Manuals

📄 CAASPP/ELPAC Manuals Library

📄 TOMS User Guide

📄 CAASPP Test Administration Manual

📄 ELPAC Test Administration Manual

📄 Alternate ELPAC Test Administration Manual

📄 ELPAC Information Guide

📄 Accessibility Guide

📄 Completion Status Guide

📄 Scoring and Reporting Guide

📄 CERS Interpretive Guide 

📄 CERS User Guide

📄 Interim Assessment Guide

Documents and Chapter Links

📄 User Roles for CAASPP and ELPAC

📄 How to Enter Domain Exemptions

📄 How to Start a Test Session (one-pager)

📄 Student Needs Matching Tool: CAASPP / ELPAC

📄 Non-TOMS Security Affidavit: CAASPP / ELPAC 

▶️ Monitor Test Completion (10:17)

▶️ Adding and Managing Users in TOMS (4:50)

▶️ Enter Student Test Assignments (4:20)

▶️ Enter Student Test Settings (2:40)

📄 2025-26 Initial ELPAC Parent Letter

🌐 Summative and Summative Alternate Eligibility and Reporting Rules

🌐 Alternate ELPAC Participation and Scoring

📄 ELPAC Proctor List and Budget Codes

📄 Student Test Assignment/Setting Upload Schedule

📄 Assessing Home Hospital Students

Data Clean-up and Enrollment:

📄 Monitoring Missing/Mismatch EL Data

📄 EL Cheat Sheet (to guide data clean-up)

2025-26 Form Assignments:

Initial ELPAC: all DSUSD schools are FORM 1

Summative ELPAC: all DSUSD schools are FORM 1

Summative Alternate ELPAC: all DSUSD schools are FORM 1

CAA Science: all DSUSD schools are FORM 2

CAA ELA/Math: all DSUSD schools are FORM 2

Second Scoring Requirements:

Summative Alternate ELPAC: no DSUSD schools selected

CAA ELA: Desert Ridge, Glenn, Paige & Palm Desert Charter only

📄 CAST Organization (for pause point suggestions)

Estimated Testing Times:

🌐 Initial ELPAC (by Form Number)

🌐 Summative ELPAC (by Form Number)

🌐 Alternate ELPAC (by Form Number)

📄 CAASPP ELA, Math & Science

CAA ELA and Math: estimated at 60-100 minutes per content

CAA Science: estimated at one average class period per performance task

Elementary Testing Templates:

📄 CAASPP 1

📄 CAASPP 2

📄 CAASPP 3

📄 ELPAC 1

📄 ELPAC 2

Secondary Testing Templates:

📄 CAASPP 1

📄 CAASPP 2

📄 ELPAC 1

📄 ELPAC 2

📄 Student View: Logging in to Secure Browser

📄 Expiration Rules

📄 Pause Rules

📄 Completion Status Report Definitions

📄 Scratch Paper Guidelines

📄 Understanding ETS Email Notifications

📄 CAASPP and ELPAC Completion and Participation Monitoring

📄 CAASPP Participation: Determining Denominators

📄 Data Dive for Estimates (EOY resource only)

📄 "How to" Guide for Running Next Year Student Lists for Scheduling

📄 Student Lists for Testing Using TOMS, Data Warehouse, or Synergy

📄 Generating Student Login Cards Using Reporting Services

Assessment Scores by Teacher:

📄 Data Warehouse (by teacher and previous year's students)

📄 Creating Rosters in CERS

▶️ Creating Rosters in CERS (19:24)

📄 Assessments by Class Using Synergy

📄 Secure Material Guidelines

📄 Summative Secure Material Return Schedule and Form 

📄 Educational Services School Directory

🌐 DEC Support Staff for Site Coordinators; beyond the Assessment Office.