Intended Audience

This user guide is intended for state-, region-, district-, and campus-level users who manage the assessment effort. You should be familiar with the concepts of test eligibility, test attributes and accommodations, and general management of user accounts for an enterprise-wide system.

To use TIDE, you need to be familiar with using a web browser to retrieve data and with filling out web forms. If you want to use the file upload and download features, you also need to be familiar with using a spreadsheet application and working with comma-separated value (CSV) files.