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ASBC.es is an ONLINE tool for teachers that allows quick and easy administration of tests to their students.
Some of them are standardized for use in educational centers, such as the SOCIOGRAM test. Others, on the other hand, will be created by the teacher with the tools that the site provides.
The platform is aimed at teachers and education staff of legal age. From a single account you manage your school and your class groups, add your students, build and assign tests, collect and review results, generate sociograms, exchange internal messages with colleagues, and manage your plan and invoices. Each chapter of this manual covers one of these areas.
To protect underage students, their names are always anonymised: only the initials of their surnames are shown and stored.
Students do not need an account. To take a test, a student simply enters, on the home page, the access code that you give them.
Go to Register and fill in the form:
For security, if there are several attempts from the same connection a small captcha appears, and after too many attempts new attempts are temporarily blocked.
When you submit the form your account is created and a verification email is sent to you. Open it and click the link to verify and activate your account; you can then sign in. Until your account is verified, signing in will say it is pending approval.
If the email does not arrive, an administrator can activate your account; in that case, write to us at info@asbc.es.
On the registration and sign-in pages you will see buttons for the available providers (for example Google, Microsoft, Facebook, GitHub or LinkedIn, depending on which are enabled). After accepting the consent, choose a provider and sign in with it: your email and name are taken from that provider, and you complete the rest (name, phone and school, by code or new). Your username and email are your provider email and cannot be changed. Accounts created this way are activated immediately and have no separate password.
Go to Login and enter your username (or your email, for social accounts) and your password. As with registration, after a few failed attempts a captcha appears, and after several more, access is temporarily blocked.
If you already have an account, choosing your provider on the sign-in page logs you in directly, without a password.
You can change your password at any time from your profile (see section 13). Social accounts that have never set a password can define one there too. If you have forgotten your password, see the recovery steps in section 15.
After signing in you arrive at your dashboard: the hub from which you reach every tool. The dashboard menu groups the options by area (for example Teaching and Administration) according to your permissions.
At the top of every page, a header bar shows your school, your active group and your name. The top menu also gives quick access to your profile, your messages and your billing, and to sign out.
Most of your work (students, assigning tests, reports) is scoped to one active group. Use the group selector in the header to switch group; the page reloads showing the data for the group you chose. If you do not have any group yet, the header offers a link to create or manage your groups.
When you register you either join an existing school with its code or create a new one (see section 2). The details of your school are managed by an administrator; you can see them, read-only, in your profile.
A group is a class: a set of students you work with. You manage your groups from the Groups page, where you can create a group and edit or delete the ones you own.
You add and manage your students from the Students page. The list always shows the students of your active group, so select the right group first.
For each student you enter their first name and surnames, and details such as sex, age, email and phone, and whether the student is a minor.
To protect children, the surnames of underage students are anonymised: only their initials are kept and shown, in the lists, the reports and the sociograms.
You can upload a photo for each student. If you do not, the platform generates an avatar automatically from the unique initials of the student, so every student is easy to tell apart. When editing a student you can also regenerate the avatar.
A test is a questionnaire made up of items (questions). You manage your tests from the My tests page.
Give the test a name and a short description, and choose its grade, level and subject. A few options let you randomise the order of the items and of the options, and show the correction criterion. With visibility you decide who else can reuse your test: only your school, or the whole platform.
You do not need to have any group to create a test; groups only come into play when you assign it (see section 7).
These are the options you can set on the test as a whole:
Inside a test you add items of different types. Most are corrected automatically by the platform; a few are graded by you or are purely informational. These are all the available types:
Whatever its type, every item shares the same set of general fields:
You do not have to start from scratch. You can copy a standardised test from the system catalogue, or a test shared by a colleague, into your own tests and adapt it as you like. Tests and items you delete go to a trash, from which they can be recovered while they have not been permanently removed.
For students to take a test you first assign it. You can assign a test to your whole active group or to a single student. Each assignment becomes a card in your results, with its own life: you can close it, reopen it, archive it or delete it.
Students do not need an account: the code is all they need, and they take the test from any device.
After entering the code (and choosing their name, for a group), the student accepts the terms and answers the items one by one, moving back and forth, until they finish.
Closed items (multiple choice, dropdowns, matches, and so on) are graded automatically. Open answers are graded by you: from the assignment card you open the manual grading, review each answer and mark it as correct or not.
The Results page lists your assignments as cards. From each card you follow how the group is doing and you reach the per-student and per-group results.
When you delete an assignment it is not removed straight away: it moves to the Trash section of the results page. While it is there you can restore it, bringing the assignment and its results back exactly as they were.
After some time, assignments left in the trash are permanently removed on their own. When that happens, only the results of those students for that test are deleted (their answers and the access codes of that assignment). Your students and the test are never deleted: they stay in your account and you can assign the test again whenever you want.
A sociogram studies the relationships within a group. It is built from a standardised questionnaire in which each student privately indicates the classmates they would choose for certain situations and those they would reject, and may also say who they think will choose or reject them.
