Google Classroom: How do I share the Assessment Series or Free Reading Assessment? Does CommonLit automatically post my assessment?

If your district has chosen to purchase Assessment Series through CommonLit School Essentials PRO or School Essentials PRO Plus, you will not have access to the Free Reading Assessment on CommonLit.org. Instead, you’ll be able to collect baseline data through the first assessment in the Assessment Series. You’ll also have access to a Mid-Year and a Post-Assessment to help you track students’ reading growth throughout the reading year.

Currently, the CommonLit coursework integration for Google Classroom works for all assignments, but CommonLit does not support a coursework integration for assessments. 

As such, the only way to post an assessment to Google is to copy the assessment link from the Assignments page and use that link to manually create an assignment within Google Classroom.

The posting is not automated and must be kicked off by a teacher following the instructions below.

After scheduling the Assessment Series or Free Reading Assessment, a teacher should click the three stacked dots to the right of the Assessment Series (Pre-Assessment, Mid-Year Assessment, or Post-Assessment) or Free Reading Assessment on the Assessments tab of the Assignments page. Once teachers click the three stacked dots, they should see an option to Copy Assessment Link. Teachers should click that option, and then paste the link into a manually created Google Classroom assignment. 

Please note: there is no option to share student scores on the Assessment Series or Free Reading Assessment with students. Scores will not be sent to Google Classroom for the Assessment Series or Free Reading Assessment. All other CommonLit assignments do have the option to share scores with Google Classroom.

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