Welcome. This short video is designed to help you administer the nap opt-in assessment at your school. This video outlines the task of the test administrator and will lead you through the process of successfully administering an assessment session at your school. 

The Nap Opt-in Assessment Test Administrator Handbook contains important information about how to set up and run the test session at your school. It can be downloaded from the page on the NAP website where this video is located. You should read this handbook before the assessment to thoroughly familiarize yourself with the requirements and procedures of the test administration process. 

The handbook outlines the materials you and the students will need on the day. A list of do's and don'ts that should be adhered to during the session and detailed information on how to administer and invigilate the session. Importantly, the handbook also contains the test administration script. The purpose of the script is to ensure that your students are provided the same set of instructions as students in all other participating schools. 

The script is designed to be read verbatim and contains all the instructions. A student will need to sit the assessment including how to navigate the test platform. You'll need to either print out a copy of the handbook or download it to a portable device that you will have access to for the duration of the assessment, you'll need to read from the script and consult the handbook multiple times during the assessment. 

Before your scheduled test date, you'll be provided with a test administrator pack by the principal or NAP coordinator. The test administrator pack contains a test administrator session slip for the test session and student session slips for all students participating in the test session. The test administrator session slip has space to include the name of the test being undertaken, the date, time, and also the room being used along with details of the participating class or group of students. There is also space to add further details of the session if required. 

The web address you will need to navigate to is shown here along with the username and password. You will need to log in and create the test session. The student session slips contain the student code that students need to enter when attempting a test. This year, there are two opt-in domains available to schools. 

These are the science literacy domain and the civics and citizenship domain. Schools can opt their students into participating in just one of these domains or into both of them. Please make sure the particular domains your students will be participating in during each session are displayed on the student session slip here. 

For example, if all students in the session are completing the science literacy opt-in assessment, each slip provided to a student should display SL at the top of the slip. If all students are completing both science, literacy, and civics and citizenship, students should have a separate slip for each domain. The student session slips must be handed out to students on test day. The slips contain the individual student details and student code. 

They will need to log into the assessment Before the session, you'll need to cut up these slips ready for distribution. Please keep these in a safe place ready for the assessment? The assessment consists of a set of practice questions, which take about five minutes, followed by the actual assessment questions. 60 minutes for year six and 75 minutes for year 10. In total, we suggest allowing about 90 minutes for the entire session. 

On test day, you'll need to log into the test administrator dashboard on your TA computer. Note that as the test administrator, you do not need to log in through the nap lockdown browser. Instead, you must navigate to the assess form website and select the nap opt in environment at the login screen, enter the TA login details from your test administrator session. Slip into the username and password fields and click login. 

Next, click on Create new test session. Once the TA dashboard appears, the unique session code will be displayed. This particular code on your screen is just for this demonstration. Make a note of your session code on your student login sheet and also write it on the board so the students will be able to see it. 

All of the steps so far should be done ahead of time. Before students enter the room, computers will need to be logged into using a profile that is able to access the lockdown browser program on each device, click on the NAP desktop shortcut to open the login screen of the lockdown browser. You can either do this yourself before students enter the room, or you can ask students to open the nap lockdown browser on their computer themselves. 

When the students are settled and you are ready, provide each student with their student session slip. You'll then read from the script in your Test Administrator handbook to guide students through the login process. When the lockdown browser is launched, the first screen that a student sees is the welcome screen. 

You'll then instruct the students to click on the nap opt-in tile, which will take them to the audio check screen as there is no audio for this assessment, students should select that I do not need to check my audio option. After clicking start test, students will now see the session login screen and should enter the session code that you wrote on the board and then click the next button. On the next screen, students should now enter their eight letter student code, which is written on their student slip. As students type the student code, the characters will automatically default to capitals regardless of whether CAP so or the shift key oppressed. 

After clicking the next button, each student will then be required to confirm their details on the screen. The student's details either an ID number or their name, depending on what your school has chosen to use, will appear on the student's slip above the student code. If the student clicks no, at this point, they'll be logged out of the platform. If this happens, you'll need to check that the student has the correct student slip and ask the student to restart the login process. 

Once the student clicks, yes, they will see this screen. As you assist students with this process, you will also be able to see on the test administrator's device that as each student logs in, they will appear on the TA dashboard and their IDs will appear here. So far in this example, three students have logged in. 

