■ System Overview
■ RISE Portal
■ Test Administration
■ RISE Benchmark Assessments
■ Nextera Test Delivery System
■ Summative Testing
■ Reporting & Support
Agenda
Nextera Admin Site
Nextera is comprised of two components to provide a full-service
assessment solution.
Online Test Administration System (Nextera Admin):
Student and testing management tools
Multi-tiered, role-based system
Test Delivery System
The Secure Browser or app keeps students focused on
their test
Test content is downloaded to the student’s device
Nextera Administration Site
Secure, web-based administration system provides access to
all users with no additional download.
- Login
- Students
- Classes
- Test Administrations
- Accounts
- Reports
Sign in
If you forget or lose your password:
1. Click the “Forgot your
password?” link.
2. From the Forgotten Password
screen, enter email address and
click “Submit.” 3. Receive email to confirm
you want to reset your
password. (please allow
up to five minutes)
4. Follow instruction in the
email to complete reset.
Nextera Admin
Use the blue menu bar to navigate in Nextera Admin
What’s New?
Reminders including updates and critical information from USBE and
Questar.
Nextera Admin - Roles
Teacher or Proctor
View and make limited edits to only their own account
Edit student online resources and accommodations for students in
their assigned classes
View the Proctor Password
Print student login tickets (if desired)
Monitor student progress during testing for classes assigned to them
View classes assigned to them
View reports for students assigned to them (Teacher only)
Benchmark Testing
Groups will initially be entered for the Benchmark
Assessments based on the UTREx upload.
Teachers and Proctors can create/edit groups of students to
meet student needs for flexibility as well as off-grade testing.
Teachers can only create groups from students assigned to
them in PowerSchool.
Benchmark - Managing Groups
Click the Groups tab, the click Create group.
Add a group name (and description if desired).
Benchmark - Managing Groups
Add students to the new group by searching, checking the boxes next to the desired student
names, then clicking the appropriate right arrow. Click Save Group before closing screen.
Benchmark - Assigning
Expand the Benchmark Assessment Items section.
Verify item standards.
Click New Benchmark Assessment Assignment.
Benchmark - Assigning
Select the group(s) you would like to assign the chosen benchmark assessment(s) using
the checkboxes.
Choose your testing dates the click Assign benchmark assessment.
Administer a Benchmark
Find the Access Code and student login information.
Print student ID’s and passwords.
You can monitor student progress from this screen.
Student Sign-on
Students will log-on through either Chrome App or Secure Browser.
Give Access Code to students to start test.
Navigation
The Test Delivery System will provide directions on how to navigate and use the basic tools
in the Nextera Test Delivery System
Proctor Password
Students will need to pause their own tests. If students are logged out of a Summative
Assessment for longer than 20 minutes they will need the proctor password
Proctor Password
Found on the Home Page of Nextera Admin for each school.
Should be kept confidential and changed daily. Students need this code to sign in to a test
they have started but not completed.
Response Capture
The connection indicator in the upper left corner of the Nextera Test Delivery System
changes from green to red if internet connectivity is lost.
Response Capture
If the connection is not restored before the student has completed testing:
Do NOT allow other students to test on the device, and quarantine the device in a secure
location until connection has been restored and the student is able to log back in to the test
and the responses are sent to Questar before other students test on that device.
RISE Question Sampler
Accessed through the Utah RISE Portal
Provided to help students, teachers, test administrators, and
technology coordinators prepare for the RISE Benchmark and
Summative assessments.
A great tool for helping anyone taking, administering, or supporting an
assessment to become familiar with the testing tools and navigation
of the Nextera Test Delivery System.
RISE Tools Have Changed
• On the RISE Assessment the tools
have changed and the Question
Sampler is your best friend.
• Equation Editor (EE) – when a
student opens the palette they have
to scroll to see all the different keys.
Expanding the palette can be helpful.
• Train students to recognize pi!
RISE Tools Have Changed
• The graph is a multi-segment tool.
• So if students plot the wrong point, tell them to keep going and close the shape.
• Then they can move the points and position them wherever they need too.
Benchmark Reporting
Interactive class roster allows you to view a students prior assignments, individual student
report, item frequency distribution, individual student response and correct response.
Benchmark Writing Report
The interactive class roster for Writing is in a slightly different format. You can click the score
point earned for the response to view the writing prompt and student response if desired.