From the sociogram generator in the menu, you generate the sociogram for a group; it is assigned and taken like any other test (see section 7). The group is fixed the moment the first student starts, so the analysis stays consistent.
Each time you generate a sociogram, the platform creates a new copy (a clone) of the system sociogram test, with its own items and named with the date and time. That copy appears in your tests list and is available to assign to a group or to individual students, exactly like any other test. You can generate several applications throughout the year; each one is independent and collects its own answers.
If you created an application by mistake, you can delete it from your tests list as long as no student has started it yet, even if you have already assigned it to groups or students. For sociogram applications that list shows only the Delete button; everything else about the sociogram is handled from its generator and its report.
Once there are answers, the report offers:
You can regenerate the report at any time. Remember that, as everywhere, the surnames of underage students appear only as initials.
A public page explains the school sociogram in more detail: what it measures, how to pass it in class and how to read each part of the report. The school sociogram.
asbc.es includes a private messaging system so you can communicate with other users without leaving the platform and without sharing your email address. You will find it in the messaging area (the envelope icon) of the top menu; a small badge shows how many unread messages you have.
Open Compose and choose who should receive it:
If a username does not exist, you are told which ones and the message is not sent.
asbc.es offers three plans: Free (the default, at no cost), Plus and Pro. Each plan grants a larger monthly allowance of tests. The exact monthly test cap and the price of each plan are shown on the Billing page.
The allowance counts completed tests — each time a student finishes a test in one of your assignments — added up across all your groups and tests within your current monthly billing period (anchored to your sign-up date on the Free plan, or to the start of your paid period). When you reach the cap, starting new test sessions is paused until your next period; a session that is already under way is normally not interrupted.
The Billing page shows your current plan, its monthly cap and price, and the history of your invoices.
Online card payment is being finalised, so the payment page is currently under construction. In the meantime, to complete a paid subscription please write to us at info@asbc.es; once your payment is confirmed, the plan becomes active.
When you delete an item, a test, a student or an assignment, it is not erased at once: it goes to a trash from which you can recover it for a while. Only after a retention period does the platform remove it for good, on its own. This chapter explains each trash, what each deletion drags along with it, and what happens when you close your teacher account.
To stop you from losing your pupils' answers by mistake, some things cannot be sent to the trash while they hold student activity. A test that a pupil has already started, an item a pupil has already answered or seen, and a student who has any test activity are all protected: their Delete button is disabled. Assignments are the exception — you can always send an assignment to the trash — because it is precisely through the assignments trash that results are removed in a controlled way (see below).
So if a Delete button is disabled, it is because deleting would destroy results. To remove such an element, first clear the activity tied to it — for example by resetting the results from the assignment card, or by deleting the corresponding assignment in Results.
From My tests, the Delete button sends a test to your tests trash. You can only do this if none of your students has started it yet; copies that other teachers made from your test are independent and never block you. While it waits in the trash the test keeps everything — its items, its assignments and its picture are untouched — and you can restore it from the trash exactly as it was.
If you leave it there past the retention period, it is deleted for good. That deletion cascades: it removes the test, its items (with their images) and all of its assignments together with the participants and answers linked to them. Because you cannot send a test to the trash once a pupil has started it, a purged test never had results to lose; but its items are gone for good.
While you edit a test, each item has a Delete button that sends it to your items trash, as long as no student has answered or seen it. From the items trash you restore an item into the test you are editing at that moment, so open the right test before restoring. Once the retention period is over, the item is deleted for good, together with all of its images.
From Students, the Delete button sends a student to your students trash, as long as the student has no test activity at all. The student keeps their group and their test history while in the trash. When you restore a student, they are placed into the group that is active in your header, so select the right active group first. After the retention period the student is deleted for good, along with their photo or avatar and their links to your tests.
From Results, the Delete button on a card sends that assignment to the Trash section of the same page — you can always do this, whatever state the card is in. The assignment and its results are kept while in the trash, and restoring the card brings them back (a restored assignment becomes active again, even if it was closed or archived before).
When the retention period passes, the assignment is removed for good on its own. This is the most contained deletion: only the results of those students for that test are removed — their answers and the access codes of that assignment. Your students and the test are never deleted; they stay in your account and you can assign the test again whenever you want. This is the intended way to clear results in a controlled manner.
Each trash lists, for every element, when it will be deleted. Until then you can restore it. The length of this retention period is set by the administrator (about three months by default). Once an element has been permanently removed by the automatic clean-up, it can no longer be recovered.
You can close your account at any time from the close-account page in your profile, confirming with your password. Closing is permanent and, once finished, your session is closed. You choose between two options, with very different consequences for your data.
Transfer your data to a colleague at your school. Everything becomes theirs: your tests, items, groups, students, assignments and results, and even your own trash (anything still pending deletion). The colleague you pick becomes the new owner and nothing is lost — only your account is removed. This option needs at least one other teacher at your school; if you are the only one, it is not available.
