Comprehensive Cloud-Based Educational Software Platform and Related Professional Services

The Vendor is required to provide a comprehensive cloud-based educational software platform and related professional services designed to support:
• Assessment administration and assessment content;
• Benchmarking and analytics;
• MTSS management and intervention tracking;
• Data warehousing and reporting;
• Coaching and consulting;
• Professional development;
• AI component for working with student data, benchmarking and MTSS
• Parent engagement and communication; and
• Alignment to the standards.
- Cloud-Based Educational Software Platform
• Be fully cloud-based/SaaS;
• Be accessible through standard web browsers;
• Provide role-based access permissions;
• Support district-level, school-level, teacher-level, parent level, and student-level access;
• Meet all applicable student data privacy and security requirements;
• Include ongoing software updates and maintenance; and
• Provide technical support services.
- Standards-aligned assessment content - Provide norm referenced, standards based, benchmarks that can be used as a tool to monitor student learning;
- Subject-area benchmark assessments
- Custom assessment creation capabilities
• Allow the creation of district, school, teacher-created and customized benchmark tests, which correlate to Standards;
• Allow authors to create timed or un-timed tests;
• Allow author to determine the number of items per assessment;
- Assessment scheduling and administration tools;
• Supports online scheduling and rescheduling of assessments via an online calendar;
• Supports online delivery to students and scoring of assessments;
• Allows assessments to be scheduled to individual students;
• Flag an assessment as classroom, interim/benchmark, or summative assessment;
• Create, manage, and score different versions of the same test;
• Allows continuous and automatic saving of student responses during an assessment;
• Provides for limiting access to an assessment within date limits
• Support the ability for students taking the online assessment to change answers for each section of the assessment before submitting the test; and
• Supports direct data entry of student results for off-line testing.
- Allow for company to input district created and customized benchmark tests directly into the system;
- Allow for import and modification of tests acquired from publishers based on appropriate licensing;
- Assessment Item Presentation
• Allows random presentation of items;
• Supports the ability for students taking the online assessment to randomly answer questions;
• Requires students taking the online assessment to answer a specific question before going to the next question; and
• Provides the option to shuffle choices in lists each time answer options are presented.
• Allow staff to create items by copying and pasting from word processing documents or other files;
• Allow authors with no HTML knowledge to create/add items;
• Use external graphics software packages for the construction of assessment items;
• Allow question text to be enhanced with underline, bold, italics, superscripts, subscripts, fractions, etc.
• Allow for mathematical equations, graphics editors, and other equation editing capabilities;
• Include source, copyright designation, and permission documentation for assessment items and their prompts;
• Prohibit the modification of an item if copyrighted;
• Keep all assessment items linked to passages grouped together and presented in the same order (if desired); and
• Track individual questions to specific units, objectives, activities, pacing guide, or instructional focus calendar.