New System – Assessment Authoring

7/18/2023

The Department and Cambium Assessment are excited to offer a new system to the education community of Ohio – Assessment Authoring. This flexible and user-friendly system enables teachers to create their own tests from a large bank of Ohio test questions, administer these tests to their students using the familiar Test Delivery System, and view results in the Centralized Reporting System. Features include the following: 

• The ability to create custom teacher-authored tests aligned to Ohio’s Learning Standards 
• A large bank of test questions (items) comprised primarily of previously released test questions from Ohio’s State Tests, including items from tests no longer administered – grades 4 and 6 social studies and physical science  
• Collaboration tools to allow educators to work within and across schools to create tests 
• Test sharing to allow created tests to be administered by teachers within or across schools 
• Printing of individual test questions or complete tests 
• A bank of tests created by the Department including Benchmark, Checkpoint and Released Item tests. These tests can be copied and then modified as needed. 
• Access using existing user credentials for TIDE. Assessment Authoring will be available to DTCs, DAs, Building Test Coordinators (BTCs), and Teacher (TE) user roles 

This new system launches Aug. 1 from the Teachers and Test Administrators section of the test portal. The user guide and training presentations will be available to help users become familiar with the new system.