001Welcome to the how to verify that students are registered for Star Alternate 2 training video. In this training, we will review how to verify student eligibility and how to upload files to register students in bulk to make sure students are administered the correct tests. STAR alternate 2 is an alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards. It is a standardized item-based assessment administered individually to students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who meet the participation requirements. Students in grades 3 to 12 who meet all participation requirements will take star alternate 2 at their enrolled grade level or an end of course assessment for which the star alternate 2 assessment is offered. Students who take star alternate 2 should not take above grade level assessments. Please note that student records must first exist in the test
002information distribution engine TIDE before student eligibility information can be entered or updated. First, we will review how district and campus testing coordinators can verify that students are correctly registered for star alternate 2. All students who are eligible for star alternate 2 must have specific flags turned on and tied. First, the special ed indicator code must indicate yes in the additional student information panel. It is important to note that quantities of star alternate two materials districts and campuses receive are determined based on student eligibility and tied by the due date listed in the calendar of events. Under the student eligibility summitive panel, indicate yes for star alternate 2 in the alternate student flag tab. For students who are enrolled in or completing courses for which star alternate 2EC assessments are offered, select the applicable tests under
003star alternate 2EC eligibility tab. If the special ed indicator has not been marked with yes, you will receive an error code when trying to set star alternate 2 eligibility values. You will not receive test materials or be able to enter student responses in the response entry system re for a student unless these flags are appropriately selected in tied for that student by the due date listed in the calendar of events for star alternate 2. All students will be defaulted to receive regular print test booklets. If a large print version of the test booklet is needed as determined by the students admission review and dismissal ARD committee, be sure to indicate large print in the drop- down menu for applicable subjects under the star alternate two paper format tab in the test format indicator panel in
004tide. Let us first review how you can search for students who are registered to participate in star alternate 2. From the student information card, select the manage button. On the manage students page, select options for the required criteria. We'll look up grade nine students who will participate in star alternate 2 at this demo campus. In the advanced search panel, use the drop-own menu to locate the alternate student flag field. You may also type alternate to quickly find the field. Once you select this field, click add selected and select yes from the star alternate to drop-own menu. Click search to continue. Your search results include all grade 9 students who are eligible for star alternate 2 for this campus. You can revise your search criteria in the advanced search field to narrow down your search results.
005In this next example, we will look only for students who are registered to take the star alternate 2 English 1 assessment. Expand the advanced search view and locate the star alternate 2 EOCC eligibility field from the search fields drop-own menu. Click add selected. Select yes from the drop-own menu under English one. Click search and select view results to continue. Now your search results include only students who are marked as eligible to take the star alternate to English one assessment. From here you can export your search results to a Microsoft Excel or CSV file. Exporting your search results in the upload format allows you to make necessary updates to the student information and then use the same file to upload in the upload student information option. We will discuss how you can use the uploaded files
006to register students in bulk. Next, we will now review how to upload files to register students in bulk. When using the upload button on the student information card in Tide to upload student information, TIDE will retain previously uploaded values when specific fields are left blank in the new or subsequent upload files. Refer to the tide upload student information file format document on the tide upload file formats web page for detailed information on whether this applies to a specific field. If applicable, blank equals database value retained is included as an acceptable value. If not applicable, a blank value will replace the previously submitted information. The upload process has four steps. Upload, preview, validate, and receive confirmation. Student files that contain 2,000 or more records are processed offline while displaying the validation results for the first 200
007records. Tide will first validate the remaining records offline and send a validation report via email. Tide will then commit the error-free records and send a report listing all errors and warnings via email. First, click download template to download a template for your upload file. Open the template. Enter information for the students you wish to add using Microsoft Excel or another program and save the file in Microsoft Excel or CSV format. Alternatively, you may use the Microsoft Excel file you downloaded in the upload format from the manage student page to make necessary changes to update students eligibility for star alternate 2 and upload it here. The special ed indicator code SE flag, for example, is located in column AE and the star alternate 2 flag is located in column AL. For students who are enrolled in
008courses in which the star alternate 2EC assessments are offered, select the applicable tests under star alternate 2EC eligibility in columns AM through AQ. Be sure to indicate add when updating student records in column BO. Once you return to Tide, click choose file or utilize the drag and drop feature to upload the file. Click next. The upload preview screen appears. If everything is accurate, proceed to confirm. If your file contains any errors or warnings, the table provides a summary of the validation errors. From the details table, you may click the red X button next to see what each error is and how to resolve it. To access the tutorials page from the information column of the summary table, users need to choose view a tutorial. This option is particularly useful for addressing specific issues such as
009cases where certain columns in Microsoft Excel need to be set to a text format to prevent the removal of leading zeros or the automatic formatting of dates. Please make sure to resolve all errors before proceeding with the file upload process in Tide again. In step three, validate. You will receive a your file has no errors. Continue to the next step message to confirm the error resolution. Another way to make necessary updates to multiple students is by using the upload additional student fields task on the student information card. If all the required fields already exist for your students in Tide and you are only making changes to some fields due to recent eligibility or demographic changes, it is recommended that you use this option instead. Here you see the upload additional student fields page that district
010and campus testing coordinators can use to update student eligibility for STAR alternate 2 without having to upload an entire student information file. First, download the template and enter the TSDS IDs of students you need to register or for whom you need to make eligibility changes. If you need to make more than one change for a student, multiple rows with the same ID are required. In this example, the first student will be eligible for the star alternate 2 English 2 assessment as seen in rows two and three. For the next example, in rows four to six, you will see that this student will be registered for star alternate 2. Because this student is eligible for a large print test booklet, you see that the large print option has been selected for both mathematics and RLA. When
011you are finished with the file, upload it to Tide. If everything is correct on the upload preview page, proceed to confirm and complete the upload process. Educators and technology staff may contact Texas testing support at at texas testing support at cambium assessment.com or by using the chat feature located on the Texas assessment program website. This concludes the how to verify that students are registered for Star Alternate 2 training video. You may review the contents of this video by using the controls on your player.