Jump to:
- Assigning Tests
- Sending Tests to Students
- How to set up a weekly pre-test, practice, and main test
- How to let students jump ahead, or take tests out of order
1. Assigning Tests
Start on the “Assign Tests” page:
First, pick the Word List you want to assign.
Then, pick the 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.
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.
They’ll take their test…
…And see their results immediately!
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:
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:
With this switch, when your student signs in, they will be taken to a page that shows all upcoming tests, like this:
- 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.