Item-based Enhanced accommodation (EA) assessments have several tools and accommodation features for students to use during the Mastery Connect assessment experience. Teachers can manage these tools at the individual assessment level or at the tracker level.
Notes:
- If you make changes to the tools and accommodations on an active assessment, any students currently taking the assessment need to log out and back in to see the changes.
- In the Assessments list, assessments that support the enhanced accommodations feature display an EA indicator.
- Tools and accommodations must be enabled in your district at the administrative level.
- If a district enables the Respondus LockDown Browser at implementation or through a request to their Customer Success Manager, users will be able to enable the use of Respondus for students taking EA formative assessments.
- Text-to-speech is not available for document-based assessments. Students who require text-to-speech for a document-based assessment should use a native OS screen reader such as VoiceOver for Mac or JAWS for Windows.
How do I configure tools and accommodations for individual formative assessments?
How do I configure tools and accommodations for individual formative assessments?
1. Open Trackers
In the global navigation, click the Trackers link.
2. Select Tracker Name
Locate the tracker that includes the assessment, and click the tracker title.
3. Select Students
Click the Students tab.
4. Select Standard Header
Click the title of the standard that contains the assessment.
5. Select Assess
Locate the assessment and click the Assess tab.
6. View Tools and Accommodations
If the district administrator has allowed tools and accommodations for your assessment, the buttons in the Tools and Accommodations section display the status of each tool and accommodation. By default, the available tools and accommodations are set according to the tracker-level tools and accommodations.
A shaded button indicates the tool or accommodation is active in the assessment.
An unshaded button indicates the tool or accommodation is not active in the assessment.
7. Select Tools and Accommodations
To allow a tool or accommodation, click the item's button.
8. View Include question level tools
If tools were added as a feature to an item during the item authoring process, they are enabled by default. To disable them, click the Include question level tools toggle off.
9. Select Restore Default
To restore the default settings that were configured for all assessments on the tracker, click the Restore Default button.
10. Select Close
To save the tools and accommodations configurations, click the Close button.
This guide covered how to configure tools and accommodations or individual formative assessments.
