The Pre-ACT has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 18, after technical issues postponed the original testing date.
After two hours of trial and error in every freshman, sophomore and junior Nest classroom on the original assessment day, Sept. 11, students were released to their classes on a new schedule for the rest of the day.
Meanwhile, vice principal Ivy Jeskie along with principal Roger Allen were working to try and get this issue resolved as quickly as they could.
“I was on the phone with ACT for probably about two hours,” Jeskie reports. “I was in continual contact with our IT department. They said they were working on it and trying to figure out what was going on at their end.”
There were three issues: students were given incorrect login information, some were unable to connect to the internet and a few didn’t have the correct app downloaded on their computer to access the test.
“ACT switched the platform that they’re using for how they deliver the test,” says Jeskie. “We thought that everything was ready, but it wasn’t.”
Around 9:30 a.m., almost two hours after students were supposed to begin testing, administrators decided to postpone the test for a later date.
Jeskie stated that the IT department has all issues with the pre-ACT resolved, and the exam should happen as planned on Sept. 18.
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The Crimson Aviator surveyed De Pere High School students about what their Nest classrooms did during the time they were waiting to take the test. Here are some of the responses:
- Talked with friends, talked about some life lessons with Mrs. Muck and then just waited for updates.
- Did some gymnastics, push-ups, arm wrestling, and flew paper airplanes.
- We played Duck Duck Goose and Frogger and attempted to order Noodles and Company.
- We played Just Dance, then broke into the Nest next to ours and had an acrobatic competition, with the day ending in a match of spoons.
A second survey question about whether students prefer paper-and-pencil tests or computer exams produced close results. Of the 271 respondents, 140 (51.7 percent) said they preferred paper-and-pencil, while 131 (48.7 percent) said they liked taking tests on the computer better.