How Do I Pause/Resume Reading Assistant

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Students may need to stop a testing process mid-stream.

This article will provide a protocol to handle situations where a test needs to be interrupted before completion and walk you through what to do when students have incomplete assessments or practice sessions.

Pausing An Assessment

To support solid psychometrics, the right way to "pause" a test is to break off the session. This can be done by logging the student out or closing the browser.

Then, to resume the assessment, just have the student log back in. At that point, Reading Assistant will resume the test at the beginning of the section interrupted. Reading Assistant will not return to the start of the test but will return to the run of items within a given assessment task.

What happens after a session is dropped during the Assessment:

a.) The teacher will see an "In Progress" status on the Tracking Report until the student logs back in and completes the assessment.

b.) The student's test data so far will be stored.

c.) The student's test will not be scored.

Resuming An Incomplete Assessment

To complete an assessment, have the student log in. Reading Assistant will pick up at the start of the task where work was stopped.

Resuming Practice

If students are reading in Practice mode and close out the browser or stop reading for a significant period, Reading Assistant will terminate the session. The next time the student logs into Reading Assistant, they will be presented with a selection of 5 stories to choose from, which may include the terminated story. Unfinished stories will show in the teacher's Tracking Report so long as the student has completed at least 1 Tutor passage for the week:

• Web: Chat with a Support Agent

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