Add Student Supports One Time for a Test | Conroe ISD Knowledge Base

Teachers can temporarily turn Student Supports on or off for an individual student on a specific assessment from the Online Test Proctoring window.

Caution: If a student support was added recently, it may not appear for the student and must be enabled manually once for the test using the instructions below.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Select Administer from the Assessments section of the main menu.

On the Tests Available tab, locate the test for which you want to enable supports and select the Online Test Proctoring icon in the test row. A checkmark appears to indicate that Online Test Proctoring is now enabled, and the title of the test becomes a blue link.

Click the name of the test to open it in the Online Test Proctoring tab.

Locate the class you want to view, then click the Show Students drop-down button to expand the student list.

Select the Pencil icon under Supports to begin adding or editing supports.

When the window opens, toggle the appropriate supports on or off for the assessment, then select Save.

Caution: This action turns Student Supports on or off for the selected assessment only. It does not permanently turn the support on or off for the student. Administrators can permanently assign Student Supports to students.

Available Supports

Support	Description
Text-to-Speech	Reads aloud questions, answer choices, and highlighted text to students. Students can adjust volume and speech rate. Questions in Spanish are read aloud by a native Spanish speaker. During assessment creation, teachers can choose whether the language is student-selected, English, or Spanish.
Content Clarifiers	Shows dotted underlines for words or content where a teacher has provided extra support, such as a definition, contextual note, image, or other clarification. Text-to-Speech also works for content clarifiers when both supports are enabled. The test status must be Pending before adding or editing content clarifiers.
Spelling Assistance	Enables the browser’s native spellcheck for constructed response and text entry items. Teachers can turn this on here for individual students or enable it during test creation for all students.
Spanish Interface	Translates Aware’s interface options into Spanish so Spanish-speaking students can navigate the online test. Teachers must create a Spanish version of the test because this support does not translate English test items automatically.
Calculator	Provides access to a calculator during testing. Options include a basic calculator, Desmos calculators, and Texas Instruments calculators. This can be enabled for an individual student here or for all students at the test level.
Speech-to-Text	Allows students to speak their responses and have the system convert speech to text in supported text boxes. This support is available only for constructed response items, including multipart questions. A user with the Manage Student Supports right must first assign the support to the student before a teacher can enable it during individual test administration.

Questions and Answers

This section answers common questions about student supports during online testing.

Why are a student’s assigned supports not showing in the online test?

This typically happens when supports were added to the student’s profile after assessment entries for the test were generated.

Can an administrator modify student supports instantly during testing?

No. Unless the administrator is also the teacher of record, they cannot instantly modify student supports during testing.

Is there an alternative way to fix missing student supports?

Yes. The test creator can delete and regenerate answer sheets for a specific student.

Warning: Deleting answer sheets removes all of the student’s data associated with that test.

Is there a way to clear all student supports?

Yes. Users with the Manage Student Supports right in Aware can assign and unassign testing supports in bulk using the importer.

When testing in LockDown Browser, does Spelling Assistance show alternate spellings or word replacements?

No. Students using LockDown Browser will see misspelled words underlined in red, but LockDown Browser does not provide alternate spellings or recommended replacements.

Why isn’t Speech-to-Text working?

Speech-to-Text requires microphone access to be allowed in the browser. Districts and students may need to enable microphone permissions before the feature works.

Eduphoria Speech-to-Text is not supported in LockDown Browser on iPad.

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