Which assessments appear automatically?

As you know, Skills Iowa has created and assigned ELA (reading comprehension) and Math benchmark assessments for your classes. These assessments appear automatically at predetermined intervals. The ELA assessments appear on the first Monday of each month and end on the last Friday of each month. The Math assessments appear three times a year, and the next one will appear on January 4th. The level of the assessment you get for your class is determined by the choices you made when you created your class. Our request is that you give these assessments at the grade level that your student is in, not for the achievement level which you have determined to be correct for your student. This is the same procedure that your school uses for standardized testing. IF you are finding that you have assessments showing up for a different grade level each month, then it is likely that you entered multiple grade levels in your class creation process.

If you want to edit this to remove the incorrect grade designation, log in to Assessment Center and choose the class in question. Next, click on Class Details on the left side and then click on the Edit button at the top of the resulting page. Scroll down on this page to the course list and make sure that you have only ELA and Math designations for the correct grade level. If you have additional levels, you should remove them. The easiest way to make this correct is to click on the "Click Here" link just above the Course List designations. This will align your class to the grade level you have chosen earlier in the creation process. IF you have a multi-level class, you should not make this change.

Making this change will make unwanted assessments disappear from your assessment list.