Scanning

Install

To scan paper answer sheets, install HP OnTrack scan to your computer. The software is available to install from Software Center. This video and task card will walk you through the steps to install the software onto your workstation. If you don’t already have a scanner/drivers installed, use the video instructions to show you where to find the scanner drivers that will allow your computer to use the scanner hardware.

• Installing Scanner Hardware and Software
• Task Card: Installing HISD OnTrack Scan Software
• Manually Installing HISD OnTrack Scan Software
• (Manually install if not found in Software Center)
• Task Card: Login to Scanning Software

Scanning Features

Once you’ve installed and configured your scanning software, use this video to demonstrate how to use the scanning features to bulk scan, review errors, edit answers, and review data quality as you scan student answer sheets into the system.

• Using HISD OnTrack Scanning Software
• Task Card: Login to Scanning Software
• Answer Sheet Scan Samples- Print these answer sheets to test out your scanner.
• Ricoh Copier Option: The district Ricoh copiers can scan documents as PDFs and send them by email but require more quality. If the scans are too dark or light, the answer sheets results may have detected extra erasures or MLT if too dark. If too light, results may show BLK for lightly bubbled responses. Customers will need to quality control results to avoid data quality issues Ricoh copiers cause.  

Use this document to provide you with a vendor contact and official quotes for different supported HP ScanJet models.

• Ordering New HP Scanners and Legacy Scanner Models

Verify Scan Configuration

Use this document to print demonstration answer sheets to scan with HISD OnTrack Scan software. This process will help verify your scanning software and hardware are successfully installed and configured prior to your first test administration. 

• Demonstration Scanning

Maintenance 

Older scanners will eventually jam, misfeed, and/or capture contaminated images due to accumulated dirt, fiber, and grime. Use this video to demonstrate how to effectively clean your scanner using available products at your campus.

• Maintain and Service Scanner Hardware

Printing Answersheets

To print out answer sheets for an existing assessment, use this Task Card to assist with giving a paper test.

• Giving Paper Tests in OnTrack