Software Manual. Learn how to: Reading Management Software

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1 Reading Management Software Learn how to: Manage Reading Practice, Recorded Voice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes Set Reading Practice Goals and Reader Certifi cations Set preferences for passwords, student settings, and quizzing Customize Reports

2 Renaissance Learning PO Box 8036 Wisconsin Rapids, WI Telephone: (800) (715) Outside the US: Fax: (715) (general questions): (technical questions): Web Site: Copyright Notice Copyright 2010 by Renaissance Learning, Inc. ll 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, Renaissance Place Edition software. For more information, contact Renaissance Learning, Inc. at the address shown above. The ccelerated logo, ccelerated Math,, ccelerated Vocabulary, ccelscan, dvanced Technology for Data- Driven Schools, R, R BookGuide, R BookFinder, TOS, English in a Flash, Fluent Reader, MathFacts in a Flash, NEO, NEO 2, NEO Manager, Renaissance, Renaissance Home Connect, Renaissance Learning, Renaissance Receiver, the Renaissance Learning logo, Renaissance Place, and STR 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 Safari are trademarks of pple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft, Windows, and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. dobe, Flash, Reader, and Shockwave are either registered trademarks or trademarks of dobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Firefox is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation ( very and all other related brands and product names are trademarks of very Dennison Corporation. Xerox, The Document Company, the digital X and the Performance Guaranteed logo are trademarks of XEROX CORPORTION. s 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. lthough 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. 9/2010 RRP

3 CONTENTS Welcome to.. 1 How It Works in Your Classroom 1 Programs You Will Use Software...2 Renaissance Place RT Management System.2 Tools to Help You with.. 3 Manuals and Other Documents.3 Help in the Software 4 Live Chat Support..4 Resources Need More Help? Getting Started Checking Software Requirements 6 Logging In and Changing Your Password Setting Up the Software. 8 Setup Checklist 8 Navigating the Software... 9 Switching Roles and Schools Logging Out and Closing the Software. 9 Record Books Overview 10 Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book 10 Viewing Reading Practice Quiz Records dding a Reading Practice Quiz Record for a Student.. 13 Editing a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record 16 Deleting a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Reprinting a Student s Reading Practice TOPS Report. 19 Reading Practice Goals Record Book. 20 Selecting Marking Periods for Goal Setting 21 dding Reading Practice Goals for a Class.23 dding Reading Practice Goals for a Student Viewing Reading Practice Goals 27 Editing or Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Class.28 i

4 C ONTENTS Editing Reading Practice Goals for a Student Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Student...30 Reading Practice Certifications Record Book 30 Reader Certification Levels Setting a Certification Goal for a Student..32 pproving Independent Reader Status Viewing Reading Practice Certifications...35 Editing a Student s Certifications dding an chieved Certification Deleting a Certification..39 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book.. 40 Vocabulary Word Types 40 Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Records 41 Deleting a Student s Vocabulary Practice Quiz Record.43 Reprinting a Student s Vocabulary Practice TOPS Report...44 Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book.. 45 Viewing Literacy Skills Quiz Records.45 Editing a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record..47 Deleting a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record.49 Reprinting a Literacy Skills TOPS Report..50 Other Reading Quizzes Record Book. 51 Viewing Other Reading Quiz Records 51 Editing a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record.53 Deleting a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record.55 Reprinting a Student s Other Reading TOPS Report...56 Teams Sets and Teams dding Team Sets.. 58 dding Teams 59 Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams dding or Removing Students from a Specific Team.. 61 Changing Enrollment (Transferring Students between Teams) in a Team Set.62 Dividing Students utomatically among Teams in a Set 63 Viewing Team Sets, Teams, and Team Enrollment 64 Editing Team Sets.. 65 Editing Teams 66 Deleting Team Sets. 66 Deleting Teams Printing Team Reports ii

5 C ONTENTS Points Management 69 Viewing Points 69 dding a Points Record for a Class dding a Points Record for a Single Student 72 Editing a Points Record.. 73 Deleting a Points Record. 74 Quizzes Searching for Quizzes Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 76 Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes Editing Reading Practice Quiz Information 78 Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz...79 Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes.. 81 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Editing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Information...89 Taking a Sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz 90 Printing the Vocabulary List Report 90 Deleting a Vocabulary Practice Quiz. 91 Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information The 24 Literacy Skills Viewing a Literacy Skills Quiz..93 Editing Literacy Skills Quiz Information...95 Taking a Sample Literacy Skills Quiz.96 Viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz..97 Deleting a Literacy Skills Quiz.97 Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information.. 98 Viewing Other Reading Series and Other Reading Quizzes..98 Editing Other Reading Quiz Information.100 Taking a Sample Other Reading Quiz Deleting an Other Reading Series or Other Reading Quiz..102 Managing Book Level Settings. 103 Set Current Book Level.104 Update Student Records 104 Changing the TOS Book Level Settings..105 Rename Book Levels Creating an R BookGuide Export Managing Quiz vailability Viewing Quiz vailability iii

6 C ONTENTS Editing Quiz vailability: Making Quizzes ctive or Inactive 110 Setting Up Quiz vailability Rules Students How to Use Renaissance Place What You Need to Do Before Quizzing Logging In as a Student. 113 How Students Take an Quiz in RP 113 Printing Reports as a Student. 118 Viewing the Quizzes a Student Has Taken 120 Viewing Goals and Points Logging Out and Closing the Program Student Capacity Using NEO 2 Laptops with Renaissance Place. 122 Before Students Quiz on a NEO How Students Take an R Quiz on a NEO 2 Laptop Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP Printing the Informational Letter..128 How Students Use Renaissance Home Connect to View Progress on Reading Practice Quizzes..128 How Students Use Renaissance Home Connect to View Progress on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Parents How to Use Renaissance Place Logging In to RP as a Parent Viewing Your Child s Goals and Points Printing the Student Record or Words Learned Report Printing a Vocabulary List Report..138 Printing the Quiz List Report. 139 Logging Out Of and Closing the Program.140 Reports bout Renaissance Place and Reports Using Reports Check for dobe Reader before you Generate Reports 142 Printing Reports 142 bout Reporting Parameter Groups. 145 Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List 146 iv

7 C ONTENTS Report Descriptions Class (School Management) Diagnostic Other Reading Diagnostic Reading Practice..150 Diagnostic Vocabulary Practice Enrollment (School Management) Favorite Books (Reading Practice) Goal History (Reading Practice) 151 Labels Book (School Management). 151 Labels Vocabulary List (School Management) Literacy Skills Chart 152 Literacy Skills Class Summary. 152 Literacy Skills Status Marking Period Progress (Reading Practice) Point Club Summary (Reading Practice) Pronunciation Key (Vocabulary Practice) Quiz List Reports (School Management) Quiz Takers Other Reading Quiz Takers Reading Practice 154 Quiz Usage (Reading Practice). 154 Reader Certification Certificates (Reading Practice) Reader Certification Levels (Reading Practice) Schoolwide Summary (Reading Practice) Student Detail (School Management) 155 Student Information (School Management) 155 Student Points (Reading Practice) Student Record Teacher (School Management). 156 Team Standing Chart (Reading Practice) Team Status (Reading Practice) 157 TOPS..157 TWI (Reading Practice) Vocabulary List (Vocabulary Practice) 158 Word Count (Reading Practice and Other Reading) Words Learned (Vocabulary Practice) 158 Words to Study (Vocabulary Practice) 158 Engaged Time Diagnostic Codes Overview of Diagnostic Codes 159 How Diagnostic Codes re Calculated When to Run the Diagnostic Report Reading Practice Definitions and Causes of Diagnostic Codes v

8 C ONTENTS Preferences.161 Viewing Preferences Editing Preferences 163 Editing the Student Quizzing Preferences (School) Editing the Date and Time Restrictions Preferences (School) Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) Editing the Student Quizzing Preferences (Classroom) 169 Editing the Other Reading Series Preference (Classroom) Editing the Quiz Setup Preference (Classroom). 174 Editing the TOPS Language Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings) Editing the TWI Settings Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings) Editing the Recorded Voice Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings) Editing the Quizzing llowed Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings). 178 ppendix : Capabilities.179 User Groups in the Software Capabilities for ll Renaissance Place Programs. 181 Capabilities Manage Book Level Settings Manage Quiz vailability. 185 Take Sample Quiz Index 186 vi

9 WELCOME TO CCELERTED REDER (R) Renaissance Place (RP) Edition is the nation s leading reading management program, used in more than 58,000 schools. Since 1986, R has helped hundreds of thousands of teachers inspire teacher-led reading revolutions in their classrooms. R 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. 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. R quizzes cover all levels of reading ability in both English and Spanish. How It Works in Your Classroom typical session 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 class record book. 2. Students either choose a book to read or read books you have assigned to them. 3. Students use at the computer or on a NEO 2 laptop (if available) to search for and take the quiz for the books they have read. 4. scores each student s quiz and prints a TOPS Report. 5. You and the student discuss the TOPS Report. 1

10 W ELCOME TO CCELERTED REDER Programs You Will Use Programs You Will Use Software RP includes two programs: the software and the Renaissance Place Real Time (RT) Management system. The software accessible from the Renaissance Place RT Home page helps you manage the program in your classrooms and keep track of students progress. What You Will Use to Do Get software tips, manuals, and other documents to help you use in your classroom See Page 3 Manage the class record books 10 Set Reading Practice goals 20 Set Reading Practice certifications 30 Manage points 69 Create teams 58 Manage quizzes 75 Manage book level settings 103 Manage quiz availability 108 Quiz students on books they have read 112 Print reports 141 Set preferences 161 Renaissance Place RT Management System For information on the Renaissance Place RT Management system, see the Renaissance Place Real Time or help. The Renaissance Place RT Management System also accessible from the Renaissance Place RT Home page lets you view and manage district, school, student, teacher, parent, course, and class information in the Renaissance Place RT database, which is shared by all Renaissance Place RT Edition software used in your district or school. The tasks you can perform in the management program depend on your user level. For example, administrators have more management tasks to perform than teachers. Sample tasks may include: dding, 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 CCELERTED REDER Tools to Help You with Tools to Help You with You ll find many tools in the software to help you learn how to use : Manuals and other documents Help in the software Live Chat Support Resources Manuals and Other Documents To access the software manuals and other useful documents, click Manuals in the upper-right corner of any page in the program. Clicking that link lists the documents available for the Renaissance Learning programs installed on your server. For, you ll find these documents helpful: Document Software Manual Software Tips for Getting Started How to Read a Reading Implementation Report Renaissance Place Real Time What It Gives You General information about the program Step-by-step instructions for working with the program Helpful hints to get you started using the program Information to help you interpret data on the Renaissance Place Implementation Status and Progress Reports Procedures for managing all school and district information Instructions for consolidating data and generating custom reports 3

