2024-2025 Cambium Account Information

The Texas Education Agency requires test security training for all staff who will actively involved and/or physically present on a KIPP Texas Campus during STAAR, STAAR ALT2, TELPAS, TELPAS ALT, and official Cambium IAs regardless of whether or not the employee directly interacts with testing. In addition, any KIPP Texas Public Schools employee who needs to access secure test data and student results must also be trained in test security measures. Test administrator training on test security procedures is required for all employees at least once a year. At KIPP Texas we highlight and remind staff about test security at every training. 

For the 2024-2025 school year, the process for completing test security training, oaths of test security, and signing up for a Cambium account (access to the centralized reporting system CRS, TFAR, DEI, TIDE, etc.) will be similar to last year. 

TTest Security Training and Cambium Access

All KTX employees, including those who will be on campus during active testing or who will need access to student testing data must complete the mandatory asynchronous test security training through cornerstone. The 2024-2025 Cornerstone Test Security Training for All KIPP Texas Employees will be pushed out by EOD today, 9/16/2024.  Anyone who needs Cambium access for Equity Data Day on 9/20/2024 will need to complete the three steps listed above by end of day Thursday 9/19/2024. 

Test Security Training and Oath - Will be released in September 2024 through Cornerstone. It is required for all KTX Staff. At the end of the training, the oath must be signed. 

Cambium Access - All staff who wish to have a Cambium account for the 2024-2025 school year must complete all three steps listed below:

1. Complete the 2024-2025 Cornerstone Test Security Training Module released to all KTX employees on 9/16/2024

   1. Please note - your training will not be marked complete in Cornerstone if you do not score 80% or higher on all quizzes (you can return to them and redo them if needed) and/or if you do not scroll all the way to the very end of the final training screen.

   2. If the training is not automatically assigned to you, you may search for it in Cornerstone. In the top right corner click on the search icon and type in "test security". Please make sure you select this year's training not the 23-24 training.

2. Sign the Test Security Oath. Directions are in the Test Security Oath section of the Cornerstone Test Security training. (Oath Rollup)

   1. Make sure you spell your KIPP Texas email address correctly on this form.

   2. Non-certified staff must know the name of the certified staff member who will supervise them before filling out the oath. If you are not certified in Texas, you will not be eligible for a Cambium account if you do not name a certified supervisor on your oath. You will be asked to redo your oath with the correct information. 

      1. Campus based employees - please reach out to your CTC directly if you are unsure of who the supervisor is for you

      2. SSP - please see the instructions in the Cornerstone Test Security Training for what to do if you are not certified.  You may also reach out to ktx.assessments@kipptexas.org if you have questions. 

3. Request a Cambium user account by filling out this Google form**

   1. Make sure you spell your KIPP Texas email address correctly on this form.

   2. For more information about access levels please click here. 

   3. There are no rollover accounts. All KTX personnel who need access to Cambium must reapply for a new account every year.

   4. (Cambium Account Request Rollup)

   5. Once an account has been activated, please use these instructions on how to sign into your account for the first time each school year.

** Cambium accounts will not be activated until all 3 parts are completed and verified.

If you had access last year, you will continue to have access until August 16th of this school year. The Cambium account blackout and rollover dates will be included in the KTX Testing Strategy and Assessment Calendar.

• After this date your account will be deactivated and removed from Cambium.

• There are no rollover accounts. All KTX personnel who need access to Cambium must reapply for a new account every year. 

As a reminder, systems for the Texas Assessment Program including the Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE), the Centralized Reporting System (CRS), and the Test Delivery System (TDS) will be offline from 7:00 p.m. (CT) August 16 through 1:00 a.m. (CT) September 16, 2024, to complete a system rollover.

• During this time all existing accounts for KIPP Texas will be deleted from the system.

• All users with an existing account will need to reapply for the new school year following the steps listed above. 

  • Once a new account is created returning users must create a new password when logging in to TIDE for the first time each school year. Users with a new role must have their role updated to ensure that they have appropriate access to the system functionality needed for their assigned role.

• Students must be added to TIDE for the 2024–2025 school year, as all student data, including rosters, will be cleared from TIDE.

• Any Texas Formative Assessment Resource (TFAR) tests administered in 2023–2024 that require scoring by hand must be submitted prior to August 16 for scores to be reflected in CRS.

Cambium Quick Links

2024-2025 Irregularity and Incident Report Links

2024-2025 Irregularity Report Form (all assessments)

2024-2025 Testing Irregularity form 

Signature Page (original doc title says 22-23 but it has not changed)