2022 Product Release Notes
July 2022
Star Assessments
- Introducing Star CBM Lectura!
- Will assess K-6 students’ literacy development in Spanish
- Assessments should be administered by a fluent Spanish speaker
- Added value product, so not available for individual purchase at this time. Included with the following subscriptions:
- Star 360, Star Elementary, Star CBM Suite, Star CBM Reading
- Nearpod & Star Integration
- Nearpod lessons integrated into Star that may be used for lesson planning
- Star Reading, Star Early Literacy, Star Math, and Star Spanish
- Most skills will have Nearpod resources associated with them
- Four ways to view recommended skills for students
- Instructional groups
- Individual students
- Grade and domain
- Skill search
- Customers will need to create a free Nearpod account to save Library Lessons and must have a paid Nearpod account to preview and save Premium Resources. Visit https://nearpod.com/signup/ for more information
- Data Insights - Screening Rate Dashboard
- Star Scale Transition Preference Removal
- All RGP customers (except those in Mississippi) will be set to use the Unified Scale
- The Star Scale Transition preference has been removed from all sites (except those in Mississippi)
- Star CBM Data Insights
- Screening Rate Participation Rate tiles
- Updated to only show the current school year’s Screening Periods in the dropdown menu
- % Moving Up tile
- Updated to show a student’s grade level at the time each assessment was taken, instead of their current grade level only
- A student’s name is also no longer clickable from this table
- Norm/Benchmark Updates for back to school 2022-2023
- Versioning will be implemented allowing norms/benchmarks to update based on the customer’s first day of school
- New norms
- Star Math for Kindergarten
- Star Early Literacy for Pre-K
- Benchmarks
- Star Reading for Kindergarten
Renaissance Growth Platform
- Student Home Page Updates
- The student home page is WCAG (Web Content Accessability Guidelines) 2.1 AA compliant with new and improved features including:
- Color contrast
- Support for screen readers
- Support for tab/arrow key navigation
- Support for zooming in up to 400%
- The tiles have been reorganized to bring the practice products to the top of the page, as those are traditionally the most frequently used products. The Assignments list also has a fresh, new look.
- When IP/product restrictions are set, users have an improved experience and see clearer messaging:
- Students will see the restricted product tile(s) on their home page.
- When a restricted product tile is selected (or an activity from the Assignments list that's for a restricted product), the user is presented with a more meaningful message.
Accelerated Reader
- New Biliteracy Report on the Record Book, which includes the following information for each student:
- Average book level (English vs. Spanish)
- Percent correct on AR quizzes (English vs. Spanish)
- Portion of reading done in each language
Star Assessments
- Star CBM: Data Insights - NEW Participation Rate Dashboard
- See how many students were tested on at least one CBM measure (Reading or Math)
- Dive deeper into the dashboard to view:
- % Of students assessed
- Number of students assessed
- Number of students eligible to take the test
- Students not assessed
- Save, Print, or Download the data
- Updated Star CBM Connection Issues Messaging
- Messaging was updated for users attempting to administer an online Star CBM assessment.
Renaissance Growth Platform
- Clever Self-Serve Improvements
- Sync terminology improved to provide better clarity and consistency in messaging.
- User with unmatched schools will receive a message in the Clever sync log letting them know they have unmatched schools
- Certain minor issues will not prevent a sync from completing successfully:
- Existing RGP users who have the same email
- Incoming teachers who have duplicate emails
- Term missing a date (term excluded)
- Incoming teacher with no school assignment
- Transfer Student Data
- These key pieces of Star data will transfer along with a transferred student:
- Star CBM data and audio recordings
- Star CAT benchmark data
- Star CAT mastery data
myON
- More titles added
- An additional 15 books were released in myON at the end of June, to the core collection (available to all US customers)
- This release brings the myON core collection count to 7,336 and the myON Spanish translated title count to 338 (for a total of 711 Spanish titles)
Star CBM
- Benchmark Transitions drop-down added to choose Measure
- Choose whether to see the grade-level screening measures for the selected grades (measures that have benchmarks available) or to see results for a specific measure.
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