NAP Opt-in assessment 2025 Information for participating schools

Thank you for registering for NAP Opt-in 2025 assessments. The information and materials below support your school's participation in the assessment.

In 2025 two domains are available for schools to participate in :

Science Literacy
Civics and Citizenship

Overview

In 2025 your school can enroll Year 6 and/or Year 10 students to sit NAP Opt-in Science Literacy and / or Civics and Citizenship assessment.

Registered schools self-administer NAP Opt-in assessment via the platform www.assessform.edu.au. This is the same platform schools use for NAPLAN assessments. Principals and their designated staff can use the platform to:

manage student enrolment
complete preparation tasks
deliver the assessment to their students via the locked down browser (LDB).

Key dates

School registration and enrolment window: 25 March 2025 – 29 April 2025
Test window: Monday 5 May – Friday 30 May 2025
School Report window: August 2025

Guides

NAP Opt-in Handbook for Principal and NAP Coordinator 2025 (PDF 3.58 MB)– contains process and procedures required to administer the NAP Opt-in assessments.
NAP-Opt-In Test Administrator Handbook 2025 (PDF 1.80 MB) – contains protocols and step-by-step instructions required to administer the test on the platform.
NAP-Opt-In Assessments 2025 Information Sheet (PDF 479 KB)

Helpdesk

Email: [email protected]
Phone:1800 574 000

Checklist

The 3 phases of NAP Opt-in assessment are:

Preparing
Delivering
Results.

Each phase has a dashboard and related tasks in the NAP Opt-in online delivery platform www.assessform.edu.au.

Schools must complete and check off all tasks in the 'Checklist' tile located on the left side of each dashboard to transition from one dashboard to the next.

More information about these tasks is provided in NAP Opt-in Handbook for Principal and NAP Coordinator 2025 (PDF 3.58 MB).

Preparing

Key actions:

Invite NAP coordinator and school technical support officer.
Create, enrol and manage students in the platform.
Manage student participation.
Undertake technical readiness activities.

Delivering

Key actions:

Create and manage test sessions.
Nominate test administrators.
Provide test administrator information pack including TA and Student session slip.
Generate reports on student participation.
Administer the NAP Opt-in 2025 assessment.
Manage test attempts.
Finalise test session including unused ones.

Results

Once schools have finalised all test sessions, they must move from the ‘Delivering’ to the ‘Results’ dashboard.

ACARA will then:

mark the assessments and analyse the assessment data
provide principals with school-level reports.

ACARA will provide further details on the report once we reach the reporting phase.

NAP Opt-in School Report Guide (PDF 496 KB): contains instructions for downloading the NAP Opt-in School Report, along with information to help schools understand the results. This was the guide used for NAP Opt-in 2024