Identified: 03/18/26; Resolved: Targeting January 2027; Issue: In the Grades 6–8 Speaking DFAs (Forms 1–6) for the Summarize an Academic Presentation task, the first SAY line in each of two passages contains partially incorrect wording. "You will listen to another recorded presentation," and the incorrect text in the second passage SAY line reads, "In this part of the test, you will listen to a recorded presentation." Resolution: The DFA will be corrected for the 2026–27 administration. Workaround None. This is a directional issue only. It does not impact the student’s ability to answer the question. Identified: 02/15/26; Resolved: Targeting August 2026; Issue: In the High School CAST Interim Assessment–Life Sciences I, item number 3, there is a typo in the image depicting a formula. Resolution: The image will be corrected for the 2026–27 administration. Workaround None. This is a display issue only. It does not affect test delivery, student responses, scoring, or reporting. Identified: 07/25/25; Resolved: Targeting April 2026; The California Educator Reporting System (CERS), Custom Aggregate Reports for high school mathematics are displaying “NA” for the Target description. In this case, the NA stands for “Not Available” meaning the data is not available to render in CERS. Resolution: Smarter Balanced is working towards a solution that will make these descriptions available in CERS. Workaround Users may utilize the Smarter Balanced Content Explorer to access the relevant target descriptions.
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Title: Some users may not receive results when performing searches in SharePoint Online User impact: Users may not receive results when performing searches in SharePoint Online. Current status: We're continuing our efforts to redirect and rebalance traffic within the subset of affected infrastructure while optimizing the amount of new search requests that our service can handle to remediate the impact. We'll monitor the efficacy of these remediation strategies over the next 24 hours, after which we'll reach out to a subset of affected users to validate whether this issue is resolved or additional mitigative actions may be required. Scope of impact: Some users attempting to perform searches in SharePoint Online may be impacted by this event. This section may be updated as our investigation continues. Start time: Monday, April 20, 2026, at 12:00 AM UTC Root cause: An unexpected increase in request traffic and search request queuing is causing a subset of service infrastructure that processes SharePoint Online search requests to enter a suboptimal state, resulting in impact. Next update by: Thursday, May 07, 2026, at 7:00 PM UTC
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Issue: In the Grades 6–8 Speaking DFAs (Forms 1–6) for the Summarize an Academic Presentation task, the first SAY line in each of two passages contains partially incorrect wording. "You will listen to another recorded presentation," and the incorrect text in the second passage SAY line reads, "In this part of the test, you will listen to a recorded presentation."; Issue: In the High School CAST Interim Assessment–Life Sciences I, item number 3, there is a typo in the image depicting a formula.; The California Educator Reporting System (CERS), Custom Aggregate Reports for high school mathematics are displaying “NA” for the Target description. In this case, the NA stands for “Not Available” meaning the data is not available to render in CERS.
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