Assessing Literacy and Numeracy (ALAN) help desk

Notice 3

• Update your ALAN bookmarks and favorites
• Notice: Schools that have recently migrated from EBS
• Notice: BSKA Students not showing

Administer and lodge assessment 6

• Select a student or check assessment completion status
• Administer the assessment
• Lodge the assessment
• Post-assessment entry
• Marking a student as absent

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Feedback summaries 5

• Parent feedback summary
• Summary of student responses - for school use only
• Updating school details for the parent feedback summary
• Parent feedback summary template
• Downloading zip files to iPad

Guides and offline forms 6

• Best Start Kindergarten Assessment administration guide
• Request for large print and Braille materials
• Recording student responses - Offline forms (DoE only)
• Supplementary guide
• Request to withdraw

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BSKA - Professional learning 1

• Professional learning

Student assessment analysis 2

• Student assessment analysis
• View PHON-SC School trends in Student assessment analysis

BSY7 now Transition to Year 7 2

• About Best Start Year 7 / Transition to Year 7
• BSY7 - Support for schools

Overview 2

• PLAN2 2023 - Overview of changes
• PLAN2 transition to V3 progressions

Overview (NLNLP v3 Demo and Early Adopters) 0

PLAN2 for Demo and Early Adopters 0

Y1 Phonics screening check for Early Adopters 0

Phonological awareness (NLNLP v3 Demo and Early Adopters) 0

Phonics diagnostic assessment (NLNLP v3 Demo and Early Adopters) 0

IfSR-NP (NLNLP v3 Demo and Early Adopters) 0

IfSR-AT (NLNLP v3 Demo and Early Adopters) 0

Observe 1

• Class observations

Analyse 3

• Class observation analysis
• Cohort snapshot
• Indicator progress analysis (BETA)

Plan 7

• Create an Area of Focus
• Edit an Area of Focus
• Create an Areas of focus template
• Edit an Areas of focus template
• Delete an existing Area of focus

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Admin 1

• Manage student groups

Small group tuition 3

• Create and manage student groups for small group tuition
• Create and manage Areas of focus for small group tuition
• Mark a New SGT group as inactive / active

Observation statuses 1

• Learn more about the new observations statuses

Observation sources 3

• Selecting an observation source
• How PLAN2 supports the viewing of DoE assessment observations
• Set my default selection for observations sources

English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) 7

• EAL/D Literacy and Numeracy
• EAL/D Learning progression phases in PLAN2
• Supporting the literacy and numeracy development of a Beginning limited literacy background phase EAL/D learner
• Supporting the literacy and numeracy development of an Emerging phase EAL/D learner
• Supporting the literacy and numeracy development of a Beginning some print literacy phase EAL/D learner

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FAQs 5

• I am a new / relieving principal but I can't access AMU
• What type of ALAN access should I give staff in AMU?
• How can I make a technical support request?
• Is student assessment recorded in PLAN available in PLAN2?
• Students appear in ERN /student administration application, but not in PLAN2 (DoE only)

Support for DoE, CSNSW and AIS schools 6

• ALAN for CSNSW
• Support for Catholic schools
• Support for DoE schools
• Support for Schools for Specific Purposes (SSPs) (DoE schools)
• Support for Independent schools

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Professional learning 1

• Professional learning (literacy and numeracy)

Resources 1

• National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions

Devices 0

Managing student records 6

• Batch upload: Adding new students to ALAN (non-DoE schools only)
• Add, edit or delete individual student records in staging facility (non-DoE schools only)
• Student rollover (non-DoE schools)
• Editing a student's details in ALAN Production (non-DoE schools only)
• Adding student records individually in ALAN (non-DoE schools only)

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Managing staff access 2

• DoE - Managing staff access in Manage My Access (MMA)
• Revoking staff access

Managing groups and classes 3

• Create roll class in ALAN Administration (for AIS and CSNSW schools only)
• Adding and removing students from a roll class (for AIS and CSNSW schools only)
• Manage student groups in ALAN Administration

