TestNav Tools. Pre-Test Tech Readiness. Revised: 1/23/2015

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1 TestNav Tools Pre-Test Tech Readiness Revised: 1/23/2015 Table of Contents TestNav Tools... 1 Document Overview... 2 Accessing the Magnifier and Line Reader... 2 Magnifier... 3 Line Reader... 4 Answer Masking... 6 Calculator... 8 Answer Eliminator... 9 Pointer Tool Text to Speech (TTS) Tool Text-to-Speech Settings Regarding the Volume of Computer-Based Audio Tests Highlighter - Periodic Non-Audio Forms Only

2 Document Overview The purpose of this document is to describe the TestNav tools and their functionality. Accessing the Magnifier and Line Reader To access the Magnifier and Line Reader, click on the drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the active TestNav screen: 2

3 Magnifier Click on Magnifier in the upper right corner drop down menu to activate the tool. The Magnifier is a square-shaped area that you click and hold, to drag it on the screen where you need the magnification to occur: 3

4 To turn off the Magnifier, go to the upper right corner drop down menu and click on Magnifier again so the check mark disappears: Line Reader Click on Show/Hide Line Reader in the upper right corner drop down menu to activate the tool. Click at the top of the bar and hold, to drag it on the screen: 4

5 Click on the lined indicator sections (noted on the screen shot below with red circles), to expand and manipulate the size of the Line Reader window: To turn off the Line Reader, go to the upper right corner drop down menu and click on Line Reader again so the check mark disappears: 5

6 Answer Masking Click on Answer Masking in the upper right corner drop down menu to activate the tool. Once the tool is activated, all possible multiple choice answer options will be masked out: Click on the gray eye icon to reveal an answer option. You can click each eye icon to reveal multiple answers at once, or re-click the eye icon to mask the answer again: 6

7 To turn off the Answer Masking, go to the upper right corner drop down menu and click on Answer Masking again so the check mark disappears: 7

8 Calculator For Math Grades 6 EHS ONLY, click on the Calculator icon (circled in red below) to activate the scientific calculator on the tool bar. Click and hold, to drag it on the screen: Please visit the Calculator section in Avocet for more information on ACT Aspire Calculator policies: Click Close on the Calculator to return it to the tool bar: 8

9 Answer Eliminator Click on the Answer Eliminator icon (circled in red below) to activate the Answer Eliminator tool on the tool bar. Once the tool is activated, click on a multiple choice answer option to place a red X over the answer option. The red X acts as a visual indicator to the student that the answer option is eliminated. To remove a red X, click on it to make it disappear: You may eliminate multiple answer options at once: 9

10 To turn off the Answer Eliminator tool, simply click on the Answer Eliminator icon on the tool bar: Pointer Tool While Answer Eliminator is turned on, you can click on the Pointer tool (circled in red below) to activate it and use it to select a radio button on a multiple choice answer selection: 10

11 Sample of the multiple choice radio button (choice A below) once it has been selected using the Pointer tool: Text to Speech (TTS) Tool When taking a computer-based English or Spanish Audio version of the ACT Aspire test, click on the triangle shaped Play button (circled in red below) to activate the Text to Speech computer-based read aloud voice: 11

12 Once the Play button has been selected the text to speech read aloud voice is activated, the item text will highlight as the item is being read aloud: Click on the square shaped Stop button to stop the audio from playing: 12

13 To navigate within the item, click on the megaphone shaped toggle Click-to-Hear button, then click anywhere in the item to have the read aloud start again from where you have clicked: Item highlighting will start from where you have used the toggle feature and clicked to start again: 13

14 Text-to-Speech Settings A user may control the speed of the text-to-speech voice by selecting the Gear icon (circled in red below) to open the text-to-speech settings box. By selecting the minus (-) icon, a user can slow down the speed of the audio. By selecting the plus (+) icon, a user can speed up the speed of the audio. 14

15 Regarding the Volume of Computer-Based Audio Tests We strongly suggest you test your volume settings on your computer prior to launching a secure test. Once the secure testing environment takes over your computer, you will not have access to your volume settings. TestNav has a built-in Audio Check (circled in red below) that students can utilize prior to logging in. We also suggest you use this built-in Audio Check to test volume controls on headphones or keyboards prior to logging in to TestNav: Highlighter - Periodic Non-Audio Forms Only While participating in the Periodic standard online form (non-audio) assessments for Interim and Classroom, a highlighter tool can be activated by left clicking and dragging your cursor along the text you would like to highlight. When you release your left click-drag, four highlighter color option blocks will appear. You may then select White, Yellow, Pink or Blue for highlighting your selected text. The White color block is used to un-highlight any previously highlighted text. This online Highlighter tool is NOT available on any of the Summative assessments. 15

16 Placement of the highlighter tool in a test: This example has selected Pink as the highlighter color of choice: This example has selected Yellow as the highlighter color of choice: 16

17 This example has selected Blue as the highlighter color of choice: 17