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1 Reading Management Software Software Manual Learn how to: Install and manage Reading Practice, Recorded Voice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes Set Reading Practice goals and Reader Certifications Set preferences for passwords, student settings, and quizzing Customize Accelerated Reader reports

2 Renaissance Learning P. O. Box 8036 Wisconsin Rapids, WI Toll-Free Phone Number: (800) Local: (715) Outside the US: Fax: (715) (general questions): (technical questions): Web Site: Copyright Notice Copyright 2008 by Renaissance Learning, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This publication is protected by US and international copyright laws. It is unlawful to duplicate or reproduce any copyrighted material without authorization from the copyright holder. This document may be reproduced only by staff members in schools that have a license for the Accelerated Reader, Renaissance Place Edition software. For more information, contact Renaissance Learning, Inc. at the address shown above. Accelerated Reader, Accelerated Vocabulary, AccelScan, AlphaSmart, AR, AR BookGuide, ATOS, Fluent Reader, Home Connect, NEO 2, Renaissance, Renaissance Learning, Renaissance Receiver, the Renaissance Learning logo, Renaissance Place, SmartApplet, and STAR Reading are trademarks of Renaissance Learning, Inc. and its subsidiaries, registered, common law, or pending registration, in the United States and in other countries. Macintosh and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the US and other countries. Safari is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Microsoft, Internet Explorer, and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Adobe, Adobe Reader, Flash, and Shockwave are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/ or other countries. Mozilla and Foxfire are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation ( CliffsNotes is a trademark or registered trademark of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/or its affiliates. This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation ( This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit ( As technology advances it becomes necessary for software companies to drop support for older operating systems and third-party software. It is the responsibility of customers to keep their computers, networks, operating systems, and third-party software upto-date and functional. Although Renaissance Learning will not discontinue support for older products immediately, we will continue to evaluate system requirements and do our best to provide advance notice when it becomes necessary to raise our requirements. 3/08 ARRP v.7.5

3 CONTENTS Welcome to Accelerated Reader.. 1 How It Works.. 1 Programs You ll Use. 2 Accelerated Reader Software...2 Renaissance Place Management System....2 Learning Accelerated Reader Online Manuals and Tips.3 Online Help...4 Other Resources....4 Getting Started Checking System Requirements. 5 Logging In and Changing Your Password Switching Roles 6 Navigating the Software... 6 Logging Out and Closing the Software. 6 Setting Up the Accelerated Reader Software... 7 Tasks to Be Completed Installing Quizzes... 8 Importing Student Data from Other Sources 10 Record Books Overview. 11 Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book. 12 Viewing Reading Practice Quiz Records Adding a Reading Practice Quiz Record for a Student.. 14 Editing a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record 17 Deleting a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Reprinting a Student s Reading Practice TOPS Report.. 20 i

4 C ONTENTS Reading Practice Goals Record Book.. 22 Selecting Marking Periods for Goal Setting. 22 Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Class.. 24 Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Student Viewing Reading Practice Goals 28 Editing or Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Class.. 29 Editing Reading Practice Goals for a Student Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Student Reading Practice Certifications Record Book. 32 Reader Certification Levels Setting a Certification Goal for a Student Approving Independent Reader Status 36 Viewing Reading Practice Certifications Editing a Student s Certifications Adding an Achieved Certification Deleting a Certification Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book Vocabulary Words.. 43 Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Records. 44 Deleting a Student s Vocabulary Practice Quiz Record.. 46 Reprinting a Student s Vocabulary Practice TOPS Report Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book Viewing Literacy Skills Quiz Records. 49 Editing a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record Deleting a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record.. 53 Reprinting a Literacy Skills TOPS Report.. 54 Other Reading Quizzes Record Book Viewing Other Reading Quiz Records. 56 Editing a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record.. 58 Deleting a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record. 60 Reprinting a Student s Other Reading TOPS Report ii

5 C ONTENTS Teams Sets and Teams Adding Team Sets.. 63 Adding Teams 64 Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Adding or Removing Students from a Specific Team..67 Changing Enrollment (Transferring Students between Teams) in a Team Set.68 Dividing Students Automatically among Teams in a Set 69 Viewing Team Sets, Teams, and Team Enrollment 70 Editing Team Sets.. 71 Editing Teams 72 Deleting Team Sets. 72 Deleting Teams Printing Team Reports Points Management 75 Viewing Points 75 Adding a Points Record for a Class Adding a Points Record for a Single Student 78 Editing a Points Record.. 79 Deleting a Points Record. 80 Searching for Quizzes Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 82 Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes Editing Reading Practice Quiz Information. 84 Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz 86 Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Adding a Teacher-Made Quiz..87 Viewing Teacher-Made Quizzes 89 Editing a Teacher-Made Quiz. 90 Taking a Sample Teacher-Made Quiz 92 Deleting a Teacher-Made Quiz.92 iii

6 C ONTENTS Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information. 93 Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quizzes. 94 Editing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Information Taking a Sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz. 96 Printing the Vocabulary List Report.. 97 Deleting a Vocabulary Practice Quiz.. 97 Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information.. 98 The 24 Literacy Skills Viewing a Literacy Skills Quiz. 100 Editing Literacy Skills Quiz Information Taking a Sample Literacy Skills Quiz 103 Viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz Deleting a Literacy Skills Quiz. 104 Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 105 Viewing Other Reading Series and Other Reading Quizzes Editing Other Reading Quiz Information Taking a Sample Other Reading Quiz 108 Deleting an Other Reading Series or Other Reading Quiz Managing Quizzes Other Tasks 110 Managing Book Level Settings. 110 Set Current Book Level Update Student Records..111 Changing the ATOS Book Level Settings Rename Book Levels Creating an AR BookGuide Export 114 Managing Quiz Availability Viewing Quiz Availability 116 Editing Quiz Availability. 118 Setting Up Quiz Availability Rules iv

7 C ONTENTS Students How to Use Accelerated Reader RP 120 What You Need to Do Before Quizzing Logging In as a Student. 120 Taking a Quiz 121 How Students Take an Accelerated Reader Quiz in RP 121 How to Stop a Quiz or Finish an Interrupted Quiz Blocking Students from Quizzing Printing Reports as a Student. 125 Viewing the Quizzes a Student Has Taken. 127 Viewing Goals and Points 128 Logging Out Of and Closing the Program Student Capacity Students Using NEO 2 Laptops with AR RP. 130 Before Students Quiz on a NEO Connecting to a Renaissance Receiver Naming the Renaissance Receiver and Setting the Renaissance Place Address in the Renaissance Wireless Server Utility Taking a Quiz 132 How Students Take an AR Quiz on a NEO 2 Laptop Students Using Home Connect with AR RP. 135 How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Reading Practice Quizzes 135 How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Parents How to Use Accelerated Reader RP. 140 Logging In to Accelerated Reader RP as a Parent 140 Viewing Your Child s Goals and Points Printing the Student Record or Words Learned Report 142 Printing a Vocabulary List Report Printing the Quiz List Report Logging Out Of and Closing the Program v

8 C ONTENTS Reports About Renaissance Place and Accelerated Reader Reports Using Accelerated Reader Reports Check for Adobe Reader before you Generate Reports 147 Printing Accelerated Reader Reports 147 About Reporting Parameter Groups. 150 Printing Labels Book and Labels Vocabulary List Reports 151 Report Descriptions Engaged Time Diagnostic Codes Definitions. 164 Preferences 166 Viewing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the School/Student Quizzing Preferences Editing the School/Date and Time Restrictions Preferences 172 Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences Editing the Classroom/Student Quizzing Preferences. 174 Editing the Classroom/Other Reading Series Preference Editing the Classroom/Quiz Setup Preference Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/TOPS Language Preference Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/TWI Settings Preference 181 Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/Recorded Voice Preference Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/Allow Quizzing Preference Appendix A: Capabilities 184 User Groups in the Software Capabilities for All Renaissance Place Programs. 186 Accelerated Reader Capabilities Index vi

9 WELCOME TO ACCELERATED READER Accelerated Reader (AR) Renaissance Place (RP) Edition is the nation s leading reading management program used in more than 57,000 schools. Since 1986, AR has helped hundreds of thousands of teachers inspire teacher-led reading revolutions in their classrooms. AR provides educators timely, accurate information on student academic performance. You can use this information to quickly adjust instruction to help all of your students reach their greatest potential. Now Accelerated Reader helps teachers reach all types of readers with Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes. Recorded Voice Quizzes are also available for emergent readers. AR quizzes cover all levels of reading ability in both English and Spanish. How It Works A typical Accelerated Reader classroom operates something like this: TOPS Report. When students complete a quiz, the TOPS Report tells them their scores, how many questions they answered correctly, and how many points they earned if they passed the quiz. It also lists the students quiz results for the school year to date. 1. You assign Reading Practice goals and certification levels for the students in the Accelerated Reader class Record Book. 2. Either students choose a book to read or you assign books for your students to read. 3. Students use Accelerated Reader or a NEO 2 laptop (if available) to search for and take the quiz for the assigned books they read. 4. Accelerated Reader scores each student s quiz and prints a TOPS Report. 5. You and the student discuss the TOPS Report. 1

10 W ELCOME TO ACCELERATED READER Programs You ll Use Programs You ll Use Accelerated Reader Software Accelerated Reader RP includes two programs: the Accelerated Reader software and the Renaissance Place Management system. The Accelerated Reader software accessible from the Renaissance Place Home page helps you manage the program in your classrooms and keep track of students progress. What You ll Use Accelerated Reader to Do Get software tips, manuals, and other documents to help you use Accelerated Reader in your classroom See Page 3 Manage the class record books 11 Set Reading Practice goals 22 Set Reading Practice certifications 32 Manage points 75 Create teams 63 Manage quizzes 81 Manage quiz availability 116 Quiz students on books they have read 120 Print reports 146 Set preferences 166 Renaissance Place Management System For information on the Renaissance Place Management system, see the Renaissance Place Software Manual or online help. The Renaissance Place Management system also accessible from the Renaissance Place Home page lets you view and manage district, school, student, teacher, parent, course, and class information in the Renaissance Place database, which is shared by all Renaissance Place Edition software used in your district or school. The tasks you can perform in the management program depend on your user level. For example, districtlevel users have more management tasks to perform than school users or teachers. Sample tasks may include: Adding, editing, or deleting courses and classes, and assigning teachers and students to them Selecting a different school year to work in Viewing student information or clearing a lock if a student s login is denied Downloading software needed to run Renaissance Place programs Printing reports with data from multiple Renaissance Place programs 2

11 W ELCOME TO ACCELERATED READER Learning Accelerated Reader Learning Accelerated Reader Online Manuals and Tips If you re reading this online, you ve already discovered the Manuals link in the upperright corner of any page in the program. Clicking that link lists the documents available for the Renaissance Learning programs installed on your server. For Accelerated Reader, you ll find these documents helpful: Do you still have questions? Send general questions about the software to: Send technical questions to: Document Accelerated Reader Software Manual Accelerated Reader Software Tips for Getting Started Renaissance Place Software Manual What It Gives You General information about the program Step-by-step instructions for performing every function Helpful hints to get you started using the program Procedures for managing all school and district information Instructions for consolidating data and generating custom reports 3

12 W ELCOME TO ACCELERATED READER Learning Accelerated Reader Online Help To access the online Help, click Help in the upper-right corner of any page. The help usually appears in a separate window to the right of the page, as shown below. B A C A The Help link is on every page in the program. Click it to get more information about the page currently displayed in the software. B Use the buttons at the top of the Help page to navigate the help. Click Contents to display the table of contents for the help. Click Index to display an alphabetical list of topics. Click Search to find a word or ask a question. Click Other Help to see a list of the Renaissance Place software installed on your server and click one of those products to view its help. Click Back to view previously selected help pages. Click Close Help to close the help. C This logo lets you know you re in the Accelerated Reader help. If you click Other Help at the top of the Help page and select another program s help, the logo for that program will appear. Other Resources The Accelerated Reader software contains other resources to help you use Accelerated Reader in your classroom. Click Resources in the Accelerated Reader task list on the Home page to find forms, plans, charts, tips, routines, research, and other helpful documents. 4

13 GETTING STARTED This section gives you the procedures you ll need to get started with the software. Checking System Requirements If you want to check that a specific computer has the necessary software to run Accelerated Reader such as Adobe Reader for displaying reports or the Renaissance Place Print Plug-In to automatically print TOPS reports after the completion of a quiz click Check Software Requirements on the Welcome page before you log in. For the most up-to-date hardware requirements for Accelerated Reader, visit Logging In and Changing Your Password Use these instructions to log in to Renaissance Place, change your password either by choice or when the system requires it and access the Accelerated Reader program. If the Change Password page appears and you didn t choose to change your password when logging in, one of two things happened. Either your system administrator wants you to change it for security reasons or you haven t changed it in a year and the software requires it. 1. In your browser window, go to the address (URL) for Renaissance Place. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. 2. On the Welcome page, click Teacher/Administrator. 3. Enter your user name and password. To change your password, check the Change Password box. 4. Click Log In. If you re not changing your password, your Home page appears. 5. If you are changing your password, enter it now, type it again to verify, and click Save to display your Home page. 5

14 G ETTING STARTED Switching Roles Switching Roles Some people in your district or school may be assigned more than one role, or they may be assigned to more than one school. For example, the librarian in the high school might also teach a reading class in one of the middle schools. Renaissance Place keeps track of these multiple roles and school assignments. If you have more than one role or school assignment, you must choose the correct user type from a drop-down list when logging in to the software. You can switch between roles or schools at any time from your Home page without having to log out of the software. Navigating the Software The navigation bar at the top of each page shows you where you are in the software, as shown below. If you need to go back to a previous page, use the links in the navigation bar rather than the browser s Back button, which can sometimes give you unexpected results. For example, if you re on the Class Record Books page and want to display the Home page, click Home in the navigation bar. Logging Out and Closing the Software Automatic logout after 20 minutes. If you don t use Accelerated Reader for about 20 minutes, it automatically logs you out, and you ll have to log in again when you return to the software. When you ve finished working in Accelerated Reader, log out to keep your data secure. 1. Click Log Out in the upper-right corner of any page. 2. Close the software by closing your browser. 6

15 SETTING UP THE ACCELERATED READER SOFTWARE Much of the preliminary setup for Accelerated Reader will occur before you log in the first time. For example, the Accelerated Reader RP software will probably be installed and registered on a central server in your district or school for you to access. Tasks to Be Completed The tasks listed below must be performed after Accelerated Reader is installed and registered on the server and as you start using it in your classroom. You may or may not be the one required to do any of these tasks. Task Enter content subscription codes (Accelerated Reader Enterprise only) District Usually Performed By School Admin. Staff Admin. Staff Teacher Where to Find Instructions Renaissance Place Software Manual Install quizzes Page 8 Enter district information Renaissance Place Software Manual Add school years Add school information Add school administrators and district staff Add teachers, school staff, and students; add parents, if desired Add school marking periods Add days off used in calculations in some reports Add courses and classes, assign teachers designate a lead teacher for each Accelerated Reader classroom and enroll students in classes Set the Other Reading preference so students can take Other Reading Quizzes Change preference settings to control what your students will see and do in the program (optional) Page 178 Page 166 7

16 S ETTING UP THE ACCELERATED READER SOFTWARE Installing Quizzes Usually Performed By Task District School Admin. Staff Admin. Staff Teacher Where to Find Instructions Set Reading Practice goals for average percent correct, points, and average book level (optional) Set Reading Practice certification goals (optional) Make sure teacher and student computers have the necessary software installed Page 24 Page 33 page 5 Installing Quizzes Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Accelerated Reader Enterprise. You will need to enter content subscription codes for Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes each year for each school. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual for more information. You can install your quizzes at the server or at any Windows or Macintosh computer that can connect with the server using a browser. Quizzes must be installed into the database for every school that will be using the Accelerated Reader RP program using one of the two following methods. (If Renaissance Learning hosts your Renaissance Place server, you do not need to install quizzes for your school.) You can install your quizzes (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice/Accelerated Vocabulary, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading) by following the steps below. Use the Renaissance Data Translator to convert existing quizzes from your Accelerated Reader 5.x to 6.x desktop program or your Accelerated Vocabulary 1.x desktop program into your Accelerated Reader 7.1 RP or higher database by importing the database. See Importing Student Data from Other Sources on page Insert the content CD you received into the CD drive of your computer. If you received more than one CD, it doesn t matter which one you install first. 2. If the installation starts automatically, go to step 3. If the installation doesn t start automatically: View the contents of the CD. (On Windows computers, use My Computer or Windows Explorer to open and view the contents of the CD. On Macintosh computers, double-click the CD icon on your desktop to open it and view the contents.) Double-click the QuizUtil.exe file (Windows) or the QuizUtil file (Macintosh) to start the installation. 3. Click Renaissance Place Server in the Accelerated Reader Quiz Installation dialog box. 4. If the Select Server dialog box appears, type the name or IP address of your Renaissance Place server and click OK. Note: You can get this information from your school or district administrator. 8

17 S ETTING UP THE ACCELERATED READER SOFTWARE Installing Quizzes 5. Type your Renaissance Place user name and password in the Log In panel A. Click Log In. Note: The name or IP address of the server to which you re connected is shown on this panel. If it s incorrect, click Change Server and go back to step 4 to connect to a different server. A 6. The Quizzes to be Installed panel shows you the school for which the quizzes will be installed and the Renaissance Place serial number for that school. If the school also has an Accelerated Reader or Accelerated Vocabulary desktop (foundation) serial number assigned to it, that number will also be shown. Click Install. 7. The progress of the installation is shown in the next panel. Do not do anything in this panel. 8. Click Exit in the Installation Summary panel. 9. To view and/or print a book list for this quiz order for your operating system: To view.pdf files, you must have Adobe Reader installed on this computer (see page 5). Windows: a. View the contents of the CD. You can use My Computer or Windows Explorer. b. Double-click the BookLists folder on the CD to open it. c. Double-click the.pdf file or the.txt file. Macintosh OS 9.x: a. Open Adobe Reader or a text-editing program. b. Click the File menu, then Open. c. Navigate to the BookLists folder on the CD and double-click the.pdf file (if you opened Adobe Reader) or the.txt file (if you opened a text-editing program). Macintosh OS 10.x: a. Double-click the CD icon on your desktop to view its contents. b. Double-click the BookLists folder to open it. c. Double-click the.pdf file or the.txt file. 10. If you received more than one CD with your order, repeat steps 1-9 with the other CD. 9

18 S ETTING UP THE ACCELERATED READER SOFTWARE Importing Student Data from Other Sources Importing Student Data from Other Sources Use the Renaissance Data Translator to import student data from other sources such as: Databases created in a desktop version of Renaissance Learning software, such as Accelerated Reader or Accelerated Vocabulary.exp files exported from that software Text files that conform to the required format Instructions for importing student data are provided on the server. To get them: 1. On the server, click Start. 2. Select Programs Renaissance Learning Utilities Renaissance Data Translator Instructions. 10

19 RECORD BOOKS OVERVIEW The class Record Books are where you go to monitor and manage all the information about the quizzes your students are taking. You can also set, edit, and delete Reading Practice goals; add, edit, delete, and set a current goal for Reading Practice Certifications; set up team sets and teams; and manage your students points records (points earned, awarded, and used). Accelerated Reader has six Record Books and two other activities to help you manage all this information: Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book; see page 12 Reading Practice Goals Record Book; see page 22 Reading Practice Certifications Record Book; see page 32 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book; see page 43 Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book; see page 49 Other Reading Quizzes Record Book; see page 56 Managing team sets and teams; see page 63 Managing points; see page 75 11

20 READING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK The Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book helps you monitor and manage your students Reading Practice Quiz records. The quiz results can help you accurately measure the student s reading comprehension, in addition to giving you immediate, individualized, constructive feedback to direct ongoing reading practice. Viewing Reading Practice Quiz Records Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can view information about the last Reading Practice Quiz taken by each student in a class. You can also view information about all the Reading Practice Quizzes taken by an individual student through the end of the active school year. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. If you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher, regardless of the school, choose My Classes instead of a school. 3. Click Reading Practice Quizzes under Class Record Book to view the View Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book page. B A C D E A Use the drop-down list to choose a different class. B The Latest Quiz Results column shows you the results of the last quiz taken by each student. C The Score column shows what percentage the student scored on that quiz and whether he or she passed or failed. D This legend describes what the symbols in the Score column mean. E Click a student s name to view all the quiz records for that student. 12

21 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Viewing Reading Practice Quiz Records 4. Click a student s name to view all the quiz records up to the end of the active school year for that student. F G H I Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. F Use the drop-down list to choose a different student. G Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. H Type the exact quiz number or the title in this text box and click Go to search for a particular quiz. I Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 13

22 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Adding a Reading Practice Quiz Record for a Student Adding a Reading Practice Quiz Record for a Student Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You may need to add a Reading Practice record for a student if a student transfers without an export file containing Accelerated Reader data. Follow these steps to add a Reading Practice Quiz record for a student in the Reading Practice Quiz record book: 1. View the Reading Practice Quiz Records for the desired class. See page Click the name of the student for whom you want to add a Reading Practice Quiz record. 3. Click Add Reading Practice Quiz Record under Actions along the left side of the page A. If this option is unavailable, an administrator has used the Allow Quiz Editing preference to prevent teachers from adding Reading Practice Quiz records. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. A 14

23 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Adding a Reading Practice Quiz Record for a Student Teacher-Made Quizzes. The list also includes Teacher- Made Quizzes that have been added to the program. Teacher-Made Quizzes have quiz numbers from 900 to To create Teacher- Made Quizzes, see page 87. Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete any text you ve entered in the Search For Quizzes fields and click Search. 4. Use the Select a Reading Practice Quiz page to find and choose the Reading Practice quiz you want: E C B Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. C To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or book level (ATOS, alternate book level 1, 5. Click the quiz name or number. Note: If you select a quiz that the student has already taken, the Select Reading Practice Quiz Error page appears. Click Edit to change the existing quiz record, click Select another quiz to go back to the quiz search page, or click Cancel if you don t want to add a quiz record at this time. D B or alternate book level 2 or userdefined name) using the drop-down lists and text boxes. D Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, or points. E Click Search. 15

24 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Adding a Reading Practice Quiz Record for a Student 6. Complete the Add Student Reading Practice Quiz Record page as described below: F G H F Type the number of questions the student answered correctly on the quiz. G Choose whether the book was Read To the student, Read With the student, or Read Independently from the TWI drop-down list. H Type the date the student took the quiz, or click the calendar to choose a date. 7. Click Save to add this Reading Practice Quiz to the student s record. 16

25 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Editing a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Reading Practice Quiz Records for the desired class. See page Click the name of the student whose quiz record you want to edit. 3. Find the record you want to edit on the View Student Reading Practice Quiz Records page. A D Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. B C A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B Type the exact quiz number or the title in this text box and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. If the Edit option is unavailable, an administrator has used the Allow Quiz Editing preference to prevent teachers from adding Reading Practice Quiz records. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page Click Edit under Actions D in the row of the record you want to edit. 17

26 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record 5. Complete the Edit Student Reading Practice Quiz Record page as described below. E F G E Change the number in the Questions Correct field to the actual number of questions the student answered correctly on the quiz. F Change the TWI setting using the drop-down list to select how the book was read (Read To the student, Read With the student, or Read Independently). G Type the correct date the student took the quiz or click the calendar to choose a date. 6. Click Save to save your changes to the student s Reading Practice Quiz record for this quiz. 18

27 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Deleting a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Deleting a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Reading Practice Quiz Records for the desired class. See page Click the name of the student whose quiz record you want to delete. 3. Find the record you want to delete on the View Student Reading Practice Quiz Records page as described below. A Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. B C D A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. If the Delete option is unavailable, an administrator has used the Allow Quiz Editing preference to prevent teachers from deleting Reading Practice Quiz records. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page Click Delete in the row of the record you want to delete under the Actions column D. 5. Click OK to delete the record. 19

28 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Student s Reading Practice TOPS Report Reprinting a Student s Reading Practice TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Reading Practice Quiz Records. See page Click the name of the student on the View Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book page whose TOPS Report you want to reprint. 3. Find the record you want on the View Student Reading Practice Quiz Records page as described below. A B C D Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 4. Click TOPS D in the row of the record you want under the Actions column. 5. Click either the English or Spanish option on the Reprint TOPS Select Language page. Then, click Next >. 20

29 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Student s Reading Practice TOPS Report 6. When the report is ready, it appears in Adobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. E Don t use the browser s print function. If the report opens in a browser window, don t try to print it using the browser s buttons or menus because only the top of the page will print. E Use the Adobe Reader icons to save or print the report. Do not use the browser s print function. If the report opened in the Macintosh OS X Preview program, click the File menu and choose Print. 7. Close the browser window when you are finished viewing the report. 21

30 READING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Before you can set goals for your students, you must set up marking periods for your school in Renaissance Place and then assign them to your class using the AR Reading Practice Goals Records Book. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual for instructions on defining marking periods for one school or multiple schools. You can set three separate Reading Practice goals for your students: average percent correct on quizzes, total points earned, and average book level on passed quizzes. The program doesn t require you to set goals for your students; however, we recommend that you set all three goals in each marking period assigned to the class. Note: When students and parents log in to the program, they can view the goals you ve set and the student s progress toward them; see page 128 for students and page 141 for parents. After you set Reading Practice goals, you can monitor your students progress. Reading Practice goals are different from the Reading Practice certification goals you can set for your students those goals are set in the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book; see page 33. Selecting Marking Periods for Goal Setting Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Before you can set Reading Practice goals for students, you must first select the marking periods for the class. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Reading Practice Goals under Class Record Book on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click Select Marking Periods on the View Reading Practice Goals Record Book page A. (If marking periods haven t been selected for the class, the page notifies you that you must do this before you can set goals.) A 22

