EMSTesting School Admin User Guide...EMSTesting.com offers you a faster, easier and more comprehensive way to prepare for your National Registry test and/or state certification exams

EMSTesting.com School Admin Manual

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EMSTesting User Guide

EMSTesting.com offers you a faster, easier and more comprehensive way to prepare for your National Registry test and/or state certification exams online. We know the site has a lot of functionality behind it, so we have provided this guide to help you through the process of learning the site so you have the tools you need to use it effectively and confidently. As always, Platinum Educational Group provides exceptional customer service along with this guide. We are ready to help you whenever or wherever you need it by phone or email. We also provide ongoing live help webinars for you or your group. Do not hesitate to call us if you are unable to find the answers, we will be happy to take care of any questions you may have!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................. 1 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR ROLE ............................................................................................................................ 2 SCHOOL SIGNUP ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 MANAGE COURSES ................................................................................................................................................. 2

COURSE SETTINGS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4 CLASSES .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 SEGMENTS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 GRADE BOOK ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5 STUDENTS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 TESTS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 EXPLANATIONS: ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 ADAPTIVE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

MANAGING USERS ................................................................................................................................................ 10 MANAGING ADMINISTRATORS .................................................................................................................................................... 11

Add New Administrator ......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Edit Administrator ................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Assume User’s Identity .......................................................................................................................................................................... 13

MANAGE INSTRUCTORS ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 Add New Instructor ............................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Edit Instructor ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 Assume User’s Identity .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15

MANAGE MEDICAL DIRECTORS ................................................................................................................................................... 16 Add New Medical Director ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Edit Medical Director ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Assume User’s Identity .......................................................................................................................................................................... 17

REPORTS ............................................................................................................................................................... 18 STATIC TEST REPORT ............................................................................................................................................................... 19

Class Breakdown ................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Static Test/Adaptive Report (Class) ..................................................................................................................................................... 19 Static Test/Adaptive Report (Student) ................................................................................................................................................. 19 Charts ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Detailed Results ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 20

ADAPTIVE REPORT ................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Summative Results ............................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Charts ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Curriculum Breakdown ......................................................................................................................................................................... 22

MEDICAL DIRECTOR REVIEW REPORT .......................................................................................................................................... 22 SENDING MESSAGES ............................................................................................................................................ 23 REQUEST HELP ..................................................................................................................................................... 23

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SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR ROLE As an Administrator, this guide will help you with the following:

• Managing Courses • Managing Users (Instructors, Additional Administrators & Medical Directors) • Viewing Reports • Sending Messages

SCHOOL SIGNUP School signup for EMSTesting is done in the my.platinumed.com section of our website for all our products. Please see the Platinumed – School Admin User Guide for more information.

MANAGE COURSES School Administrators (as part of the unified course/class release in August 2017) are now responsible for creating new courses in EMSTesting. Course Instructors can edit courses the School Administrators create, once a School Administrator has assigned them to the course from the dashboard. Instructors can edit most settings for classes they have be associated with.

On the home page as a School Administrator for EMSTesting you will see Current Courses listed on the top left column of the page.

To add a course, click the Add Course button.

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On this page, you will fill out the information for your new course.

The School dropdown will default to your school if you are only associated with one school, however if you are an administrator in multiple schools this is where you would select the school that the course belongs in.

For the Course Name, you will want to choose a name that relates to what the course is so that your students can easily identify your course when enrolling.

Next, enter the Course Begins and the Course Ends dates.

You can add a Course Description if you would like to add additional details about your course.

Please Note: For the end date, students do have to be enrolled in an active class in an active course to have access to the Computer Adaptive Testing feature. Accordingly, extending the course and class out beyond the actual end dates will allow students to have additional time with their practice’s tests before National Registry exams.

If you would like your students to message each other through the system, check Allow student to message each other.

If you would like your students to manually enroll in the course, check Allow students to manually enroll in this course.

If you would like instructors to have the ability to manage student class enrollments, check Allow instructors to manage student class enrollments.

Click Save to continue. You will see 5 tabs upon saving your new course.

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If you have a school subscription to EMSTesting, click on the tab to enable the course by clicking the large green enable EMSTesting button.

Under “How would you like to proceed?” choose the option of creating a new course or cloning an existing course.

If creating a new course, choose your curriculum. If cloning an existing course, choose your course to clone and check off any classes (and rename) you would like to clone as well from the list. Click the Save button to proceed.

COURSE SETTINGS

Choose your Curriculum, then click the Save button.

CLASSES Click on the Classes tab to create a new class or to edit any existing classes.

