Unify Training

1. Unify Training
High School - January 2019

2. Key Working Agreements
• Be a professional and active listener
• Begin and end on time
• Limit sidebars
• If it rings, dings or sings put it on
silent

3. Parking Lot
Because this program is so
new, there will be questions
we cannot answer at this
time. Please leave these
items in our parking lot for
follow-up.

5. Student Item Analysis Report (SIA)
DEMO TEST: MATH-4-3

6. Your CVS Unify Account
We will log into our CVS instance for the next
section of training.
Teachers:
1. Log out of the Demo Account
2. Log into your UC gradebook
3. Classsroom.powerschool.com
4. Click Quick Links on the left
5. Click PowerTeacher Portal
Others (principals, TC, counselors)
1. Log into your PowerSchool Account

7. First – Go to Quick Links
Then – PowerTeacher Portal Home

8. Your CVS Unify Account
Part 2
• Click the “application tray”
at the top right
• Click Performance Matters

9. Coming Soon:
February Update
If you log into Unify
via Unified
Classroom, in
February a new
option should be
added under quick
links to take you
directly to Unify and
save a few clicks

10. Assessments

11. Assessments
can be
administered
several ways
with Unify:
Student can take a full test online
(read items on the computer and enter the
answers).
1
Students can have a paper test and key in
answers online.2
Students can have a paper test and paper
bubble sheet, then teacher scans in the
bubble sheets.
3

12. Creating Online Tests for Unify

13. Items for
Online
Assessments
First you must have questions
• Teachers can create questions /
items for online tests
• Unify supports 16 different Item
Types for online tests
• Items you create will be stored in
Unify and can be shared.
• There are also question banks
available for teachers to use.

14. Sources & Banks
• A Source is your “File Drawer” to
keep Items you create in
• A Bank is a “file folder” in your
drawer to help you stay
organized.

15. Sources & Banks
•Today we will each create a
personal Source and several
banks to hold any items you
want to create this year.

16. Sources & Banks Video
Sources and Banks - performancematters

17. Create a Source –
A File Drawer to keep your Items in
Source naming convention:
• School Code + email
handle_year
• Example:
ADMswhite01_2018
Add Banks to your source for
your different subjects or
units.

18. Building
Codes
Example:
ADMswhite01_2018
IRQemail_2018

19. Create a Source
Items  New Item Source

20. Create a Source
Items  New Item Source
• Banks are for your personal organization. Create
Banks by chapter, unit, topics, etc.
• Banks can be added or deleted later

21. Creating Items for Online Tests
• These will get stored in the
Source and Banks you just
created.
• Creating online items will be
covered in covered in our
scheduled follow-up staff
meeting.

22. 16 Online Item Types Available
• Go to Help in Unify
• Type “Interaction
Types” in the search
bar
• Click the first return
• Download the PDF
for future reference

23. 16 Online Item Types Available

24. Let’s Create a Few Sample Items

25. Let’s Create a Few Sample Items
Hint:
Use the Item Design page in your
handouts and record item
numbers as you create them.

26. Let’s Create a Few Sample Items
• Multiple Choice
• Dropdown
• Number Grid

27. Creating MC Items Video
Create Multiple Choice Items - performancematters

28. Creating a New Item
(Online Question)
• Click Items  New Items
• Fill in Title and attributes
• Use the Toolbar to create the question
• Click Save and choose the Source and Bank to save the item in

29. Creating a MC Item

30. Creating an Inline Choice Item
Create Inline Choice Items - performancematters

31. Creating an Inline Choice Item

32. Creating a Numeric Grid Item
Create Numeric Grid Items - performancematters

33. Creating a
Numeric Grid
Item

34. Create a Text Entry Item
Create Text Entry Items - performancematters

35. Create an Order Item
Create Order Items - performancematters

36. Create an Order Item

37. Creating the
Test
Once you have questions, you
then add them to a test.

38. Fill in the
Properties
Tab on the
left

39. Add Items
This is where those Item (question) Numbers you recorded come in handy.

40. Note:
• There are multiple ways to find and add items.
• You can add more than 1 item at a time.
• Click “Add To Assessment” after choosing your
items.

41. Online Test
Administration
Properties
Options such as secure
browser and bubble sheets
(scan sheets) are in this
tab.
We will not go over these in
detail today, but be sure to
look at them if you decide
to give an online test.

42. Giving an
Online Test

43. Giving an Online Test
Release the test to the appropriate group of students.

44. Giving an
Online Test

45. Online Tests for Students
• Students will log into a separate webpage and
log in to take an online test.
• Scores will automatically go to Unify with the
exception of human scored items that you must
review and enter scores for.
• When you are ready to have students try taking
a test online, contact Sarah Monnier-White for
additional details.

46. Summary:
Steps for Giving an Online Test in Unify
1. Create Questions / Items
2. Create the Test and add items
From items you’ve created or question banks
or a combination
3. Release the Test to appropriate students in
Test Center
4. Score any Human Scored items
5. Use Student Item Analysis Report to collect
scores

47. Remember!
•Creating online tests is
optional at this time
•For those who want to
try it out, the ability is
open

48. Create an Extended Text Item Video
Create Extended Text Items - performancematters

49. Add a Rubric to an Item Video
Add Rubrics to Items - performancematters

50. Create a Rubric Video
Create a Rubric - performancematters

51. Printing Bubble
Sheets
Test 
Test Center

53. Scanning Bubble Sheets
• Scan answer sheets
• Use a local scanner OR
• Use a Ricoh (copy machine) and email it to yourself
• If you use the computers with scanner - Use script to
securely transmit the scanned file to Unify
• This program can be installed on current DD
scanner computers as well as individual teacher
computers

54. Sample Unify Bubble Sheets
for a 100 Question Test
• Limit of 84 questions per page.
• Tests with more than 84 questions
will have multiple sheets.
• Sheets can be run back-to-back
As of now:
• Tests with multiple forms will
require a bubble sheet & answer
key to be created for each form
• Test data can be aggregated
afterwards
A plan to create bubble sheets for
district common assessments is in the
works.
• Copies of exams will be uploaded to
a secure “Source” in Unify
• Each exam will be “tested” for
accuracy.

55. Helpful Resources
Unify Help is a great
resource for step-by-
step directions and
video tutorials
Common getting started
documents have also
been added to the
Performance Matters PD
course in Schoology

56. The Plan for S2
(Middle School)
• District Common Assessments will be
created as AKO tests in Unify
• No district assessments will be
created as online tests at this point.
• The platform is open for teachers to
create other assessments as AKO or
online tests.

57. Next Steps
• Two staff meetings have been
scheduled to present more information
and answer questions.
• Explore reports with data currently
loaded.
• Start trying our Unify
• Choose 2-3 Q3 assessments to try as
AKO in Unify
• Create the tests and print bubble
sheets