12 W ELCOME TO CCELERTED REDER Tools to Help You with Help in the Software To access the help, click Help in the upper-right corner of any page. The help opens in a separate window, as shown below. B C The Help link is on every page in the program. Click it to get more information about the page currently displayed in the program. B To navigate the help, use the buttons at the top of the help page. 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 help topic using words or phrases. Click Back to view previously selected help. Click Other Help to see a list of the Renaissance Place programs installed on your server and click the program name to view its help. Click Close Help to close the help page. C This logo lets you know you re in the help. If you go to another program s help, the logo for that program will appear. Live Chat Support Customers who are letting Renaissance Learning host their Renaissance Place RT software can chat with a member of the support staff by clicking Live Chat Support (as shown to the right). By default, you can access chat from any Renaissance Place RT page; however, district administrators can set a preference to make it accessible from the Home page only or to turn it off entirely. See the Renaissance Place Real Time for details. 4

13 W ELCOME TO CCELERTED REDER Need More Help? Resources The software contains other resources to help you use ccelerated Reader in your classroom. Click Resources in the task list on the Home page to find forms, plans, charts, tips, routines, research, and other helpful documents. Need More Help? Knowledge Base: Search the Renaissance Learning Knowledge Base on the Web at support.renlearn.com/techkb/ for technical support information. Send general questions to send technical questions to Phone: Call (800) for assistance. Outside the US, call Renaissance Training Center: Visit the training center on the Web at This site has webinars, quick sessions, and on-demand sessions to help you learn to use the software and implement it effectively in your classroom. 5

14 GETTING STRTED Checking Software Requirements To check that a specific computer has the necessary software to run Renaissance Place programs such as dobe Reader for displaying reports click Check Software Requirements on the Renaissance Place Real Time Welcome page before you log in. Supporting client software should be installed by a user who is logged in on the computer as an administrator or as a member of the dministrators group with administrative rights; this will make the software accessible to all users of the computer. The Software Requirements page will open with a list of all the necessary software and (in some cases) audio samples, animations, and links for testing programs that are currently installed. If any programs are missing or need to be updated, click the install Version link B for that program. B For the most up-to-date software, hardware, and operating system requirements for Renaissance Place RT, visit 6

15 G ETTING STRTED Logging In and Changing Your Password Logging In and Changing Your Password Use these instructions to log in to Renaissance Place RT, change your password either by choice or when the software requires it and access the program. 1. In your Web browser, go to the URL for Renaissance Place RT. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. 2. On the Welcome page, click Teacher/dministrator. 3. Enter your user name and password. To change your password, check the Change Password box. If the Change Password page opens and you didn t choose to change your password when logging in, one of two things has 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. 4. Click Log In. If you re not changing your password, your Home page opens. 5. If you are changing your password, enter it now, type it again to verify it, and click Save to open your Home page. 7

16 G ETTING STRTED Setting Up the Software Setting Up the Software Setup Checklist Task Much of the preliminary setup for will occur before you log in the first time. For example, the software will be installed and registered on a central server for you to access. The tasks listed below must be performed after 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 perform any of these tasks. District Usually Performed By School dmin. Staff dmin. Staff Teacher Where to Find Instructions Enter district information Renaissance Place Real Time Software Manual dd school years dd school information dd school administrators and district staff dd teachers, school staff, and students; add parents, if desired dd school marking periods dd days off used in calculations in some reports dd courses and classes, assign teachers designate a lead teacher for each ccelerated Reader class 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) 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 173 Page 161 Page 23 Page 32 Page 6 8

17 G ETTING STRTED Navigating the Software Navigating the Software The navigation bar at the top of each page shows you where you are in the software, as shown here. If you need to go back to a previous page, use the links in the navigation bar rather than the Web 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 go to the Home page, click Home in the navigation bar. Switching Roles and Schools 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 class in one of the middle schools. Renaissance Place RT keeps track of these multiple roles and school assignments. You can switch between roles or schools after you log in or any time while you are using the software. On the Home page, choose a role from the User Type drop-down list: For more information, see the Renaissance Place Real Time. Logging Out and Closing the Software utomatic logout after 20 minutes. If you don t use 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, 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 Web browser. 9

18 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). has six Record Books, and areas about teams and points to help you manage all this information: Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book; see below Reading Practice Goals Record Book; see page 20 Reading Practice Certifications Record Book; see page 30 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book; see page 40 Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book; see page 45 Other Reading Quizzes Record Book; see page 51 Managing team sets and teams; see page 58 Managing points; see page 69 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 students reading comprehension, in addition to giving you immediate, individualized, constructive feedback to direct ongoing reading practice. 10

19 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book Viewing Reading Practice Quiz Records Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 a student through the end of the active school year. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 Books to view the View Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book page. B C D Use the Class drop-down list to choose a different class. B The Latest Quiz Results column shows you the date the quiz was taken, the title of the last quiz taken by each student, what percentage the student scored on that quiz, and whether he or she passed or failed. C This legend describes what the symbols in the Score column mean. D Click a student s name to view all the quiz records for that student. 11

20 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book 4. Click a student s name to view all the quiz records up to the end of the active school year for that student. E F G H 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. E Use the Student drop-down list if you need to choose a different student. F Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. G Type a quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. H Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 12

21 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book dding a Reading Practice Quiz Record for a Student Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. You may need to add a Reading Practice record for a student if that student transfers without an export file containing 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 dd Reading Practice Quiz Record under ctions along the left side of the page. If you cannot add a Reading Practice Quiz record, an administrator has used the llow Quiz Editing Preference to prevent teachers from adding Reading Practice Quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page

22 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book 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 Use the Select a Reading Practice Quiz page to find and choose the Reading Practice quiz you want: E C D B 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 TOS book level (or user-defined name) using the drop-down lists and blank fields. D Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, points, or recorded voice quizzes. E Click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete any text you ve entered in the Search For Quizzes fields and click Search again. 5. Click the quiz title 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. 14

23 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book 6. Complete the dd Student Reading Practice Quiz Record page as described below: F TWI stands for read To, read With, or read Independently. 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 by the student from the TWI drop-down list. H Type the date the student took the quiz, or click the calendar button to choose a date. 7. Click Save to add this Reading Practice Quiz to the student s record. 15

24 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book Editing a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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. D B C 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. If the Edit option is unavailable, an administrator has used the llow Quiz Editing Preference to prevent teachers from editing Reading Practice Quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page Click Edit under ctions D in the row of the record you want to edit. 16

25 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book 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 whether the book was Read To the student, Read With the student or Read Independently by the student from the TWI dropdown list. G Type the correct date the student took the quiz or click the calendar button to choose a date. 6. Click Save to save your changes to the student s Reading Practice Quiz record for this quiz. 17

26 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book Deleting a Student s Reading Practice Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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. B C D 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. If the Delete option is unavailable, an administrator has used the llow Quiz Deleting Preference to prevent teachers from deleting Reading Practice Quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page Click Delete in the row of the record you want to delete under the ctions column D. 5. Click OK to delete the record. 18

27 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book Reprinting a Student s Reading Practice TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Reading Practice Quiz Records. See page Click the name of the student whose TOPS Report you want to reprint on the View Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book page. 3. Find the record you want on the View Student Reading Practice Quiz Records page as described below. B C D 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 4. Click TOPS D in the row of the record you want under the ctions column. 5. Click either the English or Spanish option on the Reprint TOPS Select Language page. Then, click Next >. 19

28 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book 6. When the report is ready, it opens in dobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. E E Use the dobe Reader buttons to save or print the report. Do not use the browser s print function. Note for Macintosh Users: The report may open in the Preview program on Macintosh OS X; click the File menu and choose Print. 7. Close the browser window when you are finished viewing the report. 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 R Reading Practice Goals Record Book. See the Renaissance Place Real Time for instructions on creating 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 121 for students and page 136 for parents. fter 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

29 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book Selecting Marking Periods for Goal Setting Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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. (If marking periods haven t been selected for the class, the page notifies you that you must do this before you can set goals.) 21

30 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book You cannot choose school marking periods with overlapping dates. See the Renaissance Place Real Time for instructions about setting up marking periods. 5. Under vailable School Marking Periods, click Select next to each marking period for which you want to set student goals B. s 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. 22

31 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book dding Reading Practice Goals for a Class Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. You can set three Reading Practice goals for students: average percent correct on quizzes points earned 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 32. Before you can set goals, you must assign marking periods to the class; see page 21 for instructions. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 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. 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 21 for instructions. 5. Click Edit Student Goals C. 23

32 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book 6. Set all three goals for each student on the Edit Reading Practice Goals page described below: D E F Use the Goal-Setting Chart or the Goal- Setting Chart for TOS 2000 as a guideline when setting the points and avg. book level goals. Find them under Resources; see page 5. D Click the vg. 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. E Type the number of points the student should earn by passing quizzes during the marking period. F Type the average book level the student should achieve on passed quizzes during the marking period. For TOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to For TOS 100 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to For TOS 2000 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0 to Click Save when you are finished. 24

33 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book dding Reading Practice Goals for a Student Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Goals Record Book is different from the Reading Practice Certifications Record Book (see page 32). 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 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. 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 21 for instructions. C 5. Click the name of the student you want to work with C. 25

34 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book 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 vg. Percent Correct, Points, and vg. Book Level goals on the Create Student Reading Practice Goal page: E F G Use the Goal-Setting Chart or the Goal- Setting Chart for TOS 2000 as a guideline when setting the points and avg. book level goals. Find them under Resources; see page 5. 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. G Type the average book level the student should achieve on passed quizzes during the marking period. For TOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to For TOS 100 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to For TOS 2000 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0 to Click Save when you are finished. 9. Repeat steps 5 8 for each student who needs to have goals set. 26

35 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book Viewing Reading Practice Goals Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 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. B C 5. Click the name of the student whose Reading Practice Goals you want to view C. 27

36 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book Editing or Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Class Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 Record Book (see page 32). B C Use the Goal-Setting Chart or the Goal- Setting Chart for TOS 2000 as a guideline when setting the points and avg. book level goals. Find them under Resources; see page 5. Click the vg. 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. 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 TOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to For TOS 100 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to For TOS 2000 (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. 28

37 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Goals Record Book Editing Reading Practice Goals for a Student Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 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 Record Book (see page 32). Use the Goal-Setting Chart or the Goal- Setting Chart for TOS 2000 as a guideline when setting the points and avg. book level goals. Find them under Resources; see page The Edit Student Reading Practice Goals page lists the goals that have been set for this student 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. Note: Leaving this field blank or B entering a zero deletes the goal for that student. C D Delete the number and type the average book level the student should achieve on passed quizzes during the marking period. D For TOS you can enter numbers from 0.1 to For TOS 100 (or user-defined name) you can enter values from 0.0 to For TOS 2000 (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. 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. 29

38 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book Deleting Reading Practice Goals for a Student Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 Record Book Goals page. See page Click Delete in the row for the marking period for which you want to delete goals. Note: ll 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 28 or Editing Reading Practice Goals for a Student on page Click OK to delete all three goals for this student. 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 165), 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

39 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book 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 165). 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. dvanced 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 dvanced 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. 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 R): 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 an Honors Reader are the TOPS Report (see page 157) and the Student Record Report (see page 156). 31

40 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book Setting a Certification Goal for a Student Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Certification goals are different from the Reading Practice goals you can set for your student (see page 23). When you set certification goals for your students and enable the TWI Monitoring Preference (see page 165), automatically monitors student progress toward the goals and awards certifications when students meet the requirements. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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. The Status column on the View Reading Practice Certifications 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 B C The Status column shows the students certification status. See the legend on the left side of the page. B Click Set Goal in the ctions/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 ctions/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 31). 32

