- The second benchmark window is open and will stay open until February 28th. If your students haven’t started the assessment yet, they will automatically get it 90 calendar days from when they FINISHED the first benchmark.
- Imagine Learning is requiring more bandwidth and this is causing loading issues for students, both during everyday use and with the benchmark. Some things to try to help with this are:
- Make sure students have no other tabs open on their chromebooks
- If students get the white screen: restart and wait for it to load (sometimes it can take 2-3 minutes)
- Have students use the program off of Zoom. While this is not ideal, especially since it is nice to be able to monitor the benchmark in a synchronous session, the bandwidth required for both Zoom and IL is many times too much for our student’s internet
- If there are students you feel strongly need to be monitored, try using Google Meet instead. Google Meet requires far less bandwidth than Zoom.
- Parents can also powerwash the chromebooks to clear cookies and restore default settings
- Parents can also run an internet speed test. To test the internet speed, www.speedtest.net —
make sure they are getting reasonable values– at least 4Mbps download and upload
- If students in your class are experiencing issues with a digital platform (not just IL) such as trouble logging in, the site not loading etc. please fill out this GOOGLE FORM. We will use the information provided to work with IT to resolve the issues. Please, DO NOT report Chromebook issues here.
- REASSIGN TEST: Some good news is that we no longer have to go through IL to reset student’s benchmark assessments! However, please do not reassign a student’s test without checking in with the Literacy Coach in your building. Some things to note about Reassigning a test:
- A test can be reassigned AFTER the student has completed the benchmark and before the benchmark window closes (before February 28th)
- A test can only be reassigned ONCE per student.
- In order to reassign a test you need to click into the individual student account in the Growth Section and up by the bar that says Benchmark Test/ Reading Level Assessment/Scaled Score there is a Reassign Test button on the far right. (see picture below)
Please be in touch with any questions
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Katie Schubmehl
