Setting Up Testing Sessions in Illuminate with and without Accommodations

Open up Illuminate

Click "View Assessments"

Click "All Assessments"

Search for the assessment you are going to give. You can use the unique ID or the name of the assessment.

Click the "Action" drop down menu

Click "Administer"

Click "Test with Quick Code"

Click "Edit"

Click "Show" after "Tool Settings"

If you have students that require audio read-alouds as part of their accommodation, click the "Enable" field for TTS Question and Passage. If you do not, please disregard this step.

Click the "Enable" field for both "Highlighting" and "Color Contrast" for ALL students so they can have practice using these features for their SOLs

Click "Save"

If the first session you created included audio read-aloud accommodations, you will need to create a second test session for students without this accommodation. Click "Test with Quick Code"

The testing session on top will be the newer session. Click "Edit"

Click "Online Testing - Tool Settings Show"

Click the "Enable" field for both "Highlighting" and "Color Contrast" for ALL students so they can have practice using these features for their SOLs

Click "Save"

The session on top will be for students without read-alouds and the session below will be for students with read-alouds. To share the code with students, click the blue link under "Access Code."

Highlight the link provided to share with students then either right click, copy or use the CTRL + C shortcut and then share it with your students.