You can enable dictionary tools in Enhanced Accommodation (EA) assessments for individual students. For an individual student, you can enable the dictionary tools for formative assessments as well as benchmark assessments. You can also choose whether to enable the dictionary tools for passages.
Notes:
- When you make changes to individual student dictionary options, the tracker-level language and speech tools option changes to "Manually set for each student."
- To manage dictionary tools for all students in the tracker, you can configure the dictionary tools at the tracker level.
- From a tracker, you can export a student list that includes each student's dictionary settings.
Open Tracker
In the Global Navigation Menu, click the Trackers link [1]. In the Trackers page, click a tracker link [2].
Open Student Editor
Click the Students tab [1]. Then, hover over a student's name and click the Edit link [2].
View Accommodations
You can view the student's current accommodations in the Student Editor window [1].
If the tracker-level language and speech accommodations are configured for all students, those are the default accommodations for each student. Additionally, a warning displays [2]. If you make any changes to an individual student's accommodations in the Student Editor, the tracker-level accommodations setting automatically changes to "Manually set for each student".
If the tracker-level language and speech accommodations are configured to be manually set for each student, no warning displays.
Configure Formative Assessments
To enable or disable individual language and speech accommodations for formative assessments, click the Formative Assessments toggle [1].
To enable or disable a text-based dictionary, click the Dictionary checkbox [2].
To enable or disable a picture dictionary, click the Picture Dictionary checkbox [3].
Accommodations are available for passages. To enable or disable accommodations for formative assessment passages, click the Include Passages checkbox [4].
Note: The Include Passages checkbox applies to the dictionary tools as well as the text-to-speech tool.
Configure Benchmark Assessments
To enable or disable individual language and speech accommodations for benchmark assessments, click the Benchmark Assessments toggle [1].
To enable or disable a text-based dictionary, click the Dictionary checkbox [2].
To enable or disable a picture dictionary, click the Picture Dictionary checkbox [3].
Accommodations are available for passages. To enable or disable accommodations for benchmark assessment passages, click the Include Passages checkbox [4].
Note: The Include Passages checkbox applies to the dictionary tools as well as the text-to-speech tool.
Save Changes
To save changes, click the Save button.
