A student now selects the [Test Settings] button—which features the universal access [] icon with a person’s outline—instead of the cogwheel icon to toggle or adjust certain assigned embedded designated support and accommodation settings while testing.
Support for the Chameleon 20 and Mantis Q40 RBDs has been added.
Universal Tools
The embedded strikethrough universal tool, which is available for all students, has had its format updated to be more dense—it now contains diagonal lines, for prominence.
Designated Supports
The following embedded designated supports, when assigned individually, can be toggled or adjusted while the student is testing by selecting the [Test Settings] button to open a sidebar with settings:
TTS volume, rate, and pitch
TTS tracking
Color contrast
Mouse pointer
Accommodations
The following features of the embedded TTS accommodation, when assigned individually, can be toggled or adjusted while the student is testing by selecting the [Test Settings] button to open a sidebar with settings:
Volume, rate, and pitch
Tracking
The non-embedded sensory items accommodation is available to be assigned in TOMS.
Embedded word completion now includes a new button on the writing toolbar for a constructed-response item, the [Word Completion] word-bubble [] icon, that a student can use to deactivate and activate this resource. (The default position is “on.”)
CAASPP
Designated Supports
100s number table is available as an embedded designated support for CAST and the CAA for Science.
Multiplication table is available as an embedded designated support for CAST and the CAA for Science.
The translations (Spanish stacked–dual language) embedded designated support for CAST now uses a toggle so that either English or Spanish items and item response options appear on the screen for a student, but not both.
Because it is part of the translations (Spanish stacked–dual language) embedded designated support, the separate description of the embedded translated test directions in Spanish has been removed.
Accommodations
100s number table is available as an embedded accommodation for the Smarter Balanced for Mathematics and CAA for Mathematics.
Multiplication table is available as an embedded accommodation for the Smarter Balanced for Mathematics and CAA for Mathematics.
Speech-to-text was added as an embedded and non-embedded accommodation for the CSA.
Word completion was added as an embedded and non-embedded accommodation for the CSA.
ELPAC
When referring to test directions, the non-embedded designated support for ELPAC has been renamed “Translated test directions in ASL or Manually Encoded English.”
The embedded text-to-speech accommodation is no longer available in the Initial ELPAC and Summative ELPAC Listening domain.
] icon with a person’s outline—instead of the cogwheel icon to toggle or adjust certain assigned embedded designated support and accommodation settings while testing.
] icon, that a student can use to deactivate and activate this resource. (The default position is “on.”)