Classroom and Benchmark
Assessment Administration
in Home Base (via Schoolnet)
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Presenter: Kayla Siler, DPI Policy and
Planning Analyst
Agenda
Tuesday, March 4 - CCSA
Welcome
Assessment Admin Module in Schoolnet
Access (Roles and Permissions)
Functionality
What is in Item Central?
Classroom and Benchmark Assessments – Best Practices
Creating a Benchmark
Secure Benchmark Items
Scheduling Benchmark Assessments
Administration of Assessments
Options
Technical Requirements
ScanIt
Questions/Discussion
Assessment Admin Module
Assessment Admin Access
Teacher: NO additional roles needed,
teachers can natively do everything that
they need in the system
Assessment Admin Access
Staff: If access to
create items and build
assessments is
needed, add Test Item
Administrator and
Access to Assessment
Management
Leadership: If access to create items is needed, add
Test Item Administrator (all other assessment
operations are already part of the leadership role)
Functionality
1. Monitor
2. Create
3. Find
What is in Item Central?
Classroom and Benchmark Items
(Formerly in the ClassScape System)
3-8 ELA: 5453
English II: 593
3-8 Math: 11186
Math I: 2376
5 Science: 1871
8 Science: 2297
Biology: 1635
Total: 25411+ (development is ongoing)
These items are split into a bank for teachers to use daily for
classroom assessment purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Classroom)
and a bank that is secure at the district level for benchmark
purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Benchmark).
What else is in Item Central?
Classroom (non-secure) Science and Social
Studies Assessment Items [8,600+ items]
NWEA Social Studies
Items
Grade 7: 43
Grade 8: 17
Global Geography: 131
World History: 524
American History I: 124
American History II: 517
Civics and Economics: 617
Total: 1973
NWEA Science Items
Grade 3: 152
Grade 4: 633
Grade 5: 352
Grade 6: 1006
Grade 7: 880
Grade8: 659
Physical Science: 603
Biology: 1030
Chemistry: 596
Physics: 174
Earth and Environmental: 594
Science Total: 6679
How to expand Item Central
• More items in development to be added to
NCDPI_Benchmark and
NCDPI_Classroom spring of 2014
• More items purchased to be added by
July 2014 (almost 30,000 Math and ELA
items in grades K-12)
• You can CREATE and ADD your own
items to Item Central!
Classroom and Benchmark
Assessments
Best Practices for Creating Benchmark
Assessments in Schoolnet:
– Create a Test Manually
– Lookup in Item Central
– Use Advanced Search
– Search by Publisher NCDPI_Benchmark
– Add Items to Test
Assessment Administration
Options
1. Online
2. Using Student Response
Devices or Clickers
3. Paper and Pencil
(ScanIt)
Technical Requirements
For basic system Technical Requirements:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/gettingready/implementation/category?category=Technical%20Requirements
* These are the minimum requirements needed to deliver the Schoolnet
assessments.
Browser Compatibility
• Please note that IE should NOT be used
in compatibility mode
• When possible, Firefox and Chrome are
recommended
Preparing for Home Base
 Ensure that LEAs, Charters, and all schools have
optimized network routers and LANs to maximize
bandwidth at each school and classroom.
 Ensure that high-capacity wireless networks are
available at each school and have sufficient coverage to
reach all classrooms in which Home Base will be used.
 Ensure that students have access to supported Internetenabled devices to access Home Base.
 Ensure that devices are equipped with mainstream
browsers (current release preferred, but no older than
two releases back).
Student Response Devices/Clickers
Supported Clickers:
•
•
•
•
eInstruction
Promethean
Turning Technologies
SMART
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/homebase
/getting-ready/implementation/technicalrequirements/proctoring-test.pdf
eInstruction Clickers
•
•
•
•
KG3EI RF (Radio Frequency)
KGEN2EI (Radio Frequency)
Clickers must also include a screen display.
Installation requirements:
– Microsoft Silverlight (version 3.0 or later) must be
installed
– V.6.71.183.52459 eInstruction Device Manager
(available through Schoolnet) must be installed
– Step-by-step set-up instructions are available, please
contact your Schoolnet Project Manager
– Please note, these clickers do not currently work with
IE9.
Promethean Clickers
• ActivExpression 2 -Model PRM-AE2-01
• Other clicker models that are compatible with the Promethean
Virtual Learner Response System may also be supported. Clickers
must also include a screen display.
• Installation requirements:
– Flash 10.1 or higher must be installed
– ActivDriver & ActivSDK Flash Extension (provided by
Promethean)
– Using the Chrome browser requires additional configuration
steps for Promethean devices. You must first disable the built-in
native flash player and enable the Adobe Flash player. To do so,
enter chrome://plugins in the address bar. Under Flash, click
disable on the other flash players and enable the Adobe Flash
player.
• Step-by-step set-up instructions are available, please contact your
Schoolnet Project Manager
Turning Technologies Clickers
• ResponseCard RF for polling-type
assessments (on PC's and Mac's)
• ResponseCard NXT for self-paced
assessments (on PC’s)
• Need to use USB Adaptor: P/N: RRRF-02
• Installation requirements:
– Java applet 1.7 or Higher
– Download the Java applet when prompted to
do so in the Schoolnet application.
SMART Clickers
• SMART PE
• SMART XE
• Installation requirements
– Install SMART Education Software (provided
by SMART Education)
ScanIt
• ScanIt is a software used to connect your
scanner to the assessment tools in the
Schoolnet component of Home Base
• Allows for paper and pencil administration of
classroom and benchmark assessments
• Allows for scanned results to be included
with other assessment data in the data and
reporting tools
ScanIt Technical Requirements
Note: ScanIt cannot natively run on 64-bit platforms or on the Mac
OS. On these platforms, a virtual machine can be installed with a
windows XP 32-bit OS, and ScanIt can be supported through the
virtual machine.
Technical Requirements Resources
• Schoolnet Technical Specifications https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.c
om/article/68725
• Common ScanIt Errors https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.c
om/article/68972?from=search
Note: For the links on this page, you will need a user name
and password for accessing PowerSource.
Ready to Scan
Log in to Home Base, click Schoolnet.
Click “Launch
the
Application” to
open ScanIt.
Using ScanIt
Make sure you
are connected to
your scanner
and your scan
sheets are
loaded in the
scanner and
ready, then click
on the green
SCAN button.
Documents are Being Scanned
Scanning Complete – Errors to
Review
Now review
errors (if any)
on the two tabs:
Review
Recommended
OR
Requires
Manual Entry
Confirm Review
Scan Complete
Resources
• Home Base Website:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/
• Assessment Resources:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/training/
materials/category?category=Classroom%20and
%20Benchmark%20Assessment%20(Schoolnet)
• Technical Requirements:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/gettingready/implementation/category?category=Technic
al%20Requirements
Contact: Remedy
homebase.incidents@its.nc.gov
• Contact your school or district Home Base IIS
Point Person first
• You can also email your questions about Home
Base (the system, implementation or training)
• Questions will be logged into Remedy for
assistance
• Support personnel provide the answer, research
or assign to the appropriate area for resolution
• Incidents are categorized for statistical reporting
to aid in identifying problem areas as well as
providing a knowledge base