{"id":1402,"date":"2026-06-03T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/?page_id=1402"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:39:40","slug":"preparation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/webxam-proctoring-guide\/before-testing\/preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Determine how much time students need. A typical WebXam assessment for a test taker with no accommodations is limited to 40 minutes (1 minute times the number of questions on the assessment).<ul><li>Some assessments are shorter, such as WebXam Pathway Practice Tests.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Some are significantly longer, such as WebXam Field Tests, which are approximately 100 questions long and thus may require as much as 100 minutes for test takers with no accommodations.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See the WebXam \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webxam.org\/public\/AboutTheTests\">About the Tests<\/a>\u201d page to see if an assessment is in field testing and thus may require a longer testing period.<div class=\"panel panel-primary pull-right\" style=\"width:50%\"><div class=\"panel-heading\">IT Department Questions<\/div><div class=\"panel-body\"><ul><li>Can they enable a kiosk-mode application for use during testing?<\/li><li>Can they limit access to specific websites? (For WebXam, those websites are: *.webxam.org)<\/li><li>Can they block access to any AI tools not required based on IEPs?<\/li><li>Can they provide logging of all sites students accessed during testing?<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure the testing room is secure: no posters, notes, or materials that could aid students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirm that all devices that will be used for testing are district-managed and secure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coordinate with IT to restrict access to non-WebXam websites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirm accommodations for students with IEPs or 504 Plans are correctly applied in WebXam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":1400,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1402\/revisions\/1454"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.webxam.org\/webxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}