Below are the steps needed to ensure TestHound is ready to go for your campus during and leading up to testing.
Approve all alerts: Students, Test Administrators, Population Changes
Process pending Auto Pilot alerts
Refresh Room list: Create new rooms as needed, update descriptions and capacities, click Pull to pull this years rooms from the schedule in to your rooms list.
Choose the test administration by clicking the name of the test. The test administration will show our new Multi-Session Scheduling.
To get started Click Configure Test Schedule
Create testing session(s). Click Save Session. Please note: You only need one session if your test is an all-day test i.e., STAAR, Interim, BOY, etc. If you are organizing AM/PM session(s) you would need to create two, but be sure times are not overlapping. Example: Session 1: 8-12:00 a.m. and Session 2: 12:01-4:00p.m.
Add Test Assignments, click Build Tests
Add Students to tests
Decide if you need to add students by Room Capacity or by Period, or manually.
Add Rooms and students to rooms in each test session based on the appropriate Order of Operations (please review the help tab for step by step on both options.)
Filter students as needed based on accommodations
Add Test Administrators to each room
Inventory
If your district is using paper inventory, (Navigate to the Materials tab to see if your district has loaded the inventory checklists into TestHound.) If materials have been loaded, click Receive Materials to scan materials into your campus inventory tab.
Scan Booklets to students in scheduled tests
Produce required Reports for scheduled tests
Upon testing completion, scan booklets to boxes ensuring all booklets are boxed (material items will be highlighted in green)
Follow DTC’s protocol on box return and labeling