41 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book 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 Current Certification Goal 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 lastachieved 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 6 for each student who needs a certification goal set. 33

42 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book pproving Independent Reader Status Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. When a student achieves Independent Reader status (see page 31 for the definition), the teacher must approve it by following these steps: 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 pprove in the ctions/new Goals column on the View Reading Practice Certification Record Book page, where an indicates that you must approve the student s Independent Reader status. Once you click pprove, the program will display links for you to set a new goal for that student. 34

43 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book Viewing Reading Practice Certifications Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. These steps describe how to view students certification goals and achieved certifications. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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. B C D E The current certification goal or the last certification achieved for each student is listed here (depending on what the status column shows). B The date the student started work on the certification is listed here. C The date the student achieved the certification is listed here (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. See the legend on the left side of the page. E Click Show Certification Criteria to view an explanation of the Reader Certification levels (or see page 31). 35

44 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book 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 is listed here. G The certifications this student has achieved are listed here. H If the list of achieved certifications is longer than the limit set in the Viewing preferences (see page 168), click Next >> and << Previous to move through the list. I Choose another student from the Student drop-down list to view his or her record. Editing a Student s Certifications Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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 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 32) for your students and enable the TWI Monitoring Preference (see page 165), ccelerated Reader automatically monitors students progress toward the goals and awards certifications when students meet the requirements. B 36

45 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book 3. Make the necessary changes to either the Edit Student Reading Practice Certification Goal page or the Edit Student Reading Practice chieved Certification page or both. Edit Pupil Reading Practice Certification Goal page: Goals vs. Certifications. The Reading Practice Certification goals are different from the Reading Practice goals (see page 23). 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 button to choose a date. E Click Save. The Edit Student Reading Practice chieved Certification page: F G H F Type a different Date Started or click the calendar button to choose a date. G Type a different Date chieved or click the calendar button 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. 37

46 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book dding an chieved Certification Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. You do not need to add achieved certification records manually, as described below, if you set certification goals (see page 32) and enabled TWI monitoring (see page 165). However, you may need to add certifications manually if 1) a student transferred from another school and has a printed record of certifications or 2) 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 dd chieved Certification under ctions on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. 3. Complete the dd Student Reading Practice chieved Certification page as described below: B C D E B Choose the reader certification level the student has achieved from the chieved Certification drop-down list. C Type the Date Started or click the calendar button to choose a date. D Type the Date chieved or click the calendar button to choose a date. E Click Save. 38

47 R ECORD BOOKS Reading Practice Certifications Record Book Deleting a Certification Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 32. 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 goal or the achieved certification B you want to delete on the View Student Reading Practice Certification Records page. 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page Click OK to delete the certification. Note: fter 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. 39

48 R ECORD BOOKS Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book 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 158. Words not learned can be viewed on the Words to Study Report; see page 158. 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 Word Types There are four types of words a student may see on a Vocabulary Practice Quiz: If a student answers vocabulary words incorrectly on a quiz, you can print the Words to Study Report for that student to help him or her learn those vocabulary words. See page 158. 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 the Words Learned List. If the student gets one of these words wrong, the next Vocabulary Practice Quiz taken provides a second chance to get the word correct. The word will be added to the Words to Study list. Second-try new words. These are words the student missed on the 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 the Words Learned List. If the student gets a second-try new word incorrect, the word is not seen 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 Percent Preference to specify that review words are to be part of quizzes (see page 171), the student will begin to see review words as a part of each new Vocabulary Practice Quiz after 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 the Words Learned List. If the student gets a first-try word review incorrect, it s taken off of the 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. Second-try review words. If the student missed a review word on the first try, there is a second chance to get the word correct. If the student gets a second-try review word correct, the word is put back on the Words Learned List. If the student gets a second-try review word incorrect, it stays off of the Words 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. 40

49 R ECORD BOOKS Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Records Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 see page 40 for definitions), 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 the Vocabulary Quiz records up to the end of the active school year C. B C Use the Class drop-down list to choose a different class. B The Latest Quiz Results column shows you the date the quiz was taken, the title of the last quiz taken by each student, and what percentage the student scored on that quiz. C Click a student s name to view all the quiz records for that student. 41

50 R ECORD BOOKS Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book 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. F 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168 to change this preference. G D E H D Click Show by Quiz to view the student s records by quiz number. Only data from each 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 (see page 40 for definitions). E 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. F Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. G Type the quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. H Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 42

51 R ECORD BOOKS Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book Deleting a Student s Vocabulary Practice Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 B F D E Can t Delete? District and school administrators can use the llow Quiz Deleting Preference to prevent teachers from deleting quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. 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. ny words learned on the quiz you delete, 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. that title, no matter which quiz they appeared on, and all words learned from that 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 quiz number or quiz title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. E Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 43

52 R ECORD BOOKS Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book Reprinting a Student s Vocabulary Practice TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. See page 157 for more information about TOPS Reports. 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 or B. Note: You can only reprint a TOPS Report for a quiz a student has actually taken. Because vocabulary words from one title might appear on several different quizzes, TOPS Reports only exist for quizzes, not for titles. B C D 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. B Type the quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 3. Click TOPS by the quiz you want to reprint D. 44

53 R ECORD BOOKS Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book Can t see the Report? You must have dobe Reader installed on this computer to view reports. Some Macintosh computers will show reports in Preview instead. 4. When the report is ready, it opens in dobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. E E Use the dobe Reader buttons to save or print the report. Do not use the browser s print function. Note to Macintosh users: The report may open in the Preview program on Macintosh OS X; click the File menu and choose Print. 5. Close the browser report window when finished. 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 dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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. 45

54 R ECORD BOOKS Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book 4. Click the name of the student on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page to view that student s Literacy Skills Quiz records up to the end of the active school year. 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 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 46

55 R ECORD BOOKS Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book Editing a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 165). 1. View the Literacy Skills Quiz Record 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. Can t edit? District and school administrators can use the llow Quiz Editing Preference to prevent teachers from editing quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. B 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 B Type the quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 3. Click Edit under ctions for the quiz record you want to edit D. 47

56 R ECORD BOOKS Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book 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 button to choose a date. F The legend explains what the markings in the Question and nswer column mean a green square indicates the correct response and a blue circle indicates the pupil s response. 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. 48

57 R ECORD BOOKS Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book Deleting a Student s Literacy Skills Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Literacy Skills Quiz Record 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. The three ways of finding a quiz are described below. D B C 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. Can t Delete? District and school administrators can use the llow Quiz Deleting Preference to prevent teachers from deleting quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page Click Delete D under ctions for the quiz record you want to delete. 4. Click OK to delete the record. 49

58 R ECORD BOOKS Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book Reprinting a Literacy Skills TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. See page 157 for more information about TOPS Reports. The steps below describe how to reprint Literacy Skills TOPS Reports. 1. View the Literacy Skills Quiz Record 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. The three ways of finding a quiz are: B C D 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. B Type the quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. C Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 3. Click TOPS by the quiz you want to reprint D. Can t see the Report? You must have dobe Reader installed on this computer to view reports. Some Macintosh computers will show reports in Preview instead. 4. When the report is ready, it opens in dobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. E E Use the dobe Reader buttons to save or print the report. Do not use the browser s print function. Note to Macintosh users: The report may open in the Preview program on Macintosh OS X; click the File menu and choose Print. 5. Close the browser report window when you are finished. 50

59 R ECORD BOOKS Other Reading Quizzes Record Book Other Reading Quizzes Record Book Other Reading Quizzes help you measure your students comprehension of the reading material assigned to your class (such as textbooks). Other Reading Quizzes are available for most prominent new reading textbooks. You can use the results of these quizzes to monitor each student s progress on reading assignments. Viewing Other Reading Quiz Records Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 the Other Reading Quiz records up to the end of the active school year. 51

60 R ECORD BOOKS Other Reading Quizzes Record Book 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. E Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. 52

61 R ECORD BOOKS Other Reading Quizzes Record Book Editing a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 percentage 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 171). C D E B 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. Can t Edit? District and school administrators can use the llow Quiz Editing Preference to prevent teachers from editing quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page Click Edit in the row for the quiz you want to edit E. 53

62 R ECORD BOOKS Other Reading Quizzes Record Book 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 Read To, Read With, or Read Independently from the TWI 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. 54

63 R ECORD BOOKS Other Reading Quizzes Record Book Deleting a Student s Other Reading Quiz Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Other Reading Quiz Record 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. B E C D 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show ll to view the full list of quiz records. Can t Delete? District and school administrators can use the llow Quiz Deleting Preference to prevent teachers from deleting quiz records. See Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page Click Delete in the row for the quiz you want to delete E. 4. Click OK to delete the record. 55

64 R ECORD BOOKS Other Reading Quizzes Record Book Reprinting a Student s Other Reading TOPS Report Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. See page 157 for more information about TOPS Reports. The steps below describe how to reprint Other Reading TOPS Reports. 1. View the Other Reading Quiz Record 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. 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. 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 quiz number or title and click Go to search for a particular quiz. D Click Show ll 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 >. 56

65 R ECORD BOOKS Other Reading Quizzes Record Book Can t see the Report? You must have dobe Reader installed on this computer to view reports. Some Macintosh computers will show reports in Preview instead. 5. When the report is ready, it opens in dobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers) in another window. F F Use the dobe Reader buttons 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. 57

66 TEMS SETS ND TEMS You can set up teams of students in. 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. Teams are grouped within team sets to keep the teams for different classes or teachers separate. fter 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. dding Team Sets Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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. fter you create a team set, you must: add the teams (see page 59) assign students to the teams (see page 60) set goals for students (see page 23 and page 25). Team progress is measured by individual students Reading Practice goals in order to obtain data for the team reports (see page 68). 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 ctivities on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click dd Team Set on the View Team Sets page. 58

67 TEMS SETS ND TEMS dding Teams 5. Complete the dd 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. nyone can print reports for any team or team set, however. B C D Type a name for your new team set. B Choose the owner from the Owner drop-down list. C Click dd. 6. Repeat step 5 for each team set you need to add. 7. Click Done when you are finished D. dding Teams Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 58) for them. Follow these steps to add teams to a team set: 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 ctivities on the Class Record Books page. 4. Click the team set you want to work with on the View Team Sets page. 5. Click dd Team on the View Teams page. 59

68 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams 6. Type the name of the new team B and click dd. 7. Repeat step 6 to add more teams. 8. Click Done when you are finished C. B Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams C Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. Before you assign students to teams, you must create a team set (see page 58) and add teams to the set (see page 59). 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 ctivities 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 B Click dd/remove Students to add students to or remove them from a specific team. See page 61. B Click Change Enrollment to transfer students between teams in a team set. See page 62. C Click uto Team Select to have the program automatically divide students among teams in a set. See page

69 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams dding or Removing Students from a Specific Team 1. Click dd/remove Students after the desired team on the View Teams page. See page Complete the dd/remove Student page as described below. E D F C B 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 Student box at the top of the column to select all the students listed on the page. Click < dd. 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 ll to remove all the students from the team. F Click Save when you are finished. 61

