Coastal Bend College no longer uses PLATO for TSI Preparation - please go to the following website: http://www.coastalbend.edu/tsiresource/
TSI Assessment Review Instruction
Sheet for PLATO
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We're glad that you're interested in attending Coastal Bend College, and we
hope that your time with us is both productive and rewarding. To give you
a refresher on various subjects covered in the actual TSI Assessment Exam,
we've put together a training module for you.
This training is a free
resource for you to use so that you will become familiar with the types of
questions you will see on the TSI Assessment exam.
You can complete the training module online using the PLATO program from any
computer that has internet access.
For additional review information, you can go toPre-Accuplacer Review Workshop Presentation (http://www.coastalbend.edu/Pre-AccuplacerReviewPresentations/) site for a virtual workshop.
And Testing
Tips (http://www.coastalbend.edu/TestingTips/) and exam information for more
information about the TSI Assessment exam.
There is also a website that deals with the Essay portion of the TSI
Assessment which is very helpful on this site.
To start the TSI Assessment Preparation Review, please review the steps below:
Steps 1 - 2 are the computer requirements that you'll need to review
before you start working in PLATO.
Steps 3- 5 walk you through how to enroll yourself into the PLATO program so that
you can start your preparation work. Prin
O1. On an internet-connected computer, you will need to have the following Internet
Browsers installed: Internet Explorer 8 or higher .
You can install Internet Explorer by going to the following site: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/default.aspx
2.
You will need to turn your Pop-Up Blockers off.
3.. Now
you are ready to go to the preparation website: http://ple.platoweb.com
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click
on "Need a PLATO
Account for Self-Enroll?" button. You will see the
following screen.
After you've clicked on the self-enroll button, you will see the following screen:
Follow the steps. Below are the account login
and class id and password that you'll need to self-enroll yourself into the
CBC-TSIPrep session to review before you take the TSI Assessment exam.
You can copy and paste the Class ID information from this page to the
self-enroll area in PLATO.
Fall 2015 - TSI Assessment
Account Login: CBC1
Class Id: af9d8108255946e4af26116e169ef80d
Password: CBC1
The above login is when you are self-enrolling only. Once you've enrolled, you will have a different login - see the bottom of this page.
Print out the copy of
your registration - which will look like this:
Keep this for your
record.
After you successfully log in, you'll see the following screen:
You'll click on the
Assignments button to see the individual areas for Academic Success/ Writing /
Reading / and Math.
You’ll do the Mastery Test
and if you do well, then you can move to another module. If you don’t do
well on the Mastery Test (which is a 5 to 10 question quiz) then you’ll want to
do the Tutorial.
Do as much as you want so that you will be comfortable with these type of
questions when you take the TSI Assessment.
The CBC-Academic Success is a module which will help you with time management
and other basic skills which are not on the TSI Assessment but which will
benefit you in your college career.
Start with the
Mastery Test - if you don't do well on the Mastery Test - then do the
tutorial.
If you log out of PLATO and want to log back in - go to http://ple.platoweb.com
Account Login: CBC
PLATO Name: (You'll enter the name that was created for you)
Password: (You'll enter the password you created)
This preparation session
will help you be more comfortable with the TSI Assessment exam content.
This should then make
you less nervous when you come in for your actual Accuplacer exam.
So please spend as much
time as you can reviewing the material in the PLATO program.
This is for your
benefit.
If you are experiencing
technical issues with PLATO:
Please go to the following PLATO Support Website: http://support.plato.com/
If you have questions or
concerns of a non-technical nature, please contact:
Roberta Kreis
Testing Coordinator
Coastal Bend College
3800 Charco Road
Beeville, Texas 78102
Phone: (361) 354-2244
E-mail: kreisr@coastalbend.edu
7/15/14 Created – RK
Revised 7/26/17 - RK
Website: http://www.coastalbend.edu/tsiprep/
(Coastal Bend College does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, gender, age, or disability.)