directions to assign a test to students

Revised Acuity directions from Bonnie French 3/22/07; How to assign a test to students Select TEST on left Select custom test Select Assign Select subject Show existing test Hit view the test Hit create new assignmnet PUt in assignment name Put in dates Save & proceed Grade level School Hit Update classes Select your class Hit Search for Students Scroll to bottom Select district where there's a + sign Hit Assign selected View summary That will show you that it's all done. Thank you, Kelly Raymond!

Pentamation update week of March 26

It was decided this morning that we will do another upload to Acuity sometime next week. The exact date is not determined, since it will take a little coordinating with CTB. I hope to let you know a better timeline soon. Thanks for all your hard work and cooperation. Janet A Gillmeister Director of Evaluation, Assessment, and Planning

Pentamation updates to Acuity

It looks like its time for me to weigh in here and clarify the issue about where corrections should be made. Please note that ALL corrections should be made in Pentamation. It is imperative that all corrections are made in this manner for a number of reasons. First - we will be doing uploads from Pentamation to Acuity on a regular basis. If you only update Acuity then the corrections that you make will be over written. In addition our student management system must be correct for reporting to SED on testing. The more accurate we can make it, the better off we will all be. Anita M. Murphy Deputy Superintendent

Student updates

3/21/07 To add to all the "Acuity Questions" I have one more... I am assuming from our emails that after our initial training at CT as turnkey trainers that a conversation between CTB McGraw and the District happened and it was determined that a pentamation upload would not occur. As a result, we are manually changing information on the Acuity server. The question I have is the scenario that if a student is added onto Acuity, and they take the assessments, if an upload occurs after will that students information be lost if they are not on Pentamation? Or if changes were made and there is still a problem with the way Acuity "talks" to pentamation (i.e. the "Staff,Staff" issue) then is all the organizing and assigning teachers are doing lost? Laurie Holtsbery IST for Technology in ELA

Pentamation update requested

We are currently going over class lists. Our class lists really don't jive with what pentamation says. The pentamation info in acuity is really old. We need the recent pentamation uploaded to acuity, otherwise we will be changing hundreds of students. Is this possible? The librarian's circulation system is updated daily with pentamation. Can you update acuity? Fay Burt, Clary Yes, a new pentamation upload to acuity would be very helpful - and efficient. It will take our K-8 school many hours to clean up the data in Acuity - which I haven't had time to start yet given other logistics we are taking care of such as scheduling, training and finishing up 6-8 NYS math testing this week. Francine Grannell Huntington K-8 School

From Janet Gillmeister: 3/21/07 FYI from Acuity - it may help for those classes under a STAFFSTAFF listing. Here are instructions to edit the teacher of an existing class:

• Logon to Acuity
• Click Management on the left hand side of the home page and then Classes
• Select the school from the dropdown and click Show Existing Classes
• Click on the class name of the class that you would like to edit and click edit class details
• Select the correct teacher for the class from the dropdown and click Save Class at the very bottom of the screen

Print Roster and multiple test assignments

Can a classroom teacher print a roster of student names that also tells what each student currently has assigned to him? (ie all the math tests assigned) Can you assign more than one test to a student at a time in a given subj. area. For ex. one teacher created 5 tests but only one of them shows up under a student's name (when logging in as the student) Bonnie French LMS, McKinley-Brighton

Student Lists

3/20/07 As a reminder, please make sure that you review class lists. If a student is no longer in your school, DO NOT delete the student, just UNASSIGN them from the class. This way, other school may be able to pick them up with ADD, if they transferred.Thanks Janet

Student Updates

FROM: Jean Van Doren Grant Middle School Librarian Before we start making individual changes, wouldn't it be more effective and efficient to upload the most current pentamation data (now) and hopefully that will minimize the number of changes. From talking to others and looking at the staff/student names, it appears that acuity is running off a pentamation upload from earlier in the year. If we are using the most up-to-date data, the changes should be minimized. (just my $.02)