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The tasks available in the Monitoring Test Progress task menu allow you to generate various reports that provide information about a test administration’s progress.

• Plan and Manage Testing Report: Details a student’s test opportunities and the status of those test opportunities. You can generate this report from the Plan and Manage Testing page or the Search Students by TSDS ID page.

• Test Completion Rates Report: Summarizes the number and percentage of students who have started or completed a test.

• Test Status Code Report: Displays all the non-participation codes for a test administration.

• Test Session Status Report: Displays status reports of active and inactive test sessions happening in your district for the current day.

How district-level users view report of students’ current test status

TIDE includes a Plan and Manage Testing report that details all of a student’s test opportunities and the status of those test opportunities.

Because the report lists testing opportunities, a student can appear more than once on the report.

1. From the Monitoring Test Progress task menu on the TIDE dashboard, select Plan and Manage Testing. The Plan and Manage Testing page appears (refer to Figure 46).

2. In the Search Students panel, select the parameters for whose information to include in your report:

   1. From the Enrolled Region dropdown list, select a region if applicable.

   2. From the Enrolled District dropdown list, select a district if applicable.

   3. From the Enrolled Campus dropdown list, select a campus if applicable. You may select one or more campuses from this list. You may also select all campuses. If you select more than 20 campuses or if you select all campuses and the district contains more than 20 campuses, the report will only be available to export to the Inbox.

   4. Optional: If a single campus was selected, choose a teacher from the Proctor dropdown list. The Proctor dropdown list includes all campus-level users, such as teachers, test administrators, and principals associated with the selected campus. When you select a person from the Proctor dropdown list, TIDE performs a check to see if the person is associated with any roster. If no rosters exist for the selected person, no data is displayed when you generate the report. If the selected person has an associated roster, the Plan and Manage Testing report shows the test attempts of the students included in the roster.

      If you do not select any person from the Proctor dropdown list and use the default value of All to generate the report, you will see all the tests taken in that campus, irrespective of roster associations.

      It is important to note that the proctor’s name displayed on the Plan and Manage Testing report does not imply the name of the teacher. The proctor is the person who creates the test session. This can be the same as the teacher or it can mean a different person.

   5. Optional: In the TSDS ID field, enter a TSDS ID.

   6. Optional: In the Student’s Last Name field, enter a student’s last name.

   7. Optional: In the Student’s First Namefield, enter a student’s first name.

   8. Optional: From the Grade dropdown list, select a grade. You may select one, multiple, or all grades from this list.

   9. Optional: In the Gender field, select Male or Female.

   10. Optional: In the PEIMS ID field, enter a PEIMS ID.

3. In the Choose What panel, select the parameters for which tests to include in your report:

   1. Select a Test Type. NOTE: TFAR Teacher Authored Test selection is only for tests created by teachers in the Authoring system. For all other tests, including STAAR, STAAR Alternate 2, TELPAS, TELPAS Alternate, and others, use Texas Provided Tests.

   2. From the Test dropdown list, select a test category.

   3. From the Administration dropdown list, select an administration.

   4. From the Test Name dropdown list, select the test for which you want to generate the report. You may select one, multiple, or all from this list.

   5. Optional: From the Advanced Search panel, select a specific test accommodation or demographic to filter the report. If you select a test accommodation or demographic, a Values filed is displayed. Select the required filter criteria from the available options.

4. In the Get Specific panel, select the radio button for one of the options and then set the parameters for that option. The following options are available (parameters for each option are listed in {brackets}):

   1. Students who {have/have not} {completed/started} the {1st/2nd/any} opportunity in the selected administration.

      1. Searching for students who have not started the 1st/any opportunity will return results for students who have not started their first opportunity on the selected test.

   2. Students on their {1st/2nd/any} opportunity in the selected administration and have a status of {any/completed/started/paused}.

   3. Search student(s) by {TSDS ID/Name}: {TSDS ID/Student Name}.

   4. Students whose current opportunity will expire {in/between} {number/range} days.

      1. If you select “in,” you may enter any number in the displayed text box to determine tests expiring in the specified number of days. You may also enter “0” to see opportunities that expire that day.

      2. If you select “between,” you may enter two numbers in the displayed text boxes to signify a range of days (such as 1–3).

   5. Students who have a status of {student test status} in the selected administration.

   6. Students whose most recent {Session ID/Test Administrator Name} was {Optional Session ID/Test Administrator Name} between {start date} and {end date}.

5. Do one of the following:

   1. To view the report on the page, select Generate Report. If you are viewing a report for more than 20 campuses, use this option and then select Export to Inbox.

   2. To open the report in Microsoft Excel, select Export Report. If you are viewing a report for more than 20 campuses, this option will be disabled.

For descriptions of the columns in this report, refer to the table “Columns in the Plan and Manage Testing Report” in the appendix.

How district-level users view report of students’ current test status by student ID

You can also generate participation reports for specific students by TSDS ID. This section describes how to generate participation reports for one or more students using students’ TSDS IDs.

