Tap the mCLASS app shortcut on your device’s Home screen. If you are prompted, log in to mCLASS. (See the mCLASS App Setup Help for instructions on setting up the app and logging in.)

Select a school or classes, if necessary. The School Selection screen displays only if you assess at multiple schools. The Class Selection screen displays if you have more than 150 students in your classes, as the mCLASS app syncs up to 150 students at a time. (Make sure to select your demo class on the Class Selection screen).

The mCLASS dashboard opens.
For more details about the mCLASS dashboard, tap Menu on the upper left of the purple navigation bar. In the modal that displays, tap the Help link for the assessment you are administering.

The Reading dashboard displays when you open the mCLASS dashboard. Tap Español to open the Spanish assessment dashboard. (Note: the Español assessments are available only if your institution is licensed to them.)

Tap the Benchmark button. To practice progress monitoring (PM), tap the Progress button.

Select your demo class from the Class List at the right of the purple top navigation bar.
If the demo class does not display, tap Menu in the upper-left corner to open the Menu and tap Class Selection to return to the Class Selection screen and change classes.

Each demo class has 13 students; at least one student in kindergarten through Grade 6.

Scroll down to the Student List and find the student you want to assess (the measures available vary by grade; choose the student based on the measures you want to practice).

Tap the student’s name.

The Student File expands to show the list of assessments for the student.

To begin an assessment, find the measure you want to assess and tap Assess or Evaluar in any time of year (TOY) column. Note: some measures are not required, and display the Optional icon, Optativa icon, or Recomendada icon.
Note: The Assess icon is disabled for measures with gating rules until the student is assessed with the prerequisite gating measure (note that the gating measure may come after other measures in the list, depending on the measure and the student’s grade). For more details on gating rules, see the Help for the measure you are assessing (note that not all measures have gating rules).

The measure screen displays.

Read the Reminders and the Instructions carefully, then proceed to the assessment.

Detailed instructions for administering and scoring are provided in the Administration and Scoring section of the Help for each measure (links available in the mCLASS dashboard Menu).

To begin an assessment, find the measure you want to assess in the list of recommended measures and tap Assess or Evaluar. The Assess icon displays in the Assess column for each recommended PM measure. You can also tap the link in the Form column to select a different grade level and/or form number.

If the measure you want to assess is not displayed, tap the All Measures list to view all PM assessments. Tap a measure name and select a grade level and form. Tap OK to start assessment.

Read the Reminders and the Instructions carefully, then proceed to the assessment.

Detailed instructions for administering and scoring are provided in the Administration and Scoring section of the Help for each measure (links available in the mCLASS dashboard Menu).

When you are finished with the assessment, tap Done or Salir.

The mCLASS dashboard displays the results of the measure you administered.

You can tap the result to review the results and invalidate the measure, if necessary.
You may want to invalidate the measure to practice again with the same student and assessment form.

Navigate to mCLASS Home and click the Online Assessment Management tile.

The OAM page opens to the Setup tab.

Select your demo class from the Class/Group list.

Select English or Spanish. (Note: the Assessment Language buttons are available only if your institution is licensed to assessments in both Spanish and English.)

To assign online assessments to your demo students, locate the rows of the students you want to assign, then locate the columns of the assessments you want them to take. Select the corresponding boxes of each assessment for each demo student. When you select the box for an assessment in a student’s row, it displays a check mark.

You can also assign an assessment to all students in the demo class by selecting the assessment box in the All Students row at the top of the assessment table. When you select the box in the All Students row for an assessment, it displays a check mark. The box displays a horizontal line if one or more students’ boxes in the assessment column are selected, but not all.

If you only wish to preview one assessment, assign only that assessment to the demo student.

You will need to use demo students from different grades if you want to take assessments that are available to different grade levels.

Keep in mind that the measures are presented in a designated order in the student platform.

If you assign more than one assessment to a student, you will need to take all of the assigned measures in the order presented.

When you are finished assigning assessments, click Log Out at the upper right of the page.

After you log out of your staff account, you can navigate to the student assessment platform and use the credentials provided on the OAM page to log in as a demo student.

In the Amplify Username/Password column at the far right of the Setup table, locate the username and password of the student.

Click the Copy icon to the right of a demo student’s username and password to copy the credentials to the clipboard.

A message displays confirming that you have copied the credentials. You can paste the copied credentials into a document such as a notepad file to refer to when you log in as the demo student.

In the Amplify Username/Password column at the far right of the Setup table, click the Get all logins list.

Select one of the options from the list to obtain a list of demo student credentials:

Use the credentials you generated earlier to log in as one of your demo students.

Plug in and put on your headphones, if necessary.

On the Welcome screen, click the green Start button to enter the assessment portal and follow the instructions given by the owl avatar to take the assessment.

When you are finished taking the assessment, click the door (Log Out) icon at the upper right of the window to log the demo student out of the portal. Click Log Out in the box that displays.