31 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Selecting Marking Periods for Goal Setting You cannot choose school marking periods with overlapping dates. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual for instructions about setting up marking periods. 5. Click Select under Available School Marking Periods next to each marking period for which you want to set student goals B. As you do this, the marking periods will be added to the list at the top of the page. C B 6. Click Remove next to the marking period you want to remove from the class C. 7. Click Save when you are finished. 23

32 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Class Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Class You can set three Reading Practice goals for students: average percent correct on quizzes, points earned, and average book level on passed quizzes. These goals are different from the certification goals which are set in the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book; see page 33. Before you can set goals, you must assign marking periods to the class; see page 22 for instructions. Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Reading Practice Goals on the Class Record Books page. 4. Make sure the correct class A and marking period B are shown on the View Reading Practice Goals Record Book page. If necessary, choose the correct information from the drop-down lists. A C B If this class doesn t have at least one marking period assigned to it, the page notifies you that you must assign marking periods before you can set goals. See page 22 for instructions. 5. Click Edit Student Goals C. 24

33 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Class 6. Set all three goals for each student on the Edit Reading Practice Goals page described below: D E F D Click the Avg. Percent Correct Goal drop-down list in the row for each student and select the average percentage you want that student to achieve on quizzes during the marking period. You can select values from 85% to 90%. Note: Choosing None deletes the goal. Use the Goal-Setting Chart (found under Resources, see page 4) as a guideline when setting the Points and Avg. Book Level goals. E Type the number of points the student should earn by passing quizzes during the marking period. You can enter numbers with up to one digit after the decimal point. F Type the average book level the student should achieve on passed quizzes during the marking period. For ATOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to 20.0, for Alt. Book Level 1 (or userdefined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to 100.0, or for Alt. Book Level 2 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0 to Click Save when you are finished. 25

34 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Student Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Student Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Goals Record Book is different from the Reading Practice Certifications Records Book (see page 33). These steps describe how to set three Reading Practice goals (average percent correct, points earned, and average book level on passed quizzes) for one student for any marking period. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Reading Practice Goals on the Class Record Books page. 4. Make sure the correct class A and marking period B are shown on the View Reading Practice Goals Record Book page. If necessary, choose the correct information from the drop-down lists. A B If this class doesn t have at least one marking period assigned to it, the page notifies you that you must assign marking periods before you can set goals. See page 22 for instructions. C 5. Click the name of the student you want to work with C. 26

35 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Adding Reading Practice Goals for a Student 6. Click Create on the View Student Reading Practice Goals page in the row for a marking period without goals D. D 7. Set the Avg. Percent Correct, Points, and Avg. Book Level goals on the Create Student Reading Practice Goal page: E F G Use the Goal-Setting Chart (found under Resources, see page 4) as a guideline when setting the Points and Avg. Book Level goals. E Select the average percentage you want the student to achieve on quizzes during the marking period. You can select values from 85% to 90%. F Type the number of points that the student should earn on quizzes during the marking period. You can enter numbers with up to one digit after the decimal point. G Type the average book level the student should achieve on passed quizzes during the marking period. For ATOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to 20.0, for Alt. Book Level 1 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to 100.0, or for Alt. Book Level 2 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0 to Click Save when you are finished. 9. Repeat steps 6 8 for each marking period for which you want to set goals for this student. 27

36 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Viewing Reading Practice Goals Viewing Reading Practice Goals Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Reading Practice Goals on the Class Record Books page. 4. Make sure the correct class A and marking period B are shown on the View Reading Practice Goals Record Book page. If necessary, choose the correct information from the drop-down lists. A B C 5. Click the name of the student whose Reading Practice Goals you want to view C. 28

37 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Editing or Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Class Editing or Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Class Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. These steps describe how to edit or delete goals for students in a class for one marking period. 1. View the Reading Practice Goals for the class that needs editing. See page Click Edit Student Goals on the View Reading Practice Goals Record Book page. 3. The Edit Reading Practice Goals page lists the goals that have been set for each student in the class for the marking period you selected. Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Goals Record Book is different from the Reading Practice Certifications Records Book (see page 33). A B C What goal do I set? Use the Goal-Setting Chart or the Goal- Setting Chart for a 2000-Pt Scale found under Resources as a guideline when setting the Points and Avg. Book Level goals (see page 4). A Click the Avg. Percent Correct Goal drop-down list in the row for each student and select the average percentage you want that student to achieve on quizzes during the selected marking period. You can choose values from 85% to 90%. Note: Choosing None deletes the goal. B Delete and change the number of points the student should earn on quizzes during the marking period. You can enter numbers with up to one digit after the decimal point. Note: Leaving this field blank or entering a zero deletes the goal for that student. C Delete and change the average book level the student should achieve on passed quizzes during this marking period. For ATOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to 20.0, for Alt. Book Level 1 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to 100.0, or for Alt. Book Level 2 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0 to Note: Leaving this field blank or entering a zero deletes the goal for that student. 4. Click Save when you are finished. 29

38 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Editing Reading Practice Goals for a Student Editing Reading Practice Goals for a Student Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. These steps describe how to edit goals for one student for any marking period. 1. View the Reading Practice Goals for a class. See page Click the name of the student whose goals you want to edit. 3. Click Edit in the row for the marking period A that requires changes on the View Student Reading Practice Goals page. Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Goals Record Book is different from the Reading Practice Certifications Records Book (see page 33). What goal do I set? Use the Goal-Setting Chart or the Goal- Setting Chart for a 2000-Pt Scale found under Resources as a guideline when setting the Points and Avg. Book Level goals (see page 4). 4. The Edit Reading Practice Goals page lists the goals that have been set for each student in the class for the marking period you selected. B Choose the average percentage the student should achieve on quizzes during the marking period. You can choose any value from 85% to 90%. C Delete and change the number of points the student should earn during the marking period. You can enter numbers with up to B one digit after the decimal point. Note: Leaving this field blank or entering a zero C deletes the goal for that student. D Delete the number and type the average book level the student should achieve on D passed quizzes during the marking period. For ATOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to 20.0, for Alt. Book Level 1 (or userdefined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to 100.0, or for Alt. Book Level 2 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0 to Note: Leaving this field blank or entering a zero deletes the goal for that student. A 5. Click Save when you are finished. 6. Repeat steps 3 5 for every marking period for which you need to edit this student s goals. 30

39 R EADING PRACTICE GOALS RECORD BOOK Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Student Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Student Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. These steps describe how to delete all three goals for one student in any marking period. 1. View the Reading Practice Goals for the student by clicking the student name on the View Reading Practice Goals page. See page Click Delete in the row for the marking period A for which you want to delete goals. Note: All three goals in that marking period will be deleted. If you want to delete only one or two goals for a student, see Editing or Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Class on page 29. A 3. Click OK to delete all three goals for this student. 31

40 READING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Reader certifications are milestones that recognize students reading achievements. You use the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book to set certification goals for your students and then monitor your students progress toward achieving those reader certification levels. Note: If you enable the TWI Monitoring preference (see page 170), the program automatically tracks your students progress toward the certification goals you set and awards the certifications that they achieve. Reading Practice certification goals are different from the Reading Practice goals you can set for your students those goals are set in the Reading Practice Goals Record Book; see page 24. Reader Certification Levels There are seven reader certifications your students can earn that the program can automatically track, plus one additional certification that the program does not automatically track. When students take Reading Practice Quizzes on books, they must achieve the minimum scores set in the Certifications Preferences in order for the quizzes to count toward certifications (see page 170). Ready Reader: The student must accumulate five points on books Read To, Read With, and/or Read Independently. We recommend a student recertify no more than five times at the Ready Reader level. Independent Reader: The student must independently read three books with a 1.2 or higher book level and accumulate ten points. Only books Read Independently count toward the three-book goal; however, books that are Read To, Read With, or Read Independently for this level all count toward point accumulation. When a student achieves this certification, teacher approval is needed. Students cannot recertify at this level; Independent Reader status is achieved only once. Rising Reader: The student must independently read three books with a 1.6 or higher book level and accumulate ten points. Only books Read Independently count toward the three-book goal and point accumulation. We recommend that a student recertify no more than five times at the Rising Reader level. Super Reader: The student must independently read three books with a 2.0 or higher book level that are each worth at least one point. Only books Read Independently count toward certification. We recommend that a student recertify no more than five times at the Super Reader level. Advanced Reader: The student must independently read three books with a 3.0 or higher book level that are each worth at least two points. Only books Read Independently count toward certification. We recommend that a student recertify no more than five times at the Advanced Reader level. Star Reader: The student must independently read three books with a 4.0 or higher book level that are each worth at least four points. Only books Read Independently count toward certification. We recommend that a student recertify no more than five times at the Star Reader level. 32

41 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Setting a Certification Goal for a Student Classic Reader: The student must independently read three books with a 6.0 or higher book level that are each worth at least seven points. Only books Read Independently count toward certification. We recommend that a student recertify no more than five times at the Classic Reader level. Honors Reader (not tracked in AR): The student must independently read books from a special list of challenging literature (created by your teachers and librarians), and accumulate 100 points from the quizzes. The students log into the program and take the quizzes; however, the teacher must manually track everything else for this certification level. Useful reports for monitoring Honors Reader are the TOPS Report (see page 166) and the Student Record Report (see page 161). Setting a Certification Goal for a Student Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Certification goals are different from the Reading Practice goals you can set for your student (see page 24). When you set certification goals for your students and enable the TWI Monitoring preference (see page 170), Accelerated Reader automatically monitors student progress toward the goals and awards certifications when students meet the requirements. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists.click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Reading Practice Certifications on the Class Record Books page. 33

42 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Setting a Certification Goal for a Student TWI Monitoring Preference. When you set certification goals for your students and enable the TWI Monitoring preference (see page 170), Accelerated Reader automatically monitors students progress toward the goals and awards certifications when students meet the requirements. 4. The Status column on the View Reading Practice Certification Record Book page shows you whether the certification is in progress, has been achieved, or needs approval, and whether a new goal is needed. See below to set a certification goal for each student. D A B C A The Status column shows the students certification status. B Click Set Goal in the Actions/New Goals column to set a goal for a student who has not achieved any certifications. C Students who have achieved certifications will have multiple links in the Actions/New Goals column. To set a goal for one of these students, click the certification you would like the student to work toward or click More to choose a different goal. (If you click one of the certifications shown in this column, the new goal is set immediately and you don t need to go on to step 5.) D Click Show Certification Criteria to view an explanation of the Reader Certification levels (or see page 32). 34

43 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Setting a Certification Goal for a Student 5. If you clicked Set Goal or More, complete the Set Student Reading Practice Certification Goal page as described below: F E G E Choose the certification that this student should work toward from the drop-down list. F Click one of the available date options to set the date this student started working toward this certification. You can set the start date immediately after the student s last-achieved certification, at the start of a marking period, or on another date that you specify. If you chose to set a goal by marking period, choose the marking period from the drop-down list. If you chose to set a goal by a custom date, type the desired start date, or click the calendar button to choose the date. 6. Click Save when you are finished G. 7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each student who needs a certification goal set. 35

44 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Approving Independent Reader Status Approving Independent Reader Status Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. When a student achieves Independent Reader status, the teacher must approve it by following these steps: 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Reading Practice Certifications on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click Approve in the Actions/New Goals column on the View Reading Practice Certification Record Book page, where an indicates that the student needs his or her Independent Reader status approved A. A 36

45 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Viewing Reading Practice Certifications Viewing Reading Practice Certifications Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. These steps describe how to view students certification goals and achieved certifications. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Reading Practice Certifications on the Class Record Books page to view the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book. A B C D E A The current certification goal or the last certification achieved (depending on what the status column shows) for each student. B The date the student started work on the certification. C The date the student achieved the certification (if it has been achieved and there is no new goal). D The Status column shows you whether the certification is in progress, has been achieved, or needs approval, and if a new goal is needed. E Click Show Certification Criteria to view an explanation of the Reader Certification levels (or see page 32). 37

46 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Viewing Reading Practice Certifications 4. Click a student s name to see his or her certifications. The View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page will open. I F H G F The current certification goal for this student. G The certifications this student has achieved. H If the list of achieved certifications is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preferences (see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173), click Next >> and << Previous to move through the list. I Choose another student from the drop-down list to view his or her record. 38

47 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Certifications Editing a Student s Certifications Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book for a student by clicking a student name. See page Click Edit by the current goal A or achieved certification B you want to edit on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. TWI Monitoring Preference. When you set certification goals (see page 33) for your students and enable the TWI Monitoring preference (see page 170), Accelerated Reader automatically monitors students progress toward the goals and awards certifications when students meet the requirements. 3. Make the necessary changes to either the Edit Student Reading Practice Certification Goal page (as described below) and/or the Edit Student Reading Practice Achieved Certification page (see the next page). A B Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Certification goals are different from the Reading Practice goals (see page 24). C D E C Choose the goal you want this student to work toward from the Current Certification Goal drop-down list. D Type a different Date Started or click the calendar to choose a date. E Click Save. 39

48 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Certifications The Edit Student Reading Practice Achieved Certification page: F G H F Type a different Date Started or click the calendar to choose a date. G Type a different Date Achieved or click the calendar to choose a date. H Click Save. 4. Choose another student from the Student drop-down list on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. Then repeat steps 2 and 3. 40

49 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Adding an Achieved Certification Adding an Achieved Certification Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You do not need to add achieved certification records manually, as described below, if you set certification goals (see page 33) and enabled TWI monitoring (see page 170). When you do this, the software awards certifications automatically based on your students work on Reading Practice Quizzes. However, you may need to add certifications manually if a student transferred from another school and has a printed record of certifications or if the TWI Monitoring preference is disabled. 1. View the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book for a student by clicking a student name on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. See page Click Add Achieved Certification under Actions A on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. A 3. Complete the Add Student Reading Practice Achieved Certification page as described below: B C D E B Choose the reader certification level that the student has achieved from the drop-down list. C Type the Date Started or click the calendar to choose a date. D Type the Date Achieved or click the calendar to choose a date. E Click Save. 41

50 R EADING PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS RECORD BOOK Deleting a Certification Deleting a Certification Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can delete a student s goal or a certification the student has already achieved. If you delete a certification goal, you should set a new goal for the student to work toward; see page 33. If you delete an achieved certification, the program will no longer recognize the student achieved that certification. 1. View the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book for a student by clicking a student name on the View Reading Practice Certification Record Book page. See page Click Delete in the row for the current certification A or the achieved certification B you want to delete on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. A B Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference (see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change), click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. 3. Click OK to delete the certification. Note: After deleting a student s certification record, you should check the goal listed on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. You may need to set a new goal or edit the existing goal. 42

51 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Vocabulary Practice Quizzes help you maximize students word acquisition through reading practice. Vocabulary Practice Quizzes contain 5, 10, or 15 questions covering the vocabulary words found in the books they have read. Students do not pass or fail Vocabulary Practice Quizzes; they simply learn words. When they learn a word, it s placed on their Words Learned List. You can see this list when you generate the Words Learned Report; see page 163. Words not learned can be viewed on the Words to Study report; see page 163. Besides the regular Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, there s another kind called a ~Second-Try and Review Words~ Quiz. This type of quiz includes only second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words. It doesn t include any firsttry new words for a particular title. See below for a description of each type of word. The Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book helps you monitor and manage your students Vocabulary Practice Quiz records. Vocabulary Words There are four types of words a student may see on a Vocabulary Practice Quiz: First-try new words. These are the words from the Vocabulary Practice Quiz the student chose to take. If the student gets one of these words correct, it s placed on his or her Words Learned List. If the student gets one of these words wrong, he or she will be given a second chance to get the word correct on the next Vocabulary Practice Quiz the student takes, and the word will be added to the Words to Study list. Second-try new words. These are words the student missed on his or her previous Vocabulary Practice Quiz. The student is given this second chance to get the words correct. If the student gets a second-try new word correct, the word is placed on his or her Words Learned List. If the student gets a second-try new word incorrect, he or she won t see the word again unless it s part of the vocabulary word list for another Vocabulary Practice Quiz the student takes. Incorrect words can be viewed on the student s Words to Study report. First-try review words. If the teacher used the Vocabulary Practice Review Percentage preference to specify that review words are to be part of quizzes (see page 176), the student will begin to see review words as a part of each new Vocabulary Practice Quiz after he or she has been taking quizzes for two weeks. The review words are taken from the student s Words Learned List. If the student gets a first-try review word correct, the word stays on his or her Words Learned List. If the student gets a first-try word review incorrect, it s taken off of his or her Words Learned List and added to the Words to Study list, but the student will be given a second chance to get it correct on the next Vocabulary Practice Quiz he or she takes. Second-try review words. If the student missed a review word on the first-try, he or she is given a second chance to get the word correct. If the student gets a secondtry review word correct, the word is put back on his or her Words Learned List. If the student gets a second-try review word incorrect, it stays off of his or her Words 43

52 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Records Learned List, remains on the Words to Study list, and the student won t see the word again unless it s part of the vocabulary word list for another Vocabulary Practice Quiz that he or she takes. Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Records Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can view the latest Vocabulary Practice Quiz records for all the students in a class, or all of one student s Vocabulary Practice Quiz records for quizzes taken up to the end of the active school year. The words for a single Vocabulary Practice title can show up on several different Vocabulary Practice Quizzes (as first-try new words, second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words), depending on when the student learns the word. Follow these steps to view Vocabulary Practice Quiz records for a class and an individual student: 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Vocabulary Practice Quizzes on the Class Record Books page to view the Vocabulary Practice quiz records for the class. 4. Click the name of the student on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page to view his or her Vocabulary Quiz records up to the end of the active school year A. A 44

53 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Records 5. There are two ways that you can view the quiz records on the View Student Vocabulary Practice Records page: by quiz or by title. D Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change this preference. E B C F B Click Show by Quiz to view the student s records by quiz number. Only data from that quiz is shown, including first-try new words, second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words that appeared on the quiz. C Click Show by Title to view the student records by quiz title. The program shows the records of all the words for that title, no matter which quiz they appeared on. D Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. E Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. F Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 45

54 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Deleting a Student s Vocabulary Practice Quiz Record Deleting a Student s Vocabulary Practice Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. The words for a single Vocabulary Practice title can show up on several different quizzes (as first-try new words, second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words), depending on when the student learns the word. Because of this, you can delete a Vocabulary Practice Quiz either by quiz or by title as described in the following steps. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quiz Record book for a student by clicking the name of the student in the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book. See Page By default, the View Student Vocabulary Practice Records page shows the quizzes, with the last quiz taken at the top of the list (Show by Quiz).To find a quiz to delete, follow the instructions below. C Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change this preference. Can t Delete? District and school administrators can use the Allow Quiz Deleting preference to prevent teachers from deleting quiz records (see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173). A B D E A Click Show by Quiz to find and delete only the last quiz the student took. When you delete this quiz, all data from the quiz is deleted, including first-try new words, second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words that appeared on the quiz. Any words learned on this quiz, regardless of the title they are from, are removed from the student s Words Learned List. B Click Show by Title to find and delete the records for any title. When you delete a title, the program deletes all records of the words for 3. Click Delete in the row for the quiz you want to delete F. 4. Click OK to delete the quiz record. F that title, no matter which quiz they appeared on. All words learned from the title are removed from the student s Words Learned List. C Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record to delete. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. D Type the exact quiz number or the quiz title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. E Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 46

55 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Student s Vocabulary Practice TOPS Report Reprinting a Student s Vocabulary Practice TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. See page 166 for more information about TOPS Reports. The steps below describe how to reprint Vocabulary Practice TOPS Reports. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quiz Record book for a student by clicking the name of the student on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book page. See Page Find the quiz for which you want to reprint a TOPS Report on the View Student Vocabulary Practice Records by Quiz page by following method A or B. Note: You can only reprint a TOPS Report for an actual quiz a student has taken. Because vocabulary words from one title might appear on several different quizzes, TOPS Reports only exist for quizzes, not for titles. A Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change this preference. B C A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record to delete. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. D B Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 3. Click TOPS by the quiz you want to reprint D. 47

56 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Student s Vocabulary Practice TOPS Report Can t see the Report? You must have Adobe Reader installed on this computer to view reports. Some Macintosh computers will show reports in Preview instead. 4. When the report is ready, it appears in Adobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. E E Use the Adobe Reader icons to save or print the report. Do not use the browser s print function. If the report opened in the Macintosh OS X Preview program, click the File menu and choose Print. 5. Close the browser report window when finished. 48

57 LITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Literacy Skills Quizzes help you monitor student growth in comprehension and the literacy skills that are most often assessed on high-stakes tests. Designed for occasional use, these quizzes measure the student s understanding of higher-order concepts like identifying the main idea, recognizing details, and drawing conclusions. The Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book helps you monitor and manage your students Literacy Skills Quiz records. Viewing Literacy Skills Quiz Records Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can view the latest Literacy Skills Quiz records for all the students in a class, or all of one student s Literacy Skills Quiz records for quizzes taken up to the end of the active school year. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Literacy Skills Quizzes on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click the name of the student on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page to view his or her Literacy Skills Quiz records up to the end of the active school year A. A 49

58 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Viewing Literacy Skills Quiz Records 5. There are two ways that you can view the quiz records on the View Student Literacy Skills Records page: by quiz or by title. To find a particular quiz, follow the steps below. B Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change. C D B Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. C Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 50

59 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record Editing a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. When you edit a student s Literacy Skills Quiz record, you can change the date the quiz was taken and whether each answer is marked as correct or incorrect. When you save your changes, the program automatically recalculates the percent correct and shows if the student passed or failed the quiz. Note: You can set the passing percentage using the Literacy Skills Passing Percent preference (see page 170). 1. View the Literacy Skills Quiz Records Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Literacy Skills Quiz Record Book page. See page Find the quiz you want to edit on the View Student Literacy Skills Quiz Records page as described below. A Can t edit? District and school administrators can use the Allow Quiz Editing preference to prevent teachers from editing quiz records (see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173). B C A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. D B Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 3. Click Edit under Actions for the quiz record you want to edit D. 51

60 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record 4. Make changes on the Edit Student Literacy Skills Quiz Record page as described below. H E F G E Type a different date or click the calendar to choose a date. F The legend explains that the correct answer is in a green box and the student answer is a blue circle. G Click the Correct or Incorrect option to change how the student s answer was scored. 5. Click Save H. The program automatically recalculates the percent correct and shows whether the student passed or failed the quiz. 52

61 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Deleting a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record Deleting a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Literacy Skills Quiz Records Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Literacy Skills Quiz Record Book page. See page Find the quiz you want to delete on the View Student Literacy Skills Quiz Records page using the methods below. A D B C A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. Can t Delete? District and school administrators can use the Allow Quiz deleting preference to prevent teachers from deleting quiz records (see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173). 3. Click Delete D under Actions for the quiz record you want to delete. 4. Click OK to delete the record. 53

62 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Literacy Skills TOPS Report Reprinting a Literacy Skills TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. See page 166 for more information about TOPS Reports. The steps below describe how to reprint Literacy Skills TOPS Reports. 1. View the Literacy Skills Quiz Records Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Literacy Skills Quiz Record Book page. See page Find the quiz for which you want to reprint a TOPS Report on the View Student Literacy Skills Records page by following methods A or B. A Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change. B C A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record to delete. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. 3. Click TOPS by the quiz you want to reprint D. D B Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 54

63 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Literacy Skills TOPS Report Can t see the Report? You must have Adobe Reader installed on this computer to view reports. Some Macintosh computers will show reports in Preview instead. 4. When the report is ready, it appears in Adobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. E E Use the Adobe Reader icons to save or print the report. Do not use the browser s print function. If the report opened in the Macintosh OS X Preview program, click the File menu and choose Print. 5. Close the browser report window when you are finished. 55

64 OTHER READING QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Other Reading Quizzes help you accurately measure your students reading comprehension of class materials, such as textbooks. The Other Reading Quizzes Record Book helps you monitor and manage your students Other Reading Quiz records. Viewing Other Reading Quiz Records Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can view the latest Other Reading Quiz records for all the students in a class or all of one student s Other Reading Quiz records for quizzes taken up to the end of the active school year. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Other Reading Quizzes on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click the name of the student on the View Other Reading Quizzes Record Book page to view their Other Reading Quiz records up to the end of the active school year A. A 56

65 O THER READING QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Viewing Other Reading Quiz Records 5. Find a particular quiz record to view as described below. B C Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change. D E B If necessary, choose a different Series from the drop-down list. C Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. D Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. E Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 57

66 O THER READING QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record Editing a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. When you edit a student s Other Reading Quiz record, you can change the number of questions the student answered correctly, the TWI setting, and the date the student took the quiz. When you save your changes, the program automatically recalculates the percent correct and shows if the student passed or failed the quiz. 1. View the Other Reading Quiz Records for a student by clicking the student name on the View Other Reading Quiz Record Book page. See page Find the record you want to edit on the View Student Other Reading Quiz Records page as described below. Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent Preference. You can set the class passing percentage using the Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent preference (see page 176). C D A E B A Choose a different series if necessary from the Series dropdown list. B Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. C Type the exact quiz number or the title in this text box and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. Can t Edit? District and school administrators can use the Allow Quiz Editing preference to prevent teachers from editing quiz records (see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173). 3. Click Edit in the row for the quiz you want to edit E. 58