70 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Changing Enrollment (Transferring Students between Teams) in a Team Set 1. Click Change Enrollment under ctions on the View Teams page. See page Complete the Change Enrollment page as described below. 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 Choose another team or No Team from the Team drop-down list to limit the list shown on the page. B For each student, choose another team from the New Team drop-down list to change the student s team assignment. C Click Save to save your changes. D Click Done when you are finished. 62

71 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Enrolling Students on (and Unenrolling Students from) Teams Dividing Students utomatically among Teams in a Set 1. Click uto Team Select under ctions on the View Teams page. See page Click one of the Students to dd options on the uto Team Select Options page. You can include only students who are in the No Team group, or you can select specific classes. E B F 3. If you choose Distribute students in the No Team group, click dd/remove Students to view or change which students are in the No Team group. See page 61. 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 uto 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. 63

72 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Viewing Team Sets, Teams, and Team Enrollment Viewing Team Sets, Teams, and Team Enrollment Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 ctivities 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. 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. 64

73 TEMS SETS ND TEMS 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 dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. Owner Capabilities. dministrators 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. B C 4. Choose a different owner from the Owner drop-down list B. 5. Click Save when you are finished C. 65

74 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Editing Teams Editing Teams Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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. Each team in a set must have a unique name. B 5. Click Save when you are finished B. Deleting Team Sets Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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. 3. Click OK to permanently delete the team set. 66

75 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Deleting Teams Deleting Teams Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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. 4. Click OK to permanently delete this team. 67

76 TEMS SETS ND TEMS Printing Team Reports Printing Team Reports Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 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 142). District staff can print these reports from the Reports section, but not from the Teams section. 3. Make your choices on the Report Options page and click View Report. 4. When the report is generated, it opens in the R browser window or in a separate window. To save or print it, use the dobe Reader buttons. B C D 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, as only the top of the page will print. C Click the save button to save the report. D Click the print button to print the report. E Click a link to customize a report or go back to choose a different report. 5. To print the report, click the dobe Reader print button D instead of using the browser s print function (in Preview, click the File menu and choose Print). Close the browser report window when you have finished. 68

77 POINTS MNGEMENT 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 (see page 81). 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 ccelerated 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 dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. In, students earn points as they pass Reading Practice Quizzes. You can also award points that have been earned outside of, and you can record points that students spend or use in classroom activities. 1. Click Class Record Books in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school or class or both 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 ctivities on the Class Record Books page to view the points for the class. B C 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. 69

78 P OINTS MNGEMENT dding 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168 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 Student Points Records page to view that student s points record D. D dding a Points Record for a Class Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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, you must enter this information into the program. points record 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. 3. Click dd New Points Record under ctions along the left side of the page B. B 70

79 P OINTS MNGEMENT dding a Points Record for a Class 4. Complete the dd Points Record page for the marking period you chose, as described below. F C D E C Select warded 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 button 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. 71

80 P OINTS MNGEMENT dding a Points Record for a Single Student dding a Points Record for a Single Student Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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, 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 dd Points Record under ctions along the left side of the page. 3. Complete the dd Student Points Record page as described below. B C D E B Select warded or Used from the Type drop-down list. C Type the date the points were awarded or used or click the calendar button 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. 72

81 P OINTS MNGEMENT Editing a Points Record Editing a Points Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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. 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page Complete the Edit Student Points Record page as described below: B C D E B Select warded or Used from the Type drop-down list. C Type the date the points were awarded or used or click the calendar button to choose a date. D Type a 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. 4. Click Save when you are finished E. 73

82 P OINTS MNGEMENT Deleting a Points Record Deleting a Points Record Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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. 3. Click OK to delete the points record. 74

83 QUIZZES Searching for Quizzes In the Manage Quizzes and Manage Quiz vailability areas of, 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 vailability only). Narrow your search by using more than one criteria. H D E F B G C 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 mber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and nn Cameron since both titles and authors contain am. Choose Title starts with, Title contains, Title exact match, uthor s last name starts with, uthor contains, uthor exact, or Quiz Number from the drop-down list. Type all or part of the quiz title, author s name, or the quiz number. B Type the TOS Book Level range (or user-defined name if the book level settings have been changed; see page 103 for more information). If you're looking for a specific book level, enter the same number in both fields. 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 ll Interest Levels, Lower Grades (grade ranges K 3), Middle Grades (grade ranges 4 8), Middle Grades Plus (grades 6 and up), or Upper Grades (grade ranges 9 12) from the drop-down list. F Choose ll 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 fields. H Check the Only find quizzes with recorded voice box to search for Reading Practice recorded voice quizzes. 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 and click Search again (it doesn't matter what you've chosen in the drop-down lists). 75

84 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Reading Practice Quizzes are the foundation of the program. They measure comprehension and are motivational because they ensure a successful, positive experience if the student reads a book at the proper level. Reading Practice Quizzes are available per school. Therefore, different schools in your your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered different quizzes. If you have R Enterprise your school will have all the available quizzes. fter your Reading Practice Quizzes are installed by Renaissance Learning, 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

85 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Reading Practice in the list of quiz types. 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, including Teacher- Made quizzes. E D B C F 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. G Searching by quiz number or book level. If you re searching by quiz number, you must enter the quiz number. If you re looking for a specific book level or points value, enter the same number in both fields. 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 TOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 75. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view G. classification, interest level, quiz language, points, or recorded voice quizzes. D Click Search. Delete all the changes you made to the fields to go back to the full list of quizzes and click Search again. E Click View only Teacher-Made Quizzes to view only teacher-made quizzes. F Click R BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. 77

86 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Editing Reading Practice Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 TOS book levels for the quiz, 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 opens instead of the Reading Practice Quiz page, you chose to edit a Teacher-Made quiz. See Editing a Teacher- Made Quiz on page 84. B C D E Choose the correct information from the drop-down lists to change the TOS book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, or the interest level. 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 Override Preference (see page 166). B Type a different number to change the TOS 100 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of C Type a different number to change the TOS 2000 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. 78

87 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 preview. 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. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 185 for more information). 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, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select. 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 if you do not want 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. 79

88 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 by Renaissance Learning to be restored you can simply activate it again. See Editing Quiz vailability: Making Quizzes ctive or Inactive on page 110 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. Restoring a deleted quiz. To restore a deleted Reading Practice Quiz, you must contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. To restore a deleted Teacher- Made Quiz, you must add it to the program again (see page 81). 3. Click OK to delete/remove the quiz. 80

89 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 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. Before dding a Teacher-Made Quiz Before you add a teacher-made quiz for a book, make sure you have the following information about the book. title author book level word count fiction or nonfiction classification For more helpful information about creating teacher-made quizzes, see the resource Writing Teacher-Made Quizzes under Resources to dvance Your Implementation (see Resources on page 5). Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. dding a Teacher-Made Quiz You can add up to 500 Teacher-Made Quizzes per school, using the quiz numbers dding 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School 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 ctions along the left side of the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 5. Click dd Teacher-Made Quiz under ctions 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, including Teacher- Made quizzes. 81

90 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 6. Enter the quiz information on the dd Teacher-Made Quiz page as follows: Interest Levels are based on the content of the book, not its difficulty. They reflect the grade levels for which the book s subject matter is most appropriate. Lower Grades are K 3 Middle Grades are 4 8 Middle Grades Plus are 6 and up Upper Grades are 9 12 TOS 100 and 2000 Book Levels. If you don t add TOS 100 and 2000 book levels (or userdefined name if the book level settings were changed), the program will calculate them for you when you save this quiz. Quiz Status: Do Not llow 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 Override Preference (see page 166). 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. { B C { E F D Choose the correct information from the Quiz Number, Language, Fiction/Nonfiction, Interest Level, and Questions Presented drop-down lists. B Type the information for the title, author, word count, and TOS book level (scale of ). C Type a number for the TOS 100 book level (scale of ) and the TOS 2000 book level (scale of ). Note: The names may be different if the book level settings were changed by an administrator. See page 103. 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. 82

91 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information dding the Questions and nswers 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 Question page. Be sure to enter the correct answer first, right I after the question H. c. Click Save when you are finished I. d. Repeat steps a c for H each additional question 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

92 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. Editing a Teacher-Made Quiz When you edit a Teacher-Made Quiz, you can change the quiz title, author, language, word count, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, number of questions, and TOS 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 ctions 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 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. 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 TOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 75. 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 on page 85. If you want to edit the quiz questions, follow the steps on page

93 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 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, and TOS book levels (or user-defined names) E if necessary. 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 G F { H I J Quiz Status: Do Not llow 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 Override Preference (see page 166). 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. 6. Choose different options from the Quiz Language, Fiction/Nonfiction, Interest Level, or Questions Presented drop-down lists F if necessary. 7. Type a number for the TOS 100 book level (scale of ) and the TOS 2000 book level (scale of ) G if necessary. Note: The names may be different if the book level settings were changed by an administrator. See page Click Recalculate if you changed the number of questions on the quiz, the word count, or any of the book levels H if necessary. The program will display the new point value for the quiz. 9. Change the Quiz Status option to choose whether students are allowed to take the quiz I if necessary. 10. Click Save when you are finished J. 85

94 Q UIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Changing Teacher-Made Quiz Questions 11. Click View/Edit Quiz Questions on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page. 12. Click Edit in the row for the question you want to change on the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page J. J 13. 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. 14. Click Save when you are finished L. 15. Repeat steps for each question you need to edit. 16. 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 79. Deleting a Teacher-Made Quiz See Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz on page

95 Q UIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 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 172). Vocabulary Practice Quizzes are available per school. Therefore, different schools in your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered different quizzes. If you have R 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. 87

96 Q UIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School 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 E D F 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. 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 TOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 75. 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 and click Search again. E Click R BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view F. The View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page shows you information about the quiz and gives you access to the tasks you can perform. 88

97 Q UIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Editing Vocabulary Practice Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. You can change the TOS book levels, fiction/nonfiction classification, and interest level. 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 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 Override Preference (see page 166). E D Choose the correct information from the TOS Book Level, Fiction/Nonfiction, or the Interest Level drop-down lists. B Type a different number to change the TOS 100 book level (or userdefined name), which uses a scale of C Type a different number to change the TOS 2000 book level (or userdefined 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 re finished E. 89

98 Q UIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 185 for more information). 4. Click Start Quiz when you re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select an answer. 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. Printing the Vocabulary List Report Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 142). In addition, students who log in can print it (see page 118) and parents who log can print it (see page 138). 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 (for example, 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. 90

99 Q UIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 4. When the report generates, it opens in a separate window. To save or print it, use the dobe Reader buttons. 5. To print the report, click the dobe Reader print button instead of using the browser s print function (or in Preview, click the File menu and choose Print). Close the browser report window when you have finished. Deleting a Vocabulary Practice Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. 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 vailability: Making Quizzes ctive or Inactive on page 110 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. 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. dministered 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. Therefore, different schools in your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered different quizzes. If you have R 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 91

