TEKSready

In this training, you will learn how to access TEKSready in TAG.
You can use it to build beginning-of-year and end-of-year assessments for your
district's TIA Student Growth measures.
In this video, we'll show you where to find this content, how your district gets
access, and how to copy, edit, and deliver these assessments to students.
Before we get started, here are a few important things to understand.
TEKSready items are not included with your TAG subscription. Both are purchased
separately.
This item bank is generally more limited, and only a handful of people at your
school will have access. It's more commonly used by Admins because the
assessments relate to student growth and TIA measures for teachers.
Your district must maintain an active, renewed license each year to keep access
to the content you create. If not renewed, you lose access to that item bank,
and to any copies your team has created from it.
If your school would like to purchase the TEKSready item bank, please reach out
to us directly. It requires a form to initiate the contract process because it
requires a different software license agreement than the other applications
within DMAC.
Everything starts in TAG.
Under Local Assessment, open TAG, then hover over Settings and select Restricted
Content.
This is where your district manages access to TEKSready.
Keep in mind that only a District Administrator can manage these settings.
If you're not the District Admin who was initially granted access to these item
banks, please contact our Helpdesk.
From the Restricted Content screen, select the TEKSready content source from the
dropdown.
The first time you do this, you'll be asked to accept a content agreement
confirming how this content will be used, including for TIA.
A district administrator only has to accept this once per school year, for each
content source.
Once the agreement is accepted, you'll see a list of users in your district.
Click Add next to anyone who needs access, and that content source will appear
for them in TAG.
Keep this list intentionally small.
Access to your pre and post test item banks is typically limited to the handful
of staff who build or administer these assessments, not shared district wide.
If you don't want someone to see the actual test content, simply don't add them
here.
TEKSready gives you prebuilt assessments from Region 10. Use them as is or edit
them. Typically, schools make small adjustments to assessments to qualify for
the District-Built Assessment category in your TIA plan. The TEKSready website
includes blueprints showing item counts and item types available.