Running the Assessments on Any Device

Most schools do not have one kind of device. A classroom might use a cart of Chromebooks; the room next door might have a set of iPads; the library might have older desktops; some students might bring their own laptops. Independent schools especially tend to have a mix, assembled over years, rather than a single standardized fleet.

Because True Progress runs in a browser, that mix is not a problem. The same assessment behaves the same way whether a student sits at a Windows or Mac laptop, a Chromebook, an iPad, or an Android tablet. There is nothing to install on each machine, nothing to configure device by device, and no separate testing application to keep updated. If a device fails on testing day, a student can move to any nearby one and continue. And because each student's device uses very little internet data, even a full class testing at the same time places little demand on a school's network.

For a school with a small technology staff — or none — this is the difference between assessment that fits into a normal school day and assessment that requires its own logistics. The test meets the school where it is.

True Progress officially supports any device, operating system, and browser released within the past twelve months, and tests each new release against them. Older equipment will often still run the assessment perfectly well — but because it falls outside that testing, full functionality cannot be guaranteed.

The simplest way to avoid any surprise on testing day is to keep devices and browsers reasonably up to date, which most schools already do through routine updates.