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The Best Start Kindergarten Assessment can be administered at any time within a student's first five weeks of school.
If a student is absent for the first five weeks of the school year, teachers should mark the student as absent and lodge the assessment temporarily using the steps below.
When the student returns, submit a support ticket through the help desk requesting access for this student to complete the Best Start Kindergarten Assessment.
1. Select post-assessment entry from the select student landing page.
2. Select Withdraw in the top right-hand corner.
3. Select Absent from the dropdown menu and click Withdraw. A pop-up window will open, select Confirm withdrawal, OK.
NOTE: Upon selecting Absent, all questions will populate with the response ‘not given’ and the reason ‘absent'.
4. To lodge the assessment, select the Lodge button at the bottom-right of the screen.
