Illuminate Student Information™ is the “next generation” Student Information System (SIS) that provides all district and school site staff with a single, web-based point of access to student demographics, attendance, scheduling, discipline, grades, assessment history, state reporting mandates, report cards, parent portal, student portal, gradebook, reporting, and more.
Customer Reviews
Heidi N.
Advanced user of ISI: Illuminate Student InformationIlluminate allows you to create tests with finite testing windows and it keeps students from being able to access the internet while they are testing. You are able to link it to your online grade book and skip the step or having to grade or run scantrons. I also appreciate that teachers can use what others have made and simply assign it to their class with or without making slight modifications. The students are already familiar in CA with the software because of benchmark testing, so it keeps the technology hurdles low- especially for our tech savy teens.
While it does take a substantial amount of time to create an assessment on Illuminate, you are able to share it with other teachers as well as make adjustments to it in the future by making a duplicate and editting that. It also requires that short response answers have specific terms in order for the software to grade students' writing for you.
Illuminate does take some perseverance when you're learning how to create and administer tests, but the up front labor does reward you with some to no grading after the fact and with Aeries, the scores can automatically filter into the grade book.
Previously we had been using Google Forms to administer tests and quizzes online in class, but it was challenging to keep students from using the internet to help them. With Illuminate, students show what they know without the temptation of easily cheating.
