State assessment presenters answered frequent questions about Acadience Reading and Acadience Math, clarified retention and sharing rules for student responses, and walked directors through ALO (Acadience Learning Online) goal‑setting and the Pathways of Progress visualizations.

On sharing student responses with parents: staff said teachers may show a parent's child responses in the system or show a paper worksheet during a parent conference, but the student work should not be sent home and should remain in the school or in ALO. Staff emphasized these are assessment measures, not practice materials.

On retention of paper worksheets for Acadience Math: state staff said local practice should be to retain paper benchmark worksheets for the current school year to allow score validation; after the current year schools may securely destroy those worksheets. Staff explained scores entered in ALO are the official record and that the general Utah retention schedule does not require permanent paper retention when scores are in the system.

On ALO goal‑setting and Pathways of Progress: presenters demonstrated the ALO color systems for current performance (green/blue/yellow/red) and growth pathways (light green/dark green/blue/yellow/red) and explained recommended goal choices — typical growth for students at or above benchmark, more ambitious (above or well above typical) goals for students below benchmark. Staff highlighted an important timing change: goals are now linked to the final day of a district’s testing window, and if students are assessed after that date the ALO goal updates automatically to reflect extra instructional time.

Training and resources: staff pointed directors to Acadience training sessions (administration/scoring and data analysis), Canvas courses, and two short videos (an ALO pathways video for teachers and a parent‑focused Acadience overview) posted on the USBE resource pages. Assessment staff asked directors to share the ALO pathways video with administrators and teachers and the parent video with families.

Other operational notes covered: ongoing work with Acadience to display teacher names linked to classes, score following for students who transfer (staff said scores should migrate within about 48 hours if rostering and data release are set up correctly) and scheduled middle‑of‑year Acadience reading testing (Dec. 1–Jan. 31). Staff asked districts to notify the assessment office if scores are not following as expected.