1. Enter your Login Name or Email and Password.

2. Click Login.

1. Click on the Pending Assessments tab on the Dashboard.

2. Locate the candidate's submission that you would like to assess, and click anywhere on its row to reveal its options. Select Assess.

The work associated with the selected edTPA® part will be displayed on the left side of the screen, and the instrument on the right.

Depending on the submission procedures decided upon at your school, Teacher Candidates could have submitted each part of each task separately, each task separately, and/or the entire portfolio at once.

1. If a submission was made for a whole task OR for the entire portfolio, you will need to click on the Table of Contents menu at the top of the screen to access all of the sections that were submitted.

2. Click on the portfolio page that contains the work that you would like to view.

Repeat these steps as many times as is necessary to view all of the submitted pages.

1. Use the View Full Instrument button to force the instrument into a full-screen mode. Click on the button again to return to the default criterion-by-criterion view.

2. Use the Toggle Instrument button to hide the Assessment Instrument. Click on the button again to unhide the Instrument.

For instructions on using a specific commenting method, select the method below:

1. Select which criterion you would like to assess by using the Select Specific Criteria drop-down menu, or the PREV and NEXT buttons.

Hover your cursor over the performance levels for the criterion to view their descriptions. Once you have decided which performance level will be selected,

2. Click on the Performance Level to select it. Once selected, it will appear in green.

3. Enter a Criterion-Specific comment.

4. Alternatively, use the Comment Suggestions feature. This feature will provide you with previous comments left on this criterion when the same performance level was selected, as well as your most frequent comments across all criteria and instruments.

If you are using the Comment Suggestions feature,

5. Select whether you would like to view Criterion Comments OR Frequent Comments.

6. Use the Arrows to move through the available comments.

7. When you see the comment that you would like to apply, click on it.

The assessment for the criterion is complete when you have selected a performance level and left a criterion-specific comment. In order to move on to the next criterion,

8. Click on the NEXT button.

Repeat Step 6: Assess and Comment on Criteria until all criteria have been assessed and commented on.

Ensuring that the Overall Comments tab is selected,

1. Enter an Overall Comment for the assessment.

Ensuring that the Notify & Release Options tag is selected,

1. Select the Notify options:

• Yes: If you choose to notify the student, an email will be sent to alert them of the completed assessment. If you have also chosen to release the results, the student will be able to view the completed assessment from the My Results screen.
• No: You can also choose not to notify the student, which means they will not receive an email when the assessment is completed.
• Notify only When Results Released: This option should be selected if you do not want to notify the student that the assessment is completed until you decide to release the results. In this case, you would be selecting to hold the results of the assessment as well. Only when the results are released will the student be notified of the completed assessment.
• Notify after Final Escalation Level Complete: This option should be select if the student's work will be sent through escalation, and you would not like for them to see their score until all assessments in the escalation process have been completed.

2. Select the Release options:

• Immediately: If this option is selected, clicking the Save button, will trigger the release of the completed assessment results. Students will be able to access their results from the My Results screen immediately.
• Never: This option will prevent students from ever seeing the results of the assessment .
• Held until released: This option will prevent the results of the completed assessment from being released when completed and will hold the results on your Unreleased Assessments screen until you decide to release them.
• After final escalation level complete: This option will release the results when the final level of escalation for the instrument has been completed.

1. Click on the green Save button to save the assessment.

A message will appear in green to indicate that the assessment has been saved, and provide you with the final score.