Experience Online Testing Georgia! User Guide With the new Georgia Milestones Assessment System comes a new a new online testing platform that most Oconee Schools students will access to take their state assessments. While Oconee students at all grade levels are very familiar with taking assessments online, it is beneficial that students, teachers, and parents become familiar with this new online testing platform prior to test administration. GA DOE has provided an online practice center (linked below) titled Experience Online Testing Georgia! for this purpose.

http://learnoas.ctb.com/GA/.

This site is open for everyone to explore and to experience what students will experience when they are taking the actual assessments. Please use this document as a tool to guide you through that exploration. It should be noted that this practice site was created so that everyone can experience the features of the online testing format and is not meant as a practice test for actual test content. While the functionality of the testing platform and item types presented within the practice site are indicative of what students will experience, the test items do not reflect the specific grade level content that the actual assessments will include. The home page for the Experience Online Testing Georgia! webpage is pictured below. Notice that you can choose to explore testing formats for each of the subject area assessment as well as assessments with specific accommodations that will be provided as part of the online format. The actual Milestones assessments with accommodations are only provided for students who are eligible for these accommodations.

Click on “here” within this box to

access descriptions and

directions of how to use all of the

tools and accommodations that

are available within the online

format. For your convenience,

the following 2 pages include

pictures of the Tools and

Accommodations document.

GA Milestones Online Assessments Tools and Accommodations

Clicking on an assessment on the

practice site home page will bring you to

the login screen. For the actual

assessment, students will enter the login

information. For the purpose of this

practice, you may simply click “Log in.”

Click “Start” to begin the online testing experience.

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For this ELA test item, students will choose an answer by clicking on the

lettered answer choice. The blue bubble indicates that an answer has been

selected. Students can track their progress and navigate within the

assessment using the navigation area at the very bottom of the page. Notice

that students can mark an item for later review in yellow if they would like to

move on in the assessment but go back to review the test item later. The gray

bar connecting test items seen in the test navigation area below indicates that

test items share a test stimulus, in this case, the same reading passage.

Longer test items will require the student to scroll down to view the

entire item/stimulus.

This test item requires the student to review two separate passages by

clicking on the tabs titled “Saving Our Lynx” and “The Lynx.” This item

also requires the student to type an answer into the box rather than simply

select an answer choice.

Use the “Tools and Accommodations” document to

practice the use of each of the tools that are available within this area of

each test item page.

This Math test item requires the student to type in responses to

three different parts.

This is an example of an assessment in which the Screen Reader accommodation has been activated. Students may choose the text that they would like to hear read aloud by clicking on the specific text. To stop the Screen Reader feature,

they may click on the stop sign. Students who have this accommodation may also

control the volume and speed of the Screen Reader.

Notice that this Math test item allows for the use of a calculator which is accessed by clicking on

the calculator icon within the tools section. Access to a calculator and a reference

information card (not shown) is available for specific science and

math test items.

When students have finished the assessment, they may click “Finish Test.”

Clicking “Finish Test” on the previous page will bring students to this page which allows them to review their test completion status and choose to either go back to the assessment or confirm that they have completed

the test and would like to submit it.