Sacramento City Unified School District
SBAC Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines
Student
Name:
SSID:
Teacher:
Grade:
All Universal Tools, Designated Supports, and/or Accommodations listed on the IEP or Section 504 Plan must be offered to
student during testing. It is imperative that you review each student’s IEP or Section 504 Plan carefully before testing. The
directions for correctly completing this form are as follows:
1. Sped Teachers determine accommodations using the CST to SBAC crosswalk;
2. Sped Teachers fill out the usability form for each student;
3. Sped Teachers give one form per student (not for students taking CAPA or CMA Science) to their school site testing
coordinator who inputs the accommodations into the SBAC system.
Universal Tools
All Students
Designated Supports
Accommodations
IEPS/504s and identified students
IEP/504s only
☐IEP Date
☐504 Date
Identified Students by:
Embedded
☐Access to Test
☐Instruction and Help
☐Breaks
☐Calculator
☐Digital Notebook
☐English Dictionary
☐English Glossary
☐Expandable Passages
☐Global Notes
☐Highlighting
☐Keyboarding Navigation
☐Mark for Review
☐Math Tools
☐Spell Check
☐Strike Through
☐Writing Tools
☐Zoom
☐Breaks
☐English Dictionary
☐Scratch Paper
☐Thesaurus
☐Volume Control
1
2
☐Teacher Recommendation
☐Psychologist Recommendation
☐Counselor Recommendation
☐IEP Team Recommendation
Justification
☐CST ELA Basic, BB or FBB/Date______
☐CST Math Basic, BB or FBB/Date_____
☐SST Coordinator
☐RTI Participation
☐ELL Identified
☐Other______________________
☐Color Contrast
☐Masking
☐Text-to-Speech
☐Translated Test Directions
☐Translations (Glossary)
☐Translations (Stacked)
☐Turn off Any Universal Tools
☐American Sign Language
☐Braille
☐Closed Captioning
☐Text-to-Speech
10
11
6
12
7
8
9
3
4
5
Nonembedded
13
14
☐Bilingual Dictionary
☐Color Contrast
☐Color Overlay
☐Magnification
☐Read Aloud
☐Scribe
☐Separate Setting
☐Translations (Glossary)
☐Abacus
☐Alternate Response Options
☐Calculator
☐Multiplication Table
☐Print on Demand
☐Read Aloud
☐Scribe
☐Speech-to-Text
15
20
16
17
1 For
7 For
15 For
2 For
8 For
16 For
calculator-allowed items only
ELA performance task full-writes
3 Includes embedded ruler, embedded protractor
4 For ELA items
5
Includes bold, italic, underline, Indent, cut, paste,
spell check, bullets, undo/redo
6 For ELA items (not reading passages0 and math
items
18
19
math items
math items
9 For math test
10 For ELA listening items and math items
11
For ELA listening items
12 For ELA reading passages grades 6-8 and 11
13 For ELA performance task full-writes
14 For ELA performance task full-writes
ELA performance task full-writes
ELA non-writing items and math items
17 For mat items
18 Includes adapted keyboards, large keyboards,
StickyKeys, MouseKeys, FilterKyes, adapted
mouse, touch screen, headwand, and switches
19 For calculator-allowed items only
20 For math items beginning in grade 4