About Scanning

Scanning is performed offline using ScanTools®, your scanner, and scanner software. These components work together to transfer data from student answer documents to a file that can be imported by Riverside Insights Scoring Service, scored, and made available for reporting.

Note the following about scanning:

• The scandef must be downloaded the first time you intend to work offline and whenever a new form is added to OMR.
• If Scoring Services receives two different versions of an answer document for the same student in separate scanning sessions, the most recent answer document automatically overwrites the previous one.

  Overview of the scanning process

• Open the test event into which you will be scanning and create the scanning session. See Create Scanning Sessions.
• Load each batch of answer documents into the scanner's feed tray and scan them. See Scan Answer Documents.
• Create the .dat file and send it to Scoring Services. See Scan Answer Documents.