Teachers
How do I open the test to a single student?
Written by the TestFLE team.
In short
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.
Who this is for, and what you need first
- Who this is for
- Teachers who have the right to open tests, and school administrators.
- What you need first
- A student in one of your classes.
- The right to open tests, given by your school’s administrator.
The steps
- In the sidebar, open “Home”, then the “My students” tab.
- On the student’s row, click the three dots.
- Click “Open a one-time attempt…” for the student to take the test once, or “Open unlimited…” for them to take it as many times as needed.
- Under “Start”, choose “Now” or “At a date”, then the day and the time.
- Under “End”, choose “At a date” or “No end”.
- Choose the mode: lightning or precise.
- Choose the setting: in person or remote.
- Tick “Show the button to skip a question” if the student may skip a question. Leave the box empty so that they answer every question.
- Reread the summary sentence at the bottom of the window, then click “Open”.
To open the test to several students at once, tick their boxes in the table. A bar appears at the bottom, with the same actions: “Open a one-time attempt…” and “Open unlimited…”. The window, its settings and its summary are the same; each student gets their own opening. The “Calendar” also offers “Open an attempt…”, where you name the students before you fill in the window. This route only creates one-time attempts.
The choices to make
- One-time or unlimited attempt. A one-time attempt lets the student take the test once. An unlimited attempt lets them take it as many times as needed, and never runs out. The “Calendar” only offers the one-time attempt.
- The start. “Now” is the default choice: the student can start straight away. “At a date” offers a day and a time, which cannot already be in the past.
- The end. For a one-time attempt, “At a date” is offered by default, on the same day, one hour after the next full hour. For an unlimited attempt, “No end” is. At the end time, the student can no longer start the test; a test already started is not stopped, however. With no end, the opening runs until you close it or, for a one-time attempt, until the student has taken their test.
- The mode. Lightning mode, offered by default, limits each question to one minute and the test to thirty-five minutes. Precise mode does not time the questions and, for an individual opening, does not stop at the end time (only a class session stops a test in precise mode). Lightning or precise helps you choose.
- The setting. For an individual opening, the window offers “In person” by default. In person, a student who leaves the page has their test blocked until you unblock them. For a student who takes the test at home, choose “Remote”: they resume on their own if they leave the page, and their exit is recorded in the live view.
- The button to skip a question. The box is unticked by default. If you tick it, a skipped question counts as a wrong answer.
The summary sentence says exactly what you are opening, for example “The student will be able to take the test once, from now until … at …”. For several students, it becomes “Each of the … students will be able to take the test once, …”.
Going further
Understanding the settings and special cases
During a class session, the session is what counts
When a session of the student’s class is under way, it is the session that applies to them, whatever their individual openings. The window reminds you of it: “If a class session takes place in the meantime, the session is what counts.”
Take Phoque Indigo, a student in CE1 Bleuets, who can take the test at any time thanks to an unlimited opening. During the CE1 Bleuets session, they take the test only once, with the mode, the setting and the button of the session. Before and after, their unlimited opening applies again.
The individual opening is therefore mostly useful for a student who is absent from the session, for another date or for a catch-up. The row menu reminds you of it when the student takes the test with their class: “For another date: during the class session, the session is what counts.” If the student is marked absent, they cannot start the test during their class session, even with an individual opening (scheduling a session).
When is a one-time attempt used up?
A one-time attempt is used up when the student finishes their test with at least fifteen answers: the test is then published, even if the global level could not be computed. It is not used up at the start. A cancelled test does not use it up. Nor does a test stopped before fifteen answers: the level is not calculated, and the student can start again under the same opening.
Once the attempt is used up, the “Access” column shows “Taken on …”. The student can no longer start the test under this opening. For them to take it again, open a new attempt for them.
An attempt made with the class can also use up an individual opening. If the one-time opening of Colibri Corail covers the moment when their class takes the test, the attempt made with the class also uses up this opening. An unlimited opening, for its part, is never used up.
Where to read an opening
In the table, the “Access” column changes to “Can take the test, until” followed by the end time, or to “Can take the test, unlimited” (reading the Access column). Before the start, it says “Planned from … to …, one-time”.
The “Calendar” draws the openings that have an end. An unlimited opening with no end does not appear there, and the “Live” entry never follows it: it runs all the time and is read in the “Access” column.
Closing an opening
In the row menu, “Close their openings” appears when the student has an individual opening that is under way or upcoming. An upcoming opening is cancelled. An opening under way stops at once, and the student can no longer start the test. A test already started is not cancelled. For several ticked students, the bar offers “Close their openings” when each of them has an opening to close.
To reopen, simply open a new attempt. To change the times of an opening without closing it, open it from the “Calendar” (reading the calendar).
A student who takes the test at home
The choice of setting is not remembered: each individual opening has its own, and the window offers “In person” every time. If you open the test to a student who takes it at home, choose “Remote” at each opening. Otherwise, any exit from the page blocks their test, and they have to wait for you to unblock them. Taking the test at home describes what the student and their parents experience.
If the opening is refused
- The window refuses a start in the past (“The start is in the past: a session is scheduled ahead.”). You can make the opening start straight away with “Now”, but not earlier.
- It refuses an end in the past (“The end is in the past.”).
- The end must come after the start (“The closing time must be after the opening time.”).
- The day and the time are required when you choose “At a date” (“Fill in the date and time.”).
- When you open the test to several students, all of them must belong to your classes. If a single one is outside your scope (“This student is outside your scope.”), no opening is created.
Related articles
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- How do I take the test at home?At home, the child takes the test on their own, on a connected device with sound, when the teacher has opened it as “Remote”. The parent helps them sign in and get started, without ever answering for them.