Available Accommodations

Available Accommodations through CERT or extensions in Google Chrome.

• Extended Time: Time and one-half (1.5x), double (2x) or triple (3x) time. 
• Reader: The Google Extension Read and Write Chrome. 
• Calculator: 4 function and Desmos
• Spanish Audio on Study Hall Lessons.
• Accommodations should be determined in alignment with the students' Individualized Education Plan/Program (IEP), 504, or Program Service Plan (PSP).  It is recommended that students only receive accommodations that would be approved through the ACT or College Board.

In addition, every student has access to the following Tools during their CERT test:

• Navigation Bar: details the number of items on the subject test, allows students to navigate among assessment questions, and flag questions students would like to review.
• Navigation Buttons: allow students to quickly go to previous and next questions.
• Magnifier: makes a block of text or an image in a graph, chart, picture larger to help you see better.  
• Highlighter: will highlight words and phrases in a test item to help students remember or sort out important points while reading.  
• Line Reader: pulls up a window that emphasizes a single line in a block of text, helping to separate that line from the text around it.
• Answer Eliminator: crosses out answers that students believe are incorrect, helping to narrow down choices.
• Answer Masking hides answers that students believe are incorrect, helping to narrow down choices.
• Online 4-function and Desmos Calculators: are available for CERT's online Math section.  
• Spanish Content Access: is available to selected students and will provide Study Hall Lessons in Spanish.  
• Annotation Features (DSAT ONLY): allows students to highlight, underline and/or make notes about a selected section of the assessment.

Students can also select the HIDE button on the timer to stop seeing the timer countdown on their screen.  

To access tools, students will click Tools drop-down and select the desired feature(s). 

 

Reader

For a Reader, we recommend the Google extension called Read and Write Chrome. It's free for schools and works well with CERT! 

• Download the Read and Write Chrome Extension
• Select the puzzle piece or open the extension
• The toolbar will appear
• Make sure to select the hover over text bubble 
• Select the text to read and use the space bar or play/pause/stop buttons to advance the reader
• Language settings can be adjusted (pace, language, etc.) in tool bar using the ... button

*CERT does not service Read and Write Chrome as it is a third-party app.

Calculator

CERT offers a built-in 4 function and Desmos calculator for the math section on each assessment for every student.  If your student requires a hand-held calculator per their IEP/504/PSP,  please follow those documents.

Spanish Content Access

CERT offers the Study Hall Lessons in Spanish.  You can provide this option to individual students or to all students. 

TO ENABLE FOR ALL STUDENTS:
Select Spanish Content Access on the left-hand side of the screen on the Students tab. T oggle to Enabled and select Update Spanish Content Access*. 

*Make note of the override individual student settings option.  This will enable/disable for all students, regardless of the previous settings.  At the start of the year, you can choose to override and then disable all students to reset the settings.  Then you can enable only students who need access for that year.

 

TO ONLY ENABLE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT ACCOUNTS: 

1. Search the student's name

2. Select the student

3. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and enable Spanish Content Access.  Refer to the picture below. 

4. Update Student to save changes.

 

 

CLOSED CAPTIONING/SUBTITLES

For closed captioning/subtitles to appear in CERT videos, you can use the accessibility features on the device or in the browser. 

In Chrome, select the 3 dots in the upper right-hand corner of the browser.

1. From the drop-down menu, Choose Settings.  
2. On the left-hand side of the page, choose Accessibility.
3. Find Live Captions and Toggle On to enable.
4. The default language is English.  This can be changed by selecting Add Languages.  Chrome will Automatically Download all needed files.  
5. A movable window* will appear for any audio/video files.  Captions will automatically generate when the user hits play.

*The window can be moved and expanded. The font can be adjusted in the Accessibility Menu on Chrome within Caption Preferences.