Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 1 Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Assessment for Instruction ERGAnalytics & ERG Desktop Education Resource Group, Inc. 21 Waterway Avenue, Suite 300 The Woodlands TX 

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 2 Goal  Provide performance management information to teachers and administrators –Fast response –Least effort –Comprehensive reports –High quality

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 3 Assessment Portals Website Application Student Data Create and Manage Test Keys TAKS Reports Local Reports NEW!! ERG Desktop –Installed Application Print/Grade Answersheets Comprehensive Benchmark Reporting Tool

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 4 New Features/Changes for  ERG Desktop replaces TeachersWorkbench –Forms on the Fly - ERG Desktop automatically creates a form to match any key input into the system –Prints answersheets to PDF – less paper waste if mistakes have been made –Built in Rejected Answersheet Analysis tool –Faster printing, grading and reporting. –Automatic updates  ERGAnalytics replaces MySchoolLife (MySchoolLife is NOT compatible with STAAR or the new ERG Desktop) –ERGAnalytics.com Test Key Creation and Maintenance Instant Reporting  Account Information –Use the correct account Don’t know your account information? Contact your Principal or have your Principal send us an .

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 5 ERG Desktop® & ERGAnalytics® Print Answer Sheets – Integrating Information Exam FormClass(es)

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 6 Starting ERG Desktop ® Launch ERG Desktop from your computer’s Desktop or from the Start Menu Log In with username and password Enter ID and Password

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 7 ERG Desktop Applications Menu Click Here

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 8 ERG Desktop – Printing Answersheets Step 3 - Class/Student Information Step 1 - Test Information Step 2 - Printing Options

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 9 ERG Desktop – Printing Answersheets Entering the Test Information The test information portion of the “Print Test Forms” window, allows you to find your exam using several filtering options. The option that allows you to see ALL test keys created within your school district is to set the “Sharing” to “District Exams.” Answer sheets CANNOT be printed without choosing a test name from the “Exam List.”

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 10 ERG Desktop – Printing Answersheets Select A Test Name A Test Name MUST be chosen from the Exam List before you can print answersheet. All answersheets are coded to match a particular key!

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 11 ERG Desktop – Printing Answersheets Printing Options  Slug with Student IDS – this option will pre-print student information on every answersheet including student & school ID  Do Not Slug – Blank Forms – these are answersheets that have NO pre-printed student or school information on them – BUT it is for use with ONLY the selected test name  Do Not Slug Except For School ID – Blank Forms – NEW!! – This new printing option allows you to print answersheets that have no student information pre-printed, but does have the school ID printed on the answersheet.

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 12 ERG Desktop – Printing Answersheets Printing Options  Output To - NEW!!! ERGDesktop does not print directly to a printer – it creates a PDF of your answer sheets. This new feature reduces the potential for printing out incorrect answer sheets and also allows you to print by page or page range for those instances when only a few students need an answer sheet. ERGDesktop automatically saves these answer sheets in a directory on your computer called “C:\ERG_Desktop\Exam_Print “ (see yellow highlighted area in the image above.)  Use the Open Output Directory button to open the folder C:\ERG_Desktop\Exam_Print

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 13 ERG Desktop – Printing Answersheets Selecting the Class Information  Select the classes that you want to print answer sheets for in this list box of available classes for your campus by clicking on the class name. You can select multiple classes by holding down the control key (Ctrl) while clicking. In the example below, all fourth grade classes have been selected for printing.

ERG Desktop – Printing Answersheets Clicking “Print” Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 14

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 15  Look at the Answer Sheet –Make Sure the Correct Test Name Appears –If you have a Griddable or Rubric, Make Sure it is in the Correct Place on the Answer Sheet –Make Sure the Correct Number of Items are on the Answer Sheet Verify Form and Answer Sheet Match

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 16 Code on Answer Sheet Forms Form Used Test Key Used` Alignment

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 17 Unslugged 4 Choice M/C Form Slugged 4 Choice M/C Form

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 18  Treat Like TAKS Answer sheets –Do not bend, fold, or mutilate! –Students should bubble clearly  Slugged Sheets –Do not write on them –Look for paper clips/extraneous scribbles  Unslugged Sheets –No copies or faxes –Correct Student ID – Not social or other ID. –Correct School ID – For 001, bubble in 001 not 1 Paper Management - Distribute & Retrieve

Scan Answer Sheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 20  Check to Make Sure All Documents are Facing the Same Directions  You may scan different tests and grade levels at the same time  Load Answer Sheets (~50) according to the scanner directions Scan Answer Sheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 21 Rubrics are Manually Graded by Teachers

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 22 Scan Answer Sheets Campus / Region Test Printing/Scanning Station Scanned Answer Sheets C:\Program Files\TeachersWorkbench\Scanned Answersheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 23  Check the “C:\ERG_Desktop\Scanned_Answersheet” directory –Each student answer sheet should be a separate TIFF –Each TIFF should be about 50 KB in size After Scanning

Grade Exams

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 25 Campus Online Website Local Drive Scanned Answer Sheets TeachersWorkbench Local Drive Scanned Answer Sheets Local Drive Graded or Rejected Answer Sheets Grade Exams

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 26 Grade Exams Click on Tools Click on Grade Exams 1. From Applications, click on Grade Forms 2-4 Do not change the settings 5. Click “Grade Forms”

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 27 After Grading

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 28  TWB “looks” in the following directory: C:\ERG_Desktop\Scanned_Answersheets Limit batches to scans  Graded sheets to are placed in: C:\ERG_Desktop\Graded_Answersheets Files are renamed using the following format: Test__Student_GradeDate_Time 7864_ _ tif  Files stay in directory Grade Answer Sheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 29  Rejected Answer Sheets are placed in: C:\ERG_Desktop\Rejected_Answersheets  Typically this directory contains: –Misfeeds, damaged sheets, other (not answer sheet) papers –Use the “Rejected Answersheets Analysis” tool to view and fix rejected answersheets Error Handling

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 30 Writing a name is not slugging! What “Not” to do with Answer Sheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 31 Good Answer Sheet - Will Grade Examples of Scanned Answer Sheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 32 Bad Answer Sheet - Missing School ID Examples of Scanned Answer Sheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 33 Bad Answer Sheet - Do Not Write on The Lines Examples of Scanned Answer Sheets

Copyright © Education Resource Group, Inc. All Rights reserved. Patent Pending 34 Support Education Resource Group/Campus Online –Username/passwords –Need to download ERGDesktop Software –Scanner Issues –Printing, Scanning, Grading, Reporting – or toll-free