Creating a Test in Aware
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From the Manage Tab in Aware, choose Administer Tests and select Create a Test.
When the Wizard opens, select Create a new blank test and click Next.
Enter the Test Details: Title, Start & End Dates, Test Type and Grade Level, and click Next.
Start and End Dates affects a teacher’s ability to print answer documents, not scanning.

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Select the campuses that will participate in the test, and click Next.
Campus Administrators will not see this step.

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Select the primary course associated with the test, click Next and Finish.

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If multiple courses need to be associated with the test, they can be selected in a later step.
General Tab: Enter the Test Name, Test Type, Subject Area, Grade Level, Met Expectation Score, Commended
Score, Instructions and Notes. Save.

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Curriculum Tab: Click Add Course, Select an additional course to associate with the test and repeat the process

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until all courses are added. Save.
Questions Tab: Choose the Text Style of test booklet and begin adding questions by clicking Add Question:
Selected Response: multiple choice or multiple selection
The Question Tab is used to enter the question content, answer choices and correct response.
Answer choices can be added, deleted and reordered.
The Options Tab is used to select the format, layout, and other options including question weight.
The Standards and Resources Tabs are consistent for all question types and will be explained later.
Numerical Response: griddable
The Question Tab is used to enter the question content and correct numerical response. The number limit for fixed decimal numerical responses is 9999.999 to -9999.999.
The Options Tab allows the test administrator to select floating or fixed decimal point and the number of decimal places for the numerical response, along with other question options.
Constructed Response: open-ended items that the teacher scores using a score range
The Question Tab is used to enter the question content and the scoring guide.
The Options Tab allows the test administrator to select the score range, the auto fail score and other formatting options.
Resource: a reading passage or graphic that has multiple questions referencing the passage or graphic
The Question Tab is used to enter the title of the resource and the resource text and/or attach image(s). The Options Tab allows the test administrator to format the layout of the resource.
Equation Editor: To insert an equation into either the question text or responses, click the field to activate where you would like the equation inserted, click the insert equation button to open the equation editor, choose the tab for the equation type and then choose the individual item to place it in the workspace. Fill in the characters that need to be in the equation, and click Insert Equation to place the equation where the cursor was blinking in the question editor.
Multiple equation types can be combined within the equation editor.
Once the equation is in the question editor, it can be resized as an image would be.

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Associated TEKS: Select the Standards Tab. If the test is associated with multiple courses, select the correct course from the drop-down menu. Choose the correct SE and double click to add or click the
Select Standard button. You can also search for the SE by typing a keyword in the text box and clicking the magnifying glass at the right.
Add a Question by Searching the Item Bank(s): Click Search Item Bank to activate the interface. Click to see search options. Fill out your criteria. Click Search Item Bank. When the item appears, click to preview and to add the item to your test. Once the item is added to the test, it can be edited.
Add a Resource by Searching the Item Bank(s): Click Search Resources and follow the same steps that exist for adding questions. If a question is added, the associated resource will automatically be added.
Make Corrections to a Key: Choose a different radio button next to the correct response. Click Finished.
Repeat the process for each question. If any answer documents have already been scored, click the
Rescore button on the Students Tab.
Alternating Lettering: Alternating lettering (ABCD, FGHJ) is the default. To change to ABCD, ABCD, click the Alternate button.
Campuses Tab: All campuses that are associated with the test need to be checked. Either select all campuses from the list or filter by grade level to see a list of campuses that teach that grade level and click Select All.

Students Tab: Associate students to a test in one of five ways.
Students in selected courses – Allows the teachers to print answer documents by selected courses; Select the appropriate roster courses for the test under the “Additional Options” heading at the bottom
Students by their homeroom/advisor teachers – Only teachers can print answer documents
All Students in the test’s grade level – Prints all students in alphabetical order and only the test administrator can print the answer documents by grade level
All students at selected campuses
Selected teachers for printing – Only teachers can print answer documents

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Administration Tab: Determine how the test will be administered and how the data can be collected
Available Dates: The start and end dates that determine when teachers can print answer documents
Plain Paper Bubble Sheets: The benchmark administrator controls who can print answer documents:
1) Allow teachers OR 2) Only administrators can print answer sheets
Print Answer Sheets: Use the wizard to display the campuses, teachers, courses and sections that will print. Deselect to narrow focus. Answer documents will be sorted alphabetically by teacher and course and section unless you check the box to Print students alphabetically and all students will print together.
NOTE: The test must be Active in order to print student answer documents. Administrators will only be able to Print a Sample plain paper answer document preview if the test status is Pending.
Teacher Submission: Choose one of the three options: 1. Teachers may answer only teacher-graded questions. 2. Teacher may answer teacher-graded questions and blank student-answered questions. 3.
Teacher may answer all questions.
Scantron Answer Sheets: Check Allow Scantron preprinted form testing and then Export Slug File. Follow the directions in the wizard. By default, Scantrons will be sorted alphabetically by teacher and course and section. To print all students alphabetically, select the option Print students alphabetically.
Online: If students are taking an online test, they will enter the district’s eduphoria address and add
/aware/OnlineTesting. Students will log in with their student ID number and password.
To enable online testing, check Allow online testing and choose one of the following: Allow teachers to enable online testing for their classes or Only administrators can enable online testing.