This lesson will guide users through setting up an online assessment using the Illuminate Student Portal. This process requires users to select the group of students who need to see the assessment. Students must have active Portal accounts to access their assessments.
If students should access assessments without using the Student Portal, see the guide Online Testing Setup Using a Quick Code.
Please do not delete existing administrations. This will remove existing online testing progress. Administrations can be edited to make the appropriate corrections.
Before You Begin
Students will need the following information to access their online assessments:
- A link to the district's Portal website (e.g. yourdistrict.illuminatehc.com).
- A Student Portal Username and Password.
Where to Start
- Select Assessments.
- Select View Assessments.
- Select the blue title of the assessment to open it.
- Go to Administration and select Online Testing.
To see more details on accessing the Online Testing page, select your assessment type: Flexible Assessment or Legacy Assessment
Add a Testing Administration
- Select + Test in Portal to create a testing session.
Select Students
- Testing Window Start and End Dates and Times: This is the entire window of availability for this test in the Portal. By default, the test will be available from the start date and time through the end date and time, including out of school hours and weekends.
- Choose a certain Academic Year to choose all students rostered in that year.
- Choose an entire Grade Level to select all students in that grade at the site the user has access to.
- Assign the test to an entire Site. District or school options are determined by what sites a user has access to.
- If choosing a school site, drilldown to a specific User to choose all students that are rostered to that user.
- If the district includes Department data in their course information, users could assign the assessment to any student with a class in that department.
- Select the Course to assign this test to.
- Choose which class Section or period should have access to the test. A school site must be selected to have access to the class sections.
- All students who meet the other criteria selected will be chosen by default. In order to pick individual students, choose a user first.
- Student Count displays the total number of students selected.
- To learn Administration Settings, visit Online Testing - Administration Settings.
- To learn about Tool Settings, visit Online Testing Tools Library.
- To learn about Review Settings, visit Enable Assessment Review Settings.
- When finished, Select Save.
Teachers will only have access to their site of affiliation and the students rostered to them. Teachers can choose the academic year, grade level, department (if available), course, and sections, but all of their rostered students will show without any options selected.
Do not modify the Start Date after students have started testing. If students cannot take the assessment within the original window, the End Date can be extended, or a Quick Code can be created.
Administration Information
Once the roster has saved, the Online Testing page displays the following information:
- Delete allows user to delete the roster and removes it from Active Administrations.
- Edit navigates user to the page to edit roster settings.
- Created by indicates the user who created the online testing roster.
- Date Window displays the time period the assessment is available.
- Time Window displays All Day or a Daily Window (time frame within each day).
- Duration displays a time limit if added to the roster.
- Status displays the status of the roster (Pending - yellow, Current - green, Passed - red).
- Site Info displays any Academic Year, Grade Level, School Site, and User settings selected.
- Course Info displays any Department, Course, and Section settings selected.
- Student Info/Tools displays the number of students assigned to take the test online and gives you access to Live Proctoring.
- Auth Info displays the password created under Administration Settings - Availability if applicable.
- Deleted Administrations allows users to view rosters you have deleted.
Please do not delete existing administrations. This will remove existing online testing progress. Administrations can be edited to make the appropriate corrections.
Next Steps
Get to know our progressing monitoring tools while administering the assessment in Monitoring Progress on Online Assessments and Assessment Panel or Live Proctoring.