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Grammar & PunctuationUSER GUIDE

ASSESSMENT ADMINISTRATION

ASSESSMENT DELIVERY

Log into the online assessment platform https://unsw.global/start

When Grammar & Punctuation becomes available on the Teacher dashboard, teacher decides which date

the class will sit the test.

Create accounts for teachers.*

Print and distribute student usernames and passwords.**

Import/create student records.*This will generate unique student usernames and

passwords for each student.

Students log in and take test.

Enrol students into the relevant test according to their year level e.g. Enrol Year 3 students into

Grammar & Punctuation Year 3 Test.

Access reports.

Performed by School Coordinator

Typically performed by Teacher/Unrestricted Teacher

*If you are using the Assessment Platform for the first time.**Please note that student username and password do not change each test.

CONTENTSSECTION 1 – GENERAL INFORMATION 4Roles 4

School Coordinator 4

Unrestricted Teacher & Teacher 4

Student 4

Jet Grammar & Punctuation test design 4

Logging in 5

SECTION 2 – ASSESSMENT ADMINISTRATION 6For first-time users of the Assessment Platform 6

For previous users of the Assessment Platform 6

Student enrolment in a test 7

SECTION 3 – ASSESSMENT DELIVERY 9Scheduling a test 9

Students sitting a test 9

Accessing and understanding reports 11

SECTION 4 – APPENDICES 12Appendix 1: Technical readiness 12

Appendix 2: Printing student usernames and passwords 14

Contact and support information 16

GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION USER GUIDE

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SECTION 1 – GENERAL INFORMATIONROLES There are four roles within the UNSW Global Assessment Platform for each school. They are School Coordinator, Unrestricted Teacher, Teacher and Student. The tasks and responsibilities for each role are outlined below.

SCHOOL COORDINATORThis role is initially assigned to the school staff member who signed up for Jet Assessments.

This user role gives access to complete the following tasks:• import/create/edit students• create/edit teachers• enrol students into a test• access reports for all students.

UNRESTRICTED TEACHER & TEACHERTeachers are responsible for managing the delivery of tests to students in the classroom. An Unrestricted Teacher automatically has access to all the classes and students in the school. A Teacher has access to the class(es) assigned to them by the School Coordinator.

This user role gives access to complete the following tasks:• create/manage test sessions• print student usernames and passwords• access reports for students.

STUDENTStudents are the test takers. They access the Jet Grammar & Punctuation assessments by logging in to unsw.global/start.

JET GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION TEST DESIGNJet Grammar & Punctuation is a low-stakes computer-adaptive assessment. It assists Year 3–6 teachers in understanding their students’ knowledge and skills in the areas of grammar and punctuation.

Due to the multistage adaptive design of the assessment, students are presented with different pathways depending on how well they perform at each stage. This means that students in any given academic year will have answered different questions to each other.

Links to the most appropriate Australian Curriculum: English outcomes have been provided where available.

Teachers should ensure all relevant students have completed their assessments before analysing the results at a school, year or relevant class level.

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The reports provide rich and timely diagnostic information which teachers can interpret in the context of their own classrooms. Each teacher is best placed to use the results to identify student strengths and weaknesses, and adjust their teaching and learning programs accordingly. To form a richer picture of student performance, the results should be reviewed in conjunction with other assessment data that the school may have for their students.

Reports are available at school, year, class and student levels.

Results are reported across four content subdomains that cover five grammar levels:• Foundations (word-level and group/phrase-level grammar)• Within Sentences (clause-level and sentence-level grammar)• Between Sentences (text-level grammar)• Punctuation (all levels).

LOGGING INAll users of Jet Assessments, regardless of their role, will be able to access the UNSW Global Assessment Platform at the following URL.

https://unsw.global/start

You also use this URL to access ICAS Assessments™ and Reach Assessments™.

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SECTION 2 – ASSESSMENT ADMINISTRATIONFOR FIRST-TIME USERS OF THE ASSESSMENT PLATFORMIf you are logging into and using the Assessment Platform for the first time, do the following:

1. Use the technical readiness guide to check that all the computers meet the technical requirements for the test. See Appendix 1.

2. Determine which staff member will be the School Coordinator. The person who initially registered for Jet Assessments will be the default School Coordinator.*

3. Prepare your student information database (Excel spreadsheet or CSV document).*

4. Prepare a list of emails of the teachers who will be using Jet Assessments. 5. Give teachers access to the User Guide and online tutorials found here

unsw.global/techsupport6. Import your students into the Assessment Platform.*7. Invite your teachers to set up accounts in the Assessment Platform.*8. Assign users with the Teacher role to classes to use the Assessment Platform.*9. Enrol your students into the Jet Grammar & Punctuation test. See Section 2 –

Student enrolment in a test.10. Print and distribute student usernames and passwords. See Appendix 2.

