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

March 2022

February 2022

January 2022