Share State Released OER Content With Colleagues

Schedule a Teacher Assigned Common Assessment from Featured Collections (Teacher) [Edcite Schools Feature]

This feature is available as part of our premium platform, Edcite Schools. To learn more about Edcite Schools, click here.

This guide assumes you have access to an Edcite Schools teacher account with permission to access Edcite Schools assignment folders.  If you need help with folders, you can email your administrator or schools@edcite.com with the subject “Folder Setup” for help.


  1. Login to your teacher account. In the top menu, choose Assignments → Collections. 



    2. On the Featured Collections page, there are two sets of collections depending on what you are looking for:

    1. For state released tests - Browse the top set of collections they should say [your state abbreviation] Aligned  Collections”. If you are not seeing any content here or you see the incorrect state, email schools@edcite.com. All of the  content in this top section is written by your state department of education, digitized by Edcite’s content team, and goes through a review process. 

    2. For OER and teacher created content  - Browse the lower set of collections they should say "All Featured Collections" or "[Subject] Collections" if you have a subject selected. You can use the subject / grade selector and if you select All you will see all available collections. A couple recommended collections: Achieve the Core, Eureka Math, PhET simulations and more! 



       3. Click the collection that you want to get an assessment from. 




      4. On the Collection page, browse for the assessment you want. Click … → Copy to copy the assessment.  To test out an assessment, you can click Preview for a flat view.  From Preview, you can click Student View to view the full student experience. Previewing will open a new tab where you can continue with step 6, but you can return to your previous tab and copy additional assignments if you want. 





        5. In the new tab, you will see the assignment name. Click Save to save it to your account. Before sharing, lock the assessment by clicking the Gear --> Basic Settings --> Mark as Common Assessment. 


The final step to get the assessment ready for use is to share it to Edcite Schools assignment folders. Click Share and then select the School Folder to share the assessment to.





  1. The folder will turn green when selected and you can click Add. Once the assignment is shared to a folder,  it can be distributed across classes. Click here for how to send a district distributed assessment. Click here for how to lock this and make it a teacher assigned common assessment. If no folders appear, email schools@edcite.com for help



8 . Now that the assessment is locked and shared into a folder, you and your colleagues can schedule the assessment following steps A - E. 
A. From your top navigation bar, click Common Assessments.



B. Select the Teacher Assigned tab. You can either browse all assignments using the search filter or use the Grade and Subject folders.



C. Find the assignment and click the Assign button.



D. The Scheduler Popover will open.  You can assign by class or by student and set a start time when the assignment will be available to students. If you are using Google Classroom or Canvas, you can assign to those classes on this popover. 



E. Click Assign to schedule the assignment. You will be brought to a Manage page where you can modify settings. For more details on assignment settings, click here.