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Dynamic Learning Maps® Alternate Assessment

We provide an instructionally relevant assessment and report assessment results to help guide instruction.

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Test Updates

Important Testing Reminders
September 11, 2025

Kite Student Portal
Kite® Student Portal is the secure platform where students take Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) assessments. While in Student Portal, students cannot access unauthorized webpages or applications.

Avoiding Locked iPads During Testing
September 4, 2025

Before launching Kite® Student Portal, please ensure that the iPad has an established internet connection. Restarting the iPad and inputting the quit password may be required if the application opens without a connection to the internet.

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Montana Joins the DLM Alternate Assessment
June 27, 2025

Montana has joined the DLM consortium as the eighth instructionally embedded state. With the addition of Montana, DLM alternate assessments serve students in 24 states. Montana students will take DLM assessments for English language arts, mathematics, and science.

Readtopia Free Units Available
February 4, 2025

Did you know that ATLAS' own Karen Erickson is a lead editor & author of Readtopia? It is aligned with DLM Essential Elements in ELA and mathematics. You can request free units to try with your students.

https://www.buildingwings.com/readtopia//

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High Expectations for Student Success

This video outlines four keys to academic success for students with significant cognitive disabilities and highlights a few postsecondary opportunities for students taking the DLM alternate assessment. The contents of the video were developed from an ATLAS study on how DLM academic achievement standards prepare students to pursue postsecondary opportunities (pdf).

This video outlines four keys to academic success for students with significant cognitive disabilities and highlights a few postsecondary opportunities for students taking the DLM alternate assessment. The contents of the video were developed from an ATLAS study on how DLM academic achievement standards prepare students to pursue postsecondary opportunities (pdf).

Parents: Learn more about how to build high expectations for your child’s life after high school in A Future of Opportunity (pdf).