Assessments on CENTURY

We are proud to now offer a variety of assessments on CENTURY, available with your existing CENTURY subscription via your usual logins. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• What assessments are available?
• Setting up assessments
• Sharing of student data
• Preparing students for assessments
• During the test
• Viewing and understanding results
• Troubleshooting and FAQs

What assessments are available?

Primary academic assessments

CENTURY’s Year Group Primary assessments measure learners against the expected standards for each specific year group. Designed to be sat at the start and end of the year to capture learner progress, these assessments align to the English National Curriculum for English (grammar, punctuation and spelling), maths and science. 

The assessments allow teachers to track the progress of each learner relative to their peers, and to identify strengths and weaknesses for individual students and the whole class.

Secondary academic assessments

Maths

Our Year 7 Maths Baseline Assessment is designed to identify gaps in the foundational knowledge essential for success at Key Stage 3. It places a strong emphasis on Number skills, while also covering key concepts from Geometry, Measures, and Statistics. 

Science

Our Year 7 Science Baseline Assessment supports a smooth transition to secondary science by strategically building upon core Key Stage 2 English National Curriculum content. Students will be tested on selected foundational scientific knowledge from Years 3 to 6 that is directly relevant and prerequisite to the Key Stage 3 curriculum. 

Both maths and science assessments include a broad range of question difficulties, making it accessible to lower-attaining students while offering sufficient challenge for the most able. It serves as a precise diagnostic tool, enabling teachers to quickly pinpoint learning gaps and effectively inform planning at both class and year group levels.

Setting up assessments

Planning for the tests

All academic tests are designed to be completed within a 50-minute lesson, taking 45 minutes each. Students who usually work with additional time during tests are able to do so, up to a total test duration of 1 hour. 

If students are sitting multiple tests in the same day, we recommend setting breaks between them.

IT setup

To ensure a smooth process, please follow this link from a student device before the assessment. This will check that nothing essential to the tests is blocked by your school web filters.

Your IT team should whitelist the following sites:

• https://ph.century.tech

• https://api.ctek.cloud/assessment-manager

• https://api.century.tech/assessment

• https://mixpanel.api.ctek.cloud

The tests require continuous internet connection throughout. They also do not require any special equipment, such as headphones.

We recommend creating a test window in advance to make sure there are no issues, and that you are familiar with the management of assessments. To learn how to do so, read the following section, ‘Scheduling assessments’.

Scheduling assessments

To set up an assessment, follow these steps:

1. Select the Assessments tab from the menu on the left.

2. Click on the ‘New Assessment Window’ button. There will be multiple forms available for the assessments we are Item Trialling. Where this is the case, please select one assessment form per class, then click ‘Next’.

3. Set the start and end dates and times, change the window name (optional), then click ‘Create’.

4. You will then be taken to the Assessment Manager page. Click on the ‘Add Students’ button, where you can select from all students or filter for specific classes using the dropdown menu. Then, click ‘Add’.

Note: You can continue to add students to the assessment window, even once it is underway.

5. If you wish to change the start and end time, click the pen icon in the Start or End sections. Set a new date and time, then click ‘Apply’ to save your changes.

Note: You can amend the end date and time, even once the assessment is underway.

6. The assessments will automatically begin once the starting date and time has passed. The Assessment Manager page will display each student’s progress as they complete the assessment.

Sharing of student data

To ensure our trials are fair and our analysis of questions accounts for students’ circumstances, we ask that you share some additional information: UPN, EAL status, SEN Status (E/K/N), and Pupil Premium. As this data is key to our trial, we will need this information provided before we can process payment.

This is only needed for the students that participated and will be handled securely by our data team. We will be in touch with your MIS team to ensure that this data has been shared. 

If using Groupcall or CSV

There is a template here and we would be happy to speak to your MIS manager to facilitate this. Please share this in a data secure manner, either via a password protected file or Google drive folder link shared with assessments@century.tech 

If using Wonde

Please follow the steps below. 

1. Log in to school.wonde.com

2. Click on ‘CENTURY Tech’ in ‘Applications’

3. Approve the below listed permissions

4. Students English as additional language read (Optional)

5. Students FSM read (Optional)

6. Students SEN read (Optional)

7. Students premium pupil indicator read (Optional)

8. Click the green ‘Update permissions’ button

Preparing students for assessments

Students should start an assessment by navigating to the Assessments tab and selecting ‘Start’ for the test that they are sitting.

Note: If the student has just logged in, the Assessments tab may not appear on the left-hand menu. They will need to refresh, or click on a different tab before it will appear.

Before starting the assessment, students may customise their experience by:

• Adding a colour overlay by clicking on the Settings icon in the top right corner. 

• Showing / hiding the test timer by clicking on it.

After reading the instructions, they should then click ‘Start Assessment’. They will then have up to 1 hour to complete the assessment. 

It's important that all students complete the same assessment(s) in each session. Students must complete the tests in silence, without conferring with one another. They can have a pen and paper to write any workings out during the test.

During the test

A progress bar at the top of the page shows how many questions are left in each assessment. Students can use this bar to revisit previous questions. 

If a student navigates away from the test, they can return to it from the Assessments tab and resume. However, the timer will continue to count down. Once the timer has timed out after the allocated time period, students cannot return to the assessment.

If they finish all questions before the timer ends, they can select ‘End Assessment’. Once they do this, their answers are submitted and they can no longer go back to the assessment. They should also not disturb other pupils while the assessment is still ongoing.

If more than one assessment is planned for a single session, students will return to the main Assessments page and will be able to start the next one immediately.

COMING SOON: Viewing and understanding results

You may download CSV and PDF reports for students from the platform, giving a breakdown of their performance across the topic areas. 

Troubleshooting and FAQs

If you cannot access the Test Platform, please check the following:

• You are using the correct URL: app.century.tech

• You are connected to the internet and that flight mode is NOT switched on

• The websites listed here have been whitelisted by your IT team

If you continue to face issues accessing the platform, please reach out to CENTURY support.

An applicant has closed the browser during the test.

The timer for that test will continue to count down. The student should return to app.century.tech, where they can login and click ‘Resume’ under the assessment they started in the Assessments tab.

What to do if there is an internet outage?

If there is a disruption to the internet, then students will not be able to progress through the test. In this scenario it is likely that the page will appear ‘stuck’ and will not move on to the next question.

In the first instance, you should check your internet connection and make sure that ‘flight mode’ has not accidentally been turned on. If this is an isolated issue, close the browser and move the applicant to another computer. Having a backup computer set up with the test login page is a good contingency.

If you have technical or external issues that affect the validity of the assessments or would like to provide feedback or comments please contact assessments@century.tech.

What is the difference between the academic assessments and diagnostics?

These summative assessments are designed to test students across entire subjects in a more formalised way at the beginning or end of the year.

Diagnostics, on the other hand, focus on more specific topic areas; they will influence the student’s Recommended Pathway and can be done in a less formal manner, in line with day-to-day teaching and learning.

Who can sit the assessments?

The primary academic assessments are designed for students in Years 3 to 6, while the secondary assessments are designed for Year 7 students. 

Will the students’ performance in the assessments affect their recommendations on CENTURY?

We are continuing to develop our assessments suite with more features, including strengthening links between assessment submissions and learning recommendations on the platform.