As Michigan moves forward as a #GoOpen state, there are a community of educators working to make this effort result in a meaningful adoption of Open Educational Resources (OERs). Michigan's OER initiative provides access to high-quality open educational resources to increase equity and transform teaching and learning. Find out more about #GoOpen in Michigan  here.

What are OERs?

We have a need to gather information about what you or your colleagues are already using. Please help us by taking this short survey (https://tinyurl.com/jm9ycvp). 

Thank you in advance for taking the time to provide us with important information as Michigan's #GoOpen initiative moves forward!

Recent discussions with schools have identified some good tips for smoothing potential network issues during WIDA, M-STEP, MI-Access or Early Literacy and Mathematics Benchmark Assessments.

• Make sure your firewall is not blocking your Testing Sight Managers (TSMs).

• Make sure your firewall has enough outbound connections available. If you regularly approach or hit your limit for outbound connections, that could cause disconnects during testing. 

• Whitelist DRC's URLs. This year we are whitelisting URLs, not IP addresses, to take advantage of secure cloud services. That list is below. Please note the addition of Amazon's secure cloud. 

• Your student's connection is most fragile while loading INSIGHT. Once you reach the login page, you are good to go, but your connection may be taxed if entire rooms of students are starting INSIGHT at the same time. You can avoid this on shared computers by starting INSIGHT before students arrive. If INSIGHT disconnects while starting, you can simply start it again; most students will have succeeded on the first try, so the connection will no longer be taxed. If this is a recurring problem, you can preemptively stagger logins, perhaps having half the room wait 30-60 seconds while the first half load INSIGHT.