Assessing Literacy and Numeracy (ALAN) help desk

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• Phonics Screening Check

Administering the phonics check using the online tool 5

• Access the Phonics Screening Check online tool
• View student assessment information
• Administer and lodge the assessment
• Download the Student assessment analysis and Parent feedback summary
• View assessment information in PLAN2

FAQs 9

• I am a new / relieving principal but I can't access AMU
• I have access to AMU but can't see the ALAN application
• Some staff members do not appear in my AMU list
• What type of ALAN access should I give staff in AMU?
• How can I make a technical support request?

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Support for DoE, CSNSW and AIS schools 5

• Support for DoE schools
• Support for Schools for Specific Purposes (SSPs) (DoE schools)
• Support for Catholic schools
• Support for Independent schools
• ALAN Access for non-gov schools - how to navigate to the extranet page

Professional learning 2

• Professional learning (literacy and numeracy)
• Online professional learning (literacy and numeracy)

Resources 1

• National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions

Managing staff access 4

• DoE - Managing staff access in AMU
• Revoking staff access
• How do I add casual staff to my AMU staff list?
• Adding ALAN as a tile on your portal

Managing student records 7

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

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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

New Releases 10

• July 2020 - ALAN apps
• April 2020 - ALAN and PLAN2
• January 2020 - Best Start Kindergarten Assessment
• January 2020 - PLAN2
• October 2019 - PLAN2

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Areas of focus 13

• Areas of focus: Overview
• Access Areas of focus
• Create an area of focus
• Generate Class observations for your Areas of focus
• Generate Student indicator progress analysis for your Areas of focus

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Viewing and entering data 4

• Class observations
• Class observations: View observations across learning areas
• View by class
• View by student

Analysis 3

• Student indicator progress
• Cohort snapshot
• Class outcomes by syllabus

Manage student groups in PLAN2 1

• Manage student groups in PLAN2

Saving 1

• Saving data - explicit save functions

Multi-year or composite classes 1

• Viewing students in a multi-age or composite class

About 1

• Phonological awareness diagnostic assessment

Administering the assessment using the online tool 7

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

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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)
• Gathering and using supplementary information guide
• Request to withdraw

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BSKA - Professional learning 1

• Professional learning

Best Start Year 7 1

• About Best Start Year 7

About ALAN 4

• What is ALAN?
• About PLAN2
• Adding ALAN as a tile on your portal
• About the Best Start Kindergarten Assessment 2019

Using ALAN 2

• Adding ALAN as a tile
• New look: ALAN homepage re-design

About the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy 2017-2020 1

• The Literacy and Numeracy Strategy 2017-2020

Coming soon to ALAN 4

• Coming soon to PLAN2: Managing student groups and new Class observations view
• Coming soon: ALAN homepage re-design
• Areas of focus archive: Enhancements to Areas of focus feature
• "Areas of focus": New PLAN2 feature for Term 4 2019

Privacy Statement 1

• Privacy statement

Terms and Conditions 2

• Terms of Use
• Copyright