67 O THER READING QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Editing a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record 4. Complete the Edit Student Other Reading Quiz Record page as described below: F G H I F Type the correct number in the Questions Correct field. G Choose the correct TWI setting (Read To, Read With, or Read Independently) from the drop-down list. H Type a different Date or click the calendar button to choose a date. 5. Click Save I. The program automatically recalculates the percent correct and shows if the student passed or failed the quiz. 59

68 O THER READING QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Deleting a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record Deleting a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Other Reading Quiz Records Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Other Reading Quiz Record Book page. See page Find the record you want to delete on the View Student Other Reading Quiz Records page as described below. A B E C D A Choose a different series if necessary from the Series dropdown list. B Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. C Type the exact quiz number or the title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. Can t Delete? District and school administrators can use the Allow Quiz Deleting preference to prevent teachers from deleting quiz records (see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173). 3. Click Delete in the row for the quiz you want to delete E. 4. Click OK to delete the record. 60

69 O THER READING QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Student s Other Reading TOPS Report Reprinting a Student s Other Reading TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. See page 166 for more information about TOPS Reports. The steps below describe how to reprint Other Reading TOPS Reports. 1. View the Other Reading Quiz Records Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Other Reading Quiz Record Book page. See page Find the quiz for which you want to reprint a TOPS Report on the View Student Other Reading Quiz Records page as described below. A B E C D Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change. A Choose a different series from the Series drop-down list. B Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. C Type the exact quiz number or the title in this text box and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show All to view the full list of quiz records. 3. Click TOPS in the row of the quiz you want E. 4. Click either the English or Spanish option on the Reprint TOPS Select Language page. Then, click Next >. 61

70 O THER READING QUIZZES RECORD BOOK Reprinting a Student s Other Reading TOPS Report Can t see the Report? You must have Adobe Reader installed on this computer to view reports. Some Macintosh computers will show reports in Preview instead. 5. When the report is ready, it appears in Adobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. F F Use the Adobe Reader icons to save or print the report. Do not use the browser s print function. If the report opened in the Macintosh OS X Preview program, click the File menu and choose Print. 6. Close the browser report window when finished. 62

71 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS You can set up teams of students in Accelerated Reader. Teams can help you see how groups of students are progressing toward their Reading Practice goals (goals for average percent correct on quizzes, points earned, and average book level on passed quizzes). Using the Team Standing Chart and the Team Status Report, you can then compare the progress of teams toward the goals you have set. Owners abilities. Only the district administrator or the team set owner can add, edit, or delete teams from the set and change the team rosters. Anyone can print reports for any team or team set, however. Teams are grouped within team sets to keep the teams for different classes or teachers separate. After you add a team set and its teams, you can have the software automatically divide your students among teams, or you can manually assign students to the appropriate teams. With default capabilities, district administrators can set up and change team sets and teams for any school. School administrators can set up and change team sets and teams for their schools. Teachers can add team sets, and they can change the team sets and teams that they own. Adding Team Sets Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. A team set is a group of teams. Students can be divided among the teams in a set. By creating a set, you re keeping your teams separate from those for other classes or teachers. After you create a team set, you must: add the teams (see page 64) assign students to the teams (see page 66) set goals for students (see page 24 and page 26) because team progress is measured by individual students Reading Practice goals and in order to obtain data for the team reports (see page 74) 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Teams under Other Activities on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click Add Team Set on the View Team Sets page. 63

72 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Adding Teams 5. Complete the Add Team Sets page as described below: Owners abilities. Only the district administrator or team set owner can add, edit, or delete teams from the set and change the team rosters. Anyone can print reports for any team or team set, however. A B C D A Type a name for your new team set. B Choose the owner from the Owner drop-down list. C Click Add. 6. Repeat step 5 for each team set you need to add. 7. Click Done when you are finished D. Adding Teams Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Teams can help you see how groups of students are progressing toward their Reading Practice goals (for average percent correct on quizzes, points earned, and average book level on passed quizzes). Using the Team Standing Chart and the Team Status Report, you can then compare the progress of teams toward the goals you ve set. Note: Before you add teams you must create a team set (see page 63) for them. Follow these steps to add teams to a team set: 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Teams under Other Activities on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click the team set you want to work with on the View Team Sets page A. A 5. Click Add Team on the View Teams page. 64

73 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Adding Teams 6. Type the name of the new team B and click Add. B C 7. Repeat step 6 to add more teams. 8. Click Done when you are finished C. 65

74 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Before you assign students to teams, you must create a team set (see page 63) and add teams to the set (see page 64). Teams can help you see how groups of students are progressing toward their Reading Practice goals (for average percent correct on quizzes, points earned, and average book level on passed quizzes). Using the Team Standing Chart and the Team Status Report, you can then compare the progress of teams toward the goals you ve set. Follow these steps to change team rosters: 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Teams under Other Activities on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click the team set you want to work with on the View Team Sets page. 5. What you do on the View Teams page depends on the method you want to use to work with the teams enrollment: C A B A Click Add/Remove Students to add students to or remove them from a specific team. See page 67. B Click Change Enrollment to transfer students between teams in a team set. See page 68. C Click Auto Team Select to have the program automatically divide students among teams in a set. See page

75 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Adding or Removing Students from a Specific Team 1. Click Add/Remove Students after the desired team on the View Teams page. See page Complete the Add/Remove Student page as described below: E A D F C B A Search for the students you want to add to the team by using one or more of the criteria available. Click Search. B Check the box by each student you want added. Check the box by Student to select all the students listed on the page. Click < Add. C If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. D Click Remove by a student you want to remove. E Click Remove All to remove all the students from the team. F Click Save when you are finished. 67

76 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Changing Enrollment (Transferring Students between Teams) in a Team Set 1. Click Change Enrollment under Actions on the View Teams page. See page Complete the Change Enrollment page as described below: A B Be sure to save your changes. If you made changes to the team assignments, you will not be able to view another team roster until you save your changes. C D A Choose another team or No Team from the drop-down list to limit the list shown on the page. B For each student, choose another team from the drop-list to change the student s team assignment. C Click Save to save your changes. D Click Done when you are finished. 68

77 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Dividing Students Automatically among Teams in a Set 1. Click Auto Team Select under Actions on the View Teams page. See page Click one of the Students to Add options on the Auto Team Select Options page. You can include only students who are in the No Team group, or you can select specific classes. A E B F 3. If you choose Distribute students in the No Team group, click Add/Remove Students to view or change which students are in the No Team group A. See page 67. If you choose Select Classes to enroll on teams B, click Select Classes. Then, check the box by each class you want to include in the team set C. Click Save Selection D. C D 4. Click one of the Existing Team Members options on the Auto Team Select Options page E. 5. Click Finish when you are ready to continue F. 6. View the changed enrollment on the Change Enrollment page. If you want to transfer any of the students from one team to another, follow the steps in Changing Enrollment (Transferring Students between Teams) in a Team Set on page Click Done when you are finished. 69

78 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Viewing Team Sets, Teams, and Team Enrollment Viewing Team Sets, Teams, and Team Enrollment Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Follow these steps to view the list of teams in a set and the students assigned to each team: 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Teams under Other Activities on the Class Record Books page to view the team sets for your school. 4. If available, choose a school from the School drop-down list on the View Team Sets page if you want to view the team sets for another school A. A B 5. Click the team set name to view the teams in a set B. 6. Choose a team set from the Team Set drop-down list on the View Teams page if you want to view another team set C. The No Team group can be used as a holding place for students before you enroll them in the teams. If there are students in the No Team group, the program treats it as a regular team. D C 7. Click Team Enrollment under View on the View Teams page to view the roster for any team or all the teams in this team set D. 70

79 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Editing Team Sets 8. Click the Student or Current Team column headings on the View Team Enrollment page if you want to change the way the list is sorted E. F G E Choose from the Team Set drop-down list to view the enrollment for the teams in another team set F. Choose from the Team drop-down list to view the roster for a particular team G. Editing Team Sets Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Owner Capabilities. Administrators can edit teams and team enrollment for any team set at the schools they have access to. Teachers can edit teams and team enrollment only for the team sets they own. 1. View the Team Set for your school. See page Click Edit by the team set you want to work with on the View Team Sets page. 3. Change the name for the team set on the Edit Team Set page A. A B C 4. Choose a different owner from the Owner drop-down list B. 5. Click Save when you are finished C. 71

80 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Editing Teams Editing Teams Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Team Set for your school. See page Click the team set you want to work with on the View Team Sets page. 3. Click Edit by the team you need to edit on the View Teams page. 4. Change the team name on the Edit Team page A. Each team in this set must have a unique name. A B 5. Click Save when you are finished B. Deleting Team Sets Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. When you delete a team set, the teams in that set will also be deleted and the students who were assigned to those teams will no longer be assigned to a team. If you want those students included in your team reports, you will have to reassign them to other teams; see page View the Team Set for your school. See page Click Delete by the team set you want to delete on the View Team Sets page A. A 3. Click OK to permanently delete the team set. 72

81 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Deleting Teams Deleting Teams Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. When you delete teams, the students who were assigned to those teams will no longer be assigned to them. If you want those students included in your team reports, you will have to reassign them to other teams; see page View the Team Set for your school. See page Click the name of the team set on the View Team Sets page you want to work with. 3. Click Delete by the team you need to delete on the View Teams page A. A 4. Click OK to permanently delete this team. 73

82 TEAMS SETS AND TEAMS Printing Team Reports Printing Team Reports Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can generate and print the Team Standing Chart and the Team Status Report from the Teams section of the program to get information about students on the teams at your school. 1. View the Team Set for your school. See page Click Status A in the Team Reports column on the View Team Sets page if you want to generate the Team Status Report, or click Chart B if you want to generate the Team Standing Chart. Printing Reports. You can also print the Team Standing Chart and the Team Status Report from the Reports section of the program (see page 147). District staff can print these reports from the Reports section, but not from the Teams section. 3. Make your choices to customize the information you want included on the report on the Report Options page and click View Report. 4. When the report is generated, it appears in the AR browser window or in a separate window. To save or print it, use the Adobe Reader icons. A B Don t use the browser s print function. If the report opens in a browser window, don t try to print it using the browser s buttons or menus, as only the top of the page will print. C D E On Macintosh computers, the Report may open in Preview. If so, click the File menu and choose Print to print it. C Use the save icon to save the report. D Use the print icon to print the report. E Click a link to customize a report or go back to choose a different report. 74

83 POINTS MANAGEMENT Points measure the amount of reading practice a student is getting. Every Reading Practice Quiz has a point value assigned to it based on the book level and word count (the book s difficulty and length). If you add or edit Teacher-Made Quizzes, they will also have point values assigned to them. Students earn points by taking the quizzes. The points that a student earns on a quiz are based on the total point value of the quiz and the score the student received on it. The following sections describe how you can monitor the points your students earn, use, and are awarded. If your school chooses to award points outside of Accelerated Reader RP or allows your students to spend their points, you can also enter that information into the program. Viewing Points Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. In Accelerated Reader, students earn points as they pass Reading Practice Quizzes. You can also award points that have been earned outside of Accelerated Reader, and you can record points that students spend or use in classroom activities. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school and/or class from the drop-down lists. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. 3. Click Points Management under Other Activities on the Class Record Books page to view the points for the class. B A C A Choose a different option from the Marking Period drop-down list to view the point records by a specific marking period or an entire school year. B Choose a class from the Class drop-down list to view the points for a different class. 75

84 P OINTS MANAGEMENT Adding a Points Record for a Class Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change this preference. 4. Click a student name on the View Points Records page to see the records of points used and awarded for a particular student C. 5. If you want to switch to a different student, use the drop-down list on the View Students Points Records page to view his or her points record D. D Adding a Points Record for a Class Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Students earn points as they pass Reading Practice Quizzes; the program tracks those points automatically. However, if you allow students to use the points they earn or if you award points that were earned outside of Accelerated Reader, you must enter this information into the program. A points records may show either extra points added or points used. These steps explain how to add points records for your entire class. To add points records for one student, see page View the Points Management Record Book for a class. See page Choose a marking period from the Marking Period drop-down list on the View Points Records page A. 3. Click Add New Points Record under Actions along the left side of the page B. B A 76

85 P OINTS MANAGEMENT Adding a Points Record for a Class 4. Complete the Add Points Record page for the marking period you chose, as described below. F C D E C Select Awarded or Used from the Type drop-down list in the row for the student who needs a point record added. D Type the date the points were awarded or used, or click the calendar to choose a date. E Type the positive number of points awarded or used. Used points will automatically be subtracted from the student s available points, and awarded points will be added. You can enter numbers with up to one digit after the decimal point. 5. Click Save when you are finished F. 77

86 P OINTS MANAGEMENT Adding a Points Record for a Single Student Adding a Points Record for a Single Student Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Students earn points as they pass Reading Practice Quizzes; the program tracks those points automatically. However, if you allow students to use the points they earn or if you award points that were earned outside of Accelerated Reader, you must enter this information into the program. Points records may show either extra points added or points used. These steps explain how to add points records for a single student. To add points records for an entire class, see page View the Points Management Record Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Points Records page. See page Click Add Points Record under Actions along the left side of the page A. A 3. Complete the Add Student Points Record page as described below. B C D E B Select Awarded or Used from the Type drop-down list. C Type the date the points were awarded or used or click the calendar to choose a date. D Type a positive number of points awarded/used. Used points will automatically be subtracted from the student s available points, and awarded points will be added. You can enter numbers with up to one digit after the decimal point. 4. Click Save when you are finished E. 78

87 P OINTS MANAGEMENT Editing a Points Record Editing a Points Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. These steps describe how to edit a points record for a particular student. 1. View the Points Management Record Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Points Records page. See page Click Edit in the row for the record you want to change on the View Student Points Records page A. Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change. 3. Complete the Edit Student Points Record page as described below: A B C D E B Select Awarded or Used from the Type drop-down list. C Type the date the points were awarded or used or click the calendar to choose a date. D Type a positive number of points awarded/used. Used points will automatically be subtracted from the student s available points, and awarded points will be added. You can enter numbers with up to one digit after the decimal point. 4. Click Save when you are finished E. 79

88 P OINTS MANAGEMENT Deleting a Points Record Deleting a Points Record Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. These steps describe how to delete a points record for a student. 1. View the Points Management Record Book for a student by clicking the student name on the View Points Records page. See page Click Delete in the row for the record you want to delete on the View Student Points Records page A. Too many pages? If the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change. 3. Click OK to delete the points record. A 80

89 SEARCHING FOR QUIZZES In the Manage Quizzes and Manage Quiz Availability areas of Accelerated Reader, you can search for particular quizzes. You may be able to search by quiz number, title, author, book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, points, or install date (Manage Quiz Availability only). C Narrow your search by using more than one criteria. D A E F B G When you use the search criteria title contains or author contains, and you type a letter combination such as am, your search results may include quiz records for Amber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and Ann Cameron since both titles and authors contain am. A Choose Title starts with, Title contains, Title exact match, Author s last name starts with, Author contains, Author exact or Quiz Number from the drop-down list. Type all or part of the quiz title, author s name, or the exact quiz number. B Type the ATOS Book Level range or alternate book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings have been changed; see page 110 for more information). If you're looking for a specific book level, enter the same number in both boxes C Click More Criteria to narrow your search further or Less Criteria to limit the options shown. D Choose Fiction, Nonfiction, or both Fiction and Nonfiction from the drop-down list. E Choose All Interest Levels, Lower grades (grade ranges K 3), Middles grades (grade ranges 4 8), or Upper grades (grade ranges 9 12) from the drop-down list. F Choose All Languages, English, or Spanish from the drop-down list. G Type the point range. If you're looking for a specific points value, enter the same number in both boxes. Click Search after you have chosen/typed the desired criteria. The program will display the search results based on your choices. Note: To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete any text you've entered before you click Search (it doesn't matter what you've chosen in the drop-down lists). 81

90 READING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Reading Practice Quizzes are the foundation of the Accelerated Reader program. They measure comprehension and are motivational because they ensure a successful, positive experience if the student read a book at the proper level. Reading Practice Quizzes are available per school. (For instructions on installing quizzes, see page 5.) Therefore, different schools in your database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered and installed different quizzes. If you have AR Enterprise your school will have all the available quizzes. After you install your Reading Practice Quizzes, you can view the quiz information, edit quiz information, change the book level for all the quizzes at once, view a sample quiz, or delete quizzes. You can also add, edit, and delete Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes. In addition, you can manage which quizzes are available; see page 116. Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Follow these steps to view a list of all the Reading Practice Quizzes (including Teacher- Made Quizzes) for a school and also to view the information for a specific quiz: 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Reading Practice in the list of quiz types. 82

91 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes 4. To find a specific quiz on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page: Which quizzes? This page lists all the Reading Practice quizzes installed for this school. Teacher-Made quizzes are also listed. E D B C A Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. Searching by quiz number or book level. If you re searching by quiz number, you must enter the exact number. If you re looking for a specific book level or points value, enter the same number in both boxes. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. Click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level (or alternate book level or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text boxes. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page Click Select by the quiz you want to view F. F C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, or points. D Click Search. Delete all the changes you made to the fields to go back to the full list of quizzes. E Click View only Teacher-Made Quizzes to view only teacher-made quizzes. 83

92 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Editing Reading Practice Quiz Information Editing Reading Practice Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. If you edit information for a Reading Practice Quiz, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading). You can change the ATOS book level for the quiz, alternate book levels, fiction/nonfiction classification, and interest level (the grades for which the book s content is most appropriate). You can also specify whether students are allowed to take this quiz. Changes will affect only your school. This procedure is for editing information about Reading Practice Quizzes you received from Renaissance Learning. If you want to edit the information or questions for a Teacher-Made Quiz, see page View the Reading Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Reading Practice Quiz page. 4. Edit the quiz on the Edit Reading Practice Quiz page as described below: Teacher-Made Quiz page? If the Edit Teacher-Made Quiz appears instead of the Reading Practice Quiz page, you chose to edit a Teacher- Made quiz. See Editing a Teacher-Made Quiz on page 90. A B C A D E Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Quiz Override (see page 171). A Choose the correct information from the drop-down lists to change the ATOS book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, or the interest level. B Type a different number to change the first alternate book level or user-defined name, which uses a scale of and allows one digit after the decimal place. C Type a different number to change the second alternate book level or user-defined name, which uses a scale of D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this quiz. 5. Click Save when you are finished E. 84

93 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can take a sample Reading Practice Quiz (or Teacher-Made Quiz) to see how a specific quiz is presented to students. 1. View the Reading Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz to test. See page Click Select by the quiz you want to preview on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz or Take a Sample Quiz with Recorded Voice under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Reading Practice Quiz or View Teacher-Made Quiz page A. Note: If you can t see this link, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz. A If Recorded Voice is on, you will hear a recording of each question and the possible answers. Click the question or an answer to hear the recording again. 4. Click Start Quiz when you re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key on the keyboard or click the mouse on the answer you want to select. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer, if necessary. Click Next > when you re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer on the final question. 6. When the quiz is done, the Score Summary shows you how you did on the quiz. 7. Click OK if you answered all the questions correctly and skip step Click Yes (if applicable) to see the questions you answered incorrectly, or click No not to review your incorrect answers. If you clicked Yes, your answer will be circled with a red X over it and the correct answer will have a green square around it. Click Next > to view each question. Click Done after the last question. 85

94 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Deleting a quiz has no effect on the records of students who already took the quiz. Rather than deleting a quiz, you may make the quiz inactive. That way the quiz will not have to be reinstalled to be restored you can simply activate it again. See Editing Quiz Availability on page 118 for more information. 1. View the Reading Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz to delete. See page Click Remove by the quiz you want to delete on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page A. Restoring a deleted quiz. To restore a deleted Reading Practice Quiz, you must reinstall it (see page 5). To restore a deleted Teacher- Made Quiz, you must add it to the program again (see page 87). A 3. Click OK to delete/remove the quiz. 86

95 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Teacher-Made Quizzes are Reading Practice Quizzes that a district administrator, district staff, school administrator, school staff, or teacher has added to the program. The quiz numbers are reserved (per school) for Teacher-Made quizzes. Adding a Teacher-Made Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can add up to 500 Teacher-Made Quizzes per school, using the quiz numbers Adding Teacher-Made Quizzes is a two-part process: first, you must add basic information about the quiz; then, you add the questions and answers. When the quiz is presented to students, the questions will be presented in a random order. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Reading Practice in the list of quiz types. 4. Click View only Teacher-Made Quizzes under Actions along the left side of the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 5. Click Add Teacher-Made Quiz under Actions along the left side of the View Teacher-Made Quizzes page. Which quizzes? The View Reading Practice Quizzes page lists all the Reading Practice quizzes installed for this school. Teacher-Made quizzes are also listed. 87

96 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes 6. Enter the quiz information on the Add Teacher-Made Quiz page as follows: Interest Levels are based on the content of the book, not its difficulty. They reflect the grade levels (Lower Grades is K 3, Middle Grades is 4 8, Upper Grades is 9 12) for which the book s subject matter is most appropriate. B A Alternate Book Levels. If you don t add alternate book levels (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed), the program will calculate them for you when you save this quiz. A E C D F Quiz Status: Do Not Allow and Under Development. If you choose not to allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Quiz Override (see page 171). If you choose Under Development, students will not be allowed to take the quiz and the quiz monitor will not be able to override the block on it. A Choose the correct information from the quiz number, language, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and the number of questions presented on the quiz drop-down lists. B Type the information for the title, author, word count, and ATOS book level (values ). C Type a number for the first alternate book level (scale of with one digit after the decimal place) and the second alternate book level (scale of ). Note: The names may be different if the book level settings were changed by an administrator. See page 110. D Click Recalculate after you enter the word count and book level to have the program calculate the points that can be earned for the quiz. E Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students are allowed to take this quiz. F Click Save when you are finished. 88

97 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Adding the Questions and Answers 7. Click View/Edit Quiz Questions under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Teacher- Made Quiz page to create the quiz questions. 8. Follow these steps to complete the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page: a. Click Edit next to the question you want to write G. Teacher-Made Questions. Since you have not yet entered the actual questions and answers, the questions and answers are filled with descriptive text to help you choose what to enter. The number of questions matches the number you chose when you added the quiz information. G b. Delete the existing text and type the question and each possible answer on the Edit Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page. Be sure to enter the correct answer first, right after the question H. I c. Click Save when you are finished I. d. Repeat steps a c for each additional question H on the quiz. 9. Click Done on the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page after you ve entered the text for all the questions and possible answers. 10. If necessary, click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page to adjust the Quiz Status of this quiz. Viewing Teacher-Made Quizzes See Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes on page

98 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Editing a Teacher-Made Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. When you edit a Teacher-Made Quiz, you can change the quiz title, author, language, word count, book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, number of questions, and alternate book levels (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed by an administrator). You can also recalculate the points, choose if students can take this quiz, and change the questions and answers that appear on the quiz. 1. View the Reading Practice Quizzes page. See page Click View only Teacher-Made Quizzes under Actions along the left side of the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Teacher-Made Quizzes page. Follow the steps below to locate a quiz: C B D A Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level or alternate book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text boxes. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 81. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, or points. D Click Search. If you want to edit the quiz information, follow the steps below. If you want to edit the quiz questions, follow the steps on page

99 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Editing Teacher-Made Quiz Information 4. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page. 5. Change the title, author, word count, ATOS book level, and alternate book levels (or user-defined names if the book level settings were changed) on the Edit Teacher-Made Quiz page E. F Reducing the number of quiz questions. If you reduce the number of questions and you have already added your questions to the quiz, some questions will be removed from the quiz when it s presented to the student. E F G H Quiz Status: Do Not Allow and Under Development. If you choose not to allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Quiz Override (see page 171). If you choose Under Development, students will not be allowed to take the quiz and the quiz monitor will not be able to override the block on it. I 6. Choose different options from the quiz language, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, or the number of questions presented drop-down lists F. 7. Click Recalculate if you changed the number of questions on the quiz, the word count, or any of the book levels G. The program will display the new point value for the quiz. 8. Change the Quiz Status option to choose whether students are allowed to take the quiz H. 9. Click Save when you are finished I. 91

100 R EADING PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Changing Teacher-Made Quiz Questions 10. Click View/Edit Quiz Questions on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page. 11. Click Edit in the row for the question you want to change on the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page J. J 12. Change the text of the questions on the Edit Teacher-Made Quiz Question page. Make sure the correct answer is the one right after the question K. 13. Click Save when you are finished L. 14. Repeat steps for each question you need to edit. 15. Click Done on the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page when you re finished changing the quiz questions. K L Taking a Sample Teacher-Made Quiz See Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz on page 85. Deleting a Teacher-Made Quiz See Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz on page

