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Assessment to guide student growth.

OnCourse Assessment gives your students a rigorous, tech-enhanced way to demonstrate learning, with data that makes sense and arrives fast.

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Instructional time is precious. Here’s how OnCourse makes sure testing time is worth it.

High-quality assessment is an important complement to great instruction, but getting testing right isn’t easy. This is what OnCourse Assessment does best; improving the alignment and relevance of every test. Expert-level assessment tasks become easy, like blueprinting standards, authoring tech-enhanced items, and quality-checking the correlation of your results.

But even terrific tests are a waste of time if data isn’t being used effectively. Stop asking staff to interpret spreadsheets and use OnCourse’s dynamic data dashboards to uncover the best places to improve instruction and curriculum.

How OnCourse Makes Your Assessments Better

Grow beyond multiple choice.

OnCourse helps you design assessments worthy of a modern classroom. Create items from 70+ different technology-enhanced item templates that encourage students to think critically as they demonstrate their knowledge.

Augment your content with OnCourse’s item banks, featuring more than 100,000 standards-aligned items in Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies, as well as 500 pre-made assessments.

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Watch growth across a spectrum of measures.

Teachers get instant feedback on their students’ skills, color-coded for easy interpretation and delivered fast enough to tweak instruction.

OnCourse’s analytics are built to scale. Monitor progress across students, sections, or schools. Explore mastery of skills or standards across an entire district to make high-impact adjustments to curriculum or PD.

Make connections that were never before possible.

Something magical happens when OnCourse is your single source of truth, for student grades and attendance, online assessments, and imported scores from state and third-party tests.

You unlock the holy grail of precision; the Multiple Measures view of student performance. Your most elusive questions suddenly have answers: are students growing equitably? Which of our assessments is best correlated to performance on summatives? Your power to impact change increases dramatically.

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Multiple Measures

Want to blend your OnCourse Assessment data with third-party test scores, like AIMSweb, Dibels, ACT, SAT, or your state summatives or benchmarks? Add the OnCourse Multiple Measures to store and analyze all your testing data.

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CenterPoint Interims

CenterPoint interim assessments, available in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics for grades K-11, are a standards-based solution that helps drive professional learning community work and instructional decision-making. The pre-designed or custom developed assessments use high-quality items to deliver reliable and accurate data that help administrators and educators determine student progress towards college and career readiness.

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Desmos Graphing Calculator

Add the popular Desmos Graphing Calculator to your OnCourse Assessments! Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more.

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ACT Assessments & Coursework

The Horizon College Readiness Assessment Package is perfect for your team if you are looking for equitable ACT® test preparation for all of your grade 9-12 students. With this upgrade, activate a comprehensive set of assessments and coursework for use in OnCourse.

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Next Generation Science Formative Assessments

NGSS Formative Assessments include 38 prebuilt assessments that reflect the principles described in the NRC’s Framework for K-12 Science Education and the NGSS. They address key instructional shifts by assessing the three dimensions of science learning and demanding higher-level thinking through statistical analysis, close reading, and explanatory writing. In addition, NGSS Formative Assessments include cross-curricular alignments to the college- and career-ready standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics.

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EL Education Interim Assessments

Schools that use EL Education now have the option of using interim assessments that were built specifically for use with the high-quality curriculum. These web-based, curriculum-aligned, grades 3-8 interim assessments mirror the EL Education Language Arts curriculum scope and sequence and were designed to complement the existing embedded formative assessments. Authored by CenterPoint Education Solutions.

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Illustrative Mathematics Interim Assessments

Schools that use the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum now have access to assessments that give teachers information specifically about students’ progress on the curriculum and its underlying standards. Authored by CenterPoint Education Solutions.

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OnCourse’s Content Partners

CenterPoint Education Solutions

CenterPoint Education Solutions is a nonprofit that provides research-based, best practice, innovative solutions to empower educators to help students succeed.

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KDS Inspect

OnCourse’s built-in item bank includes high-quality standards-based assessment content that paves the way for actionable data. Offering 100,000 items in ELA, Math, Science, and History.

What educators say about OnCourse

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What educators say about OnCourse

“Our District implemented the assessment tool for district-wide benchmark assessments. This allowed us to view our students' strengths and weaknesses and compare student progress throughout the year. The charts and graphs help disseminate standards students need the most work in and how they have progressed throughout the year. ”

Marie Champagne

Teacher, Iberia Parish Schools

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What educators say about OnCourse

“The Assessment tools helped my 7th-grade math team create assignments and compare our students' data to plan better for the future.”

Jessica Washington

Teacher, West Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools

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What educators say about OnCourse

“OnCourse allows the school district to pass down checkpoint assessments... These allow students and teachers to compare mastery not only within the school but the whole district. These checkpoints have given a starting point for collaboration on how to improve student learning. Without OnCourse this type of inter-district collaboration wouldn't be possible. ”

Kali Gaskins

Teacher, Tangipahoa Parish Schools

What types of technology-enhanced items does OnCourse support?