Delete everything. This permanently removes your tests (with their images and, in cascade, the results tied to them), your items (both those in your tests and those in your trash, with their images) and your whole trash. Your groups and students are removed only if you are the only teacher at your school; if there are other teachers, your groups and students are kept so your colleagues can go on using them, and you are simply unlinked from them.
Whichever option you choose, the school itself is never deleted, and your invoices are never deleted either: your billing history is kept, unlinked from your account, for legal reasons. Bear in mind that Delete everything also erases all of your students' results in your tests; if you want to keep them, or let a colleague carry on, choose Transfer instead.
Your right to erasure. Choosing Delete everything is how you exercise your right to be forgotten: your account and the personal data you entered are erased from the platform for good, not merely hidden or archived. The only exception is your invoices, which the law requires us to keep for the legal tax-record period, unlinked from your account. Any copies of your data in routine backups disappear as those backups are rotated in the normal cycle.
Open your profile to review your account and update your details. The form is divided into a few blocks.
In the password block, enter your current password and your new password twice (at least 6 characters). For your safety, if the current password is wrong none of the other changes are saved either. If you leave the three password fields empty, your password is not changed and your other edits are saved as usual.
If you signed up with a social network and never set a password, you can define one here without entering a current password; from then on you can also sign in with your username and password.
Closing your account is permanent, so it has its own page, reached from your profile. You must confirm with your password and choose one of two options:
Transferring requires choosing a colleague from your school; if you are the only teacher there, deletion is the only option. Once done, your session is closed.
The platform is available in several languages. You can switch language at any time with the language selector in the top bar, which is visible on every page — even before you sign in. The change is immediate.
The first time you arrive, before you have chosen anything, the platform tries to guess your language from your country (by geolocation); if it cannot, it uses English. As soon as you pick a language in the selector, your choice is remembered: during your session and, through a cookie, on your next visits. If you are signed in, your choice is also saved to your account, so you are recognised on any device and the automatic messages we send you arrive in that language.
The whole interface — menus, buttons and texts — switches to the chosen language straight away, and your preference is saved (session, cookie and, if you are signed in, your account). The automatic messages we send you (welcome, billing notices, the monthly report) also start arriving in that language.
Two things are not affected by switching your language. First, assignments you have already created keep their language; only the new assignments you create from now on use the newly chosen language (see below). Second, the content you have already written — your tests and items — is kept exactly as you wrote it; changing your language never rewrites it.
When you assign a test (to a group or to a single student), the platform freezes the language you have active at that moment into the assignment. The student will take that test — and get its PDF report — in that language, whatever the language of their browser or country, and regardless of any change you make afterwards. That is why, right after assigning, you see a notice, written in that language, confirming which language your students will see.
The student does not have to choose anything: they enter their access code and the test appears directly in the frozen language.
To have your students take a test in a particular language, switch your own language (with the selector in the top bar) to the one you want for them, and only then assign the test to the group or the student. That language is frozen into the assignment, and from then on every student takes the test in it. If you need the same test in different languages for different groups, switch your language before each assignment: each group gets its own assignment with its own language.
An assignment's language is set when it is created and does not change if you assign again onto the same active card (its original language is reused). To move a group to a different language, start a fresh round: close or archive the current assignment (from the Results page) and assign the test again with the new active language. The new card freezes the new language.
The platform interface is translated into all the available languages. Standardised system tests (such as the school sociogram) are translated too and are shown to the student in the assignment's language. The content you write — the statements and options of your own items — is shown exactly as you wrote it: the platform does not translate it automatically. If you want a test in another language, write its items in that language (you can copy an existing test and adapt it).
When you create a test you choose the language in which you write it and its items, with a selector on the test form. It defaults to your active language, but you can pick any platform language or choose Other language… and type one that is not on the list (for example Basque, Galician or Russian). The content you write is never translated, so this is simply a label that records the language of the test; while you add items, the form reminds you of the language the test was defined in.
That label lets you filter tests by language. In the list of system tests, and in the list of shared tests you can clone (those shared within your school or with the whole platform), a language filter shows by default the tests written in your language. You can switch it to any other language, pick Other language… to search for one outside the platform, or choose All languages. The school sociogram is multilingual and always appears, whatever language you select.
If you need help or want to report a problem, you can reach us in two ways:
On the sign-in page, click "Forgot your password?" and enter the email you registered with. If it belongs to a user, a link to set a new password will be sent; the link is valid for 24 hours and can be used only once. For your privacy, the page always shows the same message, whether or not the email is registered.
Sign in with a social network using the same email you registered with: it recognises you by your email and lets you in without a password. Once inside, go to your profile and set a new password there. Because you have signed in this way, you do not need your old password, and if your account did not have one yet, you simply create it. If you cannot use a social network with that email, write to us using the contact form or the support email.