Illuminate Assessments
How to Create, Scan, Share, and Analyze your Assessments
Step 1: Starting an Assessment
- Log into Illuminate (through Saddleport)
- Find the Assessments Tab
- Select Create New Assessment
Step 2 – Select the Assessment Type
- Select Manual/Hybrid Assessment
- Enter the # of Questions
- Select Okay
Step 3 – Answer Key & Standards
- Enter the correct answer for each question
- (Optional) Select standards that your question assesses
- Select Save
- Select Print Blank to generate answer sheets where students bubble their own student #
- Select Generate to produce blank answer sheet
TIP: Download the blank answer document as a PDF for use in the future
Step 5 – Share your Assessment with PLCs and Administrators
- Go to Setup tab
- Select Share
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- Select User under the “Share With” option
- Begin to type the last name of the user whom you wish to share the assessment
- After all names are selected, select Share at the bottom of the page
Step 6 – Scan your Assessment
Step 6 – Scan your Assessment and Run reports
- Go to Administration tab
- Select Scan – make sure camera is connected to device (or select your internal camera to scan)
- Make sure each score sheet has a student number bubbled on it (or pre-slugged with the student number)
- Move each score sheet into the camera view
- When completed, select save and view results
Illuminate Reports
Step 7 - Select Reports to View Results
- Make sure you are in the assessment for which you want to view reports
- Go to the Reports tab
- Expand the section titled "Where Do I Start (for Teachers)?
Teacher Overview
What data does this show?
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- Performance level and at or above grade level
- Item Attribute Performance
- Standard Level Performance
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- What # / % of students scored at each perf. level?
- What # / % of students performed at or below grade level?
- On which attributes did the students best/worst?
- On which attributes did the students score lower than 50%?
- On which standards did the students perform best/worst?
- On which standards did the students score lower than 50%?
Student Responses
What data does this show?
- Overall class performance by student
- Student raw response data for preview of download
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- How did each student perform overall?
- What overall score did a student earn?
- Who got the highest overall scores?
- Who got the lowest overall scores?
Pivot Table
What data does this show?
- Overall class growth from one assessment to the next
- Individual Student growth from one assessment to the next
- Which students increased one performance level?
- Which students increased more than one performance level?
- Which students decreased one performance level?
- Which students decreased more than one performance level?
Teacher Peer Comparison
What data does this show?
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- Whole class and student level analysis of performance by attribute and standard
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- Which attributes have strong class performance?
- Which attributes have weak class performance?
- Which students are struggling on which specific attributes?
Response Frequency
What data does this show?
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- Identification of specific errors by class and by student
- Activate links for student or teacher resources connected to standards
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- What are areas where there are common errors?
- What are the errors?
- Which item types are yielding common errors?
- What are the errors?
Matrix Report
What data does this show?
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- Individual vs. class overall performance on an assessment
- Student vs. class performance on items, standards, or question groups
- Identification of common misconceptions and error patterns for an entire group
What kinds of questions does the report answer?
- Which questions were most difficult for students?
- Which questions were the least difficult?
- Which questions have a common error pattern?
Other Resources
ILLUMINATE: Create an assessment on the fly, scan, manual input
Questions? Contact Us
Michael Ciecek
Email: michael.ciecek@svusd.org
Website: mvhs.svusd.org
Phone: (949) 837-7722
Twitter: @michaelciecek