100 Q UIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 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 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 nalysis, and Initial Understanding. The skills that monitors are listed in the table below. Category Constructing Meaning Inferential Comprehension Literary nalysis Initial Understanding Literacy Skills Deriving Word or Phrase Meaning Differentiating Fact and Opinion Identifying Persuasive Language Identifying Reading Strategies Responding to Literature Understanding the Main Idea Comparing and Contrasting Drawing Conclusions Extending Meaning Making Inferences Making Predictions Recognizing Cause and Effect Identifying Historic/Cultural Factors Recognizing Plot Recognizing Setting Understanding the uthor s Craft Understanding Characterization Understanding Literacy Features Describing ctions or Events Identifying Reasons Recognizing Feeling Recognizing Detail Understanding Sequence Understanding Dialog 92

101 Q UIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Viewing a Literacy Skills Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Manage Quizzes in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School 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 E B D F 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168. 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 TOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 75. 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 and click Search again. E Click R BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view F. The View Literary Skills Quiz page shows you information about the quiz and gives you access to the tasks you can perform. 93

102 Q UIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 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. 94

103 Q UIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Editing Literacy Skills Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. You can change the TOS book levels, fiction/nonfiction classification, and interest level. 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 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 Override Preference (see page 166). D E Choose the correct information from the TOS Book Level, Fiction/Nonfiction, or the Interest Level drop-down lists. B Type a different number to change the TOS 100 book level (or user-defined name) which uses a scale of C Type a different number to change the TOS 2000 book level (or userdefined 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 re finished E. 95

104 Q UIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Literacy Skills Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 185 for more information). 4. Click Start Quiz when you re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select an answer. 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. 96

105 Q UIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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. fter the Teacher s Guide generates, it opens in a separate window. To save or print it, use the dobe Reader buttons. 5. To print the report, click the dobe Reader print button instead of using the browser s print function (or in Preview on some Macintosh computers, click the File menu and choose Print). Close the browser report window when you are finished. Deleting a Literacy Skills Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. 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 vailability: Making Quizzes ctive or Inactive on page 110 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. 97

106 Q UIZZES Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Students cannot take Other Reading Quizzes until you use the Classroom Other Reading Series Preference to choose the series the class can use (see page 173). In, Other Reading Quizzes help you measure your students comprehension of the reading material assigned to your class (such as textbooks). Other Reading Quizzes are available for most prominent new reading textbooks. You can use the results of these quizzes to monitor each student s progress on reading assignments. Other Reading Series are installed per school. Therefore, different schools in your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they ve ordered 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 dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Manage Quizzes in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Other Reading in the list of quiz types. 4. Click Select 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 98

107 Q UIZZES Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information 5. Find a specific quiz on the Other Reading Quizzes page as described below. D E G 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 Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) on page 168 to change this preference. H 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 TOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 75. 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. G Click R BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. 6. Click Select in the row for the quiz you want to view H. The View Other Reading Quiz page opens and shows you more information about the quiz. 99

108 Q UIZZES Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Editing Other Reading Quiz Information Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. You can change the fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and TOS 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 Override Preference (see page 166). C D B E Type a different number to change the TOS 100 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of B Type a different number to change the TOS 2000 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of C Choose the correct information from the Fiction/Nonfiction 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. 100

109 Q UIZZES Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Other Reading Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 185 for more information). 4. Click Start Quiz when you re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select. 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. 101

110 Q UIZZES Other Reading Quizzes Managing Quiz Information Deleting an Other Reading Series or Other Reading Quiz Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. 1. View the Other Reading Series page. See page To delete a series, click Remove 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 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. 102

111 Q UIZZES Managing Book Level Settings Managing Book Level Settings Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under ctions along the left side of the page. 4. There are four Book Level Settings tasks. Click the appropriate link to perform the desired task: 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. (TOS/pre-TOS is the default.) Click Update Student Records to update historical student records to reflect changed TOS 100 or TOS 2000 book level values on the Edit Quiz Information page for quizzes. Updating student records will change the TOS 100 or TOS 2000 book level values that are shown in the Class Record Books and on certain reports. Only student records for the active school year will be updated. Click Convert Pre-TOS Settings to convert all school quizzes from pre-tos to TOS. Click Rename Book Levels to change the names of the TOS 100 or TOS 2000 column headings and row labels throughout. 5. Click Done when you are finished. 103

112 Q UIZZES Managing Book Level Settings Set Current Book Level Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. Choose which book level type (TOS/pre-TOS, TOS 100, or TOS 2000) to see and use throughout by setting the current book level. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under ctions 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: TOS/pre-TOS (scale ), TOS 100 (scale ), or TOS 2000 (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 dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. If you have changed TOS 100 or TOS 2000 book level 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 TOS 100 and TOS 2000 book level values that are shown in the Class Record Books and on certain reports. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under ctions 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. 104

113 Q UIZZES Managing 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 TOS Book Level Settings Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. The TOS 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 TOS 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) interest level (the content level of a book divided into four groups lower grades K 3, middle grades 4 8, middle grades plus 6 and up, upper grades 9 12). n TOS level is often a good indication that a student can read a book, but may not mean that the student should read the book. The interest level can help you decide whether the student should read the book. When you install your quizzes, the book levels are set at the TOS level. If you have any pre-tos quizzes, you can change them to the TOS book level 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. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of 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 ctions along the left side of the page. 4. Click Convert Pre-TOS Settings. The number of quizzes currently set at the TOS book level and the number set at the pre-tos level are shown. 105

114 Q UIZZES Managing Book Level Settings 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 TOS and pre-tos book level values are the same. 5. Click View Quizzes on the Convert Pre-TOS Settings page to save a tabdelimited file of all the quizzes that will have a book level value change when you convert quizzes to the TOS book level setting. The number of quizzes that will have a book level value change is listed B. Note: You must save this file because you will not be able to access it after the conversion. B C 6. Click Convert to TOS C to convert all your quizzes. 7. Click Done on the message telling you how many quizzes were converted. Rename Book Levels Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. This procedure explains how to change the names of the TOS 100 and TOS 2000 book levels in report and column headings and row labels throughout the software. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under ctions 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 and type the name(s) of your choice for reports and column headings (10 characters maximum) and row labels (25 characters maximum). Click Default to return to the program default names. 6. Click Save when you are finished. Click Cancel to return to the Book Level Settings page. 106

115 Q UIZZES Creating an R BookGuide Export Tips for Making Names Fit If a new name you are using does not appear on reports or column headings as well as you would like or doesn t fit into the space, try one or more of the following adjustments: Change the letters from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa (generally uppercase letters are wider than lowercase letters). dd a space in the middle of the name to force a wrapping point. Replace a space with a hyphen (-) or other character that is not a space to prevent a premature wrapping of the name. bbreviate some portion of the name. Test your new name by generating the Student Record Report to see how it looks in the Book Level column. This report has the smallest book level column width and is a good way to make sure the name you chose looks the way you want it to look. Creating an R BookGuide Export Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. Follow the steps below to create an R BookGuide export file. When this file is imported into R BookGuide, R 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 R BookGuide from RP. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click R BookGuide Export under ctions along the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. 4. Click Export on the R BookGuide Export page. 5. Click Download to save the file when the export file is ready on the Generating R BookGuide Export page. 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. 107

116 Q UIZZES Managing Quiz vailability 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 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 R BookGuide Export page. Managing Quiz vailability If you have Other Reading Quizzes, use the Other Reading Series Preference to control which series are available to your class (see page 173). The manage quiz availability area is useful for those with R Enterprise. Those with owned quizzes may also find this area to be useful. In the Manage Quiz vailability 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 vailability. Students will be able to search for and take quizzes marked active. Viewing Quiz vailability Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page Click Manage Quiz vailability in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quiz vailability page. 3. Click Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, or Literacy Skills in the list of quiz types. 108

117 Q UIZZES Managing Quiz vailability 4. If necessary, change how you view the active and inactive quizzes and find a specific quiz on the Change Quiz vailability page as described below. C G H D E B I F To search by Install Date (under More Criteria), choose ll, On, fter, 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. The title will match the quiz type you chose. B The symbols show when a quiz is active or inactive. C Choose how you want the quizzes shown: Click Show Inactive Quizzes (if you are viewing active quizzes) to see all the inactive quizzes. Click Show ctive Quizzes (if you are viewing the inactive quizzes) to see all the active quizzes. Click Show Both ctive and Inactive Quizzes to see all the quiz availability settings. D Click R BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. E Click Quiz Store to open a separate window where you can purchase quizzes from the online quiz store. 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 TOS book level using the drop-down lists and text fields. (The TOS 100 and TOS 2000 book levels may have different names if the book level settings were changed.) For more details see Searching for Quizzes on page 75. H Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, points for Reading Practice Quizzes, install date, or recorded voice quizzes for Reading Practice Quizzes. I fter choosing search criteria, 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. 109

118 Q UIZZES Managing Quiz vailability Editing Quiz vailability: Making Quizzes ctive or Inactive Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 vailability for the desired quiz type. See page Choose an option on the Change Quiz vailability page as described below to make quizzes inactive or active. E C 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 To inactivate a quiz, remove the check mark by a quiz title. B To activate a quiz, check the box by a quiz title. C To change all the check marks on the one page you are viewing, check the Title box in the column heading. D Click Inactivate ll Quizzes or ctivate ll Quizzes to Inactivate/ctivate 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 vailability E to change the status of the individual quizzes you selected. 110

119 Q UIZZES Managing Quiz vailability Setting Up Quiz vailability Rules Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. ll 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 vailability in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. Click Setup Rules under ctions on the Manage Quiz vailability page. 3. To set rules for a single school, choose a school from the School drop-down list (if available) on the Setup Quiz vailability Rules page. 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 E Schools page. Or, check the School box to select all the schools in your list. Then, click { Save. 4. Choose the rule you would like F to use and complete the Setup Quiz vailability Rules page as needed (described below). G I H If the book level settings were changed, you will not see the changes reflected on the Setup Quiz vailability Rules page. TOS is the only book level available in the ctivation rules. See Managing Book Level Settings on page 103. C Click ctivate all so all newly installed quizzes are automatically activated. D Click ctivate none so no newly installed quizzes are automatically activated. E Click ctivation rules to set up more detailed activation rules. F If you chose ctivation rules, check the box by the quiz types, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and language of quizzes you want automatically activated upon installation. You don t have to choose a setting for each category. G If you chose ctivation rules, type the TOS book level or points range of the quizzes you want automatically activated upon installation. You don t have to choose a setting for each category. 5. Click Save and dd H if you want to set up rules for other schools. Or, click Save I when you re finished. 6. To make customized quiz availability rules for a different school, repeat steps

120 STUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place The portion of RP that students can access allows them to take quizzes, print certain reports, and view their goals and points. Students can also use a NEO 2 laptop to take R Quizzes (see How Students Take an R Quiz on a NEO 2 Laptop on page 125). In addition, students can access Renaissance Home Connect if available to view their progress in RP on quizzes taken (see Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP on page 128). What You Need to Do Before Quizzing Here s what you need to do before you start quizzing students in (see page 125 for information about using the NEO 2 for quizzing): dd your students and enroll them in an class. (To make the class an class, check the box when you assign a teacher or assign products to the classes in a course.) See the Renaissance Place Real Time. Student User Names and Passwords. Students need their user names and passwords to take a quiz. See the Renaissance Place Real Time or the Student Information School Management Report (see page 155). 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 6. Use the Other Reading Preference to assign Other Reading Series to the class (see page 173). 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 163 and page 169) that control what students see and do when they re working in the program. 112

