Interactive Achievement: Longitudinal Data System (LDS

Interactive Achievement:

Longitudinal Data System (LDS) ~

Table of Contents

I. Accessing the Longitudinal Data System (LDS) Page 1

II. Student Profiles Pages 2-8

Searching for Students Page 2

Overview Page 3

o Current Year

Benchmark Scores and Trend

Grades

Attendance

Discipline

o Most Recent SOL Scores and Trend

State Assessments Pages 4-5

o SOL Scores

o Category Results

Local Assessments Page 6

o Benchmark Data

o Student Growth Assessments

Report Card (Current and Historical) Page 7

o Grades

o Attendance

o Discipline

Other Assessment Scores Page 8

o WIDA

o PALS

III. Getting HELP Page 9

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For questions, contact your school's Interactive Achievement administrator, Stephanie Haskins at [email protected], or Rich Fletcher at [email protected].

Interactive Achievement -

Welcome!

Visit the Interactive Achievement home page and

click "log-in":

http://www.interactiveachievement.com

Click OnTrac for AMS & LDS reporting.

Click iTest to administer a student assessment.

Login Information:

Username: Your email address

Password: Refer to email for initial log-in.

You will be asked to change your password upon

the first log-in.

If you forget your username or password at any

time, you may click on "Forgot username or

password."

Once you are logged into OnTrac, hover over

“Reporting” and select “Longitudinal Data”, or

select the Green “View Longitudinal Data” bar in

the center of the page.

http://www.interactiveachievement.com/onTRAC/

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Interactive Achievement ~ LDS

Student Profiles

Searching for Students

The first screen in the LDS looks like this. Notice

there are three tabs at the tab, and your default

opening page is “Student Profiles”.

There are three ways to locate individual

students:

1. Enter a teacher, course section, student

name, state ID or student number in the

search field at the top to begin narrowing

the search.

2. Select from “Teacher or “Course Section”

filters. Each selection will narrow the list

of students whose names appear under the

“Students” heading on the right.

3. You can also scroll through the full list of

“Students” on the right and select your

student by hand.

Click the magnifying glass icon to the right of a

header to open a white text box with a cursor.

Enter text within the box to search data within the

selected filter.

Click an eraser icon (example circled in red) to

clear a search filter.

Once the desired student’s name appears under the

“Students” column on the right, click the student’s

name.

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Student Profiles - Overview

Once a student is selected, the “Overview” tab

will display a general synopsis of student

information.

Student demographic information and STI can

be found in the box at the top of the page. The

“Show Enrollment History” link will show

student’s previous school enrollments starting

with the child’s first state assessment.

The center of the page displays the current year’s

“Benchmark Scores”, “Benchmark Trend”,

“Most Recent State Scores”, and “State

Trend”.

At the bottom of the page is data on the current

year’s “Grades”, “Attendance”, and

“Discipline”.

To leave the current student’s page and start a

new search, click

“Clear”

or

“Student Search”

To go back pages/return to filtered search on main

search screen, use the back arrow.

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Student Profiles – State Assessments

To access a student’s state assessments (SOL)

profile, click the “State Assessments” tab at the top

of the Student Snapshot screen.

The “Graph View” provides a basic overview of

the student’s state assessment scores within the

defined time frame.

To view data associated with the graph, hover over

the point on the graph.

To change the time frame click the drop-down to

the right of “Year” and select the desired year. To

select more than one year, hold the control (Ctrl)

key and select each desired year. To clear the

selected filters, click the eraser icon (circled in red)

to the left of the year filter.

To filter by subject, click one of the subject headers

located above the “Graph View”. To select more

than one subject, hold the control (Ctrl) key and

select each desired subject. To clear the selected

filters, click the eraser icon to the left of the subject

filter (circled in blue).


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To print and/or export the “State Assessment”

data, right-click on the graph view:

Select “Print” to print the data.

Select “Send to Excel” or “Export” to export

the data.

The “Tabular View” provides a comparison of the

student’s scores to school and district percentiles

and averages. It also provides a list of categories or

strands that make up the test by clicking the plus

symbol (+) to the right of the test name.

Right-click on the table to print and/or export the

data.

