 Hello! Welcome to the stressful time of the year. Testing! I'm going to walk you through steps into creating a test using TestWiz. My name is Tammy Cheatham. Our agenda for today, we're just going to go over a little bit about what TestWiz is. We're going to look at the item bank and then we're going live. I'll be actually walking you through steps to create that test, creating the test administration to set it up and then to print the student test tickets. Remember that you are each other's spark for this TestWiz process. Whatever tests are created in your building on your site you can access and use. Make sure that you work together. If you are teaching, doing a team teaching situation, you can work together to create the test. You both can access it. If you both teach third grade, you can create that test together and then are able to share that. Make sure that you help each other with the design. There's power in numbers. As we work together today, remember wherever you are, be all there. With so many things, the irons in your fire, I know that that's hard sometimes. We have to remember misery is optional. You can shut this webinar off at any time and then come back to it. You need to make sure that you reflect on your classroom and the needs of your classroom. If you don't need much support, move at your own pace. Go on through, walk it through. But if you do need help, I am more than happy to help you. After you've went through this webinar, if you still need somebody there, I will surely come out. I can work one-on-one with teacher. I can work with small groups. I can work for a short amount of time, a longer amount of time during a teacher's prep time. I'm sure I'm able to help and do whatever works for you in your school. By the end of the webinar, you'll be able to describe what TestWiz is. Log on to the TestWiz site, create that assessment, set up your test administration, and then create those test tickets for students. What is TestWiz? TestWiz is designed to be a formative assessment. It can be used as a post-test after you've done a unit to see what your students remember from the information. It can be used as a pre-test measure. That way you can see where your students are, what you need to hit a little bit harder. It can also be used just as a practice test for NSCAS. Lots of different reasons and the why's to use TestWiz. A couple of things that are new in TestWiz. Students can type directly into the TestWiz now with open response questions, or the writing prompt, or those text entry items. There's also rubrics that haven't been added for the ELA. So, if a student types in there and then you can pull up the rubric and then give that kid a kid a score, and then you can enter that manually into their test reporting. And then once the student has submitted a test, you can view the results immediately. Also, students need that test ticket to be able to log on. You can limit the time. You can set up as short as a class period to take that test. You can open it up for a couple of hours. You can leave it for a whole day. Lots of different variations of that. But I would recommend to make sure that click those test tickets when you're done so that way they don't have that information just flying around. And the new science standards have been uploaded. So, that's a plus. TestWiz offers grades three through eight for math, science, ELA, and social studies. That's included in the Nebraska Assessment Contract. That's what most of the schools are licensed for. If your school chooses to purchase additional licenses beyond the grades three through eight, you sure can do that because if you look over there, their coverage area goes from K through 12 in math, ELA, and math and ELA, grades three through 12 in science, and then the six through 12 for social studies. So, just talk with your school administrator to kind of see if that would be an option for you. I thought it was also important that they have a lot of different acronyms and different abbreviations. So, I kind of compiled that and put it all in one place for you. So, you will see when we get to the item bank how these different acronyms are used. The difficulty is pretty good. It's the level of difficulty of an item. If it's low, medium, or high, that looms taxonomy, gives you the classification of the item. If it's recall, if it's analyzing, and then the type of the item, it gives you all those. The multiple choices, MC, open response, OR, and so on. The PP indicates that paper pencil is required for the student, and then the TEI is that technology enhanced item. Those items are, you might have a drag and drop, you might have rearrange, anything that's interactive on the online test. Not all of the test items have TEIs, but you do have to remember, if you do use a TEI, it can only be administered online. So, that test is only good online, not paper pencil. It cannot be printed off. So, that's important to remember. I'm going to take you to the live side. This is what your screen will look like when you get on that NE.testwiz.net. If your school has not rolled over to the single sign-on, you can still access testwiz using this website right here. So, make sure that you do that. By this summer, all school systems will be required to have the single sign-on. It's moving over to that. If you forgot your username and your password, try entering your email address, and then