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Assigning 📝 Tests and sending them to Students

How to assign and distribute tests to students

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1. Assigning Tests

Start on the “Assign Tests” page:

Assign Tests page

First, pick the Word List you want to assign.

Then, pick the Student or Group to which you want to assign the test.

Then, set the Test End Date. After this date, the test will no longer be available to students.

For Practice Mode (allow repeated attempts), choose whether you want this to be a “practice mode” test (where the student can try the test as many times as they want) or a “test mode” test (where they can only take it once).

For Shuffle words, choose whether you want the list to shuffle/randomize the words when the student takes the test.

Tap on “Create Assignment”.

2. Sending Tests to Students

Now, it’s time to send the test to those assigned students.

Distribute test instructions

Send your students two things:

  • Their individual student code
  • Your teacher link, as shown in the above image

When your students open the link, they will be asked to enter their student code. Once they enter their code, they will be taken to the next available test.

Their browser will remember their student code after the first time they enter it.

Student test gate

They’ll take their test…

Student taking test

…And see their results immediately!

Student test results

Read more about The Student Experience here.

How to set up a weekly pre-test, practice, and main test

Let’s say you want to:

  • Provide a pre-test to your students on Monday
  • Allow them to practice as much as they want on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and
  • Provide the main test on Friday

You can do this easily with Spelling Test Buddy!

You will want to set up your tests like this:

Best practices set up with 3 assignments in a week

Specifically, you will:

  • Create an assignment for the pre-test on Monday. Make sure Practice Mode is turned off.
  • Create an assignment for practice on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Make sure Practice Mode is turned on.
  • Create an assignment for the main test on Friday. Make sure Practice Mode is turned off.

How to let students jump ahead, or take tests out of order

Under Upcoming/Active Assignments, there is a switch named Let Students Jump Ahead. It looks like this:

Let Students Jump Ahead switch

By default it is on. We recommend to leave it on because it enables you to roll out games, Teach Me, and other advanced features.

With this switch, when your student signs in, they will be taken to a page that shows all upcoming tests, like this:

Upcoming Assignments
  • They can tap on any of the tests to be taken to them.
  • If the test they want to choose is in Test Mode, and they’ve already completed it, they will not be able to take it again (as you can see by the disabled “Take Test” button in the second entry).

This is a great feature if you want to provide more flexibility for your students to practice and test on what they want to next. It’s useful for older students who don’t need to be guided through the material in order, or to provide additional practice on upcoming material even for younger students.

Read more about The Student Experience here.