Difficulty with benchmark tests

1. You are trying to assign and administer an online benchmark test. The easyCBM program, not the teacher, assigns the test. Teachers can assign any grade progress monitoring test to students but not a benchmark test.
2. The Benchmark testing window is closed. This is the most common reason why students cannot take a benchmark test (or you cannot enter their benchmark responses into the system).
3. The student's are in grades 9-12. Only on-grade tests are available to students and only for grades K-8. Benchmark measures are not assigned like progress monitoring measures. Since they are only taken by students on-grade, the system already knows what tests to assign them. If you already know that a student is not performing at their grade level then the progress monitoring measures should be implemented instead.
4. A student is not assigned to and activated within a group. If you create a group, there must be students assigned or activated within them in order for you or the system to assign a test.
5. Your students grade in school has not been advanced after the start of the new school year. The easyCBM system does not automatically advance a student's grade in school. When returning students are not advanced at the start of the school year, the system will still recognize them as the grade they were in the previous school year. Many tests will likely already be recorded as taken and the system will not allow students to retake a test. Advancing the student's grade will open the new tests up for students. You can address this issue when you upload your student roster.