Accessibility Features and Designated Supports are available in OnTrack online assessments. Accessibility tools provide students with alternative ways of viewing and interacting with assessment contents so it is accessible by all students. Designated supports allow for several types of assistance to support students’ understanding of selections, assessment questions, and answer choices. [Read more]
Accommodated Assessment Overview
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Identify Students
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Identify students in your classrooms that qualify for accommodations. Use their IEP, as well as their 504, LPAC and IAT recommended classroom supports to determine which accommodations should be enabled.
Review
Demonstration Video: Online Assessment and Tools (3min)
Demonstration Video: Designated Supports Available (3min) Track Student Accommodations using a roster or this example Excel spreadsheet |
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Setup Accommodations
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Accommodation Profiles can be created for different subject areas so that when a test is activated for an online tester their accommodations are pre-enabled based on their profile. A profile can be created for ELA, Math, and Other, where other applies to any subject besides ELA and Math.
Video: Create or Edit Accommodation Profiles (3min)
Task Card: Create or Edit Accommodation Profiles
Video: Enable Accommodations for Individual Students (3min)
Activating Assessments: Students must have their tests activated for them to find an available test when they login to OnTrack.
Video: Activating Assessments and Individual Accommodations (3min)
Task Card: Giving Online Assessments
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Assist Students Access To OnTrack
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Assist Students to login to OnTrack from their PC, Chromebook, or iPad using their HISD network account. Use these task cards to learn how students access OnTrack from a shared PC or from an individual PC. Task Card: Student Online OnTrack Access Process Video: Student Online Assessment Access (4min) [AKO and Item Bank] Task Card: How Can Students Login to OnTrack?
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Other Resources
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Some open-ended, rubric, constructed response items may need to be scored by the teacher from an OnTrack's online scoring input. Since these accommodations were provided online, use the task card below to assist with entering rubric values for online testers.
Task Card: Score Constructed Response Items Video: Score Constructed Response Items (4min) Teacher Created Assessment Accommodations in OnTrack Share this video to help teachers to:
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For OnTrack support, please contact the Service Desk (servicedesk@houstonisd.org)
