Grade 10 students at the public board are still writing the EQAO literacy test today, even though in some parts of the province the computer system crashed.
Mark Sherman, superintendent of secondary school education at the Lambton Kent District School Board, says the afternoon sitting for today's test is still a go.
"We do have some schools that already started the PM sessions, and we got notification that the technology is working, so we are continuing at a number of schools that do have PM sessions," he says.
Testing is being cancelled for the rest of the day everywhere else in the province because of computer glitches. That includes both Catholic schools in Chatham-Kent.
Director of Education with the St. Clair Catholic District School Board Dan Parr says they're waiting for further instructions from EQAO officials, to see if electronic testing will go forward in the spring.
Sherman says he's been notified students will have another opportunity to write the test in March, and that both electronic and paper copies will be available.
It's the first time the test is being conducted online, and Sherman says it's too bad it didn't go off without a hitch everywhere in Ontario.
"Locally, a success story, the system worked very seamlessly for us. Little bit of time delays because of the volume, but the students got the tests completed and it submitted as much as possible," says Sherman. "EQAO, there may be some growing pains, but we're happy to keep working with them, to make sure we can resolve the issues, "because this is where we need to go next with online testing for this, is the electronic formats."
-With files from Matt Weverink and Jake Kislinsky.