2022 Product Release Notes
April 2022
Accelerated Reader
- Article Quiz Availability Preference
- New, school-level preference allows admins to set whether students at a school can see, read, and take quizzes on articles.
- Student Progress Page Update
- Replaced the reading range with a link to “Find More Books in Your Range” that takes the student to their book discovery page
- Page now displays a graphic for percent of fiction/non-fiction reading and percent of Spanish/English reading
- percent of fiction/non-fiction is based on points earned
- percent of Spanish/English is only shown for students who have taken a Star Reading Spanish test and/or have passed an Accelerated Reader quiz in Spanish
- Now includes Star (Math/Reading) Spanish scores, when available for a selected marking period, in addition to English scores
- Star scores now reflect the Unified scale
- Student Discovery Page Update
- All students will now see their reading range for their English book recommendations
- Based on Star Reading (English) assessment or student’s grade level
- Students who have taken a Star Reading Spanish test and those who have taken an AR Spanish quiz will see Spanish book recommendations
- Based on Star Reading (Spanish) assessment
- Reading range is only surfaced if Star Reading Lexile Range Preference has been set to Lexile instead of ZPD
- The “Help me find a book” search now includes language filters
Star Assessments
- Star CBM
- User can choose which products appear on the Data Insights page
- The Assignment grid popover was reorganized and now shows if notes have been added or if student audio recording is available
- The Student Detail page will also show if a student's assessment has notes or an audio recording
Renaissance Growth Platform
- Clever Self-Serve
- Fly-out messaging added to alert District Admin user when there are issues with the last sync that need attention
- New tabs added to Sync Logs for Blockers, Warnings, and Updates (messaging on those tabs won’t be flowing through until a later date)
- Up to 15 previous syncs (failures and successes) are available from the Sync Date drop-down menu
- Preferences
- Update to how users select school, classes, and students when viewing/setting preferences
- Now uses drop-down menus
- Applies to classroom and individual student preferences
Star Assessments
- Star Home Connect Email update: parents will now receive the Star Family Report in place of the current Home Connect email.
Renaissance Growth Platform
- Added CSV to State Standards Mastery – District/School Report: now customers have the option to generate a CSV file to this report on once the data has been generated.
- The Home Connect letter for Clever Self-Serve customers has been updated to contain detailed instructions on how parents/students should log in to Home Connect using the Clever Log In button.
Star Assessments
- The Star Test Activity Report CSV was updated to include if Star Math was enabled for each student’s most recent test.
- The Star Record Book CSV files (accessed via the Download Data buttons) have been updated to include students without test activity at the end of the file.
- The Star Record Book: Changes to Tab Names
Renaissance Growth Platform
- Clever Self-Service Disconnect: A district admin user for Renaissance can now disconnect Clever from within Renaissance.
myON
- V4.6.0 Released
- More titles added to myON – 17 new books were released to the core collection, bringing the core collection count to 7,232 titles
Accelerated Reader
- Goal Record Book improvements:
- Percent of marking period completed visibility
- Goal model selected visibility
- Percent of goal achieved visibility
- Teachers now see students’ actual scores when editing goals
- Teachers now see the amount of daily reading time the goal is based on
Star Assessments
- CSV and Student ID added to several Star reports:
- Star State Standards Mastery – Class Report
- Star Growth Report
- Star Test Activity Report
- Star Screening Report
- Star Summary Report
- Star Diagnostic Report (CSV only; already included Student ID)
- Star Math audio indicator added to Star Math reports:
- Star Diagnostic Report
- Star Test Activity Report
- Star Test Record Report
Renaissance Growth Platform
- Growth Proficiency Chart has been added, which is a dynamic scatterplot chart that provides a customizable comparison of how specific schools, classes, and students are performing based on Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) and either % Proficient (for districts and schools) or Scaled Score (for students).
myON
- Added 27 new Spanish books