ICAS FAQs for schools

• There are two types of teacher roles in the Assessments Portal: Teacher and Unrestricted Teacher. We recommend that any staff who are going to be supervising the test on test day be assigned the Unrestricted Teacher role and not the Teacher role, so as to have access to all students who will be sitting the ICAS tests. This is especially useful for secondary school staff who are supervising students from different home-room classes. If you wish to allocate the Teacher role to your staff, you will need to ensure that you include class information in your student import and that you assign class(es) to teachers. Students can only be allocated to one class in the Assessments Portal. The class field is not mandatory for ICAS when uploading student details into the Assessments Portal.
• If there are staff in the school with the Teacher role, you must assign them a class. To do this, click “Assign classes to teachers” from the School Coordinator dashboard. The Teacher’s account must have been activated prior to assigning classes to teachers.
• Note: As the School Coordinator and Unrestricted Teacher roles have access to all students in the Assessments Portal for your school, you do not need to assign them any classes.

No, for schools that have used the Parent Payment System, student information will be imported automatically. Your school will not need to import students into the Assessments Portal.

The class field is not a mandatory field for ICAS Assessments or Reach Assessments. It is at the school’s discretion to include a class to assist with the process of printing student logins and result analysis.

If you have already uploaded your student data without classes, you will need to reupload the spreadsheet with the class field populated. You can only add a class to existing individual student records if the class already exists in the Assessments Portal.

All the user roles except School Leader can edit the name of a student. It is important that the student’s name is spelled correctly in the Assessments Portal as this is how it will appear on their ICAS and Reach certificates. To edit student information, log in to the Assessments Portal, go to Management Students, click the student’s name that you wish to edit and then click Edit Student.

Note: Any changes to student information, e.g. Name, DOB, must be done prior to the student sitting the assessment.

All the user roles except School Leader can edit the name of a student. To edit student information, log in to the Assessments Portal, go to Management Students, click the student’s name that you wish to edit and then click Edit Student.

Note: Any changes to student information, e.g. Name, DOB, must be done prior to the student sitting the assessment.

Gender is not a compulsory field. If you upload this information into the Assessments Portal, it will appear in the online reports where you will have an option to view results by gender. Gender information is only visible in the school reports.

If your school is interested in analysing results by gender you can include gender information when you import student data into the Assessments Portal. By doing this you will subsequently be able to filter by gender when viewing the student reports in the Results Portal.

Please contact us so the correct licences can be issued.

The LDB app named Janison Replay is designed to prevent students from accessing other applications such as web pages, software or hardware features during the live assessment. It also includes disable features such as the camera, spell check, screenshot, home, keyboard shortcuts, back and power buttons. For more information consult the Locked Down Browser page.

ICAS Spelling Bee and ICAS Writing both require the LDB application, Replay. Only one download of Replay per device is necessary.

Please use the Technical Readiness Test to assess suitability.

This is required to assess if student devices meet all the technical requirements.

Chromebooks must be running as Managed Devices in Kiosk mode for assessments requiring the locked-down browser application. See full technical requirements for Chromebooks and other supported devices.

Yes, as long as it has a suitable internet connection.

Yes, as long as it has a suitable internet connection. We recommend that you limit a test session to a maximum of 100 students.