How to setup an online test

Mighty Minds provides the ability to administer selected NAPLAN past papers through our online platform. Providing a quicker turnaround on student results and detailed digital feedback. By utilizing online testing your school can reduce the cost of testing for each student, reallocating resources to learning materials.

Process

For the test each student will require the relevant booklet for the NAPLAN year you would like to test. This is required as we are unable to reproduce the actual test questions on screen. Instead of writing all the answers on a marksheet, you utilize the portal to enter in each answer as you go through the booklet.

Example Question on portal:
Please refer to task 1 on page 3 in booklet.

Answer:
A) B) C) D)

Once submitted, these answers are processed by our portal and can be arranged to either provide results for your student instantly, or once the teacher closes the exam session. This process eliminates the need to post any materials to the Mighty Minds office for marking and allows you to access reporting at any time for all students who have completed the exam.




Set up

Each student requires a unique login to our Mighty Minds Portal. This is a hub for each student to take any tests they are assigned, and to track all previous exams taken with detailed feedback.

To get each student access to the Mighty Minds Portal, we require a student listing formatted in an excel document. This document must contain each student’s full name, student ID, year level, roll class and email address. We will provide each student with a unique password that will be sent back to the teachers for distribution.

Note: If your school has done online testing with mighty minds previously, you may have already provided a student list. Once the students have been given access to the portal, you can assign them the appropriate tests using your Mighty Minds portal account. Once logged in, navigate to the “Tests & Activities” tab on the side bar. From here, select the exam type you wish to set up, i.e. NAPLAN, Writing Task, Diagnostic Test, etc. In this new page, click Create session and then choose your exam format, year level and genre. For writing tasks, you will also need to select a stimulus.

On the next page, you will need to select which students you wish to have access to the exam. In the Roll Class bar, you can select a class and they will appear on the screen. To select them all you can press “Select displayed students”. Keep in mind that if there is not a tick next to a student’s name on the left-hand-side of the page, they have not been selected. The next step is to set up the exam details. Firstly, you must name the test session for reference, e.g. “Yr 8 NAPLAN Pre-test”. Then, the online tests can be configured with a start date/time and end date/time. After this, you can set how you would like the students to receive their results. You can choose between releasing the results and feedback immediately after the student has clicked submit. Alternatively, you may have the students wait until all students have completed the test and close the exam. Once closed the results and feedback will be available for students to view from their student login.




Reports/results

All student’s results are collated into easily accessible reports that any teacher from your school can access to view how their students went on the test. These reports are easily downloaded and accessible from the teacher portal. Under the “Tests and activities” sidebar select the test type you wish to report on. At the top of the box in the middle of the screen (underneath “Create session”), select “All” – this is where you will find all past exam sessions. Select on the session you wish to download reports for, then click the purple “View results” button. This will take you to a page with a report. Further reports can be downloaded by clicking on the “Download reports” button in the top-right corner.

If you do not have portal access, please email portal@mightyminds.com.au.