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Accessing SDMS

(All States)

To access SDMS, you must have a College Board professional account associated with your professional email that matches what your institution submitted for your participation in administering SAT Suite assessments. These contacts are entered and maintained at both the district and school level.

In late January, a link to access SDMS will automatically appear in My Dashboard under My Tools and Services. SDMS users will also receive a welcome email from College Board with a link to access SDMS.

Screenshot of a College Board professional account dashboard with the link to the State Data Management System in a red outline.

The first time you access SDMS for the spring administration, you will be asked to accept the SDMS terms and conditions. This prompt is a reminder of our shared partnership to protect test takers' privacy. After accepting the terms and conditions, you won't see this prompt again during the administration year. You can also click Download Terms and Conditions from this prompt.

Screenshot of the Site Terms of Use for the State Data Management System.

Dashboard and Student Roster Pages

Your SDMS home page features a Dashboard that provides and overview of registration and testing status data for each assessment you're administering. Each assessment appears on its own card. Depending on your permissions, these cards may include state-level, district-level, or school-level information.

Screenshot showing the home page dashboard with three different assessment cards.

From your home page, you can navigate to the Student Roster page, where you can view list data and summary data for students.

State and district users can download summary data files from this page. When you toggle the View Details button between District and School, a Download Summary link appears above the table that lists the districts or schools participating. State users can download district or school summaries, and district users can download school summaries.

Screenshots of the state summary and district summary views on the Student Roster page with the view details toggle button and the download summary link outlined in red for each the state and district view.

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