Once a test has been expanded the plus symbol (+)

will appear to the left of the test name until all

exams are again collapsed. To expand all the tests

to reveal the associated categories or strands, right-click within the “Test” column and select

“Expand All” from the drop-down menu. To

collapse all tests, right-click within the “Test”

column and select “Collapse all”.

SOL assessments are updated by Interactive

Achievement weekly.

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Student Profiles – Local Assessments

To access data for a student’s “Benchmarks” and

“Student Growth Assessments”, click the “Local

Assessments” tab. This selection defaults to the

“Benchmarks” tab. Benchmark data is displayed

by graph and table. As with the “State

Assessments” you can

Hover over a point on the graph to view

associated data

Filter by subject and year, and use Ctrl to

select multiple subjects/years

Right-click on the graph or table to print

and/or export the data

Benchmark assessments have to be tagged at the

district level and will pull over 24 hours after the

student has taken the assessment. If an assessment

is not showing, please contact an Interactive

Achievement administrator. This may mean that the

assessment has not been flagged as a benchmark

test.

To access “Student Growth Assessment” data,

click the “SGAs” table to the right of

“Benchmarks”.

The SGA data is displayed by table and provides a

comparison of the student’s scores to school,

district, and state percentiles and averages.

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Student Profiles – Report Card

A student’s report card displays historical grades,

attendance, and discipline data; click the “Report

Card” tab to access this.

Grades are displayed by graph and table. The

“Graph View” provides a basic overview of all

assessments within the defined time frame. The

table view features a list of grades ordered by year,

subject, course, quarter grade, and final grade.

As with the “State Assessments” and “Local



associated data

Filter by subject and year (using the drop-

down menu), and use Ctrl to select multiple

subjects/years



The “Attendance” tab displays historical

attendance data by graph and table. The “Graph

View” provides a basic overview of the student’s

attendance data by tardies and absences. The

“Tabular View” organizes attendance data by date,

type, code, and a description of the attendance

occurrence.




associated data

Filter by year, and use Ctrl to select multiple

subjects/years



The “Discipline” tab displays historical discipline

data by graph and table. The “Graph View”

provides a basic overview of the student’s discipline

data by suspensions and referrals. The “Tabular

View” organizes discipline data by date, offense

code, sanction category, sanction/discipline, and

offense description.




associated data

Filter by year, and use Ctrl to select multiple

subjects/years



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Student Profiles – Other Scores

The “Other Scores” tab displays WIDA scores (for

ELL students) and PALS scores. With impending

future enhancements, SCS will have the ability to

add district-choice data elements in this tab.

WIDA scores are displayed by graph and table. The “Graph View” provides a basic overview of all

assessment scores within the defined time frame and

can be filtered by grade and proficiency level.

The “Tabular View” provides a list of the student’s

scores organized by Grade, Tier, Composite

Proficiency Level, Literacy Proficiency Level,

Listening Proficiency Level, Speaking

Proficiency Level, Reading Proficiency Level,

and Writing Proficiency Level.

As with other data elements you can


associated data

Use Ctrl to select multiple grades and

proficiency levels.



PALS scores are displayed by graph and table. The “Graph View” provides a basic overview of all

assessment scores within the defined time frame and

can be filtered by grade.

The “Tabular View” provides a list of the student’s

scores organized by year, date, and score.

As with other data elements you can


associated data

Use Ctrl to select multiple grades.



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Interactive Achievement LDS~

Getting HELP!

To get help at any time . . . Go to HELP

Resources ~

In addition to this resource, there are documents

and videos available within Interactive

Achievement that can be referenced at any time.

Documents include an OnTrac User Guide.

Videos include:

- Tutorials - short clips

- Online trainings - 15-30 min.

- Webinars - recorded sessions on topics

OnTrac Live can be accessed when something is

needed ASAP and is available M-F, 8:00-5:00.

Interactive Achievement is based in Roanoke,

VA.

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asked to download file which would allow the

representative to view your computer screen.

Make sure other tabs are minimized since he/she

will see all on screen.

Click ok.

Example of an OnTrac Live Chat~

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go next.

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navigate), may ask OnTrac Live, "Can you

drive?" At this point, the IA representative

could click and complete requested task. Teacher

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chat window open, representative can still see

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