121 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 students to choose their school and search for their name; then, the program will fill in the user name. Students cannot search for their passwords. 1. Start the browser and go to the 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. How Students Take an 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 122) or the computer doesn t have the necessary software installed (see page 6). 1. Log in to the software as a student (see Logging In as a Student above). 2. The student clicks Take a Quiz in the list of tasks on the Home page. 3. If 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 class. 4. The student clicks the type of quiz on the Select a Quiz Type page. The choices are Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes. 113

122 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 5. The student searches for the desired quiz by using either the Title, uthor, or Quiz Number search criteria (not all three) as described below. The name of the page will include the quiz type chosen in step 4. D B C E F If the student chooses to search Contains for Title or uthor and types a letter combination such as am, the search results could include the quizzes titled mber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and nn Cameron since both titles and authors contain the letter combination am. G The student searches for titles using Starts with, Contains, or Exact Match and types the word, letter(s), or title 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 to search by. C The student types the quiz number to search for that quiz. D The student clicks Search. E If the student is searching for a Vocabulary Practice Quiz, the student 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 title or number of the desired quiz G. 7. If necessary, the student should click Read To, Read With, or Read Independently to answer how the student read the book. 8. The student completes the Confirm Quiz page depending on the previous selections, described below: The student clicks On or Off to choose whether or not to use the Recorded Voice I option H. The quiz monitor may need to type H the password and click OK to allow the student to take the quiz. The student clicks Yes or No to answer if the student wants to take the quiz I. The student clicks OK if blocked from taking this quiz to exit the page. 114

123 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 9. If necessary, the student clicks Start Quiz on the Start Quiz page. 10. The student completes the quiz by pressing the, B, C, or D key to choose an answer or clicking the mouse on an answer J. circles the answer the student chooses. 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. student can only review incorrect answers if the Show Missed Questions Preference (see page 165) is turned on and if the student passed the quiz. student won t be able to view a TOPS Report if the utomatic Logout Preference is set because the program will log the student out as soon as the report prints (see page 171). J 11. The student clicks Next > K when he or she is ready to go on. fter choosing an answer on the last question, the student clicks Done. 12. If necessary, the student presses the, B, C, or D key 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. 13. If necessary, the monitor enters the password and clicks OK. 14. The Score Summary shows the quiz results. The student clicks Yes to review any wrong answers. The program will display each question 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 finished reviewing the last question. The student clicks OK if all the questions were answered correctly or if not asked to review the questions answered incorrectly. 15. 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 17. The student clicks View Report on the TOPS Report page to view the report if it does not print automatically. nother browser window opens with the TOPS Report displayed. The student closes the window it s displayed in when finished. K 115

124 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 Software Requirements on page 6 for more information about how to install it. 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 button in dobe Reader (if the report is displayed in Preview, click the File menu, then Print). 16. The student clicks Continue on the TOPS Report page. 17. If the student just passed a Reading Practice Quiz, the student may be asked 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. 18. The students clicks Log Out or Return to Home on the Log Out or Return to Home page. How to Stop a Quiz or Resume an Unfinished Quiz Once a quiz starts, the student can stop it at any time by pressing Esc or Ctrl+. The program then asks the quiz monitor to enter the monitor password (which is set in the Monitor Password Preference, see page 166) to confirm that it s okay to stop the quiz. Type the password in the field and click OK. No data is saved from a stopped quiz. The student will have to retake it. If the student loses connection to the server or the Internet while in the middle of a quiz, the program will store the data from the questions the student already answered. fter the next login, the student will have the opportunity to resume the unfinished quiz. The student is only allowed to answer the unanswered questions. No changes are allowed on questions that were already answered. 116

125 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place Blocking Students from Quizzing There are several ways for you to block students from taking quizzes in ccelerated Reader. Blocking Method What Is Blocked? Can It Be Overridden? Date and Time Restriction preferences (see the School preferences on page 167) Quiz Setup Preference (see the Classroom preferences on page 174) Quizzing llowed Preference (see the Individual Student Settings in the Classroom preferences on page 178) Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension Preference (see the Classroom preferences on page 169) Editing the quiz information Editing Quiz vailability 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 by book level and interest level. 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 are prevented from taking quizzes (except for Other Reading Quizzes) that are inactivated (see page 110). 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 167) or the Student Quizzing Preferences in the School preferences (see page 163). 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 163). Yes, the quiz monitor can override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 163). Yes, the quiz monitor can override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 163). Yes, the quiz monitor can override the block if you ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference in the School Student Quizzing preferences (see page 163). 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 163). 117

126 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 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 119 and then go to step 4. Student Record Report or Words Learned Report B C B C D To sort the data, the student clicks By Title or By Date (on the Student Record Report) or By Grade Level or By Word (on the Words Learned Report). B The student clicks ll Dates or Select Marking Period. D C The student uses the Select Marking Period drop-down list to choose a marking period for either report. D The student clicks Next > when ready to continue. 118

127 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place Vocabulary List Report The student searches for the quiz on the Select a Vocabulary Practice Quiz page by searching by one of the Title, uthor, or Quiz Number criteria (not all three). H E F G 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 mber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and nn Cameron since both contain the letter combination am. I E The student searches for titles using Starts with, Contains, or Exact Match and types the word, letter/letter combination, or title to search with. F The student searches for authors by Last Name Starts with, Contains, or Exact Name and types the letter/letter combination or name to search with. G The student types the quiz number to search for that quiz. H The student clicks Search. I The student clicks the title or number of the quiz to report on. 4. When the report generates, it opens in dobe Reader or Preview on certain Macintosh computers. To save or print it, the student should use the dobe Reader buttons, or in Preview from the File menu click Print to print it. 5. The student clicks Done when finished. 119

128 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 tasks on the Home page. 2. The student completes the Select Options page: 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 ll 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 ready to continue. B C D 3. The student views the quizzes that match the selections on the Quizzes Taken page. 4. The student clicks Done when finished viewing the list. 120

129 S TUDENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 tasks on the Home page to view the Goals and Points page. B C D This is 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. See Reader Certification Levels on page If the student is enrolled in more than one class, the student can click the Class drop-down list, choose another class, and view the records for that class. 3. The student clicks Done when finished. Logging Out 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 quizzing begins. The student can log out at any time (except when taking a quiz) by clicking Log Out in the upperright corner of the page. Note: The utomatic 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 169. fter the student logs out, close RP by closing the browser window. 121

130 S TUDENTS Student Capacity Student Capacity Your 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. 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. Using NEO 2 Laptops with Renaissance Place The Smartpplet allows students to take Reading Practice Quizzes (English and Spanish), Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, and Other Reading Quizzes (English and Spanish) using a NEO 2 laptop. The quiz information is sent to RP via a Renaissance Receiver. Before Students Quiz on a NEO 2 Before students can take R quizzes on NEO 2 laptops, make sure the following have been completed: 1. Install NEO Manager (see the NEO 2 Quick Guide for instructions). 2. Connect the Renaissance Receiver to your computer (see page 123). 3. Name the Receiver and set the Renaissance Place RT address in the Renaissance Wireless Server Utility (see page 123). 4. Set the School and Classroom Student Quizzing preferences and the Other Reading Series Preference for your class (see page 163). 5. Make sure students know their user names and passwords. You can print the Student Information Report to get this information (see page 155). 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. See Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List on page 146 or the Book Labels Report description on page 151.) 122

131 S TUDENTS Using NEO 2 Laptops with Renaissance Place 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 into the connector on the back of the Receiver B. 3. If this is the first time you have connected the Receiver to your computer, make sure you are logged in to your computer as an administrator or that you have permissions that allow the device drivers to load properly. B 4. Plug the USB connector on the data cable C into an open USB port on your computer. C Naming the Renaissance Receiver and Setting the Renaissance Place RT ddress 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 R Quizzes. This is especially important if your school has more than one Renaissance Receiver. The Renaissance Wireless Server Utility is automatically installed with NEO Manager. Make sure you have installed NEO Manager before you follow these steps. 1. Start the Renaissance Wireless Server Utility: Windows computers: Right-click the Renaissance Wireless Server icon 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 Programs Renaissance Wireless Server Renaissance Wireless Server Utility. Macintosh computers: In your computer s pplications 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 dministrator PIN. If you have changed the PIN, enter your new PIN.) 4. Click the Server Settings tab ( on the next page). 123

132 S TUDENTS Using NEO 2 Laptops with Renaissance Place 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. B C D 6. Click OK when the program finishes updating the network settings. 7. Click Renaissance Place Settings D. 8. Enter the Web address or IP address for the Renaissance Place RT server that has 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. 124

133 S TUDENTS Using NEO 2 Laptops with Renaissance Place How Students Take an R Quiz on a NEO 2 Laptop If you can t quiz on a NEO 2 and your network is configured to use a proxy or firewall, the necessary exceptions need to be made to enable the Renaissance Wireless Server to connect to your Renaissance Place Web site. See this KB article techkb/techkb/ e.asp or contact Technical Support for assistance. Before students can take R quizzes on NEO 2 laptops, make sure all of the setup steps have been completed (see page 122). 1. Make sure the teacher s computer is 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. Then, press enter. 4. The first time you use the Smartpplet, 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. 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 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 125

134 S TUDENTS Using NEO 2 Laptops with Renaissance Place 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. There are three ways: by quiz number, by matching a Reading Practice 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 quiz and press enter. 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 monitor password and press enter. To stop a quiz, press crtl+ or cmd+. Then ask the quiz monitor to enter the 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). message may appear for any of these reasons: There are date or time restrictions. 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, use the up and down arrow keys to scroll. 14. fter 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. 126

135 S TUDENTS Using NEO 2 Laptops with Renaissance Place 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. TOPS Report may be sent to the default printer for the teacher s computer. (See page 163 for information about setting the TOPS Printing Preference.) 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. fter you finish a Reading Practice Quiz, the program may ask if you want to take the matching Vocabulary Practice Quiz. Press Y for yes, or N for no. Then, press enter. 19. The program will ask if you want to take a different quiz. Press Y for yes (you will go back to step 8), or N for no. Then, press enter. If you choose no, you will see the list of Smartpplets available on the NEO

136 S TUDENTS Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP Depending on the license your district has purchased and the settings chosen by your program administrator, you may have access to Renaissance Home Connect. If so, the program administrator and teachers will see a Renaissance Home Connect tab on the Home page. If your school has Renaissance 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 ccelerated Reader quizzes by clicking the R BookFinder link, view the Bookshelf (which shows books read and quiz results), and choose to view pages in English or Spanish. Before students can use Renaissance Home Connect, do the following: Make sure the student knows the Renaissance Home Connect Web address, which is slightly different from the Renaissance Place RT Web address and is listed on the Informational Letter (see below). Print the Informational Letter in English or Spanish to give to the student to take home. The Informational Letter includes the Renaissance Home Connect Web address and the student s user name and password, which the student will need to log in. Printing the Informational Letter 1. Click Reports in the list of Renaissance Home Connect tasks on the Home page. 2. Click Informational Letter (either the English or Spanish version). 3. Complete the report options page by selecting the students or classes who will need the letter to take home. Click View Letter. 4. The letter opens in dobe Reader, or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers, either within the Renaissance Home Connect browser or a separate window. Print the letter using the dobe Reader print button 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 Renaissance Home Connect to View Progress on Reading Practice Quizzes Students use the Informational Letter provided by the teacher to help log in to Renaissance 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. 128

