This overview provides users with an understanding of the DnA's Learning Plans and their respective content. Additional material is continuously being added to all the pathways. These pathways represent the assigned learning but additional content may be found in the catalogs themselves.
The Learning Community is a paid subscription and access is limited. Check with your System Administrator to see if seats are available.
Welcome to the Illuminate Education Family
Data and Assessment, or DnA, is a web-based platform designed with students and teachers in mind. Learn to navigate through the platform and get a preview of some of the most common areas and features of the system. This course provides a brief snapshot into what DnA holds for educators and how data can be utilized to drive instruction.
The Welcome to Data and Assessment course (5min) includes the following modules:
- Platform Tour in 5 Minutes - Video
If you have access, first log in to the Learning Community, then select Welcome to Data and Assessment to directly access the course.
DnA Essential Functions for All Users
In this course, users learn to navigating some of the aspects of DnA. The Control Panel is available for all user and contains resources for self-service and contacting support. Certain functions are available to admins only such as changing sites in order to view a more granular level of data. Finally, navigate Search 2.0 to for quick access to students, searching for groups of students, or starting a Custom Report.
The Platform Navigation (29 min) course includes the following modules:
- Learning Objective - Platform Navigation
- Overview - Control Panel
- Control Panel
- Knowledge Check - Control Panel
- Overview - Search 2.0
- Search 2.0
- Overview - Resources
- Resources
- Knowledge Check - Search 2.0
- Overview - Contacting Support
- Contacting Support
- Knowledge Check - Contacting Support
If you have access, first log in to the Learning Community, then select Platform Navigation to directly access the course.
DnA offers multiple assessment types to fit the type of assessment each teacher needs. In this course, learn how to create each available assessment type. All Item Bank assessments allow users to pull questions from banks ranging from user created questions to purchased vendor banks of questions in order to create an assessment targeted towards one or more standards. Flexible assessments allow teachers to create an assessment based on a PDF they have already created and simply inset an answer key. Standards and question groups can be aligned for a higher level of reporting. For primary teachers, Skills assessments provide the ability to asses students one on one for subjects such as phonics, sight words, colors, shapes, and more. And On the Fly assessment provide the ability for a quick check of understanding, like an exit ticket. All of these assessment options allow assessment creators flexible options for creating an assessment that fits their needs and gauge student success and progress.
The Creating Assessments course (70 min) includes the following modules:
- Learning Objectives - Creating Assessments
- Overview - Quick Mode Item Bank Assessment
- Quick Mode Item Bank Assessment - Video
- Knowledge Check - Quick Mode
- Item Bank Assessment - Video
- Overview - Standard Mode Item Bank Assessment
- Standard Mode Item Bank Assessment - Video
- Knowledge Check - Standard Mode Item Bank Assessment
- Overview - Creating Items in the Item Bank
- Creating Items in the Item Bank - Video
- Knowledge Check - Creating Items in the Item Bank
- Overview - Flexible Assessment
- Flexible Assessment - Video
- Knowledge Check - Flexible Assessment
- Overview - Skills Assessment
- Skills Assessment - Video
- Knowledge Check - Skills Assessment
- Overview - On the Fly
- On the Fly Assessment - Video
- Knowledge Check - On the Fly
- Overview - Create a New Item Bank Assessment
- Create a New Item Bank Assessment
If you have access, first log in to the Learning Community, then select Creating Assessments to directly access the course.
Once assessments have been created, there are several actions that can be taken. In this course, learn how to share assessments with other users, and then administer and progress monitor assessments. This course walks through setting up both portal and quick code online testing options, as well as using Live Proctoring, a tool which allows a real time view of students taking the assessment. After students have been assessed, some questions require teacher scoring, which occurs from the Enter/Edit screen. Additionally, this course provides information on assessment details that can be edited by the author, as well as updating the performance bands to have performance levels that fit the specific assessment, and filtering students to get a more granular look at student performance.
The Managing Assessments course (62 min) includes the following modules:
- Learning Objectives - Managing Assessments
- Overview - Sharing Assessments
- Sharing Assessments - Video
- Knowledge Check - Sharing Assessments
- Overview - Online Testing Portal
- Online Testing Portal - Video
- Knowledge Check - Online Testing Portal
- Overview - Online Testing Quick Code
- Online Testing Quick Code - Video
- Knowledge Check - Online Testing Quick Code
- Overview - Live Proctoring
- Live Proctoring - Video
- Knowledge Check - Live Proctoring
- Overview - Enter/Edit
- Enter/Edit - Video
- Knowledge Check - Enter/Edit
- Overview - Assessment Details
- Assessment Details - Video
- Knowledge Check - Assessment Details
- Overview - Performance Bands
- Performance Bands - Video
- Knowledge Check - Performance Bands
- Overview - Filtering Students
- Filtering Students - Video
- Knowledge Check - Filtering Students
If you have access, first log in to the Learning Community, then select Managing Assessments to directly access the course.
Prebuilt reports already existing and available reports that exist within DnA. In this course, learn about some of the most commonly used assessment reports for teachers. Each report displays different details in a different format, to get the most data out of student results to best guide instruction. The reports covered in this course include reporting from group performance to the individual student level, as well as an individual question to frequency of responses for each question. Additionally, certain reports are designed to be printed out for each individual student to send home and have students review their performance to see where they struggled and where they were successful.
The Prebuilt Reports course (28 min) includes the following modules:
- Learning Objectives - Prebuilt Reports
- Overview - Matrix Report
- Matrix Report - Video
- Knowledge Check - Matrix Report
- Overview - Response Frequency Report
- Response Frequency Report - Video
- Knowledge Check - Response Frequency Report
- Overview - Student Small Slip Report
- Student Small Slip Report - Video
- Knowledge Check - Student Small Slip Report
- Overview - Multiple Student Profile Report
- Multiple Student Profile Report - Video
- Knowledge Check - Multiple Student Profile Report
If you have access, first log in to the Learning Community, then select Prebuilt Reports to directly access the course.
Personalized Review Assignments (PRAs) are resources for students to review after they have completed an assessment. In this course, learn the details of what a PRA is, how to set it up, what students see, and how to review student PRAs after they have been completed. The user that creates the PRA has full customization options and determines how many resources students need to review after completing an assessment based on performance. This allows for immediate action for students to continue to build on their learning and understanding on concepts they may have struggled on or to continue to grow and learn about more complex concepts if they were proficient on their assessment.
The PRA course (17 min) includes the following modules:
- Overview - PRA's
- What is a PRA? - Video
- Navigating to PRA in DnA - Video
- Setting up PRA - Video
- Student Experience in PRA - Video
- Reviewing Your PRA - Video
- Knowledge Check - PRAs
If you have access, first log in to the Learning Community, then select PRA to directly access the course.
DnA offers a Student Portal, which provides students a web based solution for taking and reviewing assessments, accessing schedule information, reviewing grades, and other functions as determined by the district. This module guides students through logging in to the portal, basic navigation, accessing an assessment, using common online testing tools, and reviewing an assessment.
The Student Experience Overview course (9 min) includes the following modules:
- Overview - Student Experience
- Student Experience Overview - Video
If you have access, first log in to the Learning Community, then select Student Experience Overview to directly access the course.