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• Faculty username and password s4• Help, Charts and Forms s6• Finding Student Data s10• Accelerated Reader s17• Student lists with username and password s18• Class Diagnostic Report s26• Setting Reading Marking Periods and Goals s28• Student Points Report s31• Students and Renaissance Place s38• Accelerated Math s59• Math Reports s63• Setting Math Marking Periods and Goals s64• STAR Reading and Math testing s69• Student Individualization (needing lower level skills) s82• Last Year’s Scores (12/4/2007 not complete yet) s85
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Faculty, Thank You for Participating in this Project!
• If you teach Math, Language Arts, Literature or Reading, this information is for you.
• If you need to print this document…– make adjustments to handouts and how many slides per page
– print specific pages changing to handouts and how many slides per page
• If we need to get together, email me and we will schedule a day and time! We could do a small group session if that would help!
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Ready to Use
• Renaissance Place is ready for you to use! Students have been added to Courses (grade and/or subject) and Classes (teachers). You may login...
• username: your first name initial and whole last name (MMouse) 2 capitals (newer version, caps are not always needed)
• password: your last name and the #1 (mouse1) no capitals• The programs found using Renaissance Place include
Accelerated Reading, Accelerated Math, STAR Reading and STAR Math.
• Students may start using the programs whenever you are ready. Accelerated Reading is ready. STAR Reading scores for last year’s students are available. STAR Reading tests for students 2nd-8th will be scheduled soon.
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WarningWarning
• I may not have gotten all the setting and preferences correct! Please do not readjust until you talk/email me…what you do may affect the whole district!
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Help ? ! ?• Ann Vaughn [email protected]• peers that have worked with the program• manuals on line (in the yellow bar)
– prints numerous pages, be selective
• check out “Resources” on the homepage under the section AM or AR, great information and charts/ forms needed to manage the programs
• www.renlearn.com for mini-courses
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Navigation made easier use the navigation bar
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Marking Periods(set for district)
1st 6 weeks 8/27-9/28
2nd 10/1-11/9
3rd 11/12-1/11/2008
4th 1/22-2/22
5th 2/25-4/11
6th 4/14-5/16
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home page…after login
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Finding Student Data in Renaissance Place
Check this information periodically, I will have the PEIMS Ladies assisting me in keeping
this up-to-date!
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Log in at Welcome screen.
Then click on Reports in Acc.
Reader
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In Reports screen click on School Management
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Click on Student Information
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Make sure you find your name and current class with the correct year !
View the Report, if it is the one you want, then Print
Make changes to the Report, if you desire
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Student name
Student User Name Password
number
Always use the print icon when printing in
Adobe Acrobat Reader
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Student Information
• If all else fails!!!!• The Librarian will have a list of student names,
login and password• Login names are usually…
– first initial and first four letters of last name, or– first initial and whole last name
• Password is usually last four digits of social security number (sometimes if we do not have a social security number it will the grade number four times [7777] until I can get the correct number)
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Accelerated Reader
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go to Reports
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go to School Management
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click Student Information(list of your students and #s)
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Student name
Student User Name Password
number
Always use the print icon when printing in
Adobe Acrobat Reader
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click on Reading Practice
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Numerous Types of Reports
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click on Diagnostic
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Select YOUR correct class
make sure the year is correct
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Class Diagnostic Report
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can do Individual Students (like for ARDs, Parent Conferences and change
dates for specific information)
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Class Record Book to Set Goals
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Setting Goals
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Setting Reading Goals
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Student Points Report
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Login and Go to AR Reports
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Select Reading Practice
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Go down to find Student Points
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Find Your Class
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Student Points Report
student names
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Running Reports
• You can run different reports any time that you want.
• You can check on single students, whole classes or all of your classes.
• You can “view” a report and not print it if you just need to check on some information about a student.
• Criteria for the different reports can be changed to meet your needs.
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Students and Renaissance Place
Renaissance Place.url may be shaped like a pyramid
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Students at Middle School may access the Renaissance Place website by going through the Middle School @chalk
web page and clicking on the link.
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Press Space Bar
Students Click Here
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Click on Find User Name
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Type in First Name…only(for some it will be last name)
then click Search
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Find Your Name and Click On It
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Add Your AR Numberthen Click Log In
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Click on Take a Quiz
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Click on Take a Reading Practice Quizor…whatever you need to do at this screen
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Decide How You Are Going to Find Your Book
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Pick One
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Change “type of information”
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changes made and information added
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then click Search
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Find Your Story
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may need to click Next to find the story
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Check Again to Make Sure This Is the Correct Story…then click Yes
or No
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Click Start Quiz(shows on XP not on 98 machines, all of the time)
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Return to Home to take another test
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click Log Out to go to the Renaissance Place home page
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Ready for next student
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Accelerated Math
• Almost everyone can use the default for the appropriate grade– some resource and ESL classes may need some
adaptations• If a grade wants to get together and reorganize
the list of objectives that will be fine– reorganize the list– rename the list “___grade textbook aligned” and I will
reset the objectives– this probably needs to be done soon
• folders with library pockets is a great classroom management tool
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Accelerated Math Solutions
• When you need to clear-out last year’s objectives so that students can start over again, follow these steps:
• Under Accelerated Math, click on Assignment Book. Select your school, click Set. Select your class and click Set. Your students should appear. Place a check mark beside the student’s name and over on the left side, select Hold/Unassign/Reset. From the next screen, select all of the objectives, and click Reset. This should allow you to re-assign objectives for that student.
• When you have a student or students that need to utilize a lower level set of objectives, you must either make all of those objectives available for all of the students in your class, or create a new class with just those students being enrolled in that class and make the appropriate objectives available to the new class. If you would like to create a new class, please give the names to Ann Vaughn so that she can create the class and enroll specific students for you. If you would tell her what level of objectives they need, she can also make those objectives available.