101 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Vocabulary Practice Quizzes help you maximize students word acquisition through reading practice. Vocabulary Practice Quizzes contain 5, 10, or 15 questions covering the vocabulary words found in the books they have read. Vocabulary Practice Quizzes are designed to be taken immediately after a student has taken and passed the Reading Practice Quiz on a book they have read. You can use the Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension preference to require that students pass the Reading Practice Quiz on a book before taking the Vocabulary Practice Quiz for the same book (see page 177). Vocabulary Practice Quizzes are available per school. (For instructions on installing quizzes see page 5.) Therefore, different schools in your database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered and installed different quizzes. If you have AR Enterprise your school will have all the available quizzes. When you work with your Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, you can view a list of the quizzes for your school, delete a quiz, or select it. When you select a Vocabulary Practice Quiz, you can edit some information, take a sample quiz, and print the Vocabulary List Report for the quiz. Note: Besides the regular Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, there is another kind of Vocabulary Practice Quiz. It s called a ~Second-Try and Review Words~ Quiz. This type of quiz includes only second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words. It does not include any first-try new words from a particular title. You cannot view, edit, or delete this type of quiz because it is created specifically for each student based on the words the student has learned and those words the student answered incorrectly on the first try. 93

102 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can view a list of the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes that have been installed for a school, or the information for a specific Vocabulary Practice Quiz. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Vocabulary Practice in the list of quiz types. 4. Find a specific quiz on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page as described below: B C D A E Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. To change this preference see Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level or alternate book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text boxes. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 81. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, or quiz language. D Click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria. 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view E. The View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page shows you information about the quiz and gives you access to the tasks you can perform. 94

103 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Editing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Information Editing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can change the ATOS book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and alternate book levels or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed. You can also specify whether students in the school can take the quiz. Note: If you edit Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Reading Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading). 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page and locate the quiz you want. See page Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page. 4. Make changes to the Edit Vocabulary Practice Quiz page as follows: Book and Interest Levels. The book level determines the difficulty of the book. The interest level shows you the group for which this book s content is most appropriate. B C A A Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block is you ve enabled the Monitor Quiz Override (see page 171). E D A Choose the correct information from the ATOS book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, or the interest level drop-down lists. B Type a different number to change the first alternate book level or userdefined name (if the book level settings were changed), which uses a scale of and allows one digit after the decimal place. C Type a different number to change the second alternate book level or user-defined name (if the book level settings were changed), which uses a scale of D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this quiz. 5. Click Save when you re finished E. 95

104 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Taking a Sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz Taking a Sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can take a sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz to see how a specific quiz is presented to students. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page A. Note: If you can t see this link, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz. A 4. Click Start Quiz when you re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key on the keyboard or click the mouse on the answer you want to select an answer. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer, if necessary. Click Next > when you re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer to the final question. 6. Click OK on the Score Summary page that shows you how you did on the quiz. 96

105 VOCABULARY PRACTICE QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Printing the Vocabulary List Report Printing the Vocabulary List Report Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. On Macintosh computers, the Report may open in Preview. If so, click the File menu and choose Print to print it. The Vocabulary List Report lists the vocabulary words for a particular Vocabulary Practice Quiz. You can print this report for a specific quiz as described below, or from the Reports section of the program (see page 147), when logged in as a student (see page 125), and when logged in as a parent (see page 143). This procedure allows you to generate the Vocabulary List Report for one quiz. If you want to generate the report for several quizzes at one time or if you want to customize the report (i.e., by excluding the vocabulary word definitions), you should generate it from the Reports section of the program. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Preview Vocabulary List Report under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page. 4. When the report generates, it appears in a separate window. To save or print it, use the Adobe Reader icons. Don t use the browser s print function. If the report opens in a browser window, don t try to print it using the browser s buttons or menus, as only the top of the page will print. A B A Use the save icon to save the report. B Use the print icon to print the report. Deleting a Vocabulary Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Deleting a quiz has no effect on the records of students who have already taken it. Note: To restore a deleted Vocabulary Practice Quiz, you must reinstall it; see page 8. Rather than deleting a quiz, you may make the quiz inactive. That way the quiz will not have to be reinstalled to be restored you can simply activate it again. See Editing Quiz Availability on page 118 for more information. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz to delete. See page Click Remove by the quiz you want to delete on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click OK if you re sure you want to remove the quiz. 97

106 LITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Literacy Skills Quizzes help teachers assess their students proficiency on 24 specific skills found in state and district language-arts standards and on many standardized tests. Administered on selected books, Literacy Skills Quizzes let you monitor student growth in each skill throughout the year and target instruction so students master state and district standards. Literacy Skills Quizzes are available per school. (For instructions on installing quizzes, see page 5.) Therefore, different schools in your database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered and installed different quizzes. If you have AR Enterprise your school will have all the available quizzes. When you work with your Literacy Skills Quizzes, you can view the quiz list for your school, delete a quiz, or select it. When you select a Literacy Skills Quiz, you can edit some information, take a sample quiz, view the Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for the quiz, and view the quiz question bank. The 24 Literacy Skills Accelerated Reader RP monitors 24 literacy skills found in state and district standards and objectives and on many high-stakes tests. These skills are grouped into four categories: Constructing Meaning, Inferential Comprehension, Literary Analysis, and Initial Understanding. The skills that Accelerated Reader monitors are listed in the table below. Category Constructing Meaning Inferential Comprehension Literacy Skills Understanding the Main Idea Responding to Literature Identifying Persuasive Language Identifying Reading Strategies Differentiating Fact and Opinion Deriving Word or Phrase Meaning Recognizing Cause and Effect Making Predictions Making Inferences Drawing Conclusions Comparing and Contrasting Extending Meaning 98

107 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION The 24 Literacy Skills Category Literary Analysis Initial Understanding Literacy Skills Understanding the Author s Craft Identifying Historic/Cultural Factors Understanding Characterization Understanding Literacy Features Recognizing Setting Recognizing Plot Understanding Sequence Understanding Dialog Recognizing Feelings Recognizing Details Identifying Reasons Describing Actions or Events 99

108 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Viewing a Literacy Skills Quiz Viewing a Literacy Skills Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Literacy Skills in the list of quiz types. 4. Find a specific quiz on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page as described below: C B D A E Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level or alternate book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text boxes. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 81. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, or quiz language. D Click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria. 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view E. The View Literary Skills Quiz page shows you information about the quiz and gives you access to the tasks you can perform. 100

109 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Viewing a Literacy Skills Quiz 6. Click View the Literacy Skills Quiz Questions under the Quiz Task Menu to view the question bank for this quiz G. The View Literacy Skills Quiz Questions page shows the correct answer to each question (in a box) and the skill addressed by that question. G Why so many questions? There are more questions in the question bank than what s on a normal Literacy Skills Quiz. When a student takes a Literacy Skills Quiz, the program randomly selects an equal number of questions from each skill group in the question bank for inclusion on the quiz. Therefore, if the student retakes the quiz, the two quizzes will not be identical. 7. Click Done when you are finished viewing the View Literacy Skills Quiz Questions page. 101

110 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Editing Literacy Skills Quiz Information Editing Literacy Skills Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can change the ATOS book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and alternate book levels (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed). You can also specify whether students in the school are allowed to take the quiz. Changes will affect only your school. Note: If you edit Literacy Skills Quiz information, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Other Reading). 1. View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz to edit. See page Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Literacy Skills Quiz page. 4. Change the Edit Literacy Skills Quiz page as described below: Book and Interest Levels. The book level determines the difficulty of the book. The interest level shows you the group for which this book s content is most appropriate. B C A Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Quiz Override (see page 171). E D A Choose the correct information from the ATOS book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, or the interest level drop-down lists. B Type a different number to change the first alternate book level, which uses a scale of and allows one digit after the decimal place. Note: The name may be different if the book level settings were changed. C Type a different number to change the second alternate book level, which uses a scale of Note: The name may be different if the book levels settings were changed. D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this quiz. 5. Click Save when you re finished E. 102

111 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Taking a Sample Literacy Skills Quiz Taking a Sample Literacy Skills Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can take a sample Literacy Skills Quiz to see how a specific quiz is presented to students. 1. View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz to take. See page Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Literacy Skills Quiz page A. Note: If you can t see this link, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz. A 4. Click Start Quiz when you re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key on the keyboard, or click the mouse on the answer you want to select an answer. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer, if necessary. Click Next > when you re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer to the final question. 6. Click OK if you answered all the questions correctly and skip step Click Yes (if applicable) to see the questions you answered incorrectly, or click No if you do not want to review them. If you clicked Yes, your answer will be circled with a red X over it and the correct answer will have a green square around it. Click Next > to view each question. Click Done after the last question. 103

112 L ITERACY SKILLS QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz Viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click View the Teacher s Guide under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Literacy Skills Quiz page. 4. After the Teacher s Guide generates, it appears in a separate window. To save or print it, use the Adobe Reader icons. On Macintosh computers, the Teacher s Guide may open in Preview. If so, use the File menu to print or save it. A B Don t use the browser s print function. If the report opens in a browser window, don t try to print it using the browser s buttons or menus because only the top of the page will print. A Use the save icon to save the report. B Use the print icon to print the report. 5. Close the browser window when you are finished. Deleting a Literacy Skills Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Deleting a quiz has no effect on the records of students who have already taken it. Note: To restore a deleted Literacy Skills Quiz, you must reinstall it; see page 5. Rather than deleting a quiz, you may make the quiz inactive. That way the quiz will not have to be reinstalled to be restored you can simply activate it again. See Editing Quiz Availability on page 118 for more information. 1. View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz to delete. See page Click Remove by the quiz you want to delete on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click OK if you re sure you want to delete the quiz. 104

113 OTHER READING QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Students cannot take Other Reading Quizzes until you use the Classroom Other Reading Series preference (see page 178) to choose the series the class can use. In Accelerated Reader, Other Reading Quizzes help you measure student comprehension of reading material assigned in your class. Other Reading Quizzes are available for most prominent new reading textbooks and other classroom reading material. You can use these quizzes to monitor each student s progress on reading assignments. Other Reading Series are installed per school; see page 5. Therefore, different schools in your database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered and installed different series. You can view a list of the series that have been installed for your school, and you can select a series or delete a series. When you select a series, you can view a list of the Other Reading Quizzes in that series, delete a quiz, or select it. When you select a quiz, you can edit some information or take a sample quiz. Viewing Other Reading Series and Other Reading Quizzes Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Other Reading in the list of quiz types. 4. Click Select A in the row for the series you want on the Other Reading Series page. Click Select B in the row for all available series if you want to see all the Other Reading Quizzes regardless of the series they are in. B A 105

114 O THER READING QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Viewing Other Reading Series and Other Reading Quizzes 5. Find a specific quiz on the Other Reading Quizzes page as described below: D E F C Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preference. See Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences on page 173 to change this preference. G C Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. D To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level or alternate book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text boxes. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 81. E Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, or quiz language. F Click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria and click Search again. 6. Click Select in the row for the quiz you want to view G. The View Other Reading Quiz page opens and shows you more information about the quiz. 106

115 O THER READING QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Editing Other Reading Quiz Information Editing Other Reading Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. You can change the fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and alternate book levels. You can also specify whether students in the school are allowed to take the quiz. Note: If you edit information for an Other Reading Quiz, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills). 1. View the Other Reading Series to find a specific quiz to edit. See page Click Select by the quiz you want to edit. 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Other Reading Quiz page. 4. Complete the Edit Other Reading Quiz page as described below: Interest Level. The interest level shows you the grade levels for which this item s content is most appropriate. Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Quiz Override (see page 171). E C D A B A Type a different number to change the first alternate book level, which uses a scale of and allows one digit after the decimal place. Note: The name may be different if the book levels settings were changed. B Type a different number to change the second alternate book level, which uses a scale of Note: The name may be different if the book levels settings were changed. C Choose the correct information from the fiction/nonfiction classification or the interest level drop-down lists. D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this quiz. 5. Click Save when you are finished E. 107

116 O THER READING QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Taking a Sample Other Reading Quiz Taking a Sample Other Reading Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Other Reading Series to find a specific quiz to take. See page Click Select by the quiz you want to take. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Other Reading Quiz page A. Note: If you can t see this link, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz. A 4. Click Start Quiz when you re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key on the keyboard, or click the mouse on the answer you want to select an answer. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer, if necessary. Click Next > when you re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer to the final question. 6. Click OK if you answered all the questions correctly and skip step Click Yes (if applicable) to see the questions you answered incorrectly, or click No if you do not want to view them. If you clicked Yes, your answer will be circled with a red X over it and the correct answer will have a green square around it. Click Next > to view each question. Click Done after the last question. 108

117 O THER READING QUIZZES MANAGING QUIZ INFORMATION Deleting an Other Reading Series or Other Reading Quiz Deleting an Other Reading Series or Other Reading Quiz Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Deleting a series or a quiz has no effect on student quiz records that already exist. changes will affect only your school. Note: To restore a deleted Other Reading Series or Quiz, you must reinstall it; see page View the Other Reading Series page. See page To delete a series, click Remove A by the series you want to delete on the Other Reading Series page, then go to step 5. To delete a quiz, click Select B by the series containing the quiz you want to delete. You may also click Select C in the row for all available series to see all the Other Reading Quizzes regardless of the series. C A B 3. Find a specific quiz on the View Other Reading Quizzes page as described on page Click Remove D in the row for the quiz you want to delete on the View Other Reading Quizzes page. 5. Click OK if you re sure D you want to remove the series or quiz. 109

118 MANAGING QUIZZES OTHER TASKS In addition to managing the four quiz types, you can also manage book level settings and create an AR BookGuide export from the Manage Quizzes pages. Managing Book Level Settings Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. The Book Level Setting pages offer you the ability to customize the book levels you see throughout the program and on reports. To get to the Book Level Settings page: 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions along the left side of the page 4. Click any one of the four links to perform that Book Level Settings task as described below: Click Set Current Book Level to choose which book level type you want to see and use throughout the program. The setting currently in use is shown on this page. (ATOS/Pre-ATOS is the default.) Click Update Student Records to update historical student records to reflect changed Alternate Book Level 1 or Alternate Book Level 2 values on the Edit Quiz Information page for quizzes. Updating student records will change the alternate book level values that are shown in the Class Record Books and on certain reports. Student records will be updated for the active school year. Click Change ATOS Settings to convert quizzes from ATOS to Pre-ATOS or vice versa. Click Rename Book Levels to change the names of the Alternate Book Level 1 and Alternate Book Level 2 column headers and row labels throughout Accelerated Reader. 5. Click Done when you are finished. 110

119 M ANAGING QUIZZES OTHER TASKS Set Current Book Level Set Current Book Level Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Choose which book level types (ATOS/Pre-ATOS, Alternate Book Level 1, or Alternate Book Level 2) to see and use throughout Accelerated Reader by setting the current book level. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions on the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. Note that the Book Level Settings page shows you what level is currently being used in the program. 4. Click Set Current Book Level on the Book Level Settings page. The Set Current Book Level page opens. 5. Click the book level type option you want: ATOS/pre-ATOS (scale ), Alternate Book Level 1 (scale ), or Alternate Book Level 2 (scale ). 6. Click Save. You will return to the Book Level Settings page that will list the book level you set. Update Student Records Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. If you have changed Alternate Book Level 1 or Alternate Book Level 2 values on the Edit Quiz Information page for quizzes, you may want to update all student records in the current school year to update historical student records to reflect those changes. Updating student records will change the alternate book level values that are shown in the Class Record Books and on certain reports. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions on the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. Note that the Book Level Settings page shows you what level is currently being used in the program. 4. Click Update Student Records on the Book Level Settings page. 111

120 M ANAGING QUIZZES OTHER TASKS Changing the ATOS Book Level Settings 5. Click Update to apply the new book level values to student records for this school year. 6. You will be notified when the student records have been updated. Click Done. Changing the ATOS Book Level Settings Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. The ATOS Readability Formula for Books indicates how difficult the text of a book is to read. Thus, it can help you match books to your students reading levels. But the ATOS formula measures only the readability of the text. It does not (nor do any other readability formulas) take into account literary merit, sophistication of ideas, developmental appropriateness, or maturity of theme or language. This is why it s important to know and use three measurements when helping your students choose books: readability (the difficulty of a book s text), reading level (the student s tested reading level), and interest level (the content level of a book divided into three groups lower grades K 3, middle grades 4 8, upper grades 9 12). An ATOS level is often a good indication that a student can read a book, but may not mean that he or she should read the book. The interest level can help you decide whether the student should read the book. When you install your Accelerated Reader quizzes, the book levels are set at the ATOS level. You can change this to the pre-atos level or back to the ATOS level again using the steps in this section. This changes the book level for all the quizzes in your database including Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes. If you want to change the book level for only selected quizzes, you can do so by editing the quiz information (see page 84 for Reading Practice Quizzes, page 95 for Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, page 102 for Literacy Skills Quizzes, and page 107 for Other Reading Quizzes). 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions along the left side of the page. 4. Click Change ATOS Settings. 112

121 M ANAGING QUIZZES OTHER TASKS Rename Book Levels Different Quiz Numbers? You may see a difference between the number of quizzes you have and the number that will be changed. That s because for some quizzes, the ATOS and pre-atos book levels are the same. 5. Click the option you want on the Change ATOS Settings page to convert all your quizzes to the ATOS level or to the pre-atos level A. The number of quizzes currently set at the ATOS book level and the number set at the pre- A ATOS level are shown. 6. Click Convert to convert all your quizzes B. B 7. Click Done on the message telling you how many quizzes were converted. Rename Book Levels Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. This procedure explains how to change the names of the Alternate Book Level 1 and/or Alternate Book Level 2 report and column headers and row labels throughout the software. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions on the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. 4. Click Rename Book Levels on the Book Level Settings page. 5. Erase the default text in any of the four fields A and type the name(s) of your choice for reports and column headers (10 characters maximum) and row labels (25 characters maximum). Click Default to return to the program default names. A 6. Click Save when you are finished. Click Cancel to return to the Book Levels Settings page. 113

122 M ANAGING QUIZZES OTHER TASKS Creating an AR BookGuide Export Creating an AR BookGuide Export Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Follow the steps below to create an AR BookGuide export file. When this file is imported into AR BookGuide, AR BookGuide can mark the quizzes you own and update book levels (for all the quiz types) and points (for Reading Practice Quizzes). Follow these steps to export a file for AR BookGuide from Accelerated Reader RP. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click AR BookGuide TM Export under Actions along the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. 4. Click Export on the AR BookGuide Export page. 5. Click Download to save the file when the export file is ready on the Generating AR BookGuide Export page A. A 6. Follow the steps below for your operating system: Windows: a. Choose to save the file if you are asked what you want to do with it. b. If necessary, navigate to the location where you want to save the file (create a new folder, if necessary) and click once on the drive or folder where you want to save the file to highlight it. c. Click Save. d. You may have to close a download dialog box. Macintosh OS 9.x: a. Choose to save the file if you are asked what you want to do with it. b. Navigate to the location where you want to save the file (create a new folder, if necessary) and double-click the drive or folder where you want to save the file to open it. c. Click Save. d. You may have to close a download dialog box or manager. 114

123 M ANAGING QUIZZES OTHER TASKS Creating an AR BookGuide Export Macintosh OS 10.x and higher: a. Choose to save the file if you are asked what you want to do with it. b. If necessary, rename the file, navigate to the location where you want to save the file (create a new folder, if necessary), and click once on the drive or folder where you want to save the file to highlight it. c. Click Save. d. You may have to close a download dialog box or manager. 7. Click Done on the Generating AR BookGuide Export page. 115

124 MANAGING QUIZ AVAILABILITY The manage quiz availability area is useful for those with AR Enterprise. Those with owned quizzes may also find this area to be useful. In the Manage Quiz Availability pages you can search for and make the Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes of your choice inactive (hidden) without deleting them from your software. By default, when district staff, school staff, and teachers search for Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes in the other areas of the software, they will be able to find only those quizzes marked active in Manage Quiz Availability. Students will be able to search for and take quizzes marked active. Viewing Quiz Availability Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Manage Quiz Availability in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list on the Manage Quiz Availability page. 3. Click Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, or Literacy Skills in the list of quiz types. 116

125 M ANAGING QUIZ AVAILABILITY Viewing Quiz Availability 4. If necessary, change how you view the active vs. inactive quizzes and find a specific quiz on the Change Quiz Availability page as described below: A C G D E I H F B To search by Install Date (under More Criteria), choose All, On, After, Before, or Between from the drop-down list. Type one number unless you chose Between, in which case you must enter the beginning date (from) and end date (to) for the range. A The title will match the quiz type you chose. B The symbols show when a quiz is active or inactive. C Click Show Inactive Quizzes (if you are viewing active quizzes) to see all the inactive quizzes. D Click Show Active Quizzes (if you are viewing the inactive quizzes) to see all the active quizzes. E Click Show both Active and Inactive Quizzes to see all the quiz availability settings. F Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. Click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. G To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level or alternate book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text boxes. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 81. H Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, points for Reading Practice Quizzes, or install date. I Click Search after choosing search criteria. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria. 117

126 M ANAGING QUIZ AVAILABILITY Editing Quiz Availability Editing Quiz Availability Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. Follow these steps to edit the quiz availability for Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes for a school: 1. View the Manage Quiz Availability for the desired quiz type. See page Choose an option on the Change Quiz Availability page as described below to make quizzes inactive or active: E C A B If you selected a large number of quizzes to make inactive or active, you may see a progress bar while the program changes the quiz availability. D A Remove the check mark by each quiz you want to inactivate. B Check the box by each quiz you want to activate. C Check the Title box to change all the check marks on the one page you are viewing. D Click Inactivate All Quizzes or Activate All Quizzes to Inactivate/Activate all the quizzes in the search results or all the quizzes you are viewing (including the quizzes listed on multiple pages). Skip step Click Update Selected Quiz Availability E to change the status of the individual quizzes you selected. 118

127 M ANAGING QUIZ AVAILABILITY Setting Up Quiz Availability Rules Setting Up Quiz Availability Rules Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. All newly installed quizzes will be automatically activated upon installation unless you set up availability rules. The quiz availability rules allow you to determine whether or not new quizzes will be automatically activated upon installation for Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes for a school. 1. Click Manage Quiz Availability in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. Click Setup Rules under Actions on the Manage Quiz Availability page. 3. To set rules for a single school, choose a school from the drop-down list (if available) on the Setup Quiz Availability A Rules page A. Then, go to step 4. B To set the rules for multiple schools, click Select Multiple Schools B. Check the box by C the schools you want to work D with on the Select Multiple Schools page. Or, check the E School box to select all the schools in your list. Then, click Save. 4. Complete the Setup Quiz Availability Rules page as described below. F G H I If the book level settings were changed, you will not see the changes reflected on the Setup Quiz Availability Rules page. ATOS is the only book level available in the Activation rules. C Click Activate all so all newly installed quizzes are automatically activated. D Click Activate none so no newly installed quizzes are automatically activated. E Click Activation rules to set up more detailed activation rules. F If you chose Activation rules, check the box by the quiz types, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and language of quizzes you want automatically activated upon installation. G If you chose Activation rules, type the ATOS book level or points range of the quizzes you want automatically activated upon installation. 5. Click Save H when you re finished. Or, click Save and Add I if you want to set up rules for other schools. 6. To make customized quiz availability rules for a different school, repeat steps

128 STUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP The portion of Accelerated Reader RP that students can access allows them to take Accelerated Reader quizzes, print certain reports, and view their goals and points. Students can also use a NEO 2 laptop to take AR Quizzes (see How Students Take an AR Quiz on a NEO 2 Laptop on page 132). In addition, students can access Renaissance Place Home Connect if available to view their progress in AR RP on quizzes taken (see Students Using Home Connect with AR RP on page 135). The sections on the following pages describe what students can accomplish in Accelerated Reader. What You Need to Do Before Quizzing Here s what you need to do before you start quizzing students in Accelerated Reader (see page 132 for information about using the NEO 2 for quizzing): Add your students and enroll them in an Accelerated Reader class. (To make the class an Accelerated Reader class, check the Accelerated Reader box when you assign a teacher or assign products to the classes in a course.) See the Renaissance Learning Software Manual. Student User Names and Passwords. Each student needs his or her user name and password to take a quiz. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual or the Student Information School Management report (see page 160), Give each student his or her user name and password. Make sure the necessary software is installed on each computer that students will use for quizzing. See page 5. Use the Other Reading preference to assign Other Reading Series to the class (see page 178). Students cannot take Other Reading Quizzes until you do this. If necessary, change some of the many settings available in both the School and Classroom Student Quizzing Preferences (see page 168 and page 174) that control what students see and do when they re working in the program. Logging In as a Student Find User Name. Students who don t know their user names can click Find User Name. The software will ask the student to choose the school and search for his or her name; then, the program will fill in the user name. Students cannot search for their passwords. 1. Start the browser and go to the Accelerated Reader address. 2. Click Student on the Welcome page. 3. The student enters his or her user name and password. 4. The student clicks Log In. 120

129 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Taking a Quiz Taking a Quiz How Students Take an Accelerated Reader Quiz in RP If the student can t quiz. Some students may not be allowed to quiz if your school has reached the student capacity limit (see page 129) or the computer doesn t have the necessary software installed (see page 5). 1. Log in to the software as a student (see page 120). 2. The student clicks Take a Quiz in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 3. If Accelerated Reader asks the student to choose a class, the student clicks a class name on the Select a Class page. This happens if the student is enrolled in more than one Accelerated Reader class. 4. The student clicks the type of quiz he or she wants to take on the Select a Quiz Type page. The quiz types are Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes. 5. The student searches for the quiz he or she want to take on the Select a Quiz page by using the Title, Author, or Quiz Number search criteria as described below. (The name of the page will include the quiz type they chose in step 4.) D A B C E F If the student chooses to search Contains for Title or Author and types a letter combination such as am, the search results could include the quizzes titled Amber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and Ann Cameron since both titles and authors contain the letter combination am. G A The student searches for titles using Starts with, Contains, or Exact Match and types the word, letter(s), or title he or she wants to search by. B The student searches for authors by Last Name Starts with, Contains, or Exact Name and types the letter/letter combination or name he or she wants to search by. C The student types the exact quiz number to search for that quiz. D The student clicks Search. E If the student is searching for a Vocabulary Practice Quiz, he or she can click Find Vocabulary Practice Quizzes that match another quiz already taken (the previous three Reading Practice quizzes) or Take a Second-Try and Review Words~ Quiz. F The student clicks Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. 6. The student clicks the quiz title or number that he or she wants to take G. 7. If necessary, the student should click Read To, Read With, or Read Independently to answer how he or she read the book. 121

