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For Educators: How to Manage Online Assessments (FOSSmap)

For Educators: How to Manage Online Assessments (FOSSmap)

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Getting Started with FOSSmap

FOSSmap is the online component of the FOSS Assessment System that allows students, grades 3-8, to take assessments online for FOSS Next Generation Edition, Third Edition, Texas Edition, and Middle School Second Edition modules. It allows teachers to analyze the test results in an easy and efficient way, to provide feedback to students, plan next instructional steps, and to report progress to caregivers.

Teachers can access FOSSmap through a link on each module. A module must first be activated onto a teacher's FOSSweb account before it can be accessed through FOSSmap. Scheduling assessments and providing access for students requires creation of a class with individual student accounts. To learn more about the system and how to use it, please view the Walk-through video gallery or download the quickstart guides for FOSSmap:

  • Accessing FOSSmap & Assigning Assessments (video/ Quickstart Guide)
  • Students Taking FOSSmap Assessments (Quickstart Guide)
  • Coding FOSSmap Assessments (video/Quickstart Guide)
  • FOSSmap Reporting (Quickstart Guide)

What grades use the online assessment?

The online assessment system, FOSSmap, is available to grades 3-8.

How do I access FOSSmap?

Teachers can access FOSSmap through a link on each module. Scheduling assessments and providing access for students requires creation of a class with individual student accounts. To learn more about the system and how to use it, please view the Walk-through video or download the Quickstart Guide.

Video: Accessing FOSSmap & Assigning Assessments
PDF: FOSSmap Quickstart Guide for Accessing FOSSmap & Assigning Assessments
How do I assign assessments to my students? Why can't I find my students in FOSSmap?

The use of FOSSmap requires an account with entitled modules (modules for which you have entered access codes) and a class with individual student accounts. The account can be a district-administered account or a self-registered teacher account. If you enter FOSSmap without having a class with individual student accounts, you will not be able to assign any assessments.

View the Walk-through Videos or download the Quickstart PDFs to learn how to create a class with individual accounts in FOSSweb or assign assessments in FOSSmap.

Video: Creating a Class with Individual Accounts
PDF: Creating a Class with Individual Accounts
Video: Accessing FOSSmap & Assigning Assessments
PDF: FOSSmap Quickstart Guide for Accessing FOSSmap & Assigning Assessments

How do I view the results of an assessment? (Coding and reports)

In order to view results of an assessment, you need to finish coding items that are not automatically coded in the FOSSmap system once students submit their results.

Learn more about coding assessments and reporting by viewing the linked Walk-through Videos and/or using the Quickstart Guide PDFs.

Video: Coding Assessments in FOSSmap
PDF: FOSSmap Quickstart Guide for Coding Assessments
PDF: FOSSmap Quickstart Guide for Reporting

How do I record data from embedded assessments?

FOSSmap allows teachers to quickly record results of the FOSS embedded (formative) assessment opportunities listed in the Investigations Guide. Embedded assessment entry is done through the Data Locker on FOSSmap.



You can learn how to enter data by using the Quickstart Guide:

PDF: FOSSmap Quickstart Guide for Using the Data Locker for Embedded Assessments

What accommodations can be made in the online assessments for my students?

There are a number of tools that are available to students as a default: Zoom in/out; Contrast and a Line Reader. Audio can be added to assessments when you assign the assessment. To learn more, view the Quickstart PDF.