• Nancy Allen
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Three Important Links on the Renaissance Place
Accelerated Math section• Assignment Book
– set objectives– print activities, practices and tests– look at reports
• Reports– diagnostic– status
• Math Resources– forms to use– getting started– strategies to use
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Adding Objectives to Your Class List
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Reportsbe sure school and class is correct and then click SET
student list and standing within the program
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Setting Goals• In Accelerated Math, you can set two types of student goals:• • Objective Goal: This is the number of objectives that you would like each student• to master during the time period you select.• • Test % Correct Goal: This is the student’s average percent correct on tests during• the time period.• Goals are necessary if you want to use teams. Team results and standings are based on• each team member’s progress toward his or her goals.• The Goal History Report shows your students’ progress toward goals. The Team Status• and Team Standings Reports show team progress.• Setting Goals• 1. Click Teams & Goals in the list of Accelerated Math tasks on your Home page.• 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list and click Set.• 3. Click Manage Goals on the left side of the page.• 4. If necessary, select your class from the drop-down list on the Manage Goal page• and click Set.• 5. If there is a Class Marking Period drop-down list, select a class marking period (or• All Class Marking Periods) and click Set.• If there is no drop-down list, click Select Class Marking Periods. On the next• page, click Select next to each marking period that you want to use for goals. (You• can’t choose overlapping marking periods.) Then, click Save. On the Manage Goal• page, choose the class marking period that you’d like to set goals for and click Set.• Class marking• periods. These aren’t just the marking periods that have been added for your school; they’re the• ones you’ve selected for your class. You can choose them here or in the Class Marking Periods
preference for your Class.
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Goal SettingMarking Periods
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Select a Marking Period
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Goal Setting
Add your goal levels…at least 85%
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Teams and Goals• 6. Enter an Objective Goal and a Test % Correct Goal for each student. Choose• appropriate goals for the size of the marking period. (The Math Goal-Setting Chart• in the resources can help you set the objective goals.) Note that the test % correct• goal must be at least 85%.• 7. Click Save to save the goals.• 8. Click Done to leave the page.• About Teams and Team Sets• Each team is a part of a team set. Use a team set to group together teams whose• progress you want to compare. For example, a team set could include teams for the• same class, teacher, or grade.• Team sets have an owner, who has full control over the structure of the team set.• Teachers can change team sets they own. School administrators can change any
team• set in their school. District administrators can change any team set for any school.• Math Goal-Setting Chart. To find this chart, click Resources in the list of
Accelerated Math tasks on your Home page. Then, click Forms and Charts and click• Math Goal-Setting Chart.
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STAR Reading and Math Testing
You can do the testing in your classroom with your students
using student laptops.
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STAR Readinggrades 1-8
• found using Renaissance Place
• testing– in classroom– computer labs or laptops– 3 times a year!!!!! (This is the way the
program is set up!)
• AR number is used to enter the program
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STAR Mathgrades 1-8
• found using Renaissance Place
• testing– in classroom– computer labs or laptops– 3 times a year!!!!! (This is the way the
program is set up!)
• AR number is used to enter the program
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Students at Middle School may access the Renaissance Place website by going through the Middle School @chalk
web page and clicking on the link.
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Login as “Student” (same as for Accelerated Reading)
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Find the correct tab for STAR Reading or STAR Maththen click “Take a Test”
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STAR Reading
• Students that have been in Dublin schools have taken this test 2-3 times a year
• takes about 20-30 minutes• Students can only test a total of 4 times a year
– We usually test in the Fall, January and early Spring
• 25 questions (20 sentences, 5 paragraphs), 90 seconds per question
• Can use keypad or numbers above the letters for answers
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STAR Reading
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STAR Math
• Students that have been in Dublin schools have taken this test 2-3 times a year
• takes 30-40 minutes• Students can only test a total of 4 times a year
– We usually test in the Fall, January and early Spring
• 24 questions, 3 minutes per question, need scratch paper, pencils no calculators
• Use A,B,C and D for answers
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STAR Math
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ReportsFaculty
•Login on Renaissance Place Welcome Page
•Find the correct tab and Reports under that tab
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In Reports go to Summary (or Other Appropriate Reports)
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Make sure you find your name and current class !
View the Report, if it is the one you want, then Print
Make changes to the Report, if you desire
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Students Needing Lower Skills
• Some students may need to work on skills several grades lower than their assigned grade. They may need to be enrolled in two different grades and on two campuses.
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I am ready to attempt the next level of individualizing Renaissance Place for the students.
• For students that need a lower level of quizzes for Reading and a lower level of libraries for Math, I am ready to attempt to make new “Courses and Classes” for them. Students that need the new courses and classes will be un-enrolled from their current class and re-enrolled into a new class. This may cause some confusion for the students. (I stay confused!) It will cause some “Reports” problems and extra work for you!
• Students that might need this change would possibly include ESL and Resource students.
• If you have any students you wish to change, I need some information from you via email or school mail !
• Your Name, Student’s Name, class currently enrolled, level of Reading quizzes or Math libraries that you deem appropriate for that student. I will then create some new generic “Courses and Classes” and allow you access to that class so that you can assign levels, objectives, watch progress or run reports. This new set of “Courses and Classes” will be shared with other students on the same level!
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Low students enrolled on two campuses for more appropriate skills
Students enrolled on two different campuses (reading level at Elem.) may need to change their school. This may need to be changed every time! Ann
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Last Years Scores
• This takes several steps!
• Then the steps have to be changed to work in current year again!
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Change Back to Current Year
