TOMS Functions

User functions depend on their roles in TOMS.

Coordinators

The following tasks can be performed by coordinators in TOMS, depending on the user’s role:

• Preadministration functions

  • Add users, either one at a time or by batch upload, which allows users to access the California assessment systems
  • Add and manage (including password resets) CAASPP or ELPAC site coordinator, test administrator, test examiner, and educator roles
  • Set up and manage CAASPP test administration windows
  • Indicate which students are taking the CAAs for ELA, mathematics, and science
  • Indicate which students are taking the Initial Alternate ELPAC and Summative Alternate ELPAC
  • Assign accommodations and designated supports to students in the LEA
  • Request the use of an unlisted resource (an accessibility resource that is not otherwise available) for a student who uses the resource in daily instruction
  • Assign certain condition codes (either NTE or PGE), either one by one or in a batch upload, to students before or during the selected testing window (CAASPP only)
  • Assign the special education coordinator and technology coordinator contacts

• Test administration functions

  • Report testing irregularities, breaches, improprieties, and incidents by completing the STAIRS form in TOMS
  • Download secure CAASPP materials and resources, such as training materials for hand scoring interim assessments, DFAs for the CAAs for ELA and mathematics, and separate DFAs for the CAA for Science (TOMS)
  • Download secure ELPAC materials and resources, such as the Initial ELPAC DFAs, Summative ELPAC DFAs, and PFA documents
  • Score Initial ELPAC results in the THSS for the Writing domain (grades three through twelve)
  • Enter scores in the DEI for the Initial ELPAC Writing domain (K–2) and Speaking domain (all grade levels and grade spans)
  • Enter score in the DEI for the Summative ELPAC Speaking domain
  • Print Initial ELPAC SSRs, download Initial ELPAC student score data, and generate parent/guardian letters
  • Install files for the voice packs used by the TDS

• Postadministration functions

  • View Completion Status reports
  • Access the LEA’s test results and SSRs

Test Administrators and Test Examiners

The following tasks can be performed by test administrators and test examiners in TOMS, depending on the user’s role:

• Test administration functions

  • Download secure CAASPP materials and resources, such as training materials for hand scoring interim assessments, DFAs for the CAAs for ELA and mathematics, and separate DFAs for the CAA for Science
  • Download secure ELPAC materials and resources, such as the Summative ELPAC DFAs
  • Score Initial ELPAC results in the THSS for the Writing domain (grades three through twelve)
• Enter scores into the DEI for the Initial ELPAC Writing domain (K–2) and Speaking domain (all grade levels and grade spans)
• Enter scores into the DEI for second scoring of the Summative ELPAC Speaking domain, second scoring of the CAA for ELA, or both, if the school is assigned to second-score

• Postadministration functions

  • View Completion Status reports