How to Navigate DEI and General Test Rules

This section describes how to navigate a test, pause data entry, end a test, and submit a test for scoring.

Navigation and Pause Rules

Questions may be reviewed before pausing or submitting the test. If the test has not been submitted for scoring, the selected responses for questions may be changed.

Tests may be paused at any time and can be returned to at a later time to complete data entry. Tests must be completed and submitted before the end of the administration window.

Test Timeout (Due to Inactivity)

As a security measure, users are automatically logged out after 20 minutes of inactivity. This pauses the test. Before the system logs the user out, a warning message appears on the screen. If OK is not clicked within 30 seconds, the user will be logged out.

All responses that have been entered are automatically saved. Pausing the test does not impact any scores entered previously. Pausing the test does not impact any responses entered previously.

On This Page

1 Navigation and Pause Rules
- 1.1 Test Timeout (Due to Inactivity)
2 Proceeding Through the Test
- 2.1 Navigating to Questions
- 2.2 Pausing Tests
- 2.3 Completing Data Entry and Reviewing Questions
- 2.4 Done Reviewing Test Page

Proceeding Through the Test

Student response data for each required question on a page must be entered before proceeding to the next page of the test. After selecting response options for the required questions on a page, select Next to go to the next page. To return to a previous page, select Back.

Questions that are grouped together may be paginated to appear individually (refer to Figure 6). Tabs for each question in the group appear in the upper-right corner. The user can select these tabs to navigate to the next question in the group.

Figure 6. Paginated Item Tabs

Navigating to Questions

Users can navigate to questions page by page or jump directly to a question.

To navigate page by page, select the Back or Next buttons at the top of the screen (refer to Icons).
To jump directly to a question, select the appropriate question from the Items dropdown list. If a test consists of cover pages, Cover Page icon (refer to Icons) is displayed in the Items menu that can be used to navigate to the selected cover page.
If an item has been marked for review, the Marked For Review icon (refer to Icons) is displayed next to the item.
If an item has been skipped or not answered, the Unanswered Question icon (refer to Icons) is displayed next to the item.
Items that cannot be navigated to are grayed out.

Pausing Tests

Data entry may be paused at any time. To resume data entry for the test, log back in to DEI. DEI opens the test to the first page with unanswered questions in the segment where the test was paused. Review or changing responses for questions already entered is also available.

To pause data entry:

Select Pause in the upper-right corner. A confirmation message pops up.
Select Yes to confirm and pause the test.

Completing Data Entry and Reviewing Questions

After responding to the last test question and clicking the Next button, the administrator will be brought to the Submit Test page. The administrator must then: Review the data that was entered.
Submit the test for scoring.

Done Entering Data (refer to Figure 8) page options:

To review answers and go back to the test, select a question listed on this page. Questions that were marked for review display a Marked For Review icon (refer to Icons). Questions that were not answered display Unanswered Question icon (refer to Icons).
To complete the testing process, select Submit Test. After selecting Submit Test, the test is officially completed. It is not possible to log back in and review the data entered.

Done Reviewing Test Page

After submitting the test, the Done Reviewing Test page (refer to Figure 9) appears, displaying the student’s name, the test name, and the data entry completion date. For some tests, this page also displays the test score.

Results page options:

Select Enter Data for a Different Student to enter scores or responses for another student. If selected, the user is directed to the Enter Student Information login page.
Select Enter More Data for This Student to enter data for the same student without having to enter that student’s demographic information again. The Available Tests page for the same student will appear. From there, proceed through the test selection and verification process.
If entering test data is complete, select Log Out.