Overview
Use a a virtual bubble sheet on a local device or as an emailed link for students to submit their ACT Practice Test answers Online.
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Article Sections
- Requirements
- Send Answer Bubble Sheet Link
- Student Answer Entry
- Grading
- Set up the Email Template
- Notification of Test Submission
- Note on Student Status
Requirements
1. The ACT Virtual Bubble Sheet is for your students to submit their answers to a specific ACT practice test. You will need to email the specific ACT test booklet in PDF format to your students which can be done at the same time as sending the virtual bubble sheet.
2. Oases ACT Virtual Bubble Sheets are test specific.
Send Answer Bubble Sheet Link
3. To send the Virtual Bubble Sheet open the student record and navigate to the Test Tab.
4. Select New Test and select the ACT test the student will be taking from the drop down list.
5. From the pop up select to Set for Online.
6. The test will drop into the student's test list with Waiting for Student in the Notes area.
7. When you are ready to send the test link or open bubble sheet on local computer, press on the icon in the open column. Press Send Test Link to email the virtual bubble sheet to a student or Take Test Now to open the virtual bubble sheet on your computer or device for the student to enter answers immediately.
8. When opting to email the link, the email template will open. You may check off to send the link to the parent or student or type in an email address. You may edit the text in the email before sending.
9. If your email contains the links to all the ACT and other test papers in the template, delete out all but the test the student will be taking and press Send Test to send your email. If there are no links send the test paper to the student. They are available to download in Tools > Documents > Test Papers ACT.
Student Answer Entry
10. If you opt to Take Test Now or when the student presses the link in the email the screen will confirm the name of the student and the name of the specific test to take.
11. Timing begins from the student pressing Begin Test.
12. As the student marks off answers in the virtual bubble sheet a progress bar will measure progress. Turning green when all questions in a section are complete.
13. When the student has finished the test or the section of the test they are to take they will Submit the Test.
Grading
14. Oases will receive the answers, grade and time the test in the student record on the test tab.
15. The writing section is added to store the timing and may be updated to include the manual writing score by pressing directly into the row to add the score.
16. Open the report by pressing on one of the download icons in the open column. Any of these will produce the complete test report.
17. Email the report by pressing on one of the envelope icons at the end of the row. Any icon for a test will send the complete test report.
Set up the Email Template
18. In the main menu select: Setup > Other > Template Setup.
19. In the dropdown search by adding the word Test and select Email with link for Online Tests.
20. Update your template with instructions keeping in mind this is the same template used to send out the link for the online Achieve Test. If you don't have links to individual tests consider adding a link to access the ACT pdf's from the Oases Knowledge Base.
21. Do not remove the Take The Test link when editing.
Notification of Test Submission
22. When an online test is submitted by a student an email is sent to the staff member that sent the online test link. The template used is, Test Submitter: online test submitted.
Note on Student Status
23. The student record must be Active (have a code of Auto or other manually assigned active codes) to send and submit an online test. If you make your student inactive after emailing the test link and before the student presses the link the link will fail and a message that the link has expired will present to the student.
Link To
TP01. ACT Practice Test Papers & Information
TP02. Scoring an ACT Test & Producing an Oases ACT Test Report