Take a Test Demo Instructions

Take a Test Demo Instructions

Getting your device ready to demo:

Important notes:

The Take a Test app cannot be “projected to a large screen” due to its lock down capabilities it is enforcing to meet the demands of high-stakes assessments. To present to a larger audience, use the Office Mix on the topic here, or set up a virtual machine on your device.

Step 1: Be sure your device is running Windows 10 Education edition with Anniversary Update.

Step 2: Create a OneNote for the formative assessment demo, utilize an existing demo OneNote.

Step 3: Create a Microsoft Forms link for the formative assessment and high-stakes assessment demo.

Step 4: Create a Take a Test account and provide an assessment URL (use the Microsoft Forms link you created in Step 3.)

Click Start
Select Settings
Select Accounts
Select Family and other people; Add someone else to this PC; create a local account name Test Account
Note: you will need to go through a first user run experience briefly for this account, so set it up.
To get out of Test Account, ctrl+alt+del (you can then select a different account)
Select Work access
Select Set up an account for taking tests
Select Choose Account; select the local account you set up “Test Account”

Step 4: Start demo

Brief intro and initial talking points with the demo: The new Take a Test app helps teachers and schools deliver high-stakes digital assessments, as well as lower-stakes formative assessments, more quickly and easily.

And Take a Test is easy to set up, with options that both teachers and IT staff will find familiar and efficient.

• When in use, the Take a Test app creates a locked-down environment just for testing that only points to your online assessment page.

• While the Take a Test is running, students are prevented from doing things that might compromise the assessment

• opening other web pages

• taking screenshots

• running other applications

• connecting additional external displays

• using copy and paste, and so on

• During a test, Take a Test prevents the OS from generating distractions, like pop-up toasts and notifications, and updates.

• Now let’s take a look at how this works for a high-stakes assessment. <begin demo steps below>

For school wide assessments, schools can easily set up an account for every student to take a test prior to testing week
For schools needing to deploy assessments broadly, IT pros can use Intune, SCCM, or group policy to configure Take a Test with an active directory or azure active directory account, allowing all students to log into the account and take their assessment.
Once set up, all a student needs to do is select the test taking account.
<show sign in to test from sign in screen> Once they sign into the account, Take a Test accesses the assessment website and the student can take their assessment.
<show “test” sign in screen> Notice how the Take a Test app immediately launches after signing in. It ensures that the device is in a clean state before taking the test.
Note that there is no address bar or navigation tools, just the web content. When on this page, the student is considered to be in a locked down mode where there are no hotkey shortcuts, no ability to take a screenshot, and no ability to switch to other applications.
In order to meet testing criteria, Take a Test is now running above the lock, and prevents the student from running other apps, attaching an external display, using copy and paste, or even taking screen captures.
And remember, Take a Test keeps pop ups and other notifications from distracting the student during assessment times as well, allowing them to focus on what matters, giving their full attention to the exam.

As a teacher, when I want to set up a device for Take a Test all I need to do is…<walk-through of settings UI>
<Click Start> To get to the setting I’ll select Start.
<Click PC Settings> Then PC Settings
<Accounts> Then Accounts

<Click Other users> Now, other users.

<Click choose an account> Here is where I choose the account for Take a Test

<Select the local account you previously set up for this demo>
Now I need to select the account that will be set up for the assessment.

<add the assessment UR>
Here I will add the assessment URL for my students’ to take their test.
Finally, I’ll click Save and the account is ready to go with the URL set up.
<Ctrl+atl+del>
<switch accounts>

<Select test account>
When I select the test account, it works just like if my IT department had set Take a Test up through their management systems.
My students click sign in <click sign in>

And Take a Test opens to the URL I included in the set up steps.
Both demos I’ve shown you so far are focused on locking down student devices for high stakes assessments.
However, we know as teachers you also have a variety of digital formative assessments you use on an ongoing basis.
You can use Take a Test to help deliver those online assessments as well. Here is an example using Microsoft Forms.

With this features, I can deploy formative assessments easily with no configuration required from my IT department
I love this capability of Take a Test because it is using two great products I already use in the Classroom, OneNote and Microsoft Forms
My Class Notebook includes a weekly quiz tab for students to take a brief Microsoft Forms assessment on what we’ve been covering in class. This can be done because Take a Test can be extended to anything that can host a URL such as a class website or email.
Here I direct the class to the following page in the notebook. Within the URL contains the schema: ms-edu-secureassessment:<URL>!enforceLockdown. Notice that there is a URL attached to it, so this can be extended to rolling your own assessments on any website.
The !enforceLockdown field enforces automatically locking down when the URL is clicked.

Now when I click the link <click link>

The application automatically launches after user consent and automatically navigates to the embedded URL.
Note that there is no address bar or navigation tools, just the web content. When on this page, the student is considered to be in a locked down mode where there are no hotkey shortcuts, no ability to take a screenshot, and no ability to switch to other applications.
To exit the test, I simply click ctrl+alt+del, select my user account to log into.

Brief summary and wrap-up: The new Take a Test app helps teachers and schools deliver high-stakes digital assessments, as well as lower-stakes formative assessments, more quickly and easily.