A display of the computer based assessment interface students used for the Writing 2011 assessment.

The Star button was used to change the interface skin to one of three available choices:

  • default blue
  • steel gray
  • black & white (high contrast)

Volume

Text-to-speech feature. The students could use this feature if they wanted parts of the text or the entire text read aloud to them.

Zoom

Highlighter

Timer

Help

Open/Close Read Panel

Open/Close Write Panel

Edit menu

Format menu

Tools menu

Cut

Copy

Paste

Undo

Redo

Bold

Italic

Underline

Indent

Outdent

Check spelling