OnCourse Assessment offers 70+ different technology-enhanced items, including: EBSR, rubric-scored constructed response, math equations, graphing/charts, classification, fill-in-the-blanks, highlight & drawing, chemistry, voice recording, and lots more.

Can we import other test scores into OnCourse?

Yes. With the OnCourse Multiple Measures upgrade, your district can import spreadsheets from other 3rd party sources. Create your own scoresheets, or use 50+ curated data templates to bring in data from other popular assessments, like ACT, SAT, iReady, Dibels, etc.

Does OnCourse offer testing modifications?

OnCourse's “Advanced Accessibility” features can be turned on for students in need of accommodations and modifications. Options include text-to-speech, color contrast, highlighting, and response masking. Students can customize settings like font size and highlighter color. They can choose options like voice and voice speed.

Can we do bubble sheets in OnCourse?

Yes. OnCourse supports both online and paper and pencil assessments. Paper and pencil assessments include support for bubble sheet scoring and automated scoring.

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Tyra Starkey

Ed-Tech Specialist

Tyra Starkey is an Ed-Tech Specialist at OnCourse and loves helping district staff members save time with technology. Driven by her passion for education, she takes pride in assisting school districts in advancing the education of their students.

Tyra has spent much of her career in education, gaining experiences in such areas as classroom teaching, leadership, data analyzation, and curriculum development. A mother of three who lives creek-side in southeast Louisiana, she spends much of her time paddling and fishing the waterways of the Bayou state. Tyra is an avid hiker and traveler, a CrossFit athlete, and cherishes time spent with her family and friends.

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FAQs

What is an assessment in a course? ›

Course-level assessment is a process of systematically examining and refining the fit between the course activities and what students should know at the end of the course.

Why isn't Oncourse working? ›

Try to launch your course using a different web browser. We recommend using Google Chrome, Google Chrome (Incognito), Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge. Pop-up blockers can impact our course experience and prevent courses from loading properly.

What do you know about test assessment and teaching? ›

Test is one form of assessment. It is a method of measuring a person's ability, knowledge, or performance in a given domain. Assessment is a part of teaching process. It is embedded in classroom tasks designed to elicit performance without recording result and making fixed judgements about a student's competence.

What happens during assessment? ›

An assessment evaluates the person's individual needs and the level of care they need. The goal of an assessment is to determine appropriate treatment options and provide a recommendation. The assessment team looks at substance use, medical history and mental health.

What does getting a assessment mean? ›

Assessment testing is the process of evaluating an individual's skills, abilities, knowledge, or other characteristics through the use of tests or other assessment tools. It is often used in the hiring process to evaluate candidates for a particular job or role...

Why online courses don t work? ›

Some kids have trouble with online classes because they lack the structure that in-person school traditionally provides. Additionally, students who have issues with anxiety, attention, or learning challenges may struggle to adapt to the different expectations and format of online classes.

Why isn t Blackboard showing my courses? ›

Courses may not appear in Blackboard for a number of reasons depending on the circumstances. If the semester in question has not yet begun, classes will not appear until the first official day of classes unless the instructor has set other specific start dates.

Why isn t Pearson Active Learn working? ›

Make sure to disable your pop-up blockers. -ActiveLearn/ActiveTeach make use of pop-up windows which is why if your blocker is enabled, you will not be able to open the Activebooks. -We strongly suggest the use of these browsers as we have tested our site to run best with these browsers.

How do you pass an assessment test? ›

Here are some of the tips that help you prepare for the assessment test:
  1. Understand the purpose of the assessment: ...
  2. Be honest: ...
  3. Practice in advance and identify your strengths: ...
  4. Negative marking: ...
  5. Research well: ...
  6. Time your preparation: ...
  7. Brush up technical skills: ...
  8. Understand your potential employer:

What happens in assessment test? ›

Assessment tests for jobs, also known as pre-employment tests, help hiring managers determine whether a candidate has the skills, work style, knowledge or personality to succeed in a job.

What kind of questions are on an assessment test? ›

Here are the various types of questions you can employ in your assessments.
  • Multiple Choice.
  • Survey.
  • Short Answer/Essay.
  • Fill in the Blank.
  • Numeric Response.
  • Matching.
  • True/False.
  • Audio Response.

What is the meaning of assessment in class? ›

Classroom Assessment is a systematic approach to formative evaluation, used by instructors to determine how much and how well students are learning.

What is an example of an assessment? ›

Examinations, finals, quizzes, and graded papers are examples of summative assessments that test student knowledge of a given topic or subject. These graded assessments and assignments are often high stakes and are geared towards testing students.

How do you assess a course? ›

  1. Tests. Tests are still effective ways to determine whether students have mastered the course content. ...
  2. Portfolio Assessment. ...
  3. Pre and Post Project Assessment. ...
  4. Final Projects or Papers. ...
  5. Surveys.

What does assess mean in coursework? ›

Assessed Coursework

This may include essays, projects, reports and online assessment. The format of the coursework as well as the deadline to submit or complete will be confirmed by the school. Students must complete a Statement of Academic Integrity for all assessment submissions.

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