5 Ways to Prepare for Online Testing

Educators across the nation are gearing up for changes in student assessments, especially the transition from a booklet-based testing system to an online format. The team at Education Advanced is tracking these trends and working with our developers to ensure TestHound is ready to meet your online test enablement needs. We will continue to provide total testing management support through these tools so you can be prepared for both paper and online testing success.

1. Test Scheduling

Multi-Session Scheduling (MSS) enables multiple session planning across all your testing windows, allowing you to build organized testing schedules, providing filtering options, and offering the ability to create makeup testing sessions. With MSS, you can use the same room across multiple days with the same or different test administrator. MSS also allows you to mark students absent and reschedule them into makeup sessions on alternative days while you monitor all changes on the main test page.

2. Advanced Reporting

TestHound offers a variety of reports that outline student testing schedules, student accommodations, and past performance data. With TestHound’s advanced reporting features, you can generate combined reports for consolidated testing within MSS. The master materials report allows you to account for secure test tickets, as well as login credentials. The master schedule report generates testing locations for students across the entire testing window. Individual reports can also be provided to students indicating their specific testing schedule.  

3. Registration File Generation

With TestHound’s Performance Tracker you can easily generate a registration file to identify students required to test in an upcoming administration. If your state offers embedded supports that need to be identified, TestHound will also provide the required data to enable those supports.

4. Student Accommodation Management

Auto Pilot automatically connects TestHound with your student accommodation vendor, ensuring all student accommodations are documented, tracked, and associated with students based on their testing needs. In addition to providing accommodation data for embedded supports to state vendors, TestHound will also provide an export of accommodation data for local vendors that may use the data for in-district purposes.

5. Tracking Past Performance   

With Performance Tracker, district and campus users can oversee all uploaded past performance data, monitor scale score information, and keep track of student re-testers. This empowers you to automatically identify students requiring a retest of state-mandated assessments necessary for graduation. Score Tracker enables schools to quickly aggregate all testing data, including any state allowed “exclusions” for mandated assessments.  

If you are responsible for coordinating state and local assessments, let TestHound give you the gift of time so you can focus more energy on serving students. TestHound will empower you to efficiently and effectively schedule students into testing sessions, minimizing interruptions in instructional time and ensuring a student-centered testing experience.  

Our team is ready to help you streamline your online testing processes and enter the next testing season with confidence!