137 S TUDENTS Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP 2. The student enters his or her user name and password (the same ones used to take quizzes in ) and clicks Log In. 3. If the student wants to see the pages in Spanish, the student clicks Español ( on the next page) in the upper-right corner of the screen. 129

138 S TUDENTS Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP 4. On the tab, the student s progress on Reading Practice Quizzes is shown B. B C D E F To search for more books with Quizzes, the student clicks the link under R BookFinder in the lower-right corner of any page in Renaissance Home Connect. B The My Overall Progress area shows the student s overall progress on Reading Practice Quizzes during the dates chosen in the time frame drop-down list C. verage 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. 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 Students can see how they performed on the last quiz taken here, including the brief book details, number of questions and percentage correct, and points earned. student clicks the book jacket or the book title to view the full book details for that book. E 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 30 for more information about certifications. 130

139 S TUDENTS Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP 5. The student clicks View My Bookshelf or Ver Mi estante (F on the previous page) to see a bookshelf with all the books with Reading Practice Quizzes the student has taken. 6. 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.) G 7. The student clicks Done (or Listo) when finished viewing the book details G. 131

140 S TUDENTS Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP How Students Use Renaissance Home Connect to View Progress on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Students use the Informational Letter provided by the teacher to help log in to Renaissance 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 ) and clicks Log In. 3. If the student wants to see the pages in Spanish, the student clicks Español ( on the next page) in the upper-right corner of the screen. 132

141 S TUDENTS Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP 4. The student clicks Vocabulary Practice Quizzes B (or Exámenes de Práctica de Vocabulario) on the tab to view a list of words learned for this selected time frame. B D E C To search for more books with Quizzes, the student clicks the link under R BookFinder in the lower-right corner of any page in Renaissance Home Connect. F C The My Words Learned area lists the words the student learned on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes taken during the time period shown D. 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. D Select a time frame from the drop-down list to view overall progress during that time period. Current Marking Period is the default. E 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. 133

142 S TUDENTS Using Renaissance Home Connect with RP 5. The student clicks View My Bookshelf or Ver Mi estante (F on the previous page) to see a bookshelf with all the books with Vocabulary Practice Quizzes the student has taken. 6. 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.) G 7. The student clicks Done (or Listo) when finished viewing the book details G. 134

143 PRENTS How to Use Renaissance Place Parents can view their children s goals and points and print certain reports. Only parents who have been added to the software and assigned children within Renaissance Place RT can log in to the program. lso, they will only be able to see information for their children. Logging In to RP as a Parent Parents should follow these steps to log in to the program: 1. Start the browser and go to the address. (Recommended browsers are 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. 135

144 P RENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 or school or both from the drop-down lists on the Home page. 2. The parent clicks Goals and Points in the list of tasks on the Home page to view the Goals and Points page B. 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. 136

145 P RENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 or school or both from the drop-down lists on the Home page. B 2. The parent clicks Student Record Report or Words Learned Report in the list of tasks on the Home page B. 3. When the report is generated, it opens in dobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers). To save or print it, the parent should use the dobe Reader buttons C (or in Preview, click the File menu and choose Print). C D 4. The parent clicks Select a Different Report or Home when finished D. 137

146 P RENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 or school or both from the drop-down lists. 2. The parent clicks Vocabulary List in the list of ccelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 3. The parent searches for the quiz for which to view a Vocabulary List Report using one of the three search criteria, Title B, uthor C, or Quiz Number D. 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 mber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and nn 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 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 to search by. D The parent types the quiz number to search for a quiz. E The parent clicks Search. 4. The parent clicks the title or number of the quiz he or she wants to view F. 138

147 P RENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 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 dobe Reader. To save or print it, the parent should use the dobe Reader buttons 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 or school or both from the drop-down lists. 2. The parent clicks Quiz List in the list of tasks on the Home page B. B 139

148 P RENTS How to Use Renaissance Place 3. The parent completes the Report Options page. a. The parent clicks the quiz type C (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, or Literacy Skills). b. The parent types the TOS book level F range he or she wants to see D. (The names of the TOS 100 and TOS 2000 C book levels may be different if the book level settings were changed). For the TOS book level, enter numbers from 0.1 D TOS 100 book level uses a scale of , and TOS 2000 book level E uses a scale of Note: If you want to report on a single book level, type the same number in both fields. c. The parent checks boxes by the interest levels to be included E. Interest levels show the grades for which a book s content is most appropriate. d. The parent clicks View Report F. 4. When the report generates, it opens in dobe Reader (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers). To save or print it, the parent should use the dobe Reader buttons G (or in Preview, click the File menu and choose Print). 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. fter they log out, they can close RP by closing their browser window. 140

149 REPORTS reports give you more information about your students work and your classes and teachers. bout Renaissance Place and Reports This software includes two types of reports: Renaissance Place and RP. Data about can also be accessed in the RP Dashboard. See the Renaissance Place Real Time for more information. When you click Consolidated Reports 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 Real Time Software Manual. When you click Reports B under, you can generate reports about your students work in. B 141

150 R EPORTS Using Reports Using Reports Check for dobe Reader before you Generate Reports Downloading dobe Reader after you re logged in. On your Home page, click Product dministration, then Download Supporting Software. Then, click the install Version link for dobe Reader. uses dobe Reader to generate reports. To find out if dobe Reader is installed on your computer, click Check Software Requirements on the Welcome page before you log in. On this page, click Test dobe Reader 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 dobe Reader. You will go to a knowledge base article with instructions for downloading and installing dobe Reader. dobe Reader should be installed by a user who is logged in on the computer as an administrator or as a member of the dministrators group with administrative rights; this will make the software accessible to all users of the computer. B Printing Reports Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. The level of information included in each report depends on your primary position; see page 150 for details. 1. Click Reports in the list of 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 School drop-down list. 142

151 R EPORTS Using Reports 4. Click the report name on the Select a Report page. 5. If the Report Options page opens, 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; skip ahead to step 6.) fter choosing the options, click View Report. B For many reports, you can choose the students by name 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

152 R EPORTS Using 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 opens in dobe Reader within the browser window or a separate window (or in Preview on certain Macintosh computers). To save or print it, use the dobe Reader buttons (or in Preview, click the File menu and choose Print). C D E C Click the save button to save the report. D Click the print button to print the report. E These options let you customize a report or go back to choose a different one. 144

153 R EPORTS bout Reporting Parameter Groups bout Reporting Parameter Groups Reporting parameter groups let you limit reports to students with common traits. When you customize certain 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 C 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 Real Time. 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 Real Time. 145

154 R EPORTS Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List 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 very L5160 Labels Vocabulary List 2" 4" 10 very 5963, 5163, 8163 or Xerox LWO130/Xerox IWJ130 Follow these steps to print labels for your books. 1. Click Reports in the list of tasks on the Home page. 2. Click School Management. 3. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 4. Click Labels Book or Labels Vocabulary List. 5. Click the Some option after Select Quizzes and then click Select Quizzes. If you click the ll option, skip ahead to step

155 R EPORTS Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List 6. Search for quizzes by entering your search criteria B (see Searching for Quizzes on page 75 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 << dd ll 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 Quantity box at the top of the column. 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). 147

156 R EPORTS Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List 9. Click < dd (E on the previous page). ll 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 < dd. 10. If necessary, click Remove by the quiz to delete it from the list or click Remove ll to remove all the quizzes from the list (F on the previous page). 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 dobe Reader buttons, or in Preview on OS X, from the File menu choose Print. 148

157 R EPORTS Report Descriptions Report Descriptions The 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 149

158 R EPORTS Report Descriptions This table lists all the 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 RP classes, the lead teacher assigned to each, and the students enrolled in each class. Things to Note Only classes are included. To make a class an class, check the 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 159 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 159 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 159. 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 average percent correct (below 85% or below 90%) quizzes to include based on language grouping used sorting used (student or average percent correct) 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 150

159 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 classes and the teacher assigned to each class. Things to Note dministrators will also see students who aren t enrolled in an class. Like the Class Report, this report includes only designated 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 166). 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. 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, points, 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 21. To set student goals, see page 25. Print labels for the books in your school library that have matching Reading Practice Quizzes. See Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List on page 146. 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, TOS book level (which could be TOS, TOS 100, TOS 2000, or a 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 151

160 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 Printing Labels Book and Vocabulary List on page 146. Things to Note The title, author, quiz number, TOS 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. See page 92. Shows how your class as a whole is performing on each of the 24 literacy skills (see page 92). Groups the 24 literacy skills into four categories (Initial Understanding, Literary nalysis, 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 (see page 92) along with group and overall totals. The report is split into tables for each category of literacy skills (Initial Understanding, Literary nalysis, 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 TOS 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 152

161 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 llows 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 139. For Reading Practice Quizzes, it shows the points for each quiz and identifies the Recorded Voice Quizzes. You can sort by recorded voice. 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 grades, middle grades, middle grades plus, 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 153

162 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 signature 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. See page 31 for a list of the certification levels. 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 average percent correct (below 85% or below 90%) grouping used (by grade or by class) quizzes taken for the specific class print report options 154

163 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 179 for more about capabilities. Lists students who are enrolled in 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 RP or Renaissance Home Connect (see page 128), and to use on a NEO 2 (see page 122). 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 155

164 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 137). 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 teachers, their user names, classes, and class position. Things to Note This report can help the administrator see which teachers are using. When teachers print the report, it includes only their information. It doesn t include other teachers. Only teachers of are included. To make a class an class, check the 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 display student ID page break after each group (student) print report options No custom options. 156

165 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) 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 68. 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 68. 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 using the TOPS Report Printing Preference (see page 163 for the School preference or page 169 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 is preferred (see the TOPS Report Language Preference on page 175). You can also choose to reprint the TOPS Report for any quiz a student has taken (for Reading Practice, see page 19; for Vocabulary Practice, see page 44; for Literacy Skills, see page 50; and for Other Reading, see page 56). Provides a summary of each student s quiz results for books Read To the student, Read With the student, or Read Independently by the student. 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 For information to appear on this report, the TWI Preference must be enabled (see page 176). When students take a quiz on a book read To or With and read the book Independently six months later, they can retake the 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 163 for the School preference or page 169 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 157

166 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 90), when logged in as a student (see page 118), and when logged in as a parent (see page 138). 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 163 and page 169). 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 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 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 display student ID 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 display student ID page break after each student print report options 158