130 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Taking a Quiz 8. The student completes the Confirm Quiz page appropriately depending on the previous selections, described below: The student clicks On or Off if he or she chose a Reading Practice Quiz with I Recorded Voice to choose whether or not to use it H. H The quiz monitor may need to type the password and click OK to allow the student to take the quiz. The student clicks Yes or No to answer if he or she wants to take the quiz I. The student clicks OK if blocked from taking this quiz to exit the page. 9. If necessary, the student clicks Start Quiz on the Start Quiz page when he or she is ready to begin the quiz. 10. The student completes the quiz as described below: If Recorded Voice is on, the student will hear a recording of each question and the possible answers. The student clicks the question or the answer to hear the recording again. J J The student presses the A, B, C, or D key on the keyboard to choose an answer or clicks the mouse on an answer. Accelerated Reader circles the answer the student chooses. K The students clicks Next > when he or she is ready to go on. After choosing an answer on the last question, the student clicks Done. K 11. If necessary, the student presses the A, B, C, or D key on the keyboard or clicks one of the choices to tell how much he or she liked the book after the quiz is done. Then, the student clicks Done. 12. If necessary, the monitor enters the password and clicks OK. 122

131 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Taking a Quiz Students can only review incorrect answers if the Show Missed Questions preference (see page 174) is turned on and if the student passed the quiz. Students won t be able to view a TOPS report if the Automatic Logout preference is set because the program will log the student out as soon as the report prints (see page 176). If you choose to have the TOPS reports print automatically, you must have the correct version of the Renaissance Place Print Plug-In installed. See Checking System Requirements on page 5 for more information about how to install it. 13. The Score Summary shows the student how he or she did on the quiz. The student clicks Yes to review the answers for the questions he or she got wrong. The program will display each question he or she answered incorrectly. The student s answer will be circled with a red X over it. The correct answer will have a green square around it. The student clicks Next > to go to the next question. The student clicks Done when he or she is finished reviewing the last question. The student clicks OK if he or she is not asked to review the answers for the questions he or she got wrong. 14. If a TOPS Report is generated, the student clicks either English or Spanish to choose the language the TOPS Report should print in. If a TOPS Report is not generated, go to step 16. The student clicks View Report on the TOPS Report page to view the report if it does not print automatically. Another browser window opens with the TOPS Report displayed. The student closes the window it s displayed in when finished. If the report doesn t print automatically, it s displayed in either the TOPS Report window or in another window. The student can print the report by clicking the print icon in Adobe Reader (if the report is displayed in Preview, click the File menu, then Print). 15. The student clicks Continue on the TOPS Report page. 16. If the student just passed a Reading Practice Quiz, the student may be asked if he or she wants to take the Vocabulary Practice Quiz for the same title. The student clicks Yes to take the quiz. The Confirm Quiz page will open. Go back to step 10. The student clicks No to take the quiz later. Go to the next step. 17. The students clicks Log Out or Return to Home on the Log Out or Return to Home page. How to Stop a Quiz or Finish an Interrupted Quiz Once a quiz starts, the student can stop it at any time by pressing Esc. The program then asks the quiz monitor to enter the monitor password (that password is set in the Monitor Password preference, see page 171) to confirm that it s okay to stop the quiz. Type the password in the field and click OK. No data is saved from an aborted quiz. The student will have to retake it. If the student loses the Internet connection while in the middle of a quiz, the program will store the data from the questions the student already answered. The next time the student logs in, he or she will have the opportunity to resume the unfinished quiz. The student will only be allowed to answer the questions he or she had not yet answered; no changes will be allowed on questions that were already answered. 123

132 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Taking a Quiz Blocking Students from Quizzing There are several ways for you to block students from taking quizzes in Accelerated Reader: Blocking Method What Is Blocked? Can It Be Overridden? Date and Time Restriction preferences (see the School preferences on page 172) Quiz Setup preference (see Classroom preferences on page 179) Allow Quizzing preference (see Individual Student Settings in the Classroom preferences on page 183) Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension preference (see Student Quizzing in the Classroom preferences on page 174) Editing the quiz information Editing Quiz Availability Students in a school taking a quiz before, after, or during certain times, days, or dates. This block applies to all quiz types. Which quiz types the students in a class are and are not allowed to take. Which individual students are allowed to take quizzes. The block applies to all quiz types. Students taking a Vocabulary Practice Quiz unless they've passed the Reading Practice Quiz for the same title. When you edit quiz information, you can specify if the quiz can be taken by the students at the school. If you edit a Teacher-Made Quiz, you also have the Under Development option that allows you to block the quiz. Students in a school from taking quizzes (except for Other Reading Quizzes) that are inactivated (see page 118). Yes, the quiz monitor can override the block if you've enabled the Monitor Override preference. See (as it applies to date and time restrictions) the Date and Time Restrictions preferences (see page 172) or the Student Quizzing preferences in the School preferences (see page 168). No, the quiz monitor cannot override the block even if you've enabled the Monitor Override preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 168). Yes, the quiz monitor can override the block if you've enabled the Monitor Override preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 168). Yes, the quiz monitor can override the block if you've enabled the Monitor Override preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 168). Yes, the quiz monitor can override the block if you've enabled the Monitor Override preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 168). This applies to all the blocks except for the Teacher-Made Quizzes that you've marked as Under Development. No, the quiz monitor cannot override the block even if you've enabled the Monitor Override preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 168). 124

133 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Printing Reports as a Student Printing Reports as a Student Students can print several reports that contain information only for them after they log in to the program. They can choose from the Student Record Report, Words Learned Report, and the Vocabulary List Report. 1. The student clicks View Reports in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. The student clicks Student Record Report, Words Learned Report, or Vocabulary List Report on the Select a Student Report page to generate that report. 3. If necessary, the student clicks the name of the class to report on. For the Student Record Report or Words Learned Report, see below and then go to step 4. For the Vocabulary List Report, see page 126 and then go to step 4. Student Record Report or Words Learned Report A B C D C D E A The student clicks By Title or By Date Taken for the Student Record Report. B The student clicks By Grade Level or By Word for the Words Learned Report. C The student clicks All Dates or Select Marking Period. E D If the student chooses Select Marking Period, the student must choose a marking period from the drop-down list. E The student clicks Next > when he or she is ready to continue. 125

134 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Printing Reports as a Student Vocabulary List Report The student searches for the quiz on the Select a Vocabulary Practice Quiz page. I F G H If the student chooses to search using the Contains criteria, and types a letter combination such as am, the search results could include the quizzes titled Amber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and Ann Cameron since both contain the letter combination am. On Macintosh computers, the report may open in Preview. If so, the student should click the File menu and choose Print to print it. J F The student searches for titles using Starts with, Contains, or Exact Match and types the word, letter, or title he or she wants to search with. G The student searches for authors by Last Name Starts with, Contains, or Exact Name and types the letter/letter combination or name he or she wants to search with. H The student types the exact quiz number to search for that quiz. I The student clicks Search. J The student clicks the title or number of the quiz he or she wants to report on. 4. When the report generates, it opens in Adobe Reader. To save or print it, the student should use the Adobe Reader icons. 5. The student clicks Done when finished. 126

135 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Viewing the Quizzes a Student Has Taken Viewing the Quizzes a Student Has Taken Students can view a list of the quizzes they have taken. The information the program displays is only for the student who is logged in. 1. The student clicks View Quizzes Taken in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. The student completes the Select Options page: A The student chooses the type of quiz to view from the drop-down list. B The student clicks By Title or By Date Taken under How do you want to sort your quizzes taken? C The student clicks All Dates or Select Marking Period under What date range do you want to use. If the student chooses Select Marking Period, the student must choose a marking period from the drop-down list. D The student clicks Next > when he or she is ready to continue. B C D A 3. The student views the quizzes that match his or her selections on the View Quizzes Taken page. 4. The student clicks Done when he or she is finished viewing the list. 127

136 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Viewing Goals and Points Viewing Goals and Points Students can view their goals and points records. The information the program displays is only for the student who is logged in. 1. The student clicks View Goals and Points in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page to view the Goals and Points page. A B C D A This is the student s information about the goals the student has been assigned and the student s progress during each marking period assigned to the class. B These are the points the student has aimed for and earned in each of the marking periods. C The number in the Points Used column is the points the student has used minus the points awarded in the marking period. It does not include the points the student earned by passing Reading Practice Quizzes. D The certifications the student has achieved are listed here. 2. If the student is enrolled in more than one Accelerated Reader class, he or she can view his or her records by choosing another class from the Class drop-down list. 3. The student clicks Done when finished. Logging Out Of and Closing the Program Students should log out of the program when they are finished working in it. This helps to ensure that each student is logged in properly before he or she begins quizzing. The student can log out at any time (except when taking a quiz) by clicking Log Out in the upper-right corner of the page. Note: The Automatic Student Logout preference (found under Student Quizzing in the Classroom preferences) can be set so that students are automatically logged out of the program when they finish a quiz; see page 174. After the student logs out, he or she can close Accelerated Reader RP by closing the browser window. 128

137 S TUDENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Student Capacity Student Capacity Your Accelerated Reader student capacity limit determines how many students can take quizzes within a school year or subscription year. Your school or district purchased this capacity with the software. If you reach your student capacity limit, students who have not taken a quiz during this subscription period will not be allowed to quiz. Accelerated Reader will notify you that you have reached the student capacity limit. If you need to expand the limit, contact Renaissance Learning to purchase the expansion. You will receive a new subscription code. To enter the new code or to manage student capacity, see the Renaissance Place Software Manual. 129

138 STUDENTS USING NEO 2 LAPTOPS WITH AR RP The Accelerated Reader SmartApplet allows students to take Reading Practice Quizzes, Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, and Other Reading Quizzes using a NEO 2 laptop. The quiz information is sent to Accelerated Reader RP via a Renaissance Receiver. Before Students Quiz on a NEO 2 Before students can take AR quizzes on NEO 2 laptops, make sure the following have been completed: 1. Install AlphaSmart Manager (see the NEO 2 and SmartApplet Quick Guide for instructions). 2. Connect the Renaissance Receiver to your computer (see below). 3. Name the Receiver and set the Renaissance Place address in the Renaissance Wireless Server Utility (see page 131). 4. Set the School and Classroom Student Quizzing preferences and the Other Reading Series preference for your class (see page 168). 5. Make sure students know their user names and passwords. You can print the Student Information Report to get this information (see page 160). 6. Make sure the students know the quiz number. On NEO 2 students may only search for quizzes by the quiz number. (The quiz number can be included on book labels.) Connecting to a Renaissance Receiver Follow these steps to connect a Renaissance Receiver to your computer: 1. Find the Renaissance Receiver and the USB data cable. 2. Plug the end of the data cable that is nearly square A into the connector on the back of the Receiver B. 3. Connect the USB connector on the data cable C to an open USB port on your computer. B A C 130

139 S TUDENTS USING NEO 2 LAPTOPS WITH AR RP Before Students Quiz on a NEO 2 Naming the Renaissance Receiver and Setting the Renaissance Place Address in the Renaissance Wireless Server Utility It s important to set a name for the computer/receiver combination so that students know they re connecting to the right Receiver when they use NEO 2 for taking AR Quizzes. This is especially important if your school has more than one Renaissance Receiver. The Renaissance Wireless Server Utility is automatically installed with AlphaSmart Manager. Make sure you have installed AlphaSmart Manager before you follow these steps. 1. Start the Renaissance Wireless Server Utility: Windows computers: Right-click in the lower-right corner of your computer screen (the system tray) and choose Manage from the menu that appears. If you don t see this icon in your system tray, click Start or Programs (or All Programs) Renaissance Wireless Server Renaissance Wireless Server Utility. Macintosh computers: In your computer s Applications folder, open the Renaissance Wireless Server folder. Then, double-click Renaissance Wireless Server Utility. 2. Click Start if necessary. 3. Type 1234 and click OK to log in. (This is the default Administrator PIN. If you have changed the PIN, enter your new PIN.) 4. Click the Server Settings tab A. 5. If necessary, enter a new name in the Network Name field B. Make sure the name is different from the name of your school s other Receivers and easy for your students to recognize. Click Update Network Settings C. A B C D 6. Click OK when the program finishes updating the network settings. 7. Click Renaissance Place Settings D. 131

140 S TUDENTS USING NEO 2 LAPTOPS WITH AR RP Taking a Quiz 8. Enter the Web address or IP address for the Renaissance Place server that has Accelerated Reader RP installed E. E F 9. Click Verify to make sure the utility recognizes this as a valid address F. If it does, you will see Connection Verified at the bottom of the dialog box. If the utility isn t able to verify the address, check the format of the examples to see if you need to make any changes. Then, click OK. 10. Click OK again when the program verifies that the settings were changed successfully. Taking a Quiz How Students Take an AR Quiz on a NEO 2 Laptop Before students can take AR quizzes on NEO 2 laptops, make sure all of the setup steps have been completed (see page 130). 1. The teacher s computer must be on, with the Receiver connected. 2. Turn the NEO 2 on by pressing on/off; then, press applets. 3. Press the down arrow until the cursor is next to Accelerated Reader. Then, press enter. 4. The first time you use the Accelerated Reader SmartApplet, it will list the Networks (Renaissance Receivers connected to computers) that are available. Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the network you want to connect to. Then, press enter. If you have connected to a network before, you may be asked if you want to stay connected to the last network used on the NEO 2. Press Y for yes or N for no. If you chose no, choose another network and press enter. The name you gave the Renaissance Receiver is the name the students will see in the networks list. Make sure to tell your students which network (Receiver name) they need to connect to. 5. When the program asks for your user name and password, type your user name and press enter, tab, or the down arrow. Then, type your password and press enter. 132

141 S TUDENTS USING NEO 2 LAPTOPS WITH AR RP Taking a Quiz 6. If you have an unfinished quiz, the screen will ask if you want to finish it. Press Y for yes or N for no. If you choose yes, go to step 13. If you choose no, the teacher or quiz monitor must enter the monitor password. 7. If you are in more than one Accelerated Reader class, your classes will be listed. Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the class that you are taking this quiz for. Then, press enter. Literacy Skills Quizzes are not supported on NEO 2 at this time. 8. On the next screen, use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the type of quiz you want to take (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, or Other Reading). Then, press enter. 9. For Reading Practice and Other Reading quizzes, the Find RP Quiz screen will appear next. Type the quiz number and press enter. (If you chose to take an Other Reading Quiz, and none are available for your class, the screen will notify you. Press enter.) For Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, you will be asked how you want to find the quiz: by quiz number, by matching another quiz already taken, or by taking a ~Second- Try and Review Words~ Quiz. Highlight an answer and press enter. If you chose to find the quiz by quiz number, type the number and press enter. If you chose to match a quiz already taken, highlight the quiz name and press enter. If there was only one matching Vocabulary Practice Quiz, you won't be asked to select one. If you have no matching quizzes, press Y to take another quiz, then go back to step If the quiz is available in both English and Spanish, the screen will list both. Use the arrow keys to select the English quiz and press enter. (Spanish quizzes are not yet supported by NEO 2.) 11. If you are asked how the book was read, use the arrow keys to select an answer; then, press enter. 12. The quiz title will be shown. To take the quiz, press Y for yes. Then, press enter. If the screen asks for the monitor password, the teacher or quiz monitor must enter the Accelerated Reader monitor password and press enter. Note: If you are not allowed to take the quiz, the screen will notify you and may ask, among other questions, if you want to take a different quiz (press Y for yes or N for no). A message may appear for any of these reasons: There are date or time restrictions. 133

142 S TUDENTS USING NEO 2 LAPTOPS WITH AR RP Taking a Quiz To stop a quiz, press crtl+a or cmd+a. Then ask the quiz monitor to enter the password and press enter. You are not allowed to take quizzes. Students are not allowed to take this quiz. You have taken the quiz before and cannot retake it. You have chosen a ~Second-Try and Review Words~ Quiz, but you don t have review words. 13. NEO 2 will show you one question in the quiz. To answer each question, press the letter for the answer you want to choose; then, press enter to go to the next question. If the question is long and you need to scroll to see all of the question, use the up or down arrow keys to scroll in the question; then, press the right arrow key or tab to switch to the answers. If you need to scroll to see all of the answers A, use the up and down arrow keys to scroll. A 14. After you enter the answer to the last question, you may be asked how you liked the book. Press the letter for the answer you want to choose. Then, press enter. 15. If you are asked for the monitor password, ask the teacher or quiz monitor to enter the password and press enter. 16. The RP Score Summary will show you how you did on the quiz. It may also show you information about the points you ve earned. If you are not asked to see the questions you missed, press enter. If the summary asks if you want to see the questions you missed, press Y for yes or N for no and press enter. If you choose yes, you can see each missed question, your answer, and the correct answer. Press enter after you read each one. 17. A TOPS Report may be sent to the default printer for the teacher s computer. If the program asks what language you would like to print the report in, use the arrow keys to highlight your choice and press enter. 18. After you finish a Reading Practice Quiz, the program may ask if you want to take the matching Vocabulary Practice Quiz. Press Y for yes if you want to take that quiz, or N for no if you don t want to take it right now. Then, press enter. 19. The program will ask if you want to take a different quiz. Press Y for yes if you want to take another quiz, or N for no if you don t want to take another one right now. Then, press enter. If you choose no, you will see the list of SmartApplets available on the NEO

143 STUDENTS USING HOME CONNECT WITH AR RP Depending on the license your district has purchased and the settings chosen by your program administrator, you may have access to Renaissance Place Home Connect. If so, the program administrator and teachers will see a Home Connect tab on the Home page. If your school has Home Connect available, students with Web access at home can log in to view student goals, results of the last quiz taken, overall progress on Reading Practice Quizzes, and a list of words learned on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes. Students can also find books that have Accelerated Reader quizzes and view the Bookshelf that shows books read and quiz results. Before students can use Home Connect, do the following: Make sure the student knows the Home Connect Web address, which is slightly different from the Renaissance Place URL and is listed on the Informational Letter. Print the Informational Letter to give to the student to take home. The Informational Letter includes the Home Connect Web address and the student s user name and password they will need to log in. Printing the Informational Letter 1. Click Informational Letter in the list of Home Connect tasks on the Home page. 2. Complete the report options page by selecting the students or classes who will need the letter to take home. Click View Letter. 3. The letter appears in Adobe Reader either within the Home Connect browser or a separate window. Print the letter using the Adobe Reader print icon rather than the browser button. If you are using Preview in OS X, choose Print from the File menu to print it. How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Reading Practice Quizzes The student can use the Informational Letter he or she got from the teacher to help him or her log in to Home Connect and start using it. 1. In a Web browser, the student goes to the address provided by the teacher or school in the Informational Letter. 2. The student enters his or her user name and password (the same ones used to take quizzes in AR RP) and clicks Log In. 135

144 S TUDENTS USING HOME CONNECT WITH AR RP How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Reading Practice Quizzes 3. On the reading tab, on the Accelerated Reader tab, the student s progress on Reading Practice Quizzes is shown A. A B C D E To search for more books with Accelerated Reader Quizzes, the student clicks the link under AR BookFinder in the lower-right corner of any page in the program. A The My Overall Progress area shows the student s overall progress on Reading Practice quizzes during the dates from the time frame drop-down list B. Average percent correct on quizzes, total points, and average book level achieved are shown. Quizzes passed/taken and total words read (word count) are listed at the bottom of this area. B Select a time frame from the drop-down list to view overall progress during that time period. Current Marking Period is the default. C The student can see how he or she performed on the last quiz taken here, including the brief book details, number of questions correct, and points earned. The student clicks the book jacket or the book title to view the full book details for that book. D The Reader Certifications area lists the last reader certification the student achieved and the student s current certification goal. See Reading Practice Certifications Record Book on page 32 for more information about certifications. 136

145 S TUDENTS USING HOME CONNECT WITH AR RP How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Reading Practice Quizzes 4. The student clicks View My Bookshelf E to see a bookshelf with all the books with Reading Practice Quizzes he or she has taken. 5. The student clicks one of the book jackets to see the details for that book. (The student can also get to the Book Details page by clicking the book title or the book jacket on the Reading Practice Overall Progress page.) F 6. The student clicks Done when he or she is finished viewing the book details F. 137

146 S TUDENTS USING HOME CONNECT WITH AR RP How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes 1. The student clicks Vocabulary Practice Quizzes A on the Accelerated Reader tab to view a list of words learned for this selected time frame. A C D B E To search for more books with Accelerated Reader Quizzes, the student clicks the link under AR BookFinder in the lower-right corner of any page in the program. B The My Words Learned area lists the words and grade level of the words the student learned on Vocabulary Practice quizzes taken during the time period shown in the time frame drop-down list C. Words are sorted by grade level, highest grade first and then alphabetically. The bottom of this area lists the number of quizzes taken, the count of the words learned/possible on the above list, and the average word grade level. C Select a time frame from the drop-down list to view overall progress during that time period. Current Marking Period is the default. D The My Last Quiz area shows how the student performed on the last quiz taken, including brief details about the book, and the number of new words and review words. The student clicks the book jacket or the book title to view complete details about the book. 138

147 S TUDENTS USING HOME CONNECT WITH AR RP How Students Use Home Connect to View Progress on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes 2. The student clicks View My Bookshelf E to see a bookshelf with all the books with Vocabulary Practice Quizzes he or she has taken. 3. The student clicks one of the book jackets to see the book details for that book. (The student can also get to the Book Details page by clicking the book title or the book jacket on the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page.) F 4. The student clicks Done when finished viewing the book details F. 139

148 PARENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Parents can access their children s goals and points and print certain reports. Only parents who have been added to the software and assigned children can log in to the program. Also, they will only be able to see information for their children. Logging In to Accelerated Reader RP as a Parent Parents should follow these steps to log in to the program: 1. Start the browser and go to the Accelerated Reader address. (Recommended browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari.) 2. Click Parent on the Welcome page. 3. Type the user name and password you received on the Parents login page. 4. Click Log In. 140

149 P ARENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Viewing Your Child s Goals and Points Viewing Your Child s Goals and Points Parents can view the goals and points records for their children. They will only be able to access the records of the children they have been assigned. 1. If necessary, the parent chooses a child and/or school from the drop-down lists on the Home page A. 2. The parent clicks Goals and Points in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page to view the Goals and Points page B. A B C D E F C This is your child s information about the goals he or she has been assigned and the child s progress during each marking period assigned to the class. D These are the points the child has worked toward and earned in each of the marking periods. E The number in the Points Used column is the points your child used minus the points the child has been awarded in the marking period. It does not include the points your child earned by passing Reading Practice Quizzes. F Details about the child s certifications: the achieved certifications, date achieved, and current certification goal. 3. The parent clicks Done when finished. 141

150 P ARENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Printing the Student Record or Words Learned Report Printing the Student Record or Words Learned Report Parents can print a Student Record or Words Learned report. The Student Record report shows detailed information about the Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes that their child has taken. The Words Learned report lists the words their child learned by taking Vocabulary Practice Quizzes. 1. If necessary, the parent chooses a child and/or school from the drop-down lists on the Home page A. A B 2. The parent clicks Student Record Report or Words Learned Report in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page B. 3. When the report is generated, it opens in Adobe Reader. To save or print it, the parent should use the Adobe Reader icons C. C D 4. The parent clicks Select a Different Report or Home when finished D. 142

151 P ARENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Printing a Vocabulary List Report Printing a Vocabulary List Report Parents can print a Vocabulary List for any of the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes installed at their child s school. This report shows the vocabulary words for a specific quiz, the grade level for each word, and its pronunciation. The report includes a pronunciation key. 1. If necessary, the parent chooses a child and/or school from the drop-down lists. 2. The parent clicks Vocabulary List in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page A. A 3. The parent searches for the quiz for which he or she wants to view a Vocabulary List report. B C E D If the parent chooses to search using the Contains criteria and types a letter combination such as am the search results could include the quizzes titled Amber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and Ann Cameron since both contain the letter combination am. F B The parent searches for titles using Starts with, Contains, or Exact Match and types the word, letter, or title he or she wants to search by. C The parent searches for authors by Last Name Starts with, Contains, or Exact Name and types the letter/letter combination, or name he or she wants to search by. D The parent types the exact quiz number to search for that quiz. E The parent clicks Search. 4. The parent clicks the title or number of the quiz he or she wants to view F. 143

152 P ARENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Printing the Quiz List Report On Macintosh computers, the report may open in Preview. If so, click the File menu and choose Print to print it. 5. When the report generates, it opens in Adobe Reader. To save or print it, the parent should use the Adobe Reader icons G. G H 6. The parent clicks Select a Different Report or Home when finished H. Printing the Quiz List Report Parents can print a Quiz List Report, which lists the Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, or Literacy Skills Quizzes that are available at their child s school. 1. If necessary, the parent chooses a child and/or school from the drop-down lists A. 2. The parent clicks Quiz List in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page B. A B 144

