Introduction to the User Guide

This user guide describes the California Educator Reporting System (CERS) features and provides detailed instructions for using each feature, including common scenarios that encompass related features.

Intended Audience

This user guide is intended for teachers, school administrators, local educational agency (LEA) administrators, and state education agency staff who use CERS for timely and accurate reports of student performance on state summative and interim assessments.

Organization of the CERS User Guide

This user guide is organized into the following major sections:

• CERS User Guide Overview provides a brief introduction to CERS, including the system’s relationship with other Smarter Balanced applications and an overview of user roles and permissions.
• Accessing CERS describes how users log on and log out of CERS and switch to other applications.
• General Reporting Features in CERS outlines general tools of the user interface.
• Navigating CERS provides an overview of the Reporting Home Page, accessing reports, and report options.
• Interim Assessments in CERS details Smarter Balanced ELA and Math IABs and ICAs, CAST IAs, and ELPAC IAs results views.
• Summative Assessments in CERS details state summative assessment views.
• Custom Aggregate Reports in CERS describes the query selection and query review process for creating aggregate reports.
• District/School Exports describes how to export a CSV file containing district and school assessment results.
• Administrative Features in CERS describes how to manage student groups and instructional resources.
• CERS Sandbox describes the CERS Sandbox features and functions.
• The Appendix includes guidance on how to request technical support, and includes an accessibility statement, and a version history for this guide.

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