In terms of a basic breakdown of the proctoring day, and to help answer some questions:

• What's new for 2025...
  • Cognia replaced Pearson.
  • "MCAS" app replaced "TestNav" app.
  • Classes/Sessions require session passwords in addition to students' user/pass.
  • Proctors will need to use proctor passwords (visible in Cognia) for restarting student tests.
  • Students will be testing with their school-issued chromebooks whenever possible. The testing chromebooks will be available for those who need it, but students should bring their own charged chromebook for testing.
• If you are listed as PROCTOR 1, you'll need to grab your MCAS box from the Blue Gym. One of us is usually up there by 6:45AM, so if we're there, we can sign out your box to you as early as you want it. Come early... avoid the rush.
• If you are listed as PROCTOR 2, you'll want to make sure your room is set up and ready for students to test. Be sure any related subject-matter information is covered or removed from walls and desks/chairs are set up for testing.
• Students should use the chromebook provided to them for their personal school use unless we let staff know that this is not appropriate for a particular test. Additional chromebooks will be available for students who do not bring a charged chromebook to the test. Check to make sure student chromebooks are at least half charged and encourage students to launch the "MCAS" app, which is in the same location as the older TestNav app. The MCAS app has REPLACED the TestNav app.
• If you are the only proctor in the room to start the day, please pick up your box from the blue gym, and then set your classroom up according to the PROCTOR 2 instructions.
• Direct a browser on YOUR computer to Staff MCAS Launcher for easy access to Cognia and to the online attendance spreadsheet. You'll also want to log into Cognia in another browser tab to be sure you're all set in the event you need to help a student with a test issue. You'll need to give students the session code for your class/group. I'll try to put this session code in a column on the attendance sheet each day, but you need to be able to retrieve/check this code in Cognia in case there are questions/difficulties.
• Encourage students in hallways to find their classrooms by 7:50AM. The goal is to have all present students seated and to have all proctors be reading the script (which will be excerpted into stapled sheets from the TAM for you on both days) by 8:05AM, and to have students testing by 8:10AM. Students arriving after approximately 8:15 will test in the blue gym, so please encourage testers to be on time!
• As soon as your students are testing, please take attendance for your classroom in the online attendance spreadsheet linked from the Staff MCAS Launcher. It will be sorted by session name (which contains room numbers), so you'll want to mark your room's students Present or Absent with the little down arrow in the dropdown attendance column. We will limit late students, but if a student is sent to your class after you have taken attendance, please update your attendance. Feel free to look at this attendance sheet early and to test your permissions to ensure it makes sense and is working properly for you.
• If you are stuck at any point on a testing day, please reach out to the admin on your floor... you can just wave them down from the doorway of your room. I will also be walking around the blue side to help with any technical issues.
• If you have the final shift in a classroom, testing tickets, scrap paper and other testing materials for completed students go back in your box for transport to the blue gym. If any chromebooks were used from the carts (as opposed to the students' assigned chromebooks), they should be neatly stacked on the teacher desk in your testing room. For students requiring more time to complete a session, please make sure that ALL students who are not finished close their chromebooks on their used scrap paper AND testing ticket; we will have pencils and erasers in the blue gym, so any of those materials can go right into the box being returned.
• Students who HAVE COMPLETED the exam will be dismissed at 10:40 (please be sure to check that finished students have SUBMITTED THEIR WORK AND LOGGED OUT OF THE MCAS APP!!!), and all students who need extra time must walk WITH YOU to the Blue Gym with their chromebook AND testing ticket AND scrap paper (remember that the testing ticket and used scrap paper should be closed within the chromebook). If students are using a word-to-word dictionary, they should also bring this with them. You will be checking in your MCAS box in the blue gym and they will finish testing in the blue gym after you check in the students and your MCAS box.
• Please note that it is important that students continue testing on the same chromebook they start testing on. It is also critical that students charge their chromebooks for each day of testing.