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Help for teachers
Opening a TestFLE test for a class or a student, monitoring a session live, reading results and producing reports.
Getting started
- What will I find in my teacher area?The sidebar of the teacher area leads to Home, Profile, Notifications and the Calendar, then to other entries depending on the moment and the school. Home brings together your students, your classes and the important alerts.
- How do I change my password or the screen language?A teacher changes their password in the “Profile” window of the sidebar: at least 12 characters, without your username or your email address. You choose the screen language with the four flags in the footer.
- What are the Notifications bell and the Important alerts for?The “Notifications” bell lists the events in your classes and the students whose level is dropping, and the “Important alerts” column on the Home page adds the live test incidents. These are signals to check in class, not a judgement on a student.
- Why don’t I have the buttons to open a test?Without the right to open tests, you see the state of your students and your classes, but no longer the buttons that schedule, open or close a test. Your school’s administrator can grant it to you in your details.
Students and classes
- How do I find a student and read the Access column?In the “My students” tab of the home page, search for a student by name, reference, email or class, then filter the list. The “Access” column says in one sentence what the student can do with the test: “Can take the test”, “Blocked”, “Absent” or “Nothing planned”.
- What should I do if a student has forgotten their password?To reset the password of a student in your classes, open the three-dot menu on their row in “My students”, then choose “Reset password”. The student then goes back through “First connection” to choose a new one, and their open sessions are closed.
- How do I declare a student a non-reader and what does this setting change?For a child who cannot read yet, open their three-dot menu in “My students” and set “Non-reader” to “Yes”: they will take the no-reading form of the test. The setting applies from the next test and can be undone at any time by going back to “No”.
- How do I see what is open to a student and open something else for them?The “What is open to” window, followed by the student’s name, brings together their library materials, their Practice assignments and their writing prompts. Open it with “What is open to them”, in the menu on their row or on their sheet; it does not concern the placement test.
- Which question bank will my students take, and how do I change it?A student takes the bank the administrator has assigned to them for their next test, if there is one; otherwise their class’s bank or, failing that, the school’s default bank. To change a class’s bank, open its menu in “My classes” and click “Change the bank…”.
Opening a test
- How do I schedule a test session for a class?A class session opens the TestFLE placement test to a whole class, one attempt per student, at set times. You schedule it from the “My classes” tab or from the “Calendar”, choosing the day, the times, the mode and the setting.
- How do I open the test to a single student?From the three dots on a student’s row in “My students”, choose “Open a one-time attempt…” or “Open unlimited…”, then the start, the end, the mode and the setting. For a student who takes the test at home, choose “Remote”: the window offers “In person” by default.
- Which settings should I choose: lightning or precise, in person or remote?The mode sets the timer: in lightning mode, one minute per question and 35 minutes at most; in precise mode, no question is timed. The setting decides what happens when the student leaves the page: choose “Remote” for a student who takes the test at home.
- What does the student see during the test, and how do I project the instructions to the class?The student reads a welcome screen and its how-it-works guide, then answers one question at a time, with four buttons. To show this screen to the class without starting a test, click “Project the test instructions”, on the “What is happening now” page, which the “Live” entry opens from thirty minutes before the session.
- How do I read the calendar and add a session to my own calendar?The “Calendar” entry in the sidebar shows, week by week, your class sessions and your students’ individual openings. Click a block, then “Add to my calendar”, to put that session in Google, Outlook or iCal.
Live monitoring
- How do I follow students live while they take the test?The “What is happening now” page shows where each student in a class session or a one-time attempt stands, and the incidents to handle. You open it from the “Live” entry in the sidebar, visible thirty minutes before the session starts and thirty minutes after it ends.
- What should I do if a student is blocked during the test?In person, a student who leaves the test page has their test blocked, and only the teacher can unblock it. Click “Unsuspend” in the incidents on the home page, in the live view or in the student’s menu; without the right to open tests, only the home page offers it.
- How do I cancel or end a student’s test in progress?Cancelling a student’s test in progress produces no result and keeps their attempt; ending it with at least fifteen answers publishes the test and uses up the attempt, but the global level may be missing. “Cancel test” is in the live view, on the home page and in the student’s menu; “End the test”, in the live view and on the session page.
- How do I read a class session report?A class session report shows, for each student, whether they are done with their level, absent, not started or “Not computable”. Open it with “View the session report”, in the class menu or in the “Calendar”.
Results and reports
- What will I find in a student’s sheet?A student’s sheet brings together their identity, their test access and their results in four tabs, two of which depend on the Practice option. Click the student’s row in “My students”, or choose “Open the student’s sheet” in their menu.
- How do I read a student’s report (level, radar, leads)?You read a student’s report in the “CEFR results” tab of their sheet, opened from “My students”. It gives the global level as a band, the radar of the seven skills (“measured”, “indicative” or “not assessed”) and leads to check in class.
- How do I generate a PDF report for a family?The learning report is a three-page PDF, generated from “My students” or from the student’s sheet, in the language of your choice. The platform sends no email: you download the PDF and hand it to the family yourself.
Practice
- How do I create or import a Practice question bank?A Practice bank is your own set of questions, created by hand with “Create a bank” or imported from a spreadsheet with “Import a bank”. It starts as a draft, holds 30 questions at most and needs 10 to be activated.
- How do I activate, share or archive a Practice bank?In the editor of a Practice bank, “Activate” makes it assignable once it has 10 questions, and “Share” offers a copy of it to your colleagues in the school. “Switch back to draft” takes it out of service without deleting anything, and only a school administrator can archive it.
- How do I assign a Practice bank and follow students’ attempts?To assign an active bank, open it in “Practice”, click “Assign”, choose a class or a student, then set the attempts, the mode and the feedback. The “Assignments” page then shows who has finished, the marks out of 20 and the attempts to unblock.
Writing tasks
- How do I create a writing prompt and assign it?In “Practice”, then “Writing tasks”, you create a prompt, then you assign it to one student, several students or a class. You then read and correct each copy yourself: the platform does no automatic analysis of it.
- How do I correct a student’s copy, then ask them to revise it?From a prompt in “Writing tasks” or from the student’s sheet, “Correct” opens the copy: you annotate, choose an assessment and publish. Correction is manual, with no AI; “Publish and ask for a revision” sends the copy back to the student, three versions at most.
The library
- How do I upload a material (PDF, image, audio, video) and organise it?In “Library”, “Upload” adds a PDF (50 MB), an image (20 MB), an audio file (200 MB) or a video (500 MB) to “My materials”. You organise it in folders, rename it or move it; “Delete” erases it from the server and closes it to students.
- How do I share a material with my students and see who has read it?In “Library”, the “Share with students” icon opens a material, straight away, to chosen students or to a class. “Tracking and student notes” shows which students have read it and what they have noted; “Full screen” projects the material in class.
- How do I create a card deck for my students?In “My materials”, “New card deck” creates a deck of cards to flip or a picture to explore. You add texts, images and sounds to it, then you share it with students or link it to a material, with no mark.