153 P ARENTS HOW TO USE ACCELERATED READER RP Logging Out Of and Closing the Program 3. The parent completes the Report Options page. a. If necessary, the parent chooses the appropriate school from the drop-down list. b. The parent clicks the quiz type C (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, or F Literacy Skills). c. The parent types the ATOS book level range or alternate book level range (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) he or she wants to see D. (For the ATOS book level, enter numbers from with no more than one digit after the decimal place. Alternate book level 1 uses a scale of , C D E and alternate book level 2 uses a scale of ) Note: If you want to report on a single book level, type the same number in both fields. d. The parent checks boxes by the interest levels he or she wants included E. Interest levels show the grades for which a book s content is most appropriate. e. The parent clicks View Report F. 4. When the report generates, it opens in Adobe Reader. To save or print it, the parent should use the Adobe Reader icons G. G 5. The parent clicks Customize this Report to choose different options for the report, or the parent can click Select a Different Report or Home to return to the Home page. Logging Out Of and Closing the Program Parents can log out at any time by clicking Log Out in the upper-right corner of the page. After they log out, they can close Accelerated Reader RP by closing their browser window. 145

154 REPORTS Accelerated Reader reports give you more information about your students work and your Accelerated Reader classes and teachers. About Renaissance Place and Accelerated Reader Reports This software includes two types of reports: Renaissance Place and Accelerated Reader RP. Data about Accelerated Reader can also be accessed in the RP Dashboard. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual for more information. When you click Consolidated Reports A under Renaissance Place, administrators and teachers can generate reports with data from more than one Renaissance Place product. For more information, see the Renaissance Place Software Manual. When you click Reports B under Accelerated Reader, you can generate reports about your students work in Accelerated Reader. A B 146

155 R EPORTS Using Accelerated Reader Reports Using Accelerated Reader Reports Check for Adobe Reader before you Generate Reports Downloading Adobe Reader. Administrators and teachers can also download Adobe Reader from the Client Install page. On your Home page, click Product Administration, then Download Supporting Software. Then, click Install next to Adobe Reader. Accelerated Reader uses Adobe Reader to generate reports. To find out if the Reader is installed on your computer, click Check Software Requirements on the Welcome page before you log in. On this page, click Test Adobe Reader A to find out if the program is installed and functioning. If the test doesn t launch the program, click the install Version link B for Adobe Reader. You will go to a knowledge base article with instructions about where you can download Adobe Reader. A B Printing Accelerated Reader Reports Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. The level of information included in each report depends on your primary position; see page 154 for details. 1. Click Reports in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. Click the report category that contains the report you want to generate on the Reports page. You can choose from Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, Other Reading, and School Management reports. 3. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list. 147

156 R EPORTS Using Accelerated Reader Reports 4. Click the report name on the Select a Report page. 5. If the Report Options page appears, choose the custom options you prefer on that page. Each report has its own set of options. (If the page doesn t appear, the report doesn t have custom options.) After choosing the options, click View Report. A B A For many reports, you can choose the students by name, grade, or class. Use the drop-down list or click one of the links provided. B Reporting parameter groups let you choose students with common traits. For more information, see page

157 R EPORTS Using Accelerated Reader Reports Don t use the browser s print function. If the report opens in a browser window, don t try to print it using the browser s buttons or menus. Only the top of the page will print. 6. When the report is ready, it appears in the Accelerated Reader browser window or a separate window. To save or print it, use the Adobe Reader icons. C D E C Use the save icon to save the report. D Use the print icon to print the report. E These options let you customize a report or go back to choose a different one. 149

158 R EPORTS About Reporting Parameter Groups About Reporting Parameter Groups Reporting parameter groups let you limit reports to students with common traits. When you customize certain Accelerated Reader reports, you can choose a reporting parameter group from a drop-down list. You can also create or change a group by clicking Create New or Edit Selected. B A C A By entering an Enroll date, you select students enrolled in the school before the date you specify. B You can specify each student s ethnicity, gender, language, and grade when you add the student or edit his or her information. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual. C You can assign characteristics to students separately. You can also add your own custom characteristics and assign them to students. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual. 150

159 R EPORTS Printing Labels Book and Labels Vocabulary List Reports Printing Labels Book and Labels Vocabulary List Reports The Report Options page for the Labels Book Report and the Labels Vocabulary List Report allows you to search for and choose the Reading Practice and Vocabulary Practice Quizzes for which you want to print labels. You can also specify the quantity of labels you want to print for each book. Here are the dimensions of the label reports and the recommended labels to print them on. Report Type Size of Labels Number of Labels per Page Label Number Labels Book 1" 2 5/8" 30 Avery L5160 Labels Vocabulary List 2" 4" 10 Avery 5963, 5163, 8163 or Xerox LWO130/Xerox IWJ130 Follow these steps to print labels for your books. 1. Click Reports in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. Click School Management. 3. If necessary, select your school from the drop-down list. 4. Click Labels Book or Labels Vocabulary List. 5. Click the Some option after Select Quizzes and then click Select Quizzes A. A 151

160 R EPORTS Printing Labels Book and Labels Vocabulary List Reports 6. Search for Quizzes by entering your search criteria B (see Searching for Quizzes on page 81 for more information), then click Search. The search results show the list of quizzes that matched your search criteria. Click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B E D F C To sort the list of selected quizzes by title, click the Title column heading. 7. To print a label for every quiz in the list, click << Add All C (you may need to scroll down). Then, go to step 10. To choose some of the quizzes or if you want to print different quantities of labels for different quizzes, check the boxes by the quizzes for which you want to print a book label. To select every quiz on the page, check the box by the Quantity column heading at the top of the list. Then, go to step If there are quizzes for which you want more than one label, type the number of book labels you want to print for that quiz in the Quantity column for each of those quizzes D. Note: The number of book labels that actually print for each quiz is the product of the quantity you enter on the Report Options page for all the quizzes and the quantity you enter on this page for each quiz you select. The number you enter on the Report Options page is the quantity of book labels you want to print for every quiz you've chosen. The number you enter on this page allows you to change the quantity of book labels that print for a particular quiz. For example, if you wanted to print two book labels for every quiz you've chosen except one, and for that one quiz you needed to print six book labels, you would enter 2 on the Report Options page. Then, on this page, you would enter 3 by the quiz for which you needed six book labels (2 3 = 6). 152

161 R EPORTS Printing Labels Book and Labels Vocabulary List Reports 9. Click < Add E. All the quizzes you chose will be moved to the list on the left side of the page. This is the list of quizzes for which book labels will print. Note: If you have some quizzes checked and you click Next >> or << Previous, the selected quizzes are automatically moved to the list on the left you do not have to click < Add. 10. If necessary, click Remove by the quiz to delete it from the list or click Remove All to remove all the quizzes from the list F. 11. Click Save when you have finished choosing the quizzes and marking the quantity of book labels you want printed for each. The Report Options page opens listing the number of quizzes selected and the total number of labels that will print G. G 12. Complete the rest of the Report Options page and click View Report. 13. Examine the report to see if it meets your needs. To make changes, click Customize this Report and go back to step 5. To print the labels, click the Adobe Reader icons, or in Preview on OS X, from the File menu choose Print. 153

162 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Descriptions The Accelerated Reader reports are designed to get you the information you need when you need it. The table below lists the reports that are available in each of the five report categories. Reading Practice Reports Diagnostic Reading Practice Favorite Books Goal History Marking Period Progress Point Club Summary Quiz Takers Reading Practice Quiz Usage Reader Certification Certificates Reader Certification Levels Schoolwide Summary Student Points Student Record Team Standing Chart Team Status TWI Word Count Vocabulary Practice Reports Diagnostic Vocabulary Practice Pronunciation Key Student Record Words Learned Words to Study Vocabulary List Literacy Skills Reports Literacy Skills Chart Literacy Skills Class Summary Literacy Skills Status Student Record Other Reading Reports Diagnostic Other Reading Quiz Takers Other Reading Student Record Word Count School Management Reports School Management: Class Enrollment Student Detail Student Information Teacher Quiz Management: Labels Book Labels Vocabulary List Quiz List Literacy Skills Quiz List Other Reading Quiz List Reading Practice Quiz List Vocabulary Practice 154

163 R EPORTS Report Descriptions This table lists all the Accelerated Reader RP reports in alphabetical order. Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Class (School Management) Diagnostic Other Reading Diagnostic Reading Practice Diagnostic Vocabulary Practice Lists your Accelerated Reader RP classes, the lead teacher assigned to each, and the students enrolled in each class. Things to Note: Only Accelerated Reader classes are included. To make a class an Accelerated Reader class, check the Accelerated Reader box when you assign teachers to the class, or assign products to the classes in a course. Helps you monitor student work on Other Reading Quizzes so you can identify students who are struggling and may need intervention. The report includes diagnostic codes, the average book level and percent correct of quizzes taken, the total word count for the quizzes the student passed, and quiz information on the latest quiz taken. Things to Note: Diagnostic codes are defined on the report. They help you see potential problems. See page 164 for more information about the codes. Helps you monitor student work on Reading Practice Quizzes. It notes progress toward goals and alerts you to problems students are having. The report includes diagnostic codes, the percent correct goal/average, detailed information about points, engaged time per day, the book level goal/average, and the reader certification goal the student is working toward. Includes a diagnostic code summary and a class summary. Things to Note: Diagnostic codes are defined on the report. They help you see potential problems. See page 164 for more information about the codes. The diagnostic code summary section lists the number and percentage of all the students who are at risk and the number and percentage of students whose average percent correct falls below 85%. Engaged time measures how much actual time your students are engaged in reading books. For more information, see page 164. Helps you monitor student work on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes so you can identify students who are struggling and may need intervention. The report shows the total number of words the student learned, with details about the new words and review words on which they were quizzed. No custom options. You may select: classes or students to include date range book level type Other Reading Series to include quizzes to include based on language grouping used filtering of quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range book level type quizzes to include based on language grouping used filtering of quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range grouping used page break after each group print report options 155

164 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Enrollment (School Management) Favorite Books (Reading Practice) Goal History (Reading Practice) Labels Book (School Management) Lists the students enrolled in the Accelerated Reader classes and the teacher assigned to each class. Things to Note: Administrators will also see students who aren t enrolled in an Accelerated Reader class. Like the Class Report, this report includes only designated Accelerated Reader classes. Provides feedback on which books the students liked best. The report lists the top ten ranked books. Things to Note: The Book Voting preference must be enabled for this report to contain useful data (see page 171). For best results, this report should be run for a single class or group of classes in the same grade and for a date range of not more than one year. A book must receive two or more votes to be included in the report data. Book ratings are defined on the report. Monitors how well students are progressing toward their average percent correct, point, average book level, and certification goals for each marking period assigned to the class. Things to Note: Goals are set for the selected class marking periods. See Selecting Marking Periods for Goal Setting on page 22. To set student goals, see page 26. Print labels for the books in your school library that have matching Reading Practice Quizzes. See page 151. Things to Note: The title, author, and interest level always print on the labels. You can customize the report to also show the quiz number (and language), points, interest level, ATOS book level, and/or an alternate book level (or user-defined name). To search for and choose Reading Practice Quizzes, click the Some option, then click Select Quizzes. Labels measure 1" 2 5/8". If you search for quizzes to include, hover your mouse over the quiz title in the search results to see the author s name. No custom options. You may select: classes or students to include date range book level type grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range book level type grouping used page break after each group print report options You may select: Reading Practice Quizzes to include number of labels to print for each quiz sorting used quiz information to include starting position 156

165 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Labels Vocabulary List (School Management) Literacy Skills Chart Literacy Skills Class Summary Literacy Skills Status Marking Period Progress (Reading Practice) Print labels for the books in your school library that have matching Vocabulary Practice Quizzes. See page 151. Things to Note: The title, author, quiz number, ATOS book level (or your choice), fiction/nonfiction classification, and interest level are printed on the labels. The vocabulary words for the quiz and the grade level for each word are included on the label. To search for and choose Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, click the Some option, then click Select Quizzes. Labels measure 2" 4". If you search for quizzes to include, hover your mouse over the quiz title in the search results to see the author s name. Provides a quick visual comparison between a student and the class average for each of the 24 literacy skills categories. Charts each student s performance on each of the 24 literacy skills. Shows how your class as a whole is performing on each of the 24 literacy skills. Groups the 24 literacy skills into four categories (Initial Understanding, Literary Analysis, Inferential Comprehension, and Constructing Meaning) and the six literacy skills under each category. The report also shows class and report totals for the number of students on the report. Shows individual student performance on each of the 24 literacy skills along with group and overall totals. The report is split into tables for each category of literacy skills (Initial Understanding, Literary Analysis, Inferential Comprehension, and Constructing Meaning) and the six literacy skills under each category. The report totals this information for each literacy skill and for all the students overall. Shows how the students in the selected classes performed in each marking period you chose to include. For each class and marking period, the report shows the average percent correct for those students, total points earned, median of the points earned, average ATOS book level achieved, and the percentage of students at risk. Things to Note: By customizing this report, you can include bar graphs that chart the information. You may select: Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to include book level type number of labels to print for each quiz sorting used starting position You may select: classes or students to include date range grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class You may select: classes or students to include date range sorting used grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options You may select: classes to include marking periods quizzes taken for the specific class whether to include informative charts print report options 157

166 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Point Club Summary (Reading Practice) Pronunciation Key (Vocabulary Practice) Quiz List Reports (School Management) Quiz Takers Other Reading Allows you to define the point clubs you want to use and then lists the students who qualify. For each student, the report shows the point club attained, the date the club was joined, and the total points the student earned. For each group and for the report, the total number of students in each club is shown. Provides a key to the pronunciation symbols that your students and parents will see on the Vocabulary List Report. Things to Note: This report can also be printed from the Resources section of the program under Forms and Charts. Provides a list of the quizzes installed for your school. Can be generated separately for each of the four quiz types (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading). Regardless of quiz type, the report shows the quiz number, quiz language, title, author, interest level, book level, word count, and fiction/nonfiction classification. Things to Note: Parents can also print a Quiz List Report; see page 144. For Reading Practice Quizzes, it shows the points for each quiz and identifies the Recorded Voice Quizzes. For Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, it shows the number of vocabulary words for each quiz. If you search for quizzes to include, hover your mouse over the quiz title in the search results to see the author s name. Learn which students have taken the quiz on a particular item. Shows the quiz information, the number and percentage of questions answered correctly, the word count, how many students took it, the average percentage of correctly answered questions, and the total word count. Things to Note: If you search for quizzes to include, hover your mouse over the quiz title in the search results to see the author s name. You may select: classes or students to include date range point clubs and which ones to include grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options No custom options. You may select: quizzes book level type sorting used interest level (lower, middle, and/or upper grades) to show quiz availability You may select: classes or students to include date range which quizzes to include book level type quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each quiz print report options 158

167 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Quiz Takers Reading Practice Quiz Usage (Reading Practice) Reader Certification Certificates (Reading Practice) Reader Certification Levels (Reading Practice) Schoolwide Summary (Reading Practice) Learn which students have taken a quiz on a particular book. Shows the quiz information, the number and percentage of questions answered correctly, and the points earned. For each quiz it also shows the total number of students who took the quiz, the average percentage of questions answered correctly, and the percentage of the total points earned. Things to Note: Quizzes that were taken using Recorded Voice are marked on the report. If you search for quizzes to include, hover your mouse over the quiz title in the search results to see the author s name. Lists the quizzes taken by the selected students in the time frame that you specified. Helps you easily identify the most popular and the least popular titles. The report lists the quiz information and the number and percentage of times it was taken and passed. Things to Note: If you chose to include the most taken quizzes, the least taken quizzes, or all the taken quizzes, the report shows them ranked by number of times the quiz was taken and then by title. Recognize those students who have earned reader certifications through their work on Reading Practice Quizzes. Each student s certificate prints on a separate page. The report includes the reader certification level that the student achieved, the student s name, and the date the certification was achieved. It also includes three signature lines that can be customized with the appropriate titles. Lists the reader certifications that each of the students you chose have achieved. For each student, the report shows the achieved reader certifications and the number of times (and dates) each one was achieved. The report ends with a summary that lists each certification level, how many students achieved it, how many times it was achieved, and the percentage of students who achieved it. Things to Note: If there is an asterisk after the Independent Reader certification, it needs to be approved by the teacher. Provides a schoolwide summary of students performance on quizzes over a specified period of time. Shows percentage of those students who are at risk, percentage of those students whose average percent correct on quizzes is below 85%, average percent correct, average book level achieved on passed quizzes, and details about points earned. It also shows a summary of this information for all the students in each group. Things to Note: This report is not available to teachers. You may select: classes or students to include date range which quizzes to include book level type quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each quiz print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range which quizzes to include sorting used grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range titles to use for the signature lines a border You may select: classes or students to include date range grouping used page break after each group print report options You may select: date range book level type grouping used (by grade or by class) quizzes taken for the specific class print report options 159

168 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Student Detail (School Management) Student Information (School Management) Student Points (Reading Practice) Lists all of the students in the school with their ID, gender, date of birth, grade, ethnicity, and characteristics. Things to Note: If the Filter Reports by Characteristics and Filter Reports by Ethnicity capabilities have been removed, characteristics and ethnicity will not be shown on the report. See page 184 for more details. Lists students who are enrolled in Accelerated Reader RP classes. The report shows each student s name, ID, gender, date of birth, grade, user name, and password. Things to Note: The report can be an easy way to get your students user names and passwords since students will need their user names and passwords to log in to AR RP, Home Connect (see page 135) and to use a NEO 2 (see page 130). Provides information about the points your students have earned, used, and been awarded. Shows how many points each student earned, how many the teacher awarded, how many the student has used up to this point in the reporting period, and the total number of points the student has available. Things to Note: There is a spot for the teacher to note the points students are spending now (so that information can then be entered into the program) and a line for the teacher s signature. You can sort by points. No custom options. You may select: classes or students to include sorting used grouping used page break after each group print report options You may select: classes or students date range sorting used grouping used page break after each group print report options 160

169 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Student Record Teacher (School Management) This report can be found under the Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading reports. It provides information about student performance. For Reading Practice Quizzes Shows the quiz information, number and percentage of questions the student got correct, points earned, and the date the quiz was taken. Summarizes the information by showing the number of quizzes passed, average percent correct, average book level, total points earned, and the total number of points that were possible. The report marks which Reading Practice quizzes were taken with Recorded Voice. Parents can print that report for their children (see page 142). For Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Shows the quiz information and the number and percentage of new and review words the student got correct. Summarizes the information by showing the average percent correct for the firsttry new words, second-try new words, and the review words (combined first-try and second-try). For Literacy Skills Quizzes Shows the quiz information, the number and percentage of questions the student got correct, and the date the quiz was taken. Summarizes the information by showing the number of quizzes passed versus the number taken, average percent correct, and average book level for the passed quizzes. For Other Reading Quizzes Shows the quiz information, number and percentage of questions the student got correct, word count, and the date the quiz was taken. Summarizes the information by showing the number of quizzes the student passed versus the number taken, average percent correct, average book level for the passed quizzes, and average word count. Summary The above reports end with a summary by quiz type, showing the number of students on the report. For Reading Practice, Other Reading, and Literacy Skills Quizzes, it shows the total number of students reported on, the number of quizzes passed versus the total number taken, and the average percent correct. For Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, it shows the total number of students reported on and the number of quizzes taken. Lists Accelerated Reader teachers, their user names, classes, and class position. Things to Note: This report can help the administrator see which teachers are using Accelerated Reader. When teachers print the report, it includes only their information. It doesn t include other teachers. Only teachers of Accelerated Reader are included. To make a class an Accelerated Reader class, check the Accelerated Reader box when you assign teachers to the class or assign products to the classes in a course. You may select: classes or students to include date range book level type sorting used quiz types to include grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group (student) print report options No custom options. 161

170 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Team Standing Chart (Reading Practice) Team Status (Reading Practice) TOPS TWI (Reading Practice) A bar graph shows how each team in a set is progressing toward its goals. Progress toward team goals is based on the overall progress of the team members toward their individual goals. Things to Note: You can also generate this report from the Teams section of the program; see page 74. Shows the progress of team members toward their individual goals. The report includes both goals for each student and the student s actual achievement. The report summarizes this information for the teams and the team set. Things to Note: You can also generate this report from the Teams section of the program; see page 74. Provides immediate feedback to the student, quiz monitor, and teacher about the student s performance on a Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, or Other Reading Quiz. Provides a means of student/teacher interaction and can be shared with parents or others to help students celebrate their successes. Things to Note: TOPS Reports are not accessed from the Reports section of the program, but can be set up to print automatically after a student finishes a quiz. For Reading Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes, you can choose to have a TOPS Report print after passed quizzes, failed quizzes, or both. You can also choose to have a TOPS Report print after Vocabulary Practice Quizzes. Use the TOPS Report Printing preference (see page 168 for the School preference or page 174 for the Classroom preference). You can specify the language the TOPS Report will be printed in or you can specify that the student be asked which language he or she prefers (see the TOPS Report Language preference on page 180). You can also choose to reprint the TOPS Report for any quiz a student has taken (for Reading Practice, see page 20, for Vocabulary Practice, see page 47, for Literacy Skills, see page 54, and for Other Reading, see page 61). Provides a summary of each student s quiz results for books Read To the student, Read With, or Read Independently. For each TWI type the report shows the average percentage of questions answered correctly, percentage of and actual points earned, and the number of passed quizzes. The report ends with a summary of this information for all the students reported on. Things to Note: When a student takes a quiz on a book read To or With and reads the book Independently six months later, he or she can retake that same quiz. You may select: team set to report on date range value(s) for the horizontal axis You may select: team set to report on date range No custom options when you print it, but you can set the TOPS Report preference for your class to control what s included (see page 168 for the School preference or page 174 for the Classroom preference). You may select: classes or students to include date range grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options 162

171 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Why You d Use It Things You Can Change Vocabulary List (Vocabulary Practice) Word Count (Reading Practice and Other Reading) Words Learned (Vocabulary Practice) Words to Study (Vocabulary Practice) Provides information on the first-try new words on a quiz. The report shows the quiz information and for each vocabulary word, the word s grade level, pronunciation, and definition (if you ve included definitions on the report). The report includes a pronunciation guide. Things to Note: You can also generate this report while viewing the quiz information (see page 97), when logged in as a student (see page 125), and when logged in as a parent (see page 143). When a student generates this report, it may include the definitions, depending on the setting for the Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions preference (found under the School and the Classroom Student Quizzing preferences; see page 168 and page 174). When a parent generates this report, it does not include the definitions. If you search for quizzes to include, hover your mouse over the quiz title in the search results to see the author s name. Provides word count information on the quizzes each student has taken within the reporting period. For each student and quiz type, the report shows the number of quizzes the student has passed and taken, total word count, and the combined total word count for passed Reading Practice and Other Reading Quizzes. The report also shows totals for each group or for all the students if you ve chosen not to group the information. Provides a summary of the vocabulary words that a student has learned within the reporting period. Shows the total number of words each student learned and the average grade level of the learned words. Words that were given in review, words that appeared on more than one quiz, and words that have multiple definitions are all marked. Provides a summary of the words that a student answered incorrectly within a reporting time period. For each student, the report shows the total number of words the student answered incorrectly and the average grade level of the words. Words that were given in review, words that appeared on more than one quiz, and words that have multiple definitions are all marked. You may select: quizzes book level type sorting used whether to include the vocabulary word definitions page break after each group (title) print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range sorting used grouping used quizzes taken for the specific class page break after each group print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range sorting used (by grade level or by word) grouping used page break after each student print report options You may select: classes or students to include date range sorting used (by grade level or by word) grouping used display words in a list or cutout format page break after each student print report options 163

172 R EPORTS Engaged Time Engaged Time Engaged Time will not appear on reports if students have no STAR Reading test data from within the current school year or the 12 months previous to the start of the current school year. The Engaged Time calculation appears on the Diagnostic Reading Practice report. Estimated engaged reading time shows how much time a student engaged in actual reading time as opposed to how much time a teacher has scheduled for reading. The student who has tested with STAR Reading in the current school year or the 12 months previous to the start of the current school year will have Engaged Time appear on reports. The Grade Equivalent (GE) score from the STAR Reading test results help determine the engaged reading time estimate. The engaged reading time calculation was based on data that was used to create the Goal-Setting Chart found in the Resources (see page 4). This chart shows the relationship between points earned and minutes spent reading for grade equivalent scores between 1.0 and Here is the calculation used for AR Engaged Reading Time: number of points earned minutes per point number of school days in the reporting period Diagnostic Codes Definitions The diagnostic codes on the Reading Practice and Other Reading Diagnostic Reports identify students who are having difficulty reading. This makes it possible for the teacher to provide special attention and assistance to these students. If a student is at risk, the report attaches a letter code to the student s name. The meaning of each letter code appears in a table at the bottom of the report (see the next page for descriptions of the codes). Since at-risk students may have very different problems, the diagnostic codes alert you to the student s specific reading problem. Accelerated Reader uses the average percent correct on quizzes and the number of points earned as criteria for determining an at-risk student. Any student with an average percent correct of 79% or less is considered at risk. Similarly, Accelerated Reader calculates the median number of points for the students selected and considers any student with one-half the median (or lower) to be an at-risk student. The Accelerated Reader definition of at risk is different from the common meaning. A student is at risk under the Accelerated Reader definition if they have low average percent correct compared to the selected group, or low points compared to the group. The student may not be at risk in terms of standardized test scores, or as far as other schoolwork is concerned. Typically those students identified as at risk for purposes of the Accelerated Reader program also tend to be at risk for other purposes as well. The Diagnostic Report should be run on a whole-class basis of 15 to 35 students once a week or once every two weeks after the Accelerated Reader has been up and running for a month or so. 164

