Manage Tests in Assessment Manager

Test Center will become Assessment Manager for all district sites after the end-of-year roll is complete.

Use Assessment Manager to locate a test and make it available for students to take online or with scan sheets. Preview, edit, copy, or delete tests, and download test booklets and answer keys.

After a test is administered, return to Assessment Manager to choose from the scoring options, such as Scoring Assignment and Online Scoring, or review student results using the Student Item Analysis report.

Find Tests in Assessment Manager

Assessment Manager provides a list of tests available to you, which includes tests that meet any of the following criteria:

• Tests that you created.
• Tests with an open administration window are included by default unless you clear the Limit to Open Test Window option.
• Any of your students are in the student population defined by the test course type and grade-level settings.

• For a test to be available in Assessment Manager, it must have a Course Type and Grade Level entered in the Properties section.
• Initially, only tests with an open test administration window are displayed. If you want tests with a closed administration window included, clear the Limit to Open Test Window option.
• If a test has been deleted, you can use the global search to find and restore the test.

1. Choose Tests from the main navigation menu, then choose Assessment Manager.
2. Select Online/Paper Based or Observational.

3. To include tests outside the current test window, clear Limit to Open Test Window.

   

   Only tests ready to be administered to students (tests with a valid Course Type and Grade Level) are included in the search results since these are the only tests that you can administer in Assessment Manager. If you need to search for tests, use the global search in the menu of any Performance Matters page.

4. To locate a specific test, use Search by Title or ID.
5. To narrow the test list, choose from the Course Subject, Assessment Category, or Test Grade Level selections.

6. You can also click Additional Filters to further limit results.

   

   Additional Filters is not available from the Observational tab.

7. To sort the list by column, click the column header.

Release a Single Online Test

1. Find the test.

2. From the Actions column of the test row, click the ellipsis, then choose Release: Online / Paper Based.

3. On the test window that displays:
   1. If the test has multiple sections, select a section to release. You must release each section of a multi-section test independently.
   2. Click Add Student Filter, then choose a filter to narrow the student list. . Use the Classes selection to choose one class at a time, or enter values in the Search field to choose a single student.
   3. You can select all students or select individual students.
4. Clear any selected students who are not in class during the time the test is released to prevent them from accessing the test.
5. To make the test available online to the selected students, click Release. Selected students can access the test when they sign into OLA.
6. To unrelease the test for all selected students, click Unrelease. Selected students will no longer have access to the test when they sign into OLA.
7. Click Close.

Release Single Paper-Based Test

1. Find the test.

2. On the test row, click the ellipsis, then choose Release: Online / Paper Based.

3. On the test window that displays:
   
   1. Click Add Student Filter, then choose a filter to narrow the student list. Use the Classes selection to choose one class at a time, or enter values in the Search field to choose a single student.
   2. You can select all students or select individual students.
4. Clear any selected students who you do not wish to include.
5. Click Preslugged Sheets to create answer sheets with student names or click Blank Answer Sheets for scan sheets without student names.
6. Click Close.

Release Multiple Online Tests

Only the first section of multi-section tests is released when using the Bulk Actions menu. Unless this is what you intend, releasing single tests provides more flexibility.

1. Find a test or filter the test list as needed.
2. Select each test you want to release.
3. From the Bulk Actions menu, select OLA Release or OLA Unrelease.

Access Scoring Options

For tests that have human-scored item interactions or online scoring enabled, or for observational assessments, choose a scoring option.

1. Filter the test list as needed.
2. For online or paper-based assessments select Online/Paper Based.

   1. From the Actions column of the test row, click the ellipsis, then choose Scoring Assignment or Online Scoring.

   2. Score the test.

3. Alternatively, for observational assessments, select Observational.

   1. From the Actions column of the test row, click the ellipsis.

   2. Choose Capture Data.

   3. Score the test.

Assessment Manager Options

Each test in the list will provide one or more of these options, depending on your permissions and the test settings.

Option	Action	Description
Test Title	Edit Test	Click the test title link to display the Edit Test page to make changes and add test windows to the test. You must have permission to edit the test for the test title to display as a link.
	View Sections	Displays if the test has multiple sections; hover to display the section list.
	Preview	Click to display a new tab and preview the test format. If the test is high stakes, the preview option is only available to users with high stakes permission. To preview an online test, the test's OLA option must be selected and you must have at least Read permission to the test.
	View Test Summary	Click to review the test properties, settings, and attributes summary.
	View scored students in SIA Report	Click to review the Student Item Analysis report for students who have received scores for this test.
	Select test actions	Click to select individual test actions.

Individual Test Actions

Click the ellipsis, In the Actions column to then choose from the test actions:

• Download Test

• Copy Test

• Release: Online / Paper Based
• OLA Student Admin

• Scoring Assignment

• Download Answer Key

• Online Scoring

• Capture Data

  

  • Download Test downloads the test as a Word document unless a PDF file was uploaded for that test. If you want to download a PDF version, click the Test Title. Click Printing, then select PDF.
  • If Restrict Access to Download Test is turned on in the administration settings for a test, a user cannot download a copy of the test. If a user needs to download a copy of the test, they must have Read permission to the test and access it from the search page or the Edit Test page.
  • Copy Test automatically copies the test window settings. The dates of the window default to the current 30 days, but all other reporting, security, and OLA tool settings are copied from the original test.
  • Scoring Assignment is only available if the test has manually-scorable responses, and Enter/Edit Responses is selected in the Administration tab.
  • Online Scoring is only available if the test has machine-scorable responses, and Enter/Edit Responses is selected in the Administration tab.

Bulk Test Actions

You may have the option to perform other actions for one or more tests in the list. Choose the desired tests, then choose from the Bulk Actions menu:

• Copy
• Delete
• Permissions
• OLA Release
• OLA Unrelease

Permissions can only be assigned to one test at a time and only to tests you have permission to edit.