click on forgot password, and it will send you a new link to recreate that password. And then, if you don't remember any of it, make sure you ask your test administrator, and then they can make sure you make that easier for you. So, I'm going to switch over to the live side, and click on login. Come up to the main welcome page, I guess. And over here on this side, there's training, and there's some help documents. If you get to a point where you're like, I just can't remember this and I need to dig deeper, you can certainly do click on either one of those. The training videos are pretty good. But also, again, you can sure use me as a resource. I'll be out to help you in a GIF. Go click on utilities to start creating a test. Now, you can see at the top, you're going to go click on test management and it drops down, and you want to go to the first one to test specifications. Slide over to create or edit an item bank test. Okay, here's where it's going to give you some selections. You can create that new test. Some people have asked, if you've created tests last year with TestWiz, and you want to utilize those, but maybe you need to change a couple of your tests. Maybe you need to move some things. Maybe you want to switch the order around a little bit. You can click on then copy the test and then it'll bring it back and you can go and edit it. So, we'll do that a little bit later. Right now, create new test. Click on next. The test abbreviation, I like to go ahead and just use something that I'm going to remember. So, you can see I've created some different ones and now I've come up to doing this, because this does not do it for me. So, I'm just going to go in here GR and I'm going to do, let's do, I'll do fourth grade again and it's going to be Science and then I'm going to do 426. Okay, because I'm, you know, that might be the standard number in the title or in the abbreviation and the name you cannot use periods or spaces. And I'm just going to do the very exact same name because I like to keep things simple. Sorry to remember. Select the grade. Next. Select the item bank. Now, the navigate item bank is all the new questions that have been developed. The C4L bank is those that have been in the C4L and they've rolled over. I would suggest using a combination of both. That just gets you into more using the navigate items and you'll see the difference because you'll be able to tell them on your test items. I'll show you that. I select the group. I'm going to do science. So, that's where the new standards for science are. If you were going to do math, ELA, or social studies you'd pick Nebraska academic standards. Science standards. Then I'll make it comes up because I don't have a choice to select the subject. It comes up science. If I click the drop down it's still science. Don't worry about this box right now. Select my grade. My grade is fourth grade. Next. And it'll also let you do some subsections. I'm just going to click or systems as a subsection if you knew what that was, if there's a specific one you can, or if you want to select all of them. Then you can select the specific standard. I'm just going to go up here and select this first one. But you can see, again, behind them how many test items are available for that standard. And if you hover over this, then it tells you what the standard is. Okay? So, now when I click that it shows me all the different test items that are available for what I have selected. You can see it has 43. So, I could keep on going across the bottom to see all these. Now, unfortunately, the new test was does not, did not keep how see for all how to keyword search. This does not have that. But I put in a help ticket to test with to see if we can get that back. Because I know that's been a lot of comments from teachers that they would really love to have a keyword so I don't have to switch all, switch, look through all these. Because if I wanted to see this exact test item I'd have to click on it. It brings it up. I read it. I get to go see down here. This is what I was talking about. If it says navigate in this item bank, it's from the new test questions. Then over here it tells the level of difficulty, the blooms level, the depth of knowledge, and then it tells you points. Now, then I have to close out of this. I have to go to the next one. See if that's right. So, I was just, if you're new to test with, if you haven't been doing this a lot, I would just click on quick test builder. And then you can select how many test questions there are. I'm going to select 17. Open response. I'd like to have two open responses. For this there are no technology enhanced items available. So, I have to worry about that. Shows me now from what I've selected here. I have six test questions that will be high, five low, and six medium. So, I can build my test. And I can switch it up if I want to. I can mate more. I can switch it around. Build my test. Now, it shows me the items that have been selected. If you wanted to go down here and select a few more to add to this, you can. It already shows you in the box what ones are checked. They're the ones that have been selected by the quick test builder. So, I can go now and add more. And I click next. And it shows me a preview of what the test will look like. Again, students will not see this part. And it tells you the correct answer. It tells you just lots of information