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After clicking the Save button, you will see the Segments, Grade Book, Students, Tests and Adaptive tabs appear.

SEGMENTS On the Segments tab, enter the name of the first semester in the top line under name. Then prior to entering the end date of the first segment jot down the end date currently listed. Overwrite the end date of line one with the end date of your first semester/segment.

Enter the name of the second semester, start date, end date, and then select the green "+" sign.

Repeat this process until you reach the original end date. When done click the Save button.

GRADE BOOK The Grade Book tab is where you enter in the values that you would like the program to use to automatically grade your tests and populate the gradebook for the class.

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Please Note: This is very important to do before students begin testing. If this tab is not filled out or filled out incorrectly it can result in students seeing incomplete or inaccurate grades

If you do not want "Other" you can delete it by selecting the red "X" to add additional grade type descriptions. We recommend you keep "Other" for special projects, homework, etc.

You can also enter custom descriptions in the open line and select the "+" sign to add them. This is the place if you would like to add new descriptions to the grade book!

You must enter a class passing percentage.

You can also use raw scores instead of cut- score based grading. Not recommended.

Raw Scores are a straight percentage of questions answered correctly. Cut Score based grading considers the difficulty of the material being tested on, grades the students accordingly, and is a far more accurate representation of student competency levels.

STUDENTS On the Students tab, you will see all the students who have been accepted in to that class. Those in green are your active students and those in red are your flagged/dropped students.

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If you see the reverse enrollment link you will be able to reverse the enrollment for that student. Note: You can only reverse enrollment for a student that has not yet paid for the class.

Click the Save button once your changes have been made.

TESTS On the Tests tab, you will see all tests associated with the class. Click the Add button to add the test to the class.

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Once you have clicked the add button you will see a list of settings that you will have to set for your test. Fill out all information that you would like the test to contain. See the explanation of the fields below. Remember to click save once you have your test settings completed.

After adding a test to a class (directions above), check the “Require Platinum Secure Testing” checkbox if you want to lockdown your test with Platinum Secure Testing.

For more explanation: Read more about Platinum Secure Testing.

EXPLANATIONS: Start Date and Start Time – This is the earliest a student can start taking the test.

End Date and End Time – This is the latest a student can start taking the test. Test results are only available after this date and time setting. The test end date can be moved either forward or backward. You would move the ending date forward because all students had completed the test early. You would move a test end date back to accommodate a student who was absent or missed a test.

Start/Resume Limit – This setting limits the number of times a student can login, logout and login again. Since this includes internet service interruptions we suggest you leave this setting to unlimited unless you are administering the test in a controlled environment.

Minutes Allowed – This is the length of time you will allow the students to take the test. This timer begins upon selecting the first question and does not stop if a student logs out.

Enable Previous Button – If you allow students to answer prior questions they can back up but WILL be required to re-answer all questions that were backed over. This box will turn yellow with a warning when selected because selecting this may invalidate your test results.

Student Test Result Detail Level - This provides four categories of test results. Level 1- Score Only Review shows cut/raw score, passing score, then indicates pass or fail. Levels 1,2- Extended Review shows time

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on test, and results based on: Reading Level, Bloom Level, Cut Score, National Registry, and Educational Standard. Levels 1,2,3 - Curriculum Breakdown Review shows results based on the National Curriculum. Levels 1,2,3,4 - Full Question/Answer/Annotation Review allows the students to see the questions, and by selecting more, the choices, the key, their choice, and the rationale.

Require Platinum Secure Testing - When students use Platinum Secure Testing, they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. Checking Require Platinum Secure Testing will require your students to download software onto their computers, which is available before they begin their test(s). Click the red question mark icon for more information. Students can do secure testing on an iPad. More information about Platinum Secure Testing on an iPad.

Show Student Results Immediately - By selecting this box you are asking that the students receive their results immediately upon completion of their test. (Note: Because this can occur prior to any of the other students even starting, this box will turn yellow with a warning when selected because selecting this may invalidate your test results and is not recommended).

Student Test Password - By entering a password into this line, the student or test proctor will need to enter the password when requested prior to actually beginning the test.

Click the Save button.

Note: You should now see the test listed in your tests currently associated with this class.

ADAPTIVE On the Adaptive tab, Set the Test Limit. A value of 0 means there is no limit.

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Select the modules you would like to set for the class. We show all the curriculums for the current provider level.


For more detail on creating courses, see the PlatinumEd School Admin manual

MANAGING USERS

On the home page as a School Administrator for EMSTesting you will see Current Administrators, Current Medical Directors and Current Instructors listed on the left column of the page.

