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.)