OnCourse Assessment

Take the controls of OnCourse's Assessment Builder to create the perfect student experience, with dozens of options for test tools, timing, accessibility, and security.

Want a quick formative exercise? Author your own interactive questions with a library of technology-enhanced items. Infuse your content with pictures, videos, or opportunities for students to do performance-based exercises.

Want rigorous benchmark assessments? Use the Blueprint feature to plot standards to be assessed. Then, plug in aligned content from OnCourse's Item Bank, which contains thousands of psychometrician-developed questions, scoring rubrics, and auto-grading schema.

Technology-Enhanced Items
Keep students engaged with interactive question types like fill-in-the-blanks, matching, sorting, highlighting images, graphing, charting, and verbal response.

Standard-Aligned Test Bank
Ensure that assessments are aligned to college- and career-readiness standards with more than 35,000 questions for grades 2-12. 

Innovative Testing Tools
Create dynamic tests that prepare students for high-stakes testing. Add tools (calculator, protractor, ruler), multimedia resources (audio, video), and accessibility options like text-to-speech.

Stop getting bogged down in the frustrating logistics of test administration.

OnCourse Assessment makes it simple to publish common assessments to any group, instantly. Choose the timeframe and class sections where an assessment should be conducted, and teachers will instantly gain access to the new test.

All options can be autograded, saving huge amounts of time (and gallons of red ink!)

Testing Windows
Ready to deploy your test? Choose the start and end date of a testing window, then use a live monitoring dashboard to watch each classroom complete their tests. 

Automatic Grading
When students submit their work, OnCourse automatically grades eligible items (math, multiple choice, cloze, etc.) and alerts teachers to areas that require review. 

Test Taking Options
Bubbles or pixels? OnCourse supports all major browsers, Chromebooks, tablets, and even traditional paper bubble sheets for classrooms without sufficient devices.

Transitioning to digital assessments is painless if students have a few key elements, all of which are featured in OnCourse Assessment, like:

• Simplified entry to testing site
• Intuitive navigation
• Ability to limit distractions
• Stability and security
• Accessibility options
• Seamless integration to daily activities

By practicing in OnCourse, students spend less time figuring out digital test programs, and more time engaged with meaningful exercises.

Prepping for Summatives
The OnCourse Student Test Center can simulate the look-and-feel of state/national tests like PARCC. Give students ample opportunities to get comfortable with digital testing!

Lockdown Browser
Want to keep students from sneaking out to Google or Wikipedia? Use the Lockdown Browser to keep kids securely on track.

Accessibility Options
Activate advanced accessibility for students in need of accommodations and modifications. Options include text-to-speech, font size, color contrast, and response masking. 

Nurturing student growth requires that assessment feedback arrive instantly.

In OnCourse Assessment, teachers get live feedback on student progress, giving them a golden opportunity to pivot instruction in time to make a difference.

PDF reports are boring. OnCourse provides staff with live, interactive dashboards that show a range of intuitive data on:

• Student performance scores by standard
• Class/school proficiency on standards
• Mastery by standard
• Item analysis by question
• Item analysis by individual/class

Performance Bands
Track student progress with color-coded performance scores, either overall or by-standard. See how key demographics perform in relation to each other (like gender, ethnicity, classification, etc.)

Standards Mastery
More interested in mastery than grades? Switch to "Mastery" view and find out which concepts students are grasping, and which need extra attention.

Standards Proficiency Report
Want a comprehensive snapshot of a student's progress toward academic standards? Run the Proficiency Report for a live look at student competency in each standard.

Performing item analysis is one of the most powerful ways to boost the value of testing time.

OnCourse's Item Analysis dashboard helps you to quickly understand:

• If tests are at an appropriate level of rigor
• Which concepts are mastered; require remediation
• If questions are misleading or ambiguous

By monitoring the responses of students and classrooms, then making meaningful adjustments, assessments delivered through OnCourse get better and better over time.

Item Analysis Matrix
Use OnCourse's color-coded dashboard to get a wide-angle view of performance on each assessment question, and quickly identify concepts that need additional instruction. 

Frequency Distribution Charts
Are students struggling to progress toward a standard, or are the questions formulated poorly? Use frequency distribution to see how many students chose each answer. 

Class Section Analysis
Switch to "Section" view to see how different classes answered questions compared to the rest of their grade level. OnCourse aggregates thousands of student responses instantly!

You've created assessments in OnCourse and deployed them to teachers; now what?

Get a live peek into the classroom with Live Progress features, which equip you to:

• Identify classes that have started/completed testing
• Review progress toward standards
• Evaluate student competencies, by individual,  classroom, or grade level

Want to invite staff members to participate in assessment building? Use sophisticated permissions to invite contributors.

Live Progress
Teachers and test coordinators can monitor student activity in real-time, pause and resume tests, or move students to specific questions for review or clarification.

Permissions
Use sophisticated controls to determine which staff members or groups can view, edit, and administer tests in OnCourse Assessment. 

Administrative Oversight
Give principals, coaches, and curriculum staff the access they need to review student performance instantly as assessments are completed. 

There's no worse experience for teachers than trying to start a digital test and having issues with rosters or logins!

OnCourse Assessment can be integrated with most Student Information Systems; however, the power of this platform is magnified when integrated with:

• OnCourse Student Information System
  Be confident that class rosters are always up-to-date, as the OnCourse SIS transmits enrollment and roster changes instantly to OnCourse Assessment.
  
  
• OnCourse Grade Book
  Free staff from redundant data entry. Student grades can be automatically posted into the OnCourse Grade Book.
  
  
• OnCourse Connect
  Why send students to an unfamiliar place to take tests? In the OnCourse ecosystem, students will take assessments from the same secure portal they use to read class messages and retrieve grades.