Eventually, you'll want to see the same number of students in this list. As students in the room, notice the tabs at the top here. The first tab lists all of the students that have logged in. The other tabs classify the students according to their status during the test. At the moment, all the students are also listed under the not started tab, because we haven't started the test yet. 

Once we start the test, the students will move to the started tab. Here we can see more students have now logged in and are listed on the not STARTED tab. Once all students have logged in, you'll take the students through the practice questions by reading the script in your TA handbook. As we do this, let's now go back to our students' machine. Before leading the students through the practice questions, make sure that they are all now looking at this screen. 

You'll then instruct the students to select the practice questions button to begin. Once each student has completed the practice questions, they will be taken to the waiting screen. Check that all students now have this screen in front of them before proceeding to the assessment. When you and the students are ready, read from your script to begin the test session and then at the appropriate moment as indicated in your handbook, click start session on the dashboard, and then yes, to confirm. 

This will begin the test for all students. There may be a 32nd delay while the questions load For some students on the dashboard, you will notice that all students have now moved to the STARTED tab. Any students arriving after the session has started can still join by entering the session code from the board, their student code from the student slip, and by following the steps we previously went through. 

However, as the test session is already in progress, these students will show in the waiting entry tab of the dashboard, once they have logged in, you must manually admit them by going to the waiting entry tab, selecting their student IDs from the list and clicking allow start. The system will provide the student with the appropriate time to complete the test. Once a test session has started, a number of other functions become active on your dashboard. 

Functions that can be applied to individual students or groups of students include pause, resume, finish, and finalize. Pause session and finalize session. Apply to the test session as a whole and will therefore affect all students who have joined the session. Pause session, for instance, might be used to put an entire test session on hold when there is a significant disruption at the school during the assessment. If you do need to pause a session, click on the pause session button and enter a reason for the cause of the disruption. 

If the session is paused, all students will see the pause screen on their device until the session is resumed by clicking on resume session. It is also possible to pause a single student's test attempt. You could do this whilst you are fixing a student's device. For example, the assessment timer is not counting down for this student while the session is paused. 

To do this, make sure you are on the all or started tab and tick the checkbox next to the relevant student id and click pause. The pause. Student's ID will then appear on the paused tab to restart a student's test attempt, tick the checkbox next to the student ID on the all or pause tab and click resume. If a test has mistakenly been submitted by a student, you can reopen it to reopen a submitted test attempt. 

You need to go into the finished tab and select the student or group of students. Then click reopen. Please note that when a test attempt is submitted with time remaining, the timer continues to count down. Using your script, you'll instruct students to submit their test attempts once they have completed the final question. Once all students have completed the assessment and submitted their tests, you will get a popup message similar to this one. 

Click okay and press the finalized session button If required, you can also submit a test attempt on behalf of a student. You may need to do this. If a student did not submit their test attempt before leaving the room to submit a student's test attempt on the all or pause tab, tick the checkbox next to the student's id, click Finish student and then finalize the session by clicking finalize session and confirm by clicking yes in the popup. 

Finally, we would just remind you that the assessment should be carried out under standard test conditions, and part of your role is ensuring that all students have a fair and equitable test experience. To this end, we provided a list of test administrator do's and don'ts in the handbook. For your information, please make sure to read your handbook before test day, and remember that you can contact ACER on the helpline at any time with questions or concerns. These details are provided here and in all communication you receive from us here at ACER.

Key actions:

• Invite NAP coordinator and school technical support officer.
• Create, enrol and manage students in the platform.
• Manage student participation.
• Undertake technical readiness activities.

Key actions:

• Create and manage test sessions.
• Nominate test administrators.
• Provide test administrator information pack including TA and Student session slip.
• Generate reports on student participation.
• Administer the NAP Opt-in 2025 assessment.
• Manage test attempts. 
• Finalise test session including unused ones.

Once schools have finalised all test sessions, they must move from the ‘Delivering’ to the ‘Results’ dashboard.

ACARA will then:

• mark the assessments and analyse the assessment data
• provide principals with school-level reports.

ACARA will provide further details on the report once we reach the reporting phase.

NAP Opt-in School Report Guide (PDF 496 KB): contains instructions for downloading the NAP Opt-in School Report, along with information to help schools understand the results. This was the guide used for NAP Opt-in 2024.