To add any of these roles, click the corresponding button to add these user roles.

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MANAGING ADMINISTRATORS Click the Add Administrator button.

Add New Administrator

If the users email is already in our system you can find that person by typing in their email and clicking the Find button. If the system finds that person in our database the first and last name will automatically populate.

If the users email is not in our system you will be directed to setup the person by providing their email, name and password.

Click the Administrator Access Enabled checkbox to enable the person as an administrator.

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You will be automatically redirected to your School Administrator home page where you will see the new administrator added to your school.

Edit Administrator

Expand out the new user you just created and click the Edit Admin button to edit or assume the users identity.

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Assume User’s Identity

To assume the user’s identity, click the Login As tab then click the Assume Identity button. You will be brought to that user’s account home page.

MANAGE INSTRUCTORS Click the Add Instructor button.

Add New Instructor


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Click the Instructor Account Enabled checkbox to enable the person as an instructor.


You will be automatically redirected to your School Administrator home page where you will see the new instructor added to your school.

Edit Instructor

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Expand out the new user you just created and click the Edit Instructor button to edit or assume the users identity.

You have the ability to edit the Instructor Account access of the user by unclicking the checked box.



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MANAGE MEDICAL DIRECTORS Click the Add Medical Director button.

Add New Medical Director



Click the Medical Director Account Enabled checkbox to enable the person as a director.


You will be automatically redirected to your School Administrator home page where you will see the new director added to your school.

Edit Medical Director

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Expand out the new user you just created and click the Edit Director button to edit or assume the users identity.

You have the ability to edit the Director Account access of the user by unclicking the checked box.



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REPORTS To view reports as a School Administrator, click on the Reports link in the top menu. You can also download the respective document for your objectives or print the report pages.

You will see the role and school name in the dropdown. Click on the report for the role you would like to review.

You will then need to select your Provider Level and Curriculum. Then click the Run Report button.

You will see 2 tabs, the Static Test Report and the Adaptive Report tabs. The static test report will show all your test results in EMSTesting.com. The adaptive report tab will show you all your adaptive tests results (formerly in EMSCat.com).

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STATIC TEST REPORT Class Breakdown The Class Breakdown section of the reports will show you more detailed information about your classes. Click the View link to run your reporting by the class.

Once you have run your class report by clicking the View link, you will see 2 tabs. The class Static Test Report and the class Adaptive Report.

Static Test/Adaptive Report (Class) Under the Static Test Report tab for a class, you will see Summative Results, the Student Breakdown, additional Chart information and additional Detailed Results just for your class.

Click on the View link next to a student to view results for a particular student.

Static Test/Adaptive Report (Student) You will see the student name for the results you are viewing at the top of the page in the red header. To switch to another student in the class, click the dropdown.

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Charts The Charts section of reporting will show you a graph with an average score per module.

You can hover over each module to see the actual score percentage.

Detailed Results The Detailed Results section will show you in-depth information by Curriculum Level. Click on the arrows to expand and collapse the information.

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ADAPTIVE REPORT The adaptive report tab shows you all adaptive testing for your school by provider level and curriculum. Note: Adaptive test results change on a day to day basis based on other participant’s results.

Summative Results The summative results section shows you an overall summary of adaptive tests for your school.

Charts The Overall Indication chart shows you an overall indication for success by module. The next three charts contain a detailed breakdown for each of the key indicators summarized in the first chart. These key indicators are:

Percentile Ranking Greater Than 51% Average Score Greater Than 65% Highest Difficulty Achieved Greater Than .60

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Curriculum Breakdown The curriculum breakdown section shows you in-depth information by Curriculum Level. Click on the arrows to expand and collapse the information.

MEDICAL DIRECTOR REVIEW REPORT The Medical Director Review Report will show all tests that your medical director role(s) have reviewed in the system, along with their Review Status and Review Notes.

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If you have disabled any Medical Directors and you would like to see their reviews, click the Include Disabled Medical Directors checkbox on the top right corner. Click the Print button to print the report.

SENDING MESSAGES From your home screen click the New Message button in the bottom right hand corner.

Click the dropdown to select a recipient. Complete the subject field, click "Important" if you want others to see the message as important, then type your message.

Click the Send button.

If you would like to view all messages you have sent and received, click the All Messages link in the footer of your Messages area on your School dashboard.

REQUEST HELP Click the Request Help link to contact our Customer Support Team with any questions you may have about your School or EMSTesting.com.

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