about each test question. Okay. If you had made a copy of your test, let's say you just want to go and make a copy because you want to do it for your second section of science four. And then you can move these questions up and down. That way it puts it in a different order if you're worried about, you know, kids cheating. So, you can do that. Okay. We're going to select next. Okay. Now, I can look here again. This is what the student view will be. You can look down there again. See that. And then if you want to, you can print a sample booklet. It'll ask you which format style. I just selected PDF. And if you want the teacher version, you can select teacher version or student version. And then you can do one column or two columns and you can create the booklet. And that way if you wanted a paper copy of it as you're walking around giving the test, you sure could. Or if your kids were going to take a paper pencil test. Okay. Then I select next. Oops. Let me see if I can pick up here. Now, this is where I'm at. Sorry about that. Okay. Now it comes up to publish the test. Okay. You have to publish a test in order to create test tickets. Okay. It just has to happen. Now you can leave a test and come back because you want to do something later. But if you are ready to publish this test because you want your test tickets. So you have to click on publish. And that comes up here. And we're going to go down here to test administration. Okay. Because you want to now go ahead and publish the test. Or excuse me. It was already published. So over here it said test is ready for use. Now you're going to create this. So that way you can set up the time. Okay. Now it comes up here. And you can see that it's ready to create new test administration. So you're going to click this. And then you can set the date. So I click today's date. And I'm going to give it a brief name. GR426. Okay. And then you don't have to worry about any of this. And you just go click create. It says new test administration has been created. So now you can go ahead and return to the test administration. And now I'll bring up this. And this is important because you have to put your online testing setup. This is where it's going to allow you to fine tune those dates. So I want to leave this only open for a week. So I have to go back. I'll go from the 23rd to the 30th of January. Then I'm going to go and change my time. I'm going to put it's 11am to 11.50. And I can go 11.50 and it says am. Now remember these times are shown for Eastern time. So make sure you make that adjustment. Okay. I don't want to edit ticket instructions. So I want to click save. And now I can return to test management. And now I'm ready to print the online ticket. So I'm going to click on print online tickets. And now I'm going to go up and I got to select it. Here's my test that GR4 Science 426. I just want to pick the grade. It's our fourth grade. I'll put my name. I don't have to worry about test purpose. Now I have to select the teacher and make sure that you're in the right year because yours will come up. There's different teachers have been rostered. So I'm going to make sure that I'm doing science for 1819. And now I'll come up and say your school and then the teacher. And I have to select a teacher here. Again this is not me. I'm in another school. And then you'll want to go to multiple student page because that brings all the test tickets up on multiple pages. But you can cut those apart and give those to each student. If you just want to have a one page roster and you provide the information to the student you can sure do that by doing the one page roster. I like the multiple student page roster. So you click on online tickets. And you'll see over here it comes up in another pop-up window. You can see that it's waiting. When it is ready you'll click on ready and then you click ready and it brings up your tickets and then you can print them off right there. I need another window because I want to white out students names. So this is what it looks like when the tickets come up. They'll have their first name here, their last name here, and then the code. When you give this to students make sure they go on this site and then they put in this code. And that's their ticket in to take the test. So I'm going to go back. When you're all done with this you can return to test management. And it brings you right here but you're basically done. You can close that out and then go over to your home. You can go to the welcome page again. Or you can go right now to test management and I'll show you how to create the copy. So if you just want to do a copy you're back to this. You click create copy a test. You're going on here select the test that you want to copy. I'm just going to select this one right here. And then click next. And then you're going to have to give it a new abbreviation and a new name. And select the level. And then you go to next and it's going to walk you through that same process. But if you don't create a new name it's going to come up there and says you have to give this a new name. And then you copy it and then walk through the same steps. So that's really the end of the presentation. Please reach out to me by phone or email. Whatever is easier for you. I'm always glad to help you. I can come out there when it works for you and do a little more teaching if that's what you need. Thank you.