Essential Questions

How do you assign & administer assessments?

How do you create an assessment (item bank & teacher created)?

How do you create questions?

How do students take assessments?

How do you view assessment results?

 

Assigning & Administering Assessments 

• Select a course under “My Courses”
• Click the “New Test Administration” button under, “Test Administration”
• Under “Test Administration Details”, give the test a title, start/due date
• Click the “Find Test” button to locate a test
• Scroll up and down and click the blue “Add” tab to select the desired test
• Write a description of the test (optional) & click the blue “Save” button
• Under “Test Administration”, click on a test to view students assigned to the test, the status of students taking the tests, and scoring once complete
• Click the FocalPoint Logo in the top left corner to return to “Home”

 

Creating an Assessment (item bank & teacher created)

• Click “Assessments” then “Tests”

• Click the “Add New Test” button on the top right side of the page

• Give the test a Title & complete additional fields (Time Allowed, Maximum Attempts, & Description)

• Under “Meta Data Tags”, choose the grade level, and subject, & tag the standards (optional/item banks questions are already tagged to standards so this is not mandatory)

• Click the “Find Questions” button to locate questions

• Use the filters to sort questions in item banks (Example: 7th-grade math I would select, Grade 7, Math, Choose standard(s), DOK, Item Type, etc.)

• Click the Back to Test button once selections have been made

• Save the Test

• To preview the test, select the Preview button.

 

Creating Questions

• Click “Assessments” then “Questions”
• Click the “Add New Question” button
• Choose Interaction Type—Multiple Choice (you can also do Extended Text and/or EBSR (Evidence Based Selected Response) questions as well)
• Enter the exact language of the question in the fields along with the answer options for MC. Additional answer options can be added or removed using the noted blue button.
• Under “Meta Data Tags”, select grade level, subject, & tag to appropriate standards
• Enter DOK Level & select Item Style
• Click Save
• Click Preview to view

 

Students taking Assessments

• Logout of FocalPoint as a teacher & close all browsers
• Login as Student
• Select a Course
• Under Test Administration, click on the desired test
• Click the green “Launch Test” button after, “Are you ready to take the test?” to begin the assessment
• Click the navy blue button that says, “Begin Test”
• Enter answers & click next to move to the next question. Select finished once complete

 

Viewing assessment results

• Click “Dashboards” then “Data Dashboard”
• To view Standards Proficiency, click on + sign on the Standards Proficiency chart to drill down. Click on the charts to drill further for more details…
• To view Assessment Proficiency, click on the Classroom Assessment chart to drill down, to drill further click on the + sign for more details…
• To view Assessment Item Analysis, click on the Classroom Assessment chart to drill down, and click on “Click here to view results by Question” located top left corner.
• Click the Home button on the top left corner to navigate back to Main Dashboard