* For video support on each of these steps, go to

https://www.unswglobal.unsw.edu.au/educational-assessments/support/jet-assessments/

FOR PREVIOUS USERS OF THE ASSESSMENT PLATFORM 1. Enrol your students into the Jet Grammar & Punctuation test. See Section 2 –

Student enrolment in a test.2. There is no need to re-import your students or invite teachers as you would have

completed these steps when using other assessments in the Assessment Platform.

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STUDENT ENROLMENT IN A TESTStudents must be enrolled into a Jet Grammar & Punctuation test via the Enrolment Manager page, before sitting the test.

Below is the Enrolment Manager screen. To enrol students for a Jet Grammar & Punctuation test, the School Coordinator needs to go to the Quick Navigation toolbar, click Prepare and then click Enrolment Manager.

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1Quick Navigation toolbar

2Click Prepare button then click Enrolment Manager in the menu.

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4Number of enrolments allocated to students out of the maximum number of possible enrolments

Student enrolment in a test

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From the Enrolment Manager page, complete the following steps to enrol a student into a Jet Grammar & Punctuation test:

The number of enrolments will update to show how many students you have enrolled out of the maximum number of students you can enrol (i.e. the number of student licenses you purchased).

Other notes:

Student enrolment in a test

5Each Enrolment drop down menu is by Year level. Click a Jet Grammar & Punctuation year level test.

6The search fields will assist in filtering the list of students. You can filter by Enrolment Status, Name of Student, Class and Year.

7Click Edit to begin selecting students to enrol into the test.

8Tick the check box(es) of the student(s) you wish to enrol in the test.

9Click Save when you have completed selecting the students for enrolment.

10Click ‘Select all shown’ to bulk enrol students in a test.

11The * next to a check box indicates that there is an unsaved change (e.g. a star next to a ticked box - means this student will be enrolled on clicking ‘Save’ at the bottom of the page).

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SECTION 3 – ASSESSMENT DELIVERYSCHEDULING A TESTThere are two Jet Grammar & Punctuation tests set per year. Each test is available for a particular period of time and can be sat by the students once only. The School Coordinator will be informed by email when a test is available to be sat by students. Also, the Jet Grammar & Punctuation tile will appear on the Teacher dashboard (which is also available to the School Coordinator and Unrestricted Teacher roles) when a test becomes available.

The Teacher of the class determines which day within the test availability period for students to sit the test.

STUDENTS SITTING A TESTThe Teacher will ask the students to login to the Assessment Platform found at unsw.global/start

The student will input their username and password.

The student’s dashboard will open and a link to the Jet Grammar & Punctuation test will show on the screen

Scheduling a test

Students sitting a test

12The first test is scheduled for a time period that is available for Term 1 and Term 2 of the school year. The second test is scheduled for a time period that is available for Term 3 and Term 4.

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Students sitting a test

14A new window will open with the test player and the student will be asked if they are ready to start the test. The student should click Yes when ready.

15The student will complete some practice questions before moving to the test itself. The student will click Next as they complete each question.

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The student will click ‘Finish’ once they have completed the test.

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When the test has been successfully submitted, a confirmation message will appear on the screen. The test is now over and submitted. The student logs off. The test link will no longer appear on the student’s dashboard.

ACCESSING AND UNDERSTANDING REPORTS

The reports are accessed via the ‘View Reports’ menu on the dashboard and can be viewed by either the School Coordinator, Unrestricted Teacher or Teacher role.

The results for a student are available once the student has submitted their test.

The reports provide diagnostic information at school, year, class and student levels.

Go to our support page at unsw.global/techsupport to find the Jet Assessments Reporting Quick Start Guide.

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Students sitting a test

17Ensure the student completes the post-test questions to submit the test.

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SECTION 4 – APPENDICESAPPENDIX 1: TECHNICAL READINESSThe Technical Readiness Check (TRC) is designed to test the compatibility of your school’s computers/devices with the online assessment software. Every computer/device that will be used for the assessment, including spares, must be tested. If a computer/device does not display correctly, then an alternative device will need to be used. It is recommended that an IT support officer or class teacher with knowledge of the school’s computers/devices performs this task.

The TRC must be conducted the week prior to your test date. This will ensure there is enough time to resolve any issues prior to the test.

TRC checklist

This TRC must be performed on all computers/devices that will be used for the assessment.

