Assessments

An assessment lets a student answer questions about an academic unit using their board. Assessments are always supervised: starting one requires a staff PIN, in every edition.

Badges: School · Pro · Clinician · AAC (no badge = all editions).

1. Before you start: you need a staff account

Starting an assessment requires a clinician/adult PIN. If no staff account exists yet, the app will tell you and the Start button stays disabled.

A staff PIN is created at first launch (see chapter 00). On School you can add more staff accounts in Settings → Access & PIN.

2. Starting an assessment

1. Open the unit selector and choose the unit to assess.
2. When you tap to begin, the Authorize Assessment screen appears.
3. Enter the clinician PIN and tap Start. (A fresh PIN entry is required each time an assessment starts.)
4. The assessment opens with the first question.

If the PIN is wrong, you'll see "Incorrect PIN. Try again." (and hear it announced with VoiceOver). After several wrong tries the screen locks briefly and shows how many seconds to wait.

If no staff account is set up, the screen explains that and the Start button is disabled until you add one.

3. Accommodations: fewer choices and errorless support

How an assessment is presented follows the student's access level, set per student.

1. Open Settings → Student Profile.
2. Open Alternate Academic Standards.
3. Turn it on and choose an Overall Level (you can also set different levels per subject):

• Participatory — the student sees 2 answer choices, the choices are read aloud automatically, and the student is supported so they don't end on an error.
• Supported (the default) — 3 answer choices, read aloud automatically.
• Independent — the full 4 answer choices.

The emergency words stay available throughout, so a student can always call for help.

These accommodations also connect to switch scanning and auditory announcements — see chapter 04 — so a student who scans and listens can complete an assessment at their own pace.

4. Answer format options

Settings → Testing Accommodation holds options for proctored testing sessions — a five-option (A–E) answer row, an answer-lock behavior so a choice isn't changed accidentally, auditory scanning, and whether the strip clears after speaking. It also holds the option that requires a staff PIN to end a unit assessment.

5. During and after

• The student selects an answer for each question; core vocabulary remains on hand.
• When the assessment finishes, results are shown for review.
• Progress feeds the student's data — see Settings → Data & Logs (exportable to PDF on Pro AAC Clinician, and to JSON on Clinician).

Quick checklist

1. Staff PIN exists? (Access & PIN)
2. Unit assigned and active for the student? (chapter 02)
3. Student's access level set? (Student Profile → Alternate Academic Standards)
4. Access method ready — touch/switch/gaze/listening? (chapter 04)
5. Start → enter PIN → begin.