What are Designated Supports?
.Designated supports for the Smarter Balanced assessments are those features that are available for use by any student for whom the need has been indicated by a team of educators. They are not modifications and not meant for exclusively for students on an IEP.
Designated Supports include:
For a full definition of designated supports and complete description and recommended use of the supports, go to page 12 of this manual.
Designated Supports include:
- Scribe - Alternate to Speech-to-Text
- Read Aloud (Direction - Not Reading Passages)
- Separate Setting
- Turn Off Universal tools
- Color Contrast—English (Video; 1:00)
- Masking—English (Video; 1:57)
- Mouse Pointer—English (Video; 1:24)
- Stacked Translations and Translated Test Directions—English (Video; 1:44)
- Streamline—English (Video; 1:27)
- Translation Glossary—English (Video; 1:26)
- Text-to-Speech (Directions - Not Reading Passages)—English (Video; 2:37)
For a full definition of designated supports and complete description and recommended use of the supports, go to page 12 of this manual.