About 3

• Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
• Phonics screening check score range indicators
• Accessing analysis from Year 1 Phonics Screening Check

Administering the phonics check using the online tool 6

• Accessing the Phonics Screening Check online tool
• View PHON-SC student assessment information at a glance
• Administer and lodge the PHON-SC assessment
• Withdraw a PHON-SC student
• Download the PHON-SC Student assessment analysis

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Student change report for Bloom assessments 1

• Student change report for Bloom assessments

View and enter student observations for Posters and Bloom assessment 2

• View and enter student observations for Bloom assessment
• View and enter student observations for Poster assessment

Manage student groups in Posters and Bloom assessment 1

• Manage student groups in Posters and Bloom assessment

Posters and Bloom assessment 2

• Privacy statement for Passport for learning app
• Troubleshooting Passport for learning

Passport for learning - Bloom Red-Green updates for 2024 1

• Passport for learning - Bloom Red-Green updates for 2024

View and enter student observations in the Literacy and Numeracy (L&N) Precursors app 1

• View and enter student observations in the Literacy and Numeracy (L&N) Precursors app

Manage student groups in the Literacy and Numeracy (L&N) Precursors app 1

• Manage student groups in the Literacy and Numeracy (L&N) Precursors app

Privacy statement for Literacy and Numeracy (L&N) Precursors app 1

• Privacy statement for Literacy and Numeracy (L&N) Precursors app

Precursor indicator updates for 2024 1

• Precursor indicator updates for 2024

Administering IfSR-PT 6

• How to access IfSR-PT online tool
• How to view student information
• How to administer the IfSR-PT assessment using the online tool
• How to lodge the IfSR-PT assessment
• How to download the IfSR-PT Student assessment analysis

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Administering IfSR-MT 6

• How to access IfSR-MT online tool
• How to view IfSR-MT student information
• How to administer the IfSR-MT assessment using the online tool
• How to lodge the IfSR-MT assessment
• How to download the IfSR-MT Student assessment analysis

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Administering IfSR-NP 6

• How to access IfSR-NP online tool
• How to view IfSR-NP student information
• How to administer the IfSR-NP assessment using the online tool
• How to lodge the IfSR-NP assessment
• How to download the IfSR-NP Student assessment analysis

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Administering IfSR-AT 6

• How to access IfSR-AT online tool
• How to view IfSR-AT student information
• How to administer the IfSR-AT assessment using the online tool
• How to lodge the IfSR-AT assessment
• How to download the IfSR-AT Student assessment analysis

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About 1

• Phonological awareness diagnostic assessment

Administering the assessment using the online tool 6

• Access the Phonological awareness diagnostic online tool
• View PHAW student assessment information
• Administer the PHAW assessment
• Lodge the PHAW assessment
• Download the PHAW Student assessment analysis

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Phonics diagnostic assessment 6

• About Phonics diagnostic assessment
• Access the Phonics diagnostic assessment tool
• View PHON-DA student information
• Administer and lodge the PHON-DA assessment
• Download the PHON-DA Student assessment analysis and Class summary analysis

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About ALAN 2

• What is ALAN?
• Adding ALAN as a tile on your staff portal

Using ALAN 0

What's new in ALAN 10

• What's new: July 2023
• What's new: August 2023
• What's new: October 2023
• What's new: January 2024
• What's new: March 2024

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Privacy Statement 1

• Privacy statement

Terms and Conditions 2

• Terms of Use
• Copyright

Getting started 7

• How to access the Online assessments platform
• How to view available assessments
• How to view assessment details
• How to assign an assessment to students
• How to view assessment activity

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Student dashboard 2

• Overview of the student dashboard
• Giving students access

Viewing student results 4

• How to access student results
• Summary reports
• Student details reports
• Compare assessment reports

Supplementary Year 7 assessment 2

• Supplementary Year 7 assessment
• Assign the Supplementary Year 7 assessments to your students