How to assign, change, or remove an accommodation

Before modifying accommodations:

If you are working with an active test session, you can only assign, modify, or remove accommodations if the student's status is Awaiting Student. If the student's status is anything other than Awaiting Student, take the following steps based on the student's current status.

Check the student's current status:

• Awaiting Student: You can assign accommodations to the student now. Skip down to the steps to assign the accommodation.
• Testing or Paused:
  1. Either Suspend or Terminate the test. Read below for more information on these 2 options:
     • A suspended test can be resumed, and the student will not lose any progress. However, the accommodation will not appear on reports such as the data exports. Also, if the student was testing without the accommodation available (such as text-to-speech), the test may not reflect their true ability.
     • A terminated test cannot be resumed, and any progress the student has made will be discarded. Additionally, if your organization restricts tests to once per term, you may need to contact your testing coordinator to allow the student to test again. However, terminating the test ensures that the accommodation is accurately recorded in your data, and that the student's entire test has the correct accommodations available.
  2. Select the student and choose Test Again from the Select Action menu.
• Suspended or Terminated: Select the student and choose Test Again from the Select Action menu.
• Confirmed or To Be Confirmed: Select the student and choose Do Not Confirm from the Select Action menu.

 
To assign an accommodation:

Take these steps while viewing, creating, or editing a test session:

1. If the test session is active, verify that the student's status is Awaiting Student. If the student is in any other status, follow the steps at the beginning of this article.
2. Select the students you want to assign an accommodation to.
   • When adding accommodations to multiple students, you must select students who have the same grade.
3. Select the Assign Accommodations button.
4. Select the accommodations you want to assign to the selected students. If assigning text-to-speech, see the following:
   • How to assign text-to-speech to a student
   • Unable to assign text-to-speech
5. Click Assign.
6. Repeat these steps for other students and accommodations.

 
To change or remove an assigned accommodation:

1. If the test session is active, verify that the student's status is Awaiting Student. If the student is in any other status, follow the steps at the beginning of this article.
2. Select the student whose accommodations you want to change or remove. You can only change or remove accommodations for one student at a time.
3. Select the Assign Accommodations button.
4. Select or de-select the accommodations as appropriate. If assigning text-to-speech, see the following:
   • How to assign text-to-speech to a student
   • Unable to assign text-to-speech
5. Click Assign.
6. Repeat these steps for other students and accommodations.

 
See also:

• Which reports show the accommodations that are noted in test sessions?
• Accommodations categories: Universal features, designated features and accommodations