Anonymous
10/11/2023 12:23
Subject: Re:PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our school changed to a 2-hour delay schedule instead.
How can they do that last minute?
Most of the kids were already there?
Freshman and seniors are not there. That’s 1/2 the school
My freshman is taking the psat today. Or they were
Anonymous
10/11/2023 12:23
Subject: Re:PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow, I’m surprised to see this. The “nationwide issue” was basically server overload of teacher proctors logging in. We’ve had that before with other digital state testing. RM very early on sent teachers a note to just keep refreshing until they got in. We had time built into our schedule anticipating login problems. We also had a homeroom last week to check student devices and do pre-administration, so kids were ready to go. And the staff meeting last week was the online training, so everyone had been verified to be ready. As soon as refreshing got the proctors in to advance the students to start testing, the kids had no issues. I think our room was delayed by only ~15 min with the time outs.
RM has more competent administrators than others. Well done!
This really does seem to be the case in a lot of areas TBH.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 12:17
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Poolesville is ok. Just received a message.
Did Poolesville complete the test? Why did it work at Poolesville and not at other schools?
Anonymous
10/11/2023 12:15
Subject: Re:PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Wow, I’m surprised to see this. The “nationwide issue” was basically server overload of teacher proctors logging in. We’ve had that before with other digital state testing. RM very early on sent teachers a note to just keep refreshing until they got in. We had time built into our schedule anticipating login problems. We also had a homeroom last week to check student devices and do pre-administration, so kids were ready to go. And the staff meeting last week was the online training, so everyone had been verified to be ready. As soon as refreshing got the proctors in to advance the students to start testing, the kids had no issues. I think our room was delayed by only ~15 min with the time outs.
RM has more competent administrators than others. Well done!
Anonymous
10/11/2023 12:10
Subject: Re:PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Wow, I’m surprised to see this. The “nationwide issue” was basically server overload of teacher proctors logging in. We’ve had that before with other digital state testing. RM very early on sent teachers a note to just keep refreshing until they got in. We had time built into our schedule anticipating login problems. We also had a homeroom last week to check student devices and do pre-administration, so kids were ready to go. And the staff meeting last week was the online training, so everyone had been verified to be ready. As soon as refreshing got the proctors in to advance the students to start testing, the kids had no issues. I think our room was delayed by only ~15 min with the time outs.
This sounds exactly like what we did at my FCPS HS. THere were a few minutes of panic when the screen wouldn't load, but refreshing multiple times eventually worked. My kids are done and waiting to be released. My APS child also finished today.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 12:07
Subject: Re:PSAT cancelled for today?
Wow, I’m surprised to see this. The “nationwide issue” was basically server overload of teacher proctors logging in. We’ve had that before with other digital state testing. RM very early on sent teachers a note to just keep refreshing until they got in. We had time built into our schedule anticipating login problems. We also had a homeroom last week to check student devices and do pre-administration, so kids were ready to go. And the staff meeting last week was the online training, so everyone had been verified to be ready. As soon as refreshing got the proctors in to advance the students to start testing, the kids had no issues. I think our room was delayed by only ~15 min with the time outs.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:51
Subject: Re:PSAT cancelled for today?
Kennedy also cancelled the test. I have received no communications from the school about it.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:44
Subject: Re:PSAT cancelled for today?
My son started taking the test. He was told 30 minutes in to stop. I’m not sure why students had to stop if everything was fine - Churchill
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:34
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they cancel across the board? Seems odd to have most cancel but some continue.
That is weird, considering that the Central Office message was that they were stopping all testing and would collaborate with schools to identify another testing date.
What time was that central office message? If a group was successfully testing for a significant period of time, I would suggest that it would be in the students' interests to finish up.
Blake sent a message to parents referencing the central office message at 9:15, but my kid texted at 8:50 saying they had canceled because they were told there were issues nationwide with the platform.
Sherwood’s communication to parents is dismal (again). My dd texted me at 9:15. Sherwood posted to instagram around 9:20 but didn’t email parents until 9:58.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:29
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they cancel across the board? Seems odd to have most cancel but some continue.
That is weird, considering that the Central Office message was that they were stopping all testing and would collaborate with schools to identify another testing date.
What time was that central office message? If a group was successfully testing for a significant period of time, I would suggest that it would be in the students' interests to finish up.
Blake sent a message to parents referencing the central office message at 9:15, but my kid texted at 8:50 saying they had canceled because they were told there were issues nationwide with the platform.
I did not get any such message, but then my kid completed the psat.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:28
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they cancel across the board? Seems odd to have most cancel but some continue.
That’s strange. Maybe the message wasn’t sent out in time.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:24
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they cancel across the board? Seems odd to have most cancel but some continue.
That is weird, considering that the Central Office message was that they were stopping all testing and would collaborate with schools to identify another testing date.
What time was that central office message? If a group was successfully testing for a significant period of time, I would suggest that it would be in the students' interests to finish up.
Blake sent a message to parents referencing the central office message at 9:15, but my kid texted at 8:50 saying they had canceled because they were told there were issues nationwide with the platform.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:20
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they cancel across the board? Seems odd to have most cancel but some continue.
That is weird, considering that the Central Office message was that they were stopping all testing and would collaborate with schools to identify another testing date.
What time was that central office message? If a group was successfully testing for a significant period of time, I would suggest that it would be in the students' interests to finish up.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:17
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they cancel across the board? Seems odd to have most cancel but some continue.
That is weird, considering that the Central Office message was that they were stopping all testing and would collaborate with schools to identify another testing date.
Anonymous
10/11/2023 11:14
Subject: PSAT cancelled for today?
Why wouldn’t they cancel across the board? Seems odd to have most cancel but some continue.