173 R EPORTS Diagnostic Codes Definitions Changing the passing percentages with the Other Reading Passing Percent Correct preference does not affect the troubled value codes that may appear on your Other Reading Diagnostic Report. Following is a list of the seven diagnostic codes or problem types identified on the Diagnostic Reports for Reading Practice and Other Reading Quizzes with a description and possible cause: Code A B Description and Possible Cause No quizzes taken during period. Could indicate serious deficiency or just that the student was not present. Could also indicate that the student is reading a longer book than usual and may need some assistance to maintain comprehension. Low average percent correct (70 79%). Usually means the student is either reading too fast or reading at a grade level which is too high for him or her. Needs guidance or help with book selection C Very low average percent correct (below 70%). The student is probably guessing at questions. Usually means the student is not able to read independently or not able to read at the level of the other students. Someone needs to listen to the student read to be sure that book is appropriate for his or her reading ability. Student needs positive reinforcement for improved percent correct. Very low quiz results may also indicate cheating, especially when coupled with a high number of quizzes taken or taking quizzes on books that may also be movies or videos. Rules on cheating need to be posted and adhered to. D Low points earned less than 1/2 median points (1/2 median = 2.9 points). The student is doing an insufficient amount of reading. For early readers or at-risk students who are not yet Independent Readers, more adult or advanced student time may be required to read to and with the student and assist with quiz-taking. It is critical that students achieve Independent Reader status. For students who already are Independent Readers, book selection could be a problem, or it could simply be that more coaching, encouragement, incentives, and standards are needed. E Low percent correct with above median points (median = 5.7 points). The student is usually pushing too hard to get points and reading too fast or reading books above their level. F Very low percent correct with above median points (median = 5.7 points). The student is likely to be guessing. Sometimes a result of cheating. Needs careful monitoring. Teachers should always review the full student record of students in this category. If the student has taken and gotten credit for any book which is also a video or movie or available in CliffsNotes (or another similar study guide), investigate with the possibility of deducting points from the student record. % Average percent correct below 85%. 165

174 PREFERENCES Preferences determine how the software will work for your student, classroom, and school. The Accelerated Reader RP preferences are grouped into several School and Classroom preference categories; see the table below for the groupings. The program makes it easy to view or change the preference settings because when you access a category of preferences, you can view (or change) the settings for any of the preferences in that category. The page numbers in the table show where you can find descriptions of the preferences and instructions for changing them. School Preferences Student Quizzing (see page 168) TOPS Report Printing Monitor Password Required Literacy Skills Retakes Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions TWI Monitoring Literacy Skills Passing Percent Show Missed Questions Allow Multi-Language Quizzing Certifications Show Total Points Book Voting Monitor Override Monitor Password Date and Time Restrictions (see page 172) Date Restrictions Time Restrictions Weekend Restrictions Monitor Override Classroom Restrictions (see page 173) Allow Quiz Deleting Allow Quiz Editing Viewing Classroom Preferences Student Quizzing (see page 174) TOPS Report Printing Monitor Password Required Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions Literacy Skills Retakes Automatic Student Log Out Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent Vocabulary Practice Review Percent Vocabulary Practice Review Only Quiz Length Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension Other Reading Series (see page 178) Other Reading Series Quiz Setup (see page 179) Quiz Setup Individual Student Settings TOPS Language (see page180) TWI Settings (see page 181) Recorded Voice (see page 182) Allow Quizzing (see page 183) 166

175 P REFERENCES Viewing Accelerated Reader Preferences Viewing Accelerated Reader Preferences Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. District administrators, school administrators, and teachers can view the Classroom preferences. (District staff and school staff can only view the Classroom preferences if they are assigned to an Accelerated Reader class.) 1. Click Preferences in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. Click the category you want to view on the Preferences page. 3. If necessary, select your school and class from the drop-down lists on the View Preferences page A. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. F A C G B E D D B The name of the page reflects the preference category you chose to view. C The page lists the preferences in this category with a brief description. D The pencil graphics show you which quiz types the preference settings apply to. E These are the current settings of this preference for your school and class. F Click one of these links to view a different preferences category. G Click the Edit link to edit the settings. See page

176 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. With default capabilities, district administrators and school administrators can edit the School preferences. District administrators, school administrators, and teachers can edit the Classroom preferences. (District staff and school staff can only edit the Classroom preferences if they are assigned to an Accelerated Reader class as a teacher.) When you choose to edit a category of preferences, you can change the settings for one or more of the preferences in that category all from the same page. See the following sections for instructions on editing the categories of preferences. Editing the School/Student Quizzing Preferences If you choose to have the TOPS reports print automatically, you must have the correct version of the Renaissance Place Print Plug-In installed. See Checking System Requirements on page 5 for more information about how to install it. 1. View the Student Quizzing Preference under School Preferences. See page Click Edit Student Quizzing on the View School Student Quizzing Preference page. Complete the Edit School Student Quizzing Preferences page by making your changes to the desired preferences as described in steps TOPS Report Printing: This preference specifies whether a TOPS Report automatically prints after completed quizzes and whether teachers have permission to change the settings for their classes. A C B A Check the Passed box for each quiz type (Reading Practice, Other Reading, and Literacy Skills) if you want a TOPS Report to automatically print after quizzes the students pass. Check the Failed box if you want the report to print after failed quizzes. B Check the box if you want a TOPS Report to automatically print after a student completes a Vocabulary Practice quiz. C Choose Allow or Do not allow from the drop-down list to set whether to allow teachers to change the settings for their class. If you allow teachers to change the settings, their changes will override the school settings (but only for their class). 168

177 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences RP and OR Quizzes share a setting. Reading Practice and Other Reading Quizzes share the Monitor Password Required setting. You cannot edit them separately. 4. Monitor Password Required: This preference specifies whether (and when) a monitor password is required during student quizzing and whether teachers are allowed to change the settings for their classes. a. Check the Before E Quizzing and/or After Quizzing boxes D if you D want to require the monitor password to be entered before and/or after students take/finish quizzes. b. Choose Allow or Do not allow from the drop-down list E to set whether teachers are allowed to change the settings for their class. If you allow teachers to change the settings, their changes will override the school settings (but only for their class). 5. Literacy Skills Retakes: This preference specifies the number of times (if at all) students are allowed to retake a Literacy Skills Quiz and shows whether teachers are allowed to change the setting for their classes. Note: Even if students are allowed to retake a Literacy Skills Quiz, the questions on each quiz will probably be different because the program randomly selects the questions presented on each quiz from the larger bank of questions available for the quiz. a. Choose the number of times (0, F G 1, or 2 times) F you want to allow your students to retake a Literacy Skills quiz from the drop-down list. b. Choose Allow or Do not allow from the drop-down list G to set whether teachers are allowed to change the settings for their class. If you allow teachers to change the settings, their changes will override the school settings (but only for their class). 6. Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions: This preference specifies whether the definitions are shown along with the vocabulary words on the Vocabulary List Report when a student prints it. It also shows whether teachers are allowed to change the setting for their classes. a. Check the Show H I definitions box if you want the definitions H to be included on the Vocabulary List Reports that your students print. b. Choose Allow or Do not allow from the drop-down list I to set whether teachers are allowed to change the settings for their class. If you allow teachers to change the settings, their changes will override the school settings (but only for their class). 169

178 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Only English Quizzes are available on the NEO 2. Even if you enable the Multi-Language Quizzing preference, students will not be able to take Spanish Quizzes on the NEO 2 at this time. 7. TWI Monitoring: This preference specifies whether students are asked if a book was Read To them, Read With them, or Read Independently when they are taking a Reading Practice or Other Reading Quiz. TWI Monitoring must be enabled for Accelerated Reader to automatically track and update student reader certifications. Check the TWI Monitoring Enabled box to start TWI monitoring. 8. Literacy Skills Passing Percent: This preference specifies the minimum percentage a student must score to pass a Literacy Skills Quiz. Choose a percentage from the Passing Percent drop-down list. Note: The default minimum passing percentage for a Literacy Skills Quiz is 70%. 9. Show Missed Questions: This preference specifies whether students will be able to see the questions they missed after passing a Reading Practice, Other Reading, and/or Literacy Skills Quiz. For each quiz type, check the box if you want to allow students to see the questions they missed after passing the quiz. 10. Allow Multi- Language Quizzing: This preference specifies whether students are allowed to take Reading Practice, Other Reading, and/or Literacy Skills Quizzes for the same title in different languages (provided your school has the quizzes installed). The available languages are English and Spanish. Check the box to allow multi-language quizzing for all three quiz types. 11. Certifications: This preference specifies the minimum scores a student must achieve on Reading Practice Quizzes for the book and the points to count toward reader certifications. If the student s score is below this level, then neither the book nor the points will count toward a certification, even if the score allows the student to pass the quiz. (Students pass 5- and 10-question quizzes by scoring 60% or higher. They pass 20-question quizzes by scoring 70% or higher.) To change the setting, click the option you want. 170

179 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences 12. Show Total Points: This preference specifies whether students will be able to see the total points they earned after taking a Reading Practice Quiz. Check the box to allow students to see the points they earned. 13. Book Voting: This preference specifies whether students will be asked how they liked a book after taking the Reading Practice Quiz for it. Check the box to allow students to vote on a book. Note: You can see the results of the book voting in the Favorite Books Report; see page Monitor Override: This preference specifies whether the monitor has permission to override blocks on quizzes or on date and time restrictions so that students can take a quiz. Check the first box J to allow the monitor to override certain types of blocks on quizzing. See page 124 for more information on how to block students from quizzing. Check the second box K to allow the monitor to override date and time restrictions set up using the School Date and Time Restrictions preferences (see page 172). Note: The Date and Time Restrictions preferences also have a setting for allowing the monitor to override the preference. If you change this setting here, it will also be changed there. 15. Monitor Password: This preference sets the monitor password for Accelerated Reader. This password must be used whenever the program asks for a monitor password; teachers, administrators, and staff cannot use their own passwords. To change the setting, type the monitor password you want all your quiz monitors to use. 16. Click Save when you re finished editing the preferences. J K 171

180 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the School/Date and Time Restrictions Preferences Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 184. The School Date and Time Restrictions preferences apply to all quiz types (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading). 1. View the Date and Time Restrictions Preference under School Preferences. See page Click Edit Date and Time Restrictions on the View Student Quizzing Preference page. Complete the Edit Date and Time Restrictions Preferences page by making your changes to the desired preferences as described in steps Date Restrictions: This preference identifies the dates before and after which the students at this school are not allowed to take quizzes. a. Check the appropriate box(es) A B A to restrict students from C D quizzing before and/or after certain E dates. b. Type the date F range(s) B during which you don t want to allow quizzing, or, click the calendar buttons to choose the dates. 4. Time Restrictions: This preference identifies times of the day before and after which the students at this school are not allowed to take quizzes. a. Check the appropriate box(es) C to restrict students from quizzing before and/or after a certain time. b. Type the time(s) of day D before and/or after which you don t want to allow quizzing. Make sure you also enter AM or PM or use 24-hour time. 5. Weekend Restrictions: This preference specifies whether students at this school can take quizzes on the weekends (Saturday or Sunday). Check the Weekend Restrictions Enabled box E to block students from quizzing on weekends. 6. Monitor Override: This preference specifies whether the monitor has permission to override date and time restrictions so students can take a quiz during a restricted date or time. Note: The School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 168) also have a setting to allow the monitor to override the preference. If you change this setting here, it will also be changed there. Check the Allow monitor password override of Date and Time Restrictions box F to allow your quiz monitors to override any date or time restrictions you ve set up on quizzing. 7. Click Save when you re finished. 172

181 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the School/Classroom Restrictions Preferences Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Classroom Restrictions Preference under School Preferences. See page Click Edit Classroom Restrictions on the View Student Quizzing Preference page. Complete the Edit Classroom Restrictions Preferences page by making your changes to the desired preferences as described in steps Allow Quiz Deleting: This preference specifies if teachers are allowed to delete students quiz records (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading). Check the box A to change the setting to allow students quiz records to be deleted. 4. Allow Quiz Editing: This preference specifies if teachers are allowed to edit students quiz records (Reading Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading) and are allowed to add Reading Practice Quiz records. Check the box B to allow editing and adding of students quiz records. 5. Viewing: This preference specifies how many records are shown in a vertical list on pages in the Class Record Books, Manage Quizzes, Manage Quiz Availability, Reports, and student sections of the program. Any time the actual number of records exceeds the limit you set, the program splits the list into multiple pages with Next >> and << Previous links to allow you to move through the list. Type the number of records (whole numbers from 1 to 100) C you want the program to display on each page. A B C 6. Click Save when you re finished. 173

182 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the Classroom/Student Quizzing Preferences Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Student Quizzing Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit Student Quizzing on the View Classroom Student Quizzing Preference page. Complete the Edit Classroom Student Quizzing Preferences page by making your changes to the desired preferences as described in steps TOPS Report Printing: This preference specifies whether a TOPS Report will automatically print after passed or failed Reading Practice, Other Reading, and/or Literacy Skills Quizzes, or after Vocabulary Practice Quizzes. It also shows whether the classroom or school settings are being used. If you choose to have the TOPS reports print automatically, you must have the correct version of the Renaissance Place Print Plug-In installed. See Checking System Requirements on page 5 for more information about how to install it. A B a. Choose whether to use the classroom or the school settings (shown in the School Settings column) from the Use drop-down list A. Note: You will be able to edit this preference only if the School TOPS Report Printing preference is set to allow the settings to be edited at the classroom level (see page 168). If you chose to use the School Settings, you are done changing this preference. If you chose to use the Classroom Settings, go on to step b. b. Check the Passed and/or Failed boxes if you want a TOPS Report to automatically print after quizzes the students pass/fail B. c. For Vocabulary Practice, check the Printing Enabled box if you want a TOPS Report to automatically print after a student completes a quiz C. C 174

183 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences RP and OR Quizzes share a setting. Reading Practice and Other Reading Quizzes share the Monitor Password Required setting. You cannot edit them separately. 4. Monitor Password Required: This preference specifies whether (and when) a monitor password is required during student quizzing. A monitor password can be required before or after a quiz. It also shows whether the classroom or the school settings are being used. a. Choose whether to use the classroom or the school E settings (shown in the School D Settings column) from the Use drop-down list D. Note: You will be able to edit this preference only if the School Monitor Password Required preference is set to allow these settings to be edited at the classroom level (see page 169). If you chose to use the School Settings, you are done changing this preference. If you chose to use the Classroom Settings, go on to step b. b. For each quiz type, check the Before and/or After Quizzing box E if you want to require the monitor password to be entered before and/or after students can take quizzes. 5. Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions: This preference specifies whether the definitions are shown along with the vocabulary words on the Vocabulary List Report when a student prints it. It also shows whether the classroom or the school settings are being used. a. Choose whether to use the classroom or the school G settings (shown in the School F Settings column) from the Use drop-down list F. Note: You will be able to edit this preference only if the School Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions preference has been set to allow these settings to be edited at the classroom level (see page 169). If you chose to use the School Settings, you are done changing this preference. If you chose to use the Classroom Settings, go on to step b. b. Check the Show definitions box G if you want the definitions to be included on the Vocabulary List Reports that your students print. 175

184 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences 6. Literacy Skills Retakes: This preference specifies the number of times (if at all) students are allowed to retake a Literacy Skills Quiz. It also shows whether the classroom or the school settings are being used. Note: Even if students are allowed to retake a Literacy Skills Quiz, the questions on each quiz will probably be different because the program randomly selects the questions presented on each quiz from the larger bank of questions available for the quiz. a. Choose whether to use the classroom or the school I H settings (shown in the School Settings column) from the Use drop-down list H. Note: You will be able to edit this preference only if the School Literacy Skills Retakes preference has been set to allow these settings to be edited at the classroom level (see page 169). If you chose to use the School Settings, you are done changing this preference. If you chose to use the Classroom Settings, go on to step b. b. In the drop down list choose the number of times (0, 1, or 2) you want to allow your students to retake a Literacy Skills quiz I. 7. Automatic Student Log Out: This preference specifies if the J program automatically logs a student out after he or she finishes a quiz. Check the box J if you want your students logged out after a quiz. 8. Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent: This preference specifies the passing percent for Other Reading Quizzes; the default is 60% for quizzes with 10 or fewer questions and 70% for quizzes with more than 10 questions. a. Type the passing percentage you want to apply to quizzes with 10 or fewer questions K. b. Type the passing percentage you want to apply to quizzes with more than 10 questions L. 9. Vocabulary Practice Review Percent: This preference M specifies the percentage of review words on a Vocabulary Practice Quiz. The program uses that percentage of the first-try new words on the quiz to calculate the number of review words to present to the student. For example, if a quiz has ten first-try new words on it and you ve set the percentage at 20%, the program will present two review words to the student on that quiz. (Note: A student doesn t begin receiving review words on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes until 14 days after taking his or her first quiz.) To change the setting, type the percentage you want to use M. You can enter whole numbers from 0 to 100. The default is 20%. K L 176

185 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences 10. Vocabulary Practice Review Only Quiz Length: This N preference specifies the maximum number of review words a student can receive on a ~Second-Try and Review Words~ Quiz. The default is 10 questions. The number you enter is for first-try and second-try review words only; the second-try new words on the quiz are in addition to the number entered. To edit the setting, type the maximum number of review questions (whole numbers from 5 to 30) you want to allow N. 11. Vocabulary Practice Student O Comprehension: This preference specifies whether a student must pass the Reading Practice Quiz for a title before the program will allow the student to take the Vocabulary Practice Quiz for the same title, provided your school has both quizzes installed for the title the student chooses. To change the setting, check the box O if you want the students in this class to pass the Reading Practice Quiz before taking the Vocabulary Practice Quiz for the same title. 12. Click Save when you re finished. 177

186 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the Classroom/Other Reading Series Preference Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Other Reading Series Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit Other Reading Series on the View Classroom Student Quizzing Preference page. 3. Complete the Edit Other Reading Series Preference page by making your changes as described below: E C B D A A To add one or more series, check the box by every series in the list on the right that you want available to this class. B To select all the boxes, check the box by the Series Available column heading. C Click < Add when you have finished selecting the series to add to the class. D Click Remove by each series in the list on the left from which you do not want to allow the students in the class to choose quizzes. E Click Remove All to remove all the series from the list on the left. 4. Click Save when the list on the left contains only the Other Reading Series that you want the class to use. 178

187 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the Classroom/Quiz Setup Preference Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Quiz Setup Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit Quiz Setup on the View Quiz Setup Preferences page. 3. Complete the Edit Quiz Setup Preference page by choosing which types of quizzes the students in the class (listed at the top of the page) will be allowed to take. To change the settings, check the box by each quiz type A you want the students in this class to be allowed to take. If you block students from quizzing with this preference, the quiz monitor cannot override the block even if you ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference (see page 171). For more information on blocking students from quizzing, see page Click Save when you re finished. A 179

188 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/TOPS Language Preference Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Individual Student Settings Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit TOPS Language on the View Individual Student Settings Preferences page. 3. Change the language settings for each student in the class you chose on the Edit Student TOPS Language Preference page as described below. B A A Choose Ask Student, Always English, or Always Spanish from the drop-down list in the row for each student. If you choose Ask Student the program will always ask the student in which language he or she wants the TOPS Report to print. B You may choose a setting to apply to all of the students at once from the TOPS Language drop-down list. Then, click Update all students. Note: If you click Save instead of Update all students, any new students enrolled in the class will have your saved selection as the default option. 4. Click Save when you re finished. 180

189 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/TWI Settings Preference Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Individual Student Settings Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit TWI Settings on the View Individual Student Settings Preferences page. 3. Change the TWI setting for each student in the class you chose on the Edit TWI Settings Preference page as described below. When a student takes a Reading Practice quiz read To or With and reads the same book Independently six months later, he or she can retake the quiz. B A The settings in this preference won t apply unless the TWI Monitoring Preference is enabled (see page 170). A Choose Ask TWI Question (the program will always ask the student how they read the book) or Always Independent (the program automatically marks the book as Read Independently) from the drop-down list in the row for each student. 4. Click Save when you re finished. B You may choose a setting to apply to all of the students at once from the TWI Settings drop-down list. Then, click Update all students. Note: If you click Save instead of Update all students, any new students enrolled in the class will have your saved selection as the default option. 181

190 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/Recorded Voice Preference Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Individual Student Settings Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit Recorded Voice on the View Individual Student Settings Preferences page. 3. Change the recorded voice setting for each student in the class you chose on the Edit Recorded Voice Preference page as described below. This preference governs what default choice (if any) the students see regarding Recorded Voice quizzes when they are working in the program. Note: This preference does not apply to quizzes taken on a NEO 2. F A B C D E A Choose the setting you want from the drop-down list in the row for each student. The four choices are described below. B On: All. The student will automatically get the Recorded Voice quiz unless he or she chooses the option not to do so. C On: Read To or With. The student will automatically get the Recorded Voice quiz for books that were Read To or Read With the student unless he or she chooses the option not to do so. This option will only work if you have the TWI Monitoring preference enabled; see page 170. D Off: All. The student will not automatically get the Recorded Voice quiz unless he or she chooses the option to do so. E Do Not Allow. The student will not see any options on whether or not to use Recorded Voice. F You may choose a setting to apply to all the students at once from the Recorded Voice drop-down list. Then, click Update all students. Note: If you click Save instead of Update all students, any new students enrolled in the class will have your saved selection as the default option. 4. Click Save when you re finished. 182

191 P REFERENCES Editing Accelerated Reader Preferences Editing the Classroom/Individual Student Settings/Allow Quizzing Preference Who Can Do This? District Administrator District Staff School Administrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Individual Student Settings Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit Allow Quizzing on the View Individual Student Settings Preferences page. 3. Change the settings, which apply to all four quiz types, for each student in the class you chose on the Edit Allow Quizzing Preference page as described below. B A If you chose No for any student, the quiz monitor can override the block on quizzing if you ve granted quiz monitors permission to do so using the Monitor Override preference (see page 171). A For each student, choose Yes (to allow quizzing) or No (to block quizzing) from the drop-down list. B You may choose a setting to apply to all of the students at once from the Allow Quizzing drop-down list. Then, click Update all students. Note: If you click Save instead of Update all students, any new students enrolled in the class will have your saved selection as the default option. 4. Click Save when you re finished. 183

192 APPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES Capabilities give users the right to perform specific tasks in the software and are preassigned based on: The user group you belong to and the position you hold in your district or school The tasks that group usually performs The tables beginning on page 186 list the tasks that users can perform in Renaissance Place and Accelerated Reader with the standard set of capabilities. To change the capabilities for groups of users or individual users, see the instructions in the Renaissance Place Software Manual. District or school administrators can change the capabilities assigned to: New users added to a specific group Groups of current users already in the database A specific person User Groups in the Software The Renaissance Place software contains these seven user groups: District Administrators School Staff Parents District Staff Teachers School Administrators Students Each person added to the Renaissance Place database is assigned to a user group and a specific position within that group. The positions included in each user group are listed below. Some positions appear in more than one category and have capabilities for each category they appear in. District Administrators Assistant Superintendent District Staff Academic Testing Coordinator Admissions Director Curriculum Director Custodian District Director of Education Food Service Director Gifted/Talented Director Library/Media Director District Superintendent Other District Staff Personnel Director Reading Specialist Secretary District Special Education Director Technology/Computer Director Title I Director Vocational Education Coordinator 184

193 A PPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES User Groups in the Software School Administrators Assistant Principal Librarian/Reading Coordinator School Staff At Risk Coordinator Athletic Director Athletic Trainer Audiologist Custodian School Educational Diagnostician ESL Coordinator Food Service Worker Guidance Counselor Interpreter Librarian/Media Specialist Occupational Therapist Other School Staff Teachers ESL Teacher Lead Teacher Principal Physical Therapist Physician Reading Specialist School Nurse School Psychologist Secretary School Social Worker Speech Therapist Teacher s Aide Teacher Appraiser Teacher Facilitator Teacher Supervisor Technology/Computer Coordinator Other Teachers Team Teachers Students Students will log in to use some software programs, including AR RP, Home Connect, and the NEO 2. Parents Parents may be added to the database by administrators or staff so they can log in to view reports. 185

194 A PPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES Capabilities for All Renaissance Place Programs Capabilities for All Renaissance Place Programs Some capabilities apply to all Renaissance Place programs, while others are for specific programs. The general capabilities for all programs are described in the table below. The Accelerated Reader capabilities are described in the table on page 191. Capability Determines Who Can District School Admin. Staff Admin. Staff Teacher Installation, Registration, and Updates Product Registration Manage Content View Content Install Client Applications Server Administration Register Renaissance Place product registration, subscription, and content subscription codes and school serial numbers; also, manage student capacity for Renaissance Place products. Manage content on the server, such as quizzes or libraries. View content on the server, such as quizzes or libraries. Download and install AccelScan or other programs used with Renaissance Place software. Note: Although district and school staff don't have this capability by default, they can install client programs before logging in by clicking Check Software Requirements on the Welcome page; the Software Requirements page allows them to download client programs Install software updates. + District and School Information Manage District Change district information, such as the name, address, or phone number. + Manage Schools Add, edit, or delete schools. View Schools View information on schools in the district. = available + = can be added = unavailable 186

