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Overview of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) Scanning

If you are using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) to test students, DataManager allows you to scan answer documents and submit a data file to Riverside Insights for scoring. Riverside Insights Scoring Service™ runs the file through a validation and scoring process and produces your score reports.

The OMR scanning solution requires these components:

  • Answer documents, Including header sheets or barcode labels for sorting, from one of the following test administrations: Iowa Assessments™, CogAT®, combination (Iowa/CogAT), or Logramos®
  • A Scantron® scanner and software (see Scanner and System Requirements)
  • Scantron ScanTools® Plus software  or ScanTools® Prisma™ (see Connect Your Scanner and Install Software)
  • The OMR application, which allows Riverside Insights Scoring Service to process the file containing the scanned answer document

This online help describes the OMR process from setting up and installing the scanner to sending the scanned results to Riverside Insights Scoring Service.

Complete Process

The complete process consists of these steps:

1.  Set up your scanner and install Scantron ScanTools Plus software. See Connect Your Scanner and Install Software.

Important: The following three steps require Administrator or above access.

 

2. If barcodes are being used, then create and submit data files (location, staff/user, and student files) to Riverside Insights to be imported into DataManager. See Create and Submit Data Files online help.

 

3. Specify OMR scanning options in DataManager Administration. See Manage OMR Scanning Options.

 

4. Create a test event. See Build Rosters from OMR Scanning and About Test Events in the DataManager Assessments Help.

 

5.  If barcodes are being used:

    1. Create a test assignment (within a test event that has already been created). See Create Test Assignments for OMR.
    2. Print barcode labels. See Print Barcode Labels.

 

6.  Prepare answer documents. See Prepare Answer Documents for Scanning.

 

7.  Scan your answer documents. See Create Scanning Sessions.

 

8.  View results from your scanning sessions and resolve scanning errors. See View Results.

 

9.  Send your scanning results to scoring. See Send to Scoring.