Because the report lists testing opportunities, a student can appear more than once on the report.

1. From the Monitoring Test Progress task menu on the TIDE dashboard, select Search Students by TSDS ID. The Search Students by TSDS ID page appears (refer to Figure 48).

2. Do one of the following:

   1. To enter students’ TSDS IDs, select Search by TSDS ID(s). Next, enter one or more TSDS IDs, separated by commas, in the Student IDs field. You can enter up to 1,000 TSDS IDs.

   2. To upload TSDS IDs, select Upload TSDS ID. Next, select Browseand then use the file browser to select a Microsoft Excel or CSV file with Student IDs listed in a single column. You can upload up to 1,000TSDS IDs.

3. Select Generate Report. The Participation Report by TSDS ID appears (refer to Figure 48).

For descriptions of the columns in this report, see the table “Columns in the Plan and Manage Testing Report” in the appendix.

How district-level users view report of test completion rates

The Test Completion Rates report summarizes the number and percentage of students who have started or completed a test. Note: This report is updated nightly.

1. From the Monitoring Test Progress task menu on the TIDE dashboard, select Test Completion Rates. The Test Completion Rates page appears.

2. In the Report Criteria panel (refer to Figure 49), select the parameters for which tests to include in your report.

3. To open the report in Microsoft Excel, select Export Report. Figure 50 displays a sample Test Completion Rates report.

4. For a description of the columns in this report, see the table “Columns in the Test Completion Rates Report” in the appendix.

How district-level users view test session status reports

District-level users can view status reports of active and inactive test sessions happening in their district for the current day. These reports show how many students in each campus are testing and how many have started, paused, and completed their test. There are several ways district-level users can view test session status information, including:

• District-level users can view campus-level test session status reports for each campus in their district. These reports show each active and inactive session ID for a campus, along with information like proctor name, test name, the start time of the test session, the total number of students taking the test, and the number of students who have started, paused, and completed the test.

• District-level users can view detailed school reports of active and inactive sessions. These reports show active and inactive test sessions happening for schools in the district or on the current day. These reports show session IDs for a school, along with information like proctor name, test name, the start time of the test session, and the number of students who have started, paused, and completed tests.

• District-level users can view school reports for scheduled sessions. These reports show unproctored sessions that have been scheduled in the Test Delivery System (TDS). This report displays unproctored test sessions that were scheduled by all district-level and school-level users for the districts and schools within the district. These reports show the proctor’s name, test name, session ID (ends with D), and the start and end date and time for the session.

1. From the Monitoring Test Progress task menu on the TIDE dashboard, select Test Session Report. The Test Session Report page appears.

2. Select search criteria to generate your report.

3. Select a Session Type.

   1. Open Sessions type shows all sessions where at least one student has started testing and the session has not been stopped.

      1. Active sessions have students currently testing.

      2. Inactive sessions have all students paused or all test opportunities completed with no new opportunities started.

   2. The Scheduled Sessions type shows unproctored sessions that have been scheduled in TDS. These scheduled sessions remain in this report until the first student starts testing in the session. Once a student begins testing, that session is removed from the Scheduled Sessions report but can be viewed in the Open Sessions report.

4. Select Generate Report.

How district-level users view test session reports

The initial format of the report varies based on the number of schools selected. A summary overview is available when you select multiple schools. From the summary, you can select the detailed report for individual schools. Alternatively, if you select one schools in the search, you can select the detailed report for individual schools. The report also varies based on the session type selected.

To view open sessions:

• If you selected an individual school, you’ll go directly to the detailed report for only that school.

• If you selected multiple or all schools, a summary report page appears. For a description of the columns in this report, refer to the table Columns in the Summary Session Report in the appendix.

  1. Select a school from the summary report page to view a detailed report for that school.

  2. Optional: If multiple tests are available for one session, select the Multiple Tests icon to expand the list of tests associated with that session.

  3. Optional: Select Expand All Sessions to expand all sessions containing multiple tests. The button will only be displayed when multiple tests per session exist.

  4. Optional: Select Collapse All Sessions to collapse all expanded sessions. The button will only be displayed when multiple tests per session exist.

  5. Optional: To view inactive test sessions, mark the Inactive Test Sessions checkbox. Inactive test sessions will appear in italics. Sessions will be considered inactive if all the students in the session are paused or have completed the test opportunity, and no new opportunities have been started.

To view and export scheduled sessions:

When a scheduled unproctored test session in created in TDS, it is associated with a district or a school depending on the user’s access. A district session is scheduled for all schools within the district. A school session is scheduled for one specific school.

District sessions can be viewed in TIDE by users with access to any school(s) within the district, while school sessions can only be viewed by users who have access to the school. For example, a district-level user can see all sessions for the district and all sessions for all schools within the district. However, a teacher with access to on school can only view sessions for that school, but that includes both district and school sessions.

District sessions that are available to all schools within the district are shown under the Districts column and sessions that are only for a specific school are shown under the Schools column. There is a blank space in the other column to delineate between district sessions and school sessions (Figure 53).