195 A PPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES Capabilities for All Renaissance Place Programs Capability Determines Who Can District School Admin. Staff Admin. Staff Teacher School Years, Marking Periods, and Days Off Manage School Year Manage Marking Periods Manage School Enrollment Courses and Classes Manage Courses and Classes View Courses and Classes Personnel Information Add, edit, or delete school years, set the default school year, or copy classes from one school year to another. District personnel can set the default school year for district personnel and teachers. School personnel can set it for their school. Add, edit, or delete marking periods, such as quarters, semesters, trimesters, or summer sessions. They are used for reports and goal setting. District personnel can manage marking periods for any school. School personnel can only manage marking periods for their school. Enroll or unenroll students. District personnel can enroll students in any school. School personnel can only enroll students in their schools. Add, edit, and delete courses and classes, assign teachers to classes, and enroll students in classes. District personnel can do this for any school; school personnel can only do this for their schools. View course and class information. District personnel can view the information for any school. School personnel can view the information for their school Manage Personnel Add, edit, or delete personnel information. District personnel can do this for the district or any school. School personnel can do this for their school. + + View Personnel View personnel information. + + = available + = can be added = unavailable 187

196 A PPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES Capabilities for All Renaissance Place Programs Capability Determines Who Can District School Admin. Staff Admin. Staff Teacher Student Information Manage Students and Enrollments View Students and Enrollments Merge Students District-Level Student Export and District-Level Student Import School-Level Student Export and School-Level Student Import Teacher-Level Student Export and Teacher-Level Student Import Parent Information Add, edit, or delete student information. District personnel can do this for any school. School personnel can do this for their school. This does not include the ability to import, export, or merge student information. View student information, including school and class enrollment. Merge duplicate student records into one. District personnel can merge student records for any school. School personnel can merge student records for their school. Export student information at all levels for any student at any school or import students into any school. Export student groups within a specific school or import students into a school. Export students of a specific teacher or import students into classes for a specific teacher Manage Parents Add, edit, or delete parent information. + + View Parents Classroom Work Manage Classroom Activities School-Level Access View Classroom View parent information for parents in the database. Manage student assignments, goals, scores, and classroom reports, including Record and Assignment Books. Access all classes in all Renaissance Place products. View classroom work, such as student assignments, goals, and scores, including Record and Assignment Books = available + = can be added = unavailable 188

197 A PPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES Capabilities for All Renaissance Place Programs Capability Determines Who Can District School Admin. Staff Admin. Staff Teacher Reports District Reports School Reports Teacher Reports View reports for all levels: district, schools, teachers, classes, or students. View reports for individual schools and their teachers, classes, and students. View reports for an individual teacher s classes Parent Reports View parent reports. Filter Reports by Characteristics Filter Reports by Ethnicity Manage Reporting Periods Manage Data Consolidation Limit reports to students who ve been assigned specific characteristics in Renaissance Place. Limit reports to students with specific ethnicities, which are set when you add students or edit their information. Set the reporting periods for Renaissance Place consolidated reports. Reporting periods are time periods that you can select for the report. Schedule data consolidation, which gathers data from all products to include in Renaissance Place reports. You can set the date, times, and recurrence. (The default schedule is 2:00 AM daily.) = available + = can be added = unavailable 189

198 A PPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES Capabilities for All Renaissance Place Programs Capability Determines Who Can District School Admin. Staff Admin. Staff Teacher Software Preferences Change Data Editing Preference Manage District Preferences Manage School Preferences View District Preferences View School Preferences Manage Default Capabilities View Default Capabilities Change the Data Editing Restrictions preference, which prevents users from changing data that is automatically updated from another source, such as your district s SIS. The preference is under Product Administration. Other users cannot see it. Change district-level preferences. Most products do not have district-level preferences. Change school-level preferences for any product, such as the Accelerated Reader Student Quizzing preferences or the STAR Reading Testing Password preference. District personnel can change these for any school. School personnel can change them for their school. View district preferences, such as the Data Editing Restrictions preference. View school-level preferences for any Renaissance Place product. Choose the capabilities for any person or group using Renaissance Place software. District personnel can manage capabilities for any group at any school or at the district. School personnel can only manage capabilities for personnel at their school. View the capabilities given to new users in each group. Capabilities for existing users may be different. District personnel can view capabilities for district personnel and personnel in any school. School personnel can view capabilities for their school = available + = can be added = unavailable 190

199 A PPENDIX A: CAPABILITIES Accelerated Reader Capabilities Accelerated Reader Capabilities Capability Determines Who Can District School Admin Staff Admin Staff Teacher Manage Book Level Settings Manage Quiz Availability Take Sample Quiz Edit book level settings, alternate book level names, and change ATOS settings. Edit which Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills quizzes will be available (active) or unavailable (inactive) to individual schools. Manage Quiz Availability Setup Rules can determine whether or not newly installed quizzes will be automatically activated. District and school personnel and teachers cannot view or manage quiz availability unless the capability is changed by a district or school administrator. Preview a Reading Practice Quiz, Vocabulary Practice Quiz, Literary Skills Quiz, or an Other Reading Quiz in the Manages Quizzes area = available + = can be added = unavailable 191

200 INDEX Symbols ~Second-Try and Review Words~ Quiz 43, 93 A Aborting a quiz 123 Accelerated Reader Enterprise 7 Accelerated Reader RP 1 Reports 146 Accelerated Reader RP, student access 120 Accelerated Reader SmartApplet 130 Adding Achieved Reading Practice certification 41 Points awarded record 76 Points used record 76 Reading Practice goals for a class 24 Reading Practice goals for a student 26 Reading Practice Quiz records 14 Teacher-Made Quizzes 87 Team sets 63 Teams 64 Advanced Reader 32 Allow Multi-Language Quizzing preference, editing 170 Allow Quiz Deleting preference, editing 173 Allow Quiz Editing preference, editing 173 Allow Quizzing preference, editing 183 Allowing students to take a quiz 84, 88, 95, 102, 107, 172, 179, 183 AlphaSmart Manager 130 Approving Independent Reader status 36 ATOS book levels, editing the settings 112 ATOS Readability Formula for Books 112 Automatic Student Log Out preference, editing 176 Average book level 64, 66 Average percent correct 64, 66 Average percent correct goal 25, 29 B Blocking students from taking a quiz 84, 88, 91, 95, 102, 107, 124, 172, 179, 183 Book level 112 Book Level Settings Change ATOS book level settings 112 managing 110 Rename book levels 113 Set current book level 111 Update student records 111 Book Voting preference 156 Book Voting preference, editing 171 C Capability Manage Book Level Settings 191 Take a Sample Quiz 191 Certificates 159 Certifications Adding an achieved certification 41 Advanced Reader 32 Approving Independent Reader status 36 Classic Reader 33 Definitions 32 Deleting 42 Editing 39 Honors Reader 33 Independent Reader 32 Ready Reader 32 Record Book 32 Rising Reader 32 Setting a goal for students 33 Star Reader 32 Super Reader 32 Viewing student records 37 Certifications preference, editing 170 Changing ATOS book level settings 112 Literacy Skills Quiz information 102 Literacy Skills Quiz records 51 Other Reading Quiz information 107 Other Reading Quiz records 58 Points used or awarded record 79 Reading Practice certifications 39 Reading Practice goals for a class 29 Reading Practice goals for a student

201 I NDEX Reading Practice Quiz information 84 Teacher-Made Quiz information 90 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information 95 Class Record Books 11 Classes Deleting Reading Practice goals 29 Classic Reader 33 Classroom preferences 166 Classroom Restrictions preferences 166 Classroom Restrictions preferences, editing 173 Classroom Student Quizzing preferences 166 Classroom Student Quizzing preferences, editing 174 Closing the program 128, 145 Comparing and contrasting 98 Constructing meaning 98 Content subscription codes 7 Converting quizzes from a previous version of Accelerated Reader 8 D Date and Time Restrictions preferences 166 Date and Time Restrictions preferences, editing 172 Date Restrictions preference, editing 172 Definitions of the reader certification levels 32 Deleting Literacy Skills Quiz records 53 Literacy Skills Quizzes 104 Other Reading Quiz 109 Other Reading Quiz records 60 Other Reading Series 109 Points record 80 Reading Practice certifications 42 Reading Practice goals for a class 29 Reading Practice goals for a student 31 Reading Practice Quiz records 19 Reading Practice Quizzes 86 Team sets 72 Teams 73 Vocabulary Practice Quiz records 46 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes 97 Deriving word or phrase meaning 98 Describing actions or events 99 Descriptions of reports 154, 155 Diagnostic codes, definitions 165 Differentiating fact and opinion 98 Drawing conclusions 98 E Editing 118 ATOS book level settings 112 Book level settings 110 Literacy Skills Quiz information 102 Literacy Skills Quiz records 51 Other Reading Quiz information 107 Other Reading Quiz records 58 Points used or awarded record 79 Preferences 168 Reading Practice certifications 39 Reading Practice goals for a class 29 Reading Practice goals for a student 30 Reading Practice Quiz information 84 Reading Practice Quiz records 17 Teacher-Made Quiz information 90 Team sets 71 Teams 72 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information 95 Emergent readers 1 Engaged time per day 155 Enrolling students in teams 66, 67 Enrollment Viewing for a team 70 Viewing for a team set 70 Enterprise, Accelerated Reader 7 Exiting the program 128, 145 Expansions to student capacity 129 Extending meaning 98 F Firefox 140 First-try new words 43, 46 First-try review words 43, 46 G Goals Adding for a class 24 Adding for a student 26 Average Book Level 63, 64, 66 Average Percent Correct 63, 64, 66 Deleting for a class 29 Deleting for a student 31 Editing for a class 29 Editing for a student

202 I NDEX Points 63, 64, 66 Reading Practice 63 Selecting marking periods for the class 22 Viewing as a student 128 Viewing by parents 141 Viewing Reading Practice goals 28 Goal-Setting Chart 164 Grade Equivilent (GE) score 164 H Hardware requirements 5 Home Connect 135 Home Connect Informational Letter 135 Honors Reader 33 Managing quiz information 98 Passing percentage 170 Quiz List Report 158 Record Book 49 Reprinting a TOPS Report 54 Taking a quiz 121 Taking a sample quiz 103 Viewing a Teacher s Guide 104 Viewing quiz information 100 Viewing student quiz records 49 Literacy Skills Retakes preference, editing 169, 176 Literacy skills, categories 98 Literary analysis 99 Logging in as a parent 140 Logging in as a student 120 Logging in to the program 5 Logging out 128, 145 I Identifying historic/cultural factors 99 Identifying persuasive language 98 Identifying reading strategies 98 Identifying reasons 99 Independent Reader 32 Independent Reader approval 36 Individual Student Settings preferences 166 Individual Student Settings preferences, editing 180, 181, 182, 183 Inferential comprehension 98 Information Letter, Home Connect 135 Initial understanding 99 Installing new quizzes 8 Interest level 112 Internet Explorer 140 L Limit on student capacity 129 List of vocabulary words 163 Literacy Skills Chart 157 Literacy Skills Passing Percentage preference, editing 170 Literacy Skills Quizzes 1 Aborting 123 Deleting 104 Deleting student quiz records 53 Editing quiz information 102 Editing student quiz records 51 M Making inferences 98 Making predictions 98 Manage Book Level Settings capability 191 Managing Literacy Skills Quiz information 98 Other Reading Quiz information 105 Points 75 Reading Practice Quiz information 82 Teacher-Made Quiz information 82 Team sets and teams 63 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information 93 Marking periods, selecting for goal setting 22 Microsoft Internet Explorer 140 Monitor Override preference, editing 171, 172 Monitor Password preference, editing 171 Monitor Password Required preference, editing 169, 175 N NEO 2 laptop 120, 130 Before quizzing 130 Taking a quiz 132 New words, first-try 43, 46 New words, second-try 43,

203 I NDEX O Other Reading Quizzes 1 Aborting 123 Deleting a quiz 109 Deleting an Other Reading Series 109 Deleting student quiz records 60 Editing quiz information 107 Editing student quiz records 58 Managing quiz information 105 Passing percentage 176 Quiz List Report 158 Record Book 56 Reprinting a TOPS Report 61 Taking a quiz 121 Taking a sample quiz 108 Viewing Other Reading Series 105 Viewing quiz information 105 Viewing student quiz records 56 Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent preference, editing 176 Other Reading Series preference 166 Other Reading Series preference, editing 178 P Parents Closing the program 145 Logging in 140 Logging out 145 Printing a Quiz List Report 144 Printing a Vocabulary List Report 143 Printing the Student Record Report 142 Printing the Words Learned Report 142 Signing out 145 Viewing goals and points 141 Points 64, 66 Adding a record 76 Deleting a student record 80 Editing a student record 79 Managing 75 Viewing as a student 128 Viewing by parents 141 Viewing student records 75 Pre-ATOS 112 Preferences 166, 173 Allow Multi-Language Quizzing 170 Allow Quiz Deleting 173 Allow Quiz Editing 173 Allow Quizzing 183 Automatic Student Log Out 176 Book Voting 156, 171 Certifications 170 Classroom 166 Classroom Restrictions 166 Classroom Restrictions, editing 173 Classroom Student Quizzing 166 Classroom Student Quizzing, editing 174 Date and Time Restrictions 166 Date Restrictions 172 Editing the Date and Time Restrictions 172 Editing the settings 168 Editing the Student Quizzing preferences 168 Individual Student Settings 166, 181, 182, 183 Individual Student Settings, editing 180 Literacy Skills Passing Percentage 170 Literacy Skills Retakes 169, 176 Monitor Override 171, 172 Monitor Password 171 Monitor Password Required 169, 175 Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent 176 Other Reading Series 166 Other Reading Series, editing 178 Quiz Setup 166 Quiz Setup, editing 179 Recorded Voice 182 School 166 School Student Quizzing 166 Show Missed Questions 170 Show Total Points 171 Student Quizzing 166 Time Restrictions 172 TOPS Report Language 180 TOPS Report Printing 168, 174 TWI Monitoring 170 TWI Settings 181 Viewing the settings 167 Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions 169, 175 Vocabulary Practice Review Only Quiz Length 177 Vocabulary Practice Review Percent 176 Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension 177 Weekend Restrictions 172 Print Home Connect Informational Letter 135 Print Plug-In 5, 168, 174 Printing Reports 147 Reports as a student 125 Student Record Report

204 I NDEX Team reports 74 Vocabulary List Report 97, 125 Words Learned Report 125 Pronunciation Key 158 Q Quitting the program 128, 145 Quiz Availability 118 Quiz List - Literacy Skills Report 158 Quiz List - Other Reading Report 158 Quiz List - Reading Practice Report 158 Quiz List - Vocabulary Practice Report 158 Quiz List Report 144 Quiz Management reports 154 Quiz numbers for Teacher-Made Quizzes 87 Quiz records Adding Reading Practice Quiz records 14 Deleting Literacy Skills Quiz records 53 Deleting Other Reading Quiz records 60 Deleting Reading Practice Quiz records 19 Deleting Vocabulary Practice Quiz records 46 Editing Literacy Skills Quiz records 51 Editing Other Reading Quiz records 58 Editing Reading Practice Quiz records 17 Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book 49 Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book 12 Viewing Literacy Skills Quiz records 49 Viewing Other Reading Quiz records 56 Viewing Reading Practice Quiz records 12 Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz records 44 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book 43 Quiz Setup preference 166 Quiz Setup preference, editing 179 Quiz Takers - Other Reading Report 158 Quiz Takers - Reading Practice Report 159 Quiz Usage Report 159 Quizzes ~Second-Try and Review Words~ 43, 93 Aborting 123 Adding Teacher-Made Quizzes 87 Allowing students to take a quiz 84, 88, 95, 102, 107, 172, 179, 183 Blocking students from quizzing 124 Blocking students from taking 91 Converting from a previous version of Accelerated Reader 8 Deleting a Literacy Skills Quiz 104 Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz 86 Deleting a Vocabulary Practice Quiz 97 Deleting an Other Reading Quiz 109 Deleting an Other Reading Series 109 Editing ATOS book level settings 112 Editing Literacy Skills Quiz information 102 Editing Other Reading Quiz information 107 Editing Reading Practice Quiz information 84 Editing Teacher-Made Quiz information 90 Editing Vocabulary Practice Quiz information 95 Installing 8 Literacy Skills 1 Managing Literacy Skills Quiz information 98 Managing Other Reading Quiz information 105 Managing Reading Practice Quiz information 82 Managing Teacher-Made Quiz information 82 Managing Vocabulary Practice Quiz information 93 Other Reading 1 Reading Practice 1 Recorded Voice 1 Resuming 123 Taking a sample Literacy Skills Quiz 103 Taking a sample Other Reading Quiz 108 Taking a sample Reading Practice Quiz 85 Taking a sample Teacher-Made Quiz 85 Taking a sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz 96 Unfinished 123 Viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz 104 Viewing Literacy Skills Quiz information 100 Viewing Other Reading Quiz information 105 Viewing Other Reading Series 105 Viewing Reading Practice Quiz information 82 Viewing Teacher-Made Quiz information 82 Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz information 94 Vocabulary Practice 1 Quizzing 121 Blocking students from taking a quiz 84, 88, 95, 102, 107, 172, 179, 183 R Readability 112 Reader Certification Certificates 159 Reader certification levels 32 Reader Certification Levels Report 159 Reading level

205 I NDEX Reading Practice certifications Adding an achieved certification 41 Advanced Reader 32 Approving Independent Reader status 36 Classic Reader 33 Definitions 32 Deleting 42 Editing 39 Honors Reader 33 Independent Reader 32 Ready Reader 32 Record Book 32 Rising Reader 32 Setting a goal for students 33 Star Reader 32 Super Reader 32 Viewing student records 37 Reading Practice goals 63, 64, 66 Adding for a class 24 Adding for a student 26 Deleting for a class 29 Deleting for a student 31 Editing for a class 29 Editing for a student 30 Viewing 28 Reading Practice Quizzes 1 Aborting 123 Adding student quiz records 14 Adding Teacher-Made Quizzes 87 Deleting 86 Deleting student quiz records 19 Editing quiz information 84 Editing student quiz records 17 Managing quiz information 82 Passing percentage 170 Quiz List Report 158 Record Book 12 Reprinting a TOPS Report 20 Taking a quiz 121 Taking a sample quiz 85 Teacher-Made 87 Viewing quiz information 82 Viewing student quiz records 12 Ready Reader 32 Recognizing cause and effect 98 Recognizing details 99 Recognizing feelings 99 Recognizing plot 99 Recognizing setting 99 Record Books 11 Literacy Skills Quizzes 49 Other Reading Quizzes 56 Points Management 75 Reading Practice Certifications 32 Reading Practice Quizzes 12 Teams 63 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes 43 Recorded Voice preference, editing 182 Recorded Voice Quizzes 1 Renaissance Place Logging in 5 Reports 146 Signing in 5 Renaissance Place Print Plug-In 5, 168, 174 Renaissance Receiver, connecting to 130 Renaissance Receiver, naming 131 Renaissance Wireless Server Utility 131 Rename book levels 113 Reporting parameter groups 150 Reports 146 Accelerated Reader RP 146 Description 154, 155 Literacy Skills Chart 157 Printing 147 Printing as a student 125 Printing by parents 142, 143, 144 Printing team reports 74 Pronunciation Key 158 Quiz List - Literacy Skills 158 Quiz List - Other Reading 158 Quiz List - Reading Practice 158 Quiz List - Vocabulary Practice 158 Quiz Management 154 Quiz Takers - Other Reading 158 Quiz Takers - Reading Practice 159 Quiz Usage 159 Reader Certification Certificates 159 Reader Certification Levels 159 Renaissance Place 146 Schoolwide Summary 159 Student Detail 160 Student Information 160 Student Points 160 Student Record 33, 125, 161 Teacher 161 Team Standing Chart 63, 64, 66, 74, 162 Team Status 63, 64, 66, 74, 162 TOPS 20, 33, 47, 54,

206 I NDEX TWI 162 Vocabulary List 125, 163 Word Count 163 Words Learned 125 Words to Study 163 Reprinting Literacy Skills TOPS Report 54 Other Reading TOPS Report 61 Reading Practice TOPS Report 20 Vocabulary Practice TOPS Report 47 Resources 4, 158 Responding to literature 98 Resuming a quiz 123 Retake 181 Retaking a Literacy Skills Quiz 169 Review words, first-try 43, 46 Review words, second-try 43, 46 Rising Reader 32 S Safari 140 Sample quizzes Literacy Skills 103 Other Reading 108 Reading Practice 85 Teacher-Made 85 Vocabulary Practice 96 School preferences 166 School Student Quizzing preferences 166 Schoolwide Summary Report 159 Second-Try and Review Words Quiz 43, 93 Second-try new words 43, 46 Second-try review words 43, 46 Selecting marking periods for the class 22 Set current book level 111 Setting Reading Practice certification goals for students 33 Setting up quiz availability rules 119 Show Missed Questions preference, editing 170 Show Total Points preference, editing 171 Signing in to the program 5 Signing out 128, 145 Software requirements 5 Star Reader 32 STAR Reading 164 Stopping a quiz 123 Student capacity limit 129 Student Detail Report 160 Student Information Report 160 Student Points Report 160 Student Quizzing preferences 166 Student Quizzing preferences, editing 168 Student Record Report 33, 125, 142, 161 Students Blocking from quizzing 124 Closing the program 128 Deleting Reading Practice goals 31 Enrolling on teams 66, 67 List of 156 Logging in to the program 120 Logging out 128 Passwords on reports 160 Printing reports 125 Signing out 128 Transferring between teams 68 Unenrolling from teams 66, 67 User names on reports 160 Using Accelerated Reader RP 120 Viewing goals and points used 128 Super Reader 32 System requirements 5 T Take Sample Quiz capability 191 Taking a quiz 121 Taking a sample Literacy Skills Quiz 103 Taking a sample Other Reading Quiz 108 Taking a sample Reading Practice Quiz 85 Taking a sample Teacher-Made Quiz 85 Taking a sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz 96 Teacher Report 161 Teacher s Guide, viewing for a Literacy Skills Quiz 104 Teacher-Made Quizzes 87 Adding 87 Blocking students from taking 91 Editing quiz information 90 Managing quiz information 82 Quiz numbers 87 Taking a sample quiz 85 Viewing quiz information 82 Team rosters

207 I NDEX Team sets Adding 63 Adding teams to 64 Deleting 72 Editing 71 Printing reports 74 Viewing 70 Viewing enrollment 70 Team Standing Chart 63, 64, 66, 74, 162 Team Status Report 63, 64, 66, 74, 162 Teams Adding 64 Deleting 73 Editing 72 Enrolling students 66, 67 Managing 63 Printing reports 74 Rosters 66 Transferring students between 68 Unenrolling students 66, 67 Viewing 70 Viewing enrollment 70 Time Restrictions preference, editing 172 TOPS Report Language preference, editing 180 TOPS Report Printing preference, editing 168, 174 TOPS Reports 33 Reprinting for a Literacy Skills Quiz 54 Reprinting for a Reading Practice Quiz 20 Reprinting for a Vocabulary Practice Quiz 47 Reprinting for an Other Reading Quiz 61 Transferring students between teams 68 TWI Monitoring preference, editing 170 TWI Report 162 TWI Settings preference, editing 181 U Understanding characterization 99 Understanding dialogue 99 Understanding literacy features 99 Understanding sequence 99 Understanding the author s craft 99 Understanding the main idea 98 Unenrolling students from teams 66, 67 Unfinished quizzes 123 Update student records 111 V Viewing 173 Goals and points by parents 141 Goals and points used, students 128 Literacy Skills Quiz information 100 Literacy Skills Quiz records 49 Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz 104 Other Reading Quiz information 105 Other Reading Quiz records 56 Other Reading Series 105 Points records 75 Preferences 167 Quiz Availability 116 Reading Practice certification records 37 Reading Practice goals 28 Reading Practice Quiz information 82 Reading Practice Quiz records 12 Teacher-Made Quiz information 82 Team enrollment 70 Team sets 70 Teams 70 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information 94 Vocabulary Practice Quiz records 44 Viewing preference, editing 173 Vocabulary List Report 125, 143, 163 Vocabulary List Report, printing 97 Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions preference, editing 169, 175 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes 1 Deleting 97 Deleting student quiz records 46 Editing quiz information 95 Managing quiz information 93 Quiz List Report 158 Record Book 43 Reprinting a TOPS Report 47 Taking a sample quiz 96 Viewing quiz information 94 Viewing student quiz records 44 Vocabulary Practice Review Only Quiz Length preference, editing 177 Vocabulary Practice Review Percent preference, editing 176 Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension preference, editing 177 Vocabulary words 43,

208 I NDEX W Weekend Restrictions preference, editing 172 Word Count Report 163 Word list 163 Words 43 First-try new 43, 46 First-try review 43, 46 Second-try new 43, 46 Second-try review 43, 46 Words Learned List 43 Words Learned Report 125, 142 Words to Study Report

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