Frequently Asked Questions about Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE)
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Frequently Asked Questions about Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE)

What is a roster?

Rosters are groups of students associated with a teacher in a particular school. Rosters typically represent an entire classroom, individual classroom periods, or course subject by grade. They can be created in TIDE for organizational purposes during the test administration. Teachers and Coordinators can view and print out student information by roster from TIDE.  

Do Proctors need to establish a TIDE account before administering the Practice or Training tests?

Students can take the practice or training tests in a proctored test session set up by a test administrator or as guests outside of a proctored test session. All users must have an account in TIDE to set proctored test session.  Individuals creating practice test sessions will use the same username and password to set up the proctored test session as they use to log into TIDE. We encourage anyone who will be administering tests to practice setting up a proctored test session using the practice or training tests so they will have experience with how to do this before administering the summative tests.

What is the difference between a Proctor (TA) and a Teacher (TE)?

Teachers have the ability to manage and upload rosters within TIDE.  These rosters flow into the Centralized Reporting System (CRS) and can be used to organize and group student data.  Within CRS, teachers have the ability to  view summary statistics, participation reports, test completion rates, and score reports, and retrieve student results.

Proctors do not have the ability to manage and upload rosters within TIDE or CRS. 

Both Teachers and Proctors have the ability to view student information.