Turn on the computer/device.

Enter the following website address into the browser:https://www.unswglobal.unsw.edu.au/educational-assessments/support/technical-requirements/

The webpage will open and automatically run an online technical diagnostic check.

Ensure the device passes the first five checks. • JavaScript• Screen size• Browser version (includes operating system)• Content Delivery Network (CDN) support• Audio & video

Connection speed test – This is a manual check. Click on the link that appears and press start test. Please ensure that the ‘download speed’ allows at least 10Mbps per 100 users for this test.

If any check fails, refer to the Technical requirements for the trial (overleaf) to check if the computer/device meets the technical requirements.

The TRC is now complete.

Should you have any questions, contact Customer Service.

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Hardware Device• Laptop• Desktop PC• Chromebook• iPad• Android tablet• Mouse

Note 1: An external keyboard or mouse is not necessary for students using a tablet.

Note 2: The iPad mini is not supported.

Operating system

• Mac OS X• MS Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8• Chrome OS 38+

Web browser In order of preference: 1. Chrome 28+ (XP, Vista, 7, 8, OSX, Chrome OS) 2. Firefox 20+ (XP, Vista, 7, 8, OSX) 3. Internet Explorer 10+ (7, 8) 4. Internet Explorer 9 (Vista, 7) 5. Safari (OSX)

Note: IE8 is not recommended as it has an older technical design which may affect the student’s experience.

Bandwidth 512 Kbps (0.512 Mbps) minimum download speed for at least 20 users.

Security Students should not access websites, applications or spell-checking or grammar-checking features.

• Jet Assessments: lockdown browsers are not required• ICAS Assessments: lockdown browsers are required• Reach Assessments: lockdown browsers are required

(requirements may vary by subject)

Settings • A minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768• JavaScript must be enabled in the browser• Cookies do not need to be enabled.

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APPENDIX 2: PRINTING STUDENT USERNAMES AND PASSWORDSWhen students are first imported into the Assessment Platform, they are automatically assigned a username and password. Passwords for students are created using two dictionaries. Passwords cannot be customised by the teacher. This is to ensure that all students have a unique username and password, which is necessary to protect student accounts.

Please note that the username and password to log in to unsw.global/start does not change when using different assessment products in the Assessment Platform. You only need to print and distribute student logins to students once, unless you have changed their password for them.

Printing student usernames and passwords

17To print student usernames and passwords, go to the Teacher dashboard and click Print Student Logins.

18After clicking Print Student Logins, you will be navigated to the Test Attempts screen. A list of student names will appear.

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You can extend the number of students shown in the list by scrolling to the bottom of the screen and clicking 100 items per page.

Once you have selected the names you wish, click Print Student Logins located at the bottom of the page.

This will open a PDF of the student usernames and passwords, which you can print and cut out to distribute to students.

Printing student usernames and passwords

19At the top of the page, you can select all names on the page by clicking the check box next to ‘User’. Alternatively, you can select names one by one by clicking the check box next to each name.

Forgot password - Student

A student may forget their password. They can access the login screen at unsw.global/start and press ‘Forgot password’. This will send an email to their teacher with a link to change the password.

A School Coordinator, Unrestricted Teacher or Teacher can view all student passwords using the Print Student Logins button, as mentioned in Appendix 2.

Alternatively, you can reset the password by following the steps:

1. From the Quick Navigation toolbar, click Manage People, then Manage Students.2. Find the name of the student in the list and click on it. 3. Click the Actions button.4. Click Change Password. A pop-out message will appear with the student’s new

password. Give this password to the student.

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CONTACT AND SUPPORT INFORMATIONFor further help with managing the administration of Jet Grammar & Punctuation please contact our customer service team via phone or email.

UNSW Global AssessmentsAustralian Toll-Free Tel: 1800 940 633 Tel: +61 2 8936 2210assessments@unswglobal.unsw.edu.au

Product support resourcesFor support documents, videos and other resources visit https://unsw.global/techsupport

WebsiteFor further information on the assessments offered by UNSW Global Assessments, refer to our website www.unswglobal.unsw.edu.au/educational-assessments

UNSW Global Assessments is a business group of UNSW Global Pty Limited ABN 62 086 418 582, a not-for-profit provider of education, assessment and training services and a wholly owned enterprise of the University of New South Wales. © 2018 Copyright in this publication is owned by UNSW Global Pty Limited, unless otherwise indicated or licensed by a third party. This publication and associated testing materials and products may not be reproduced, in part or whole, in any medium, without the permission of UNSW Global Pty Limited or relevant copyright owner.15

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