13-4/27
CPASS
11/1-12/15

3. KITE Platform Content Builder Educator Portal (EP)
Client (KITE or Student Portal)
Local Caching Server (LCS)

4. Operating Systems, Devices, & Status

5. Whitelisting *.cete.us *.s3.amazonaws.com
Interim Predictive window opens 10/16
Students need TASC records for Math and/or ELA
Whitelist the following domains to prevent testing interruptions.
*.cete.us
*.s3.amazonaws.com

6. Practice Tests KAP Interactive Demos KELPA2 Interactive Demos
ksassessments.org/interactive-demos (coming soon)
KELPA2 Interactive Demos
not available (coming soon, December)
DLM Released Testlets
dynamiclearningmaps.org > State > Kansas > Manuals and Blueprints > Guide to Practice Activities and Released Testlets
cPass
not available

7. Assessment Program Resources
KAP ksassessments.org ,
DLM dynamiclearningmaps.org ,
cPass careerpathways.us ,
KELPA2 ksassessments.org/k-elpa
Same as KAP
KSDE KIDS kidsweb.ksde.org ,
KSDE Assessment Help Desk/Lee Jones

8. EP: Roles and Permissions
Consolidated roles/permissions
Roles/permissions table on Help tab in Educator Portal
Claim user:
If the user is inactive, pull them into your district.
If the user is active, an is sent to the DTC in the other district asking to deactivate.
9/5/2017

9. Interim Updates Interim Predictive vs. Interim mini-tests
Interim mini-test scheduling removed
Tickets are back in view test session table
Students auto assigned
When added to roster for Teachers
When added to grade for test sessions created to AutoAssign to Grade by Test Coordinator
Interim User Guide
Monitoring
Teachers use the interim tab
DTC and BTC can use Test Coordination or Interim Tab
"Clear", "Next", "Back", "Save", and "Review/End"

10. Summative Updates
In progress timed out reactivated automatically when student logs in, no longer have to be reactivated; the kids will simply need to use the next day’s DAC code to enter the test.
Monitoring new condensed format.
"Clear", "Next", "Back" and "Review/End"

11. Monitoring: Summative & Interim

12. KIDS and KITE TASC TEST Emails (Dashboard) General Information
Students/Rosters
Educators
TEST
s (Dashboard)
EXIT

13. TASC: General Information
KAP Interim Assessments (ELA and Math)
Provides educator, course, and student link (i.e., “Rosters”)
Required for Interim participation, NOT used for Summative
Feed updates regularly throughout the day (within an hour)

14. TASC: Students/Rosters
Adds assessment program to student
Creates an active enrollment for an attendance school in your district if NO active enrollments exist
Creates or adds a student to a roster by subject and building for a teacher
Foundation for interim and predictive interim test assignment
9/5/2017

15. TASC: Educators Adds KAP program to user, if needed
Creates an “inactive” teacher account if the educator ID is new to Educator Portal
Creates an “inactive” teacher account if we receive an address and an educator ID of all 9s
Adds an educator ID to an existing Educator Portal user account if that account did not have an ID
Creates rosters assigned to the teacher submitted on the most recently received TASC record

16. TEST: General Information
KAP Summative (ELA, Math, Science, HGSS), cPass, and KELPA2
Used to assign students to the appropriate summative test
Required for summative, NOT used for Interim participation
Feed updates regularly throughout the day (within an hour)

17. TEST: Students/Rosters/Test Assignments
Adds assessment program to student
Creates an active enrollment for the student in the specified schools
For KELPA2 , creates a roster used for scoring
For KAP, creates rosters used for scoring HGSS

18. TEST: Educators KELPA2/HGSS
Adds KELPA2/KAP program to user
Adds teacher role to user
If user is inactive or does not exist, does not create account but displays on dashboard (last year sent )
No action taken for KAP (ELA & Math), DLM, or cPass educators

19. Data Extracts Review New Run at any time Listed in alphabetical order
Names and descriptions updated
DLM extracts for FCS and training management
New
KAP Test Administration Monitoring school entry date added and test part columns removed/consolidated
Monitor Scoring now only 1 row per student per test (KELPA2 & HGSS)
Test Readiness Extract, NEW
9/5/2017

20. Test Readiness Extract
A new extract is being created that will allow State Administrators and Test Coordinators to pull for either district wide or by school test readiness details
Assessment programs
Username and Password
Groupings
PNP settings
Modification dates

21. Scoring

22. Updates to Scoring: KELPA2 & HGSS
Reduced need to scroll, better use of space, improved student response placement, visibility of media
Improved manual scorer assignment process (no need to deselect)
Harm to Self/Others (visibility page that identifies student items that have been flagged with this code for DTC to determine if actions are required.)
Print writing responses
Monitor Scoring Extract shows 1 row per domain (w and s) (no adding rows for scorer & only shows rostered teacher)
New Monitor Scoring Screen that displays students item scores by row per scorer. This shows which scorer scored an item. User can download as CSV file, but also displays on screen

25. Score Tests 3

32. Dashboard

33. New Dashboard Sections
New sections are shown
Will be available for state, district and building level users

34. Testing Summary – Morning View
Snapshot view – data updated twice daily M-F
In morning, ”today” column will display “n/a”
District users may view data for each school in district
Downloads available – for district will include district counts and counts for all schools in district

35. Testing Summary – Afternoon View
Updated information will be available mid-day
Weekend testing (i.e., virtual schools) will be available mid-day Monday, reported in Monday’s data

36. Scoring Summary Works like testing summary Timeframes /updates
Districts can see school level as well as district
Downloads

37. Reactivations
Can see student detail or summary view for all students in user’s organization
One timeframe at a time
State view will have a column for district

38. Testing Outside Expected Hours
Student starts / finishes a test outside of expected hours
Excludes students in schools with “virtual” in school
6AM – 5PM Mon-Fri.

39. We Want Your Input
Defects?
Enhancements?
Process improvements?