Publish a Test for Online Administration

To administer your test to students online, you must publish it to the Test Administration Site. You can administer any test you publish, and you can share the test with other Authoring users to let them administer it as well. You cannot make changes to a test or its items once you publish it, although you can copy it and edit the copy. Every test gets published from the test builder, whether you generated it automatically or built it manually.

1.To publish a test to the TA Site, first save any changes to the test items.

2.Select Publish Test in the toolbar.

a.If a validation error message appears, review the message and fix the issue as needed. For an overview of validation errors, refer to Table 1 at the bottom of this section.

3.A window pops up, asking you to verify which tools will be turned on for the test. You may select options from the available dropdowns and toggles and then select Publish Test.

4.In the confirmation message that appears, select OK. The test status will change to Published, as will the status of each item on the test. Please note, this action cannot be reversed.

• A test window may be automatically created for the test when you publish it. This test window determines when it will be available for administration. You can edit the window from the Tests tab.
• You can share tests with other educators for administration purposes.
• After publishing a test, you can add it to your test sessions by selecting it from the Select Tests tab in the TA Site. The Select Tests tab allows you to filter and search for a specific test based on the subject and grade properties selected for it in Authoring. You can administer your own tests and tests that other users shared with you. Tests created in Authoring have unlimited test opportunities in the TA Site.
  • For more information about administering tests, refer to the Test Administration User Guide.

Table 1 explains how to resolve the validation errors that may appear.

Table 1: Possible Validation Errors in a Test

Validation Error	How to Fix This Error
You cannot publish items that use the template's sample content. You must make some changes to this item	This error occurs when you create a new item from a template but you do not make any edits to the item’s default content. To fix this, select Edit in the toolbar for the item and update the content so that it is not identical to that of the sample content.
You must link at least one item to this item set.	This error occurs when an item set is added to the test but no items are linked to the item set. To fix this, select Add Item to Passage directly below the item set thumbnail to create a linked item.
You do not have permission to publish this item	This error occurs when you have added a shared item that you do not have permission to publish. To fix this, you must remove the item from the test. If you still wish to add an item like this to this test, you should create a copy of the shared item.
Item missing required property	This error occurs when an item on the test is missing a required property. To fix this, make sure you select a value for all properties labeled as required in the Item Properties panel for each item.
Item needs translation update.	This error occurs when a translation was entered for an item, and then the item’s original content was updated but the translated content wasn’t. To fix this issue, access the translation editor for the item and revise the translated content as needed.