167 R EPORTS Engaged Time Engaged Time Engaged Time will not appear on reports if students have no STR Reading test data from within the current school year or the 12 months just before 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 STR 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 STR Reading test results helps 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 5). 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 R Engaged Reading Time: number of points earned minutes per point number of school days in the reporting period Diagnostic Codes Overview of Diagnostic Codes The Diagnostic Report Reading Practice identifies students who are experiencing difficulty with reading practice (see page 150). The meaning of each letter code appears in a table at the bottom of the report. Descriptions and possible causes are also on page 160. Struggling students tend to have different problems, however. Consider diagnostic codes to be an alert. Speak with a student directly and review the student's reading history using the Student Record Report (see page 156) in order to better understand why the student is having trouble. How Diagnostic Codes re Calculated Research shows that the most significant gains in reading ability are associated with high averages on quizzes. Points indicate how much reading a student has successfully completed. For these reasons, uses the average percent correct on quizzes and the number of points earned as criteria for identifying students having difficulty. ny student with an average percent correct of 85% or less needs attention. So do students who have earned less than one-half the median of points earned by the group. When to Run the Diagnostic Report Reading Practice We recommend that teachers review the Diagnostic Report Reading Practice for their class at least once a week. This ensures that students will receive help quickly. 159

168 R EPORTS Diagnostic Codes Definitions and Causes of Diagnostic Codes Following is a list of the seven diagnostic codes that may appear on the Diagnostic Report Reading Practice with a description of the problem and possible cause. Code B C D E F Description and Possible Cause No quizzes taken during period. Student may not have been present, or student may be reading a long book and has not yet taken the quiz. This code may indicate that the student is unmotivated or has not selected a book. Low average percent correct (70 79%). Student is probably reading books that are too difficult. The student needs help selecting an appropriate book and may need instruction in comprehension strategies. Students who are English-language learners will be especially affected by a book s content and vocabulary. Very low average percent correct (below 70%). Student may be unaware of his or her ZPD and is reading books that are too difficult. Books may also be too long. student who is attempting a high number of quizzes and doing poorly may be focused on earning points rather than reading for understanding or pleasure. Low points earned less than 1/2 median points. The student is either not spending time reading or is doing so poorly on quizzes that the student is unable to earn points. The student may have been absent, may be wasting time, or may be choosing books that are too hard. The student could also be an English-language learner and reading more slowly than average, or the student may be having trouble finding an interesting book. Low percent correct with above median points. The student is probably focused on earning points rather than reading for understanding or pleasure. Very low percent correct with above median points. The student is probably focused on earning points rather than reading for understanding or pleasure. The student may be choosing very high-point books and guessing at answers. % verage quiz score is below 85%. 160

169 PREFERENCES Preferences determine how the software will work for your student, classroom, and school. The 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 163) TOPS Report Printing Monitor Password Required Literacy Skills Retakes Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions TWI Monitoring Literacy Skills Passing Percent Show Missed Questions llow Multi-Language Quizzing Certifications Show Total Points Book Voting Monitor Override Monitor Password Date and Time Restrictions (see page 167) Date Restrictions Time Restrictions Weekend Restrictions Monitor Override Classroom Restrictions (see page 168) llow Quiz Deleting llow Quiz Editing Viewing Classroom Preferences Student Quizzing (see page 169) TOPS Report Printing Monitor Password Required Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions Literacy Skills Retakes utomatic 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 173) Other Reading Series Quiz Setup (see page 174) Quiz Setup Individual Student Settings TOPS Language (see page175) TWI Settings (see page 176) Recorded Voice (see page 177) Quizzing llowed (see page 178) 161

170 P REFERENCES Viewing Preferences Viewing Preferences Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 class.) 1. Click Preferences in the list of 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. Click My Classes instead of a school if you want to see only the classes you re assigned to as a teacher. B F C G D E 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 (refer to the legend on the left side of the page). E These are the current settings of this preference for your class and school. F Click one of these links to view a different preferences category. G Click the Edit link to edit the settings. See page

171 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing Preferences Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 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 Student Quizzing Preferences (School) 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 Software Requirements on page 6 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. C B The Passed box for each quiz type (Reading Practice, Other Reading, and Literacy Skills) is checked by default to print a TOPS Report automatically after quizzes the students pass. The Failed box is checked by default to print the report after failed quizzes. Remove the check marks to change this setting. B The Printing Enabled box is checked by default to print a TOPS Report automatically after a student completes a Vocabulary Practice quiz. Remove the check mark to change this setting. C Choose llow (default) 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). 163

172 P REFERENCES Editing 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 Quizzing and/or fter Quizzing boxes D if you want to require the monitor password to be entered before and/or after students take/finish quizzes. D E b. Choose llow (default) 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, 1, or 2 times) F you want to allow F G your students to retake a Literacy Skills quiz from the drop-down list. Two times is the default. b. Choose llow (default) or Do not allow from the Retakes 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 definitions box H if you want the definitions to be H I included on the Vocabulary List Reports that your students print. b. Choose llow (default) 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). 164

173 P REFERENCES Editing 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 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, the boxes are checked by default to allow students to see the questions they missed after passing the quiz. Remove the check marks to change the settings. 10. llow 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 Multi-Language Quizzing Enabled 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. (The default setting is students pass 5- and 10-question quizzes by scoring 60% or higher and pass 20-question quizzes by scoring 70% or higher.) To change the setting, click the option you want. 165

174 P REFERENCES Editing 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 Show Total Points Enabled 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. The Book Voting Enabled box is checked by default. Remove the check mark to prevent students from voting 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 117 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 167). 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. 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 166

175 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the Date and Time Restrictions Preferences (School) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page 179. 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 B appropriate box(es) to restrict C D students from quizzing before E and/or after certain dates. b. Type the Before F Date and/or fter Date B 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 M 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). The Weekend Restrictions Enabled box E is checked by default to block students from quizzing on weekends. Remove the check mark to change this setting. 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 163) 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 llow 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. 167

176 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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 llow 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 llow Quiz Deleting box to change the setting to allow students quiz records to be deleted. 4. llow 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 llow Quiz Editing 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 vailability, Reports, and student sections of the program. ny 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 (10 to 100) C you want the program to display on each page. The default setting is 10. B C 6. Click Save when you re finished. 168

177 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the Student Quizzing Preferences (Classroom) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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 Software Requirements on page 6 for more information about how to install it. B a. Choose whether to use the classroom or the school settings (shown in the School Settings column) from the Use drop-down list. The default setting is school. 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 163). 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. The Passed and/or Failed boxes are checked by default to automatically print a TOPS Report after students pass/fail a Reading Practice, Literacy Skills, or Other Reading Quiz B. Remove the check marks to change the settings. c. For Vocabulary Practice, the Printing Enabled box is checked by default to automatically print a TOPS Report after a student completes a quiz C. Remove the check mark to change the setting. C 169

178 P REFERENCES Editing 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. 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. The default setting is school. 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 164). 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 Quizzing and/or fter 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. The default setting is school. 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 164). 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. 170

179 P REFERENCES Editing 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. The default setting is school. 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 164). 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 Retakes 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. The default setting is 2 times. 7. utomatic 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: Student s don t begin receiving review words on Vocabulary Practice Quizzes until 14 days after taking their 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 171

180 P REFERENCES Editing 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 (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. This box O is checked by default so students in this class have to pass the Reading Practice Quiz before taking the Vocabulary Practice Quiz for the same title. Remove the check mark to change this setting. 12. Click Save when you re finished. 172

181 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the Other Reading Series Preference (Classroom) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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 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 of the series, check the Series vailable box at the top of the column. C Click < dd 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 ll 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. 173

182 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the Quiz Setup Preference (Classroom) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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. By default, all the students in this class are allowed to take quizzes in all quiz types. To change the setting, remove the check mark from the box by each quiz type. 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 166). For more information on blocking students from quizzing, see page Click Save when you re finished. 174

183 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the TOPS Language Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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 as described below. B Choose sk Student, lways English (default), or lways Spanish from the drop-down list in the row for each student. If you choose sk Student, the program will always ask the student which language to print the TOPS Report in. 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.the default setting is lways English. 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. 175

184 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the TWI Settings Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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 as described below. When a student takes a Reading Practice quiz read To or With and reads the same book Independently six months later, the student can retake the quiz. B The settings in this preference won t apply unless the TWI Monitoring Preference is enabled (see page 165). Choose sk TWI Question (the program will always ask the student how they read the book) or lways Independent (the program automatically marks the book as Read Independently) from the dropdown list in the row for each student. The default setting is sk TWI Question. 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. The default setting is sk TWI Question. 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. 176

185 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the Recorded Voice Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator 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 B C D E Choose the setting you want from the drop-down list in the row for each student. The four choices are described below. The default setting is Off: ll. B On: ll. The student will automatically get the Recorded Voice quiz unless the student 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 the student chooses the option not to do so. This option will only work if you have the TWI Monitoring Preference enabled; see page 165. D Off: ll. The student will not automatically get the Recorded Voice quiz unless the student chooses the option to do so. E Do Not llow. 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. The default setting is Off: ll. 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. 177

186 P REFERENCES Editing Preferences Editing the Quizzing llowed Preference (Classroom/Individual Student Settings) Who Can Do This? District dministrator District Staff School dministrator School Staff Teachers To change capabilities, see page View the Individual Student Settings Preference under Classroom Preferences. See page Click Edit Quizzing llowed on the View Individual Student Settings Preferences page. These settings apply to all four quiz types for each student in the class you chose. 3. To change the settings for all the students at once, change the selections for Quizzing, TOS Book Level, and Interest Level in the gray boxed area. Then click Update all students B for each setting you changed. To change the settings for one student, change the selections for Quizzing llowed, TOS Book Level llowed, and Interest Level llowed in the table with the yellow heading C. Choose Yes (to allow quizzing) or No (to block quizzing) from the Quizzing llowed drop-down list. The default setting is Yes. Type a book level range in the TOS Book Level llowed fields. The default range is Choose an interest level from the Interest Level drop-down list. The default setting is ll. 4. Click Save D when you re finished. 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 166). C B D 178

187 PPENDIX : CPBILITIES 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 181 list the tasks that users can perform in Renaissance Place RT and with the standard set of capabilities. To change the capabilities for groups of users or individual users, see the instructions in the Renaissance Place Real Time. 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 specific person User Groups in the Software The Renaissance Place RT software contains these seven user groups: District dministrators School Staff Parents District Staff Teachers School dministrators Students Each person added to the Renaissance Place RT 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 dministrators ssistant Superintendent District Staff cademic Testing Coordinator dmissions 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 179

188 PPENDIX : CPBILITIES User Groups in the Software School dministrators ssistant Principal Librarian/Reading Coordinator School Staff t Risk Coordinator thletic Director thletic Trainer udiologist 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 ide Teacher ppraiser Teacher Facilitator Teacher Supervisor Technology/Computer Coordinator Other Teachers Team Teachers Students Students will log in to use some software programs, such as. Parents Parents may be added to the database by administrators or staff so they can log in to view reports. 180

189 PPENDIX : CPBILITIES Capabilities for ll Renaissance Place Programs Capabilities for ll 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 capabilities are described in the table on page 185. District School Capability Determines Who Can dmin. Staff dmin. Staff Teacher Content Note: Since Renaissance Learning is hosting Renaissance Place RT for you, the content installation tasks will be done for you by Renaissance Learning. Manage Content View Content District and School Information Manage District Manage content on the server, such as quizzes or libraries. View content on the server, such as quizzes or libraries. Change district information, such as the name, address, or phone number. + Manage Schools dd, edit, or delete schools. View Schools View information on schools in the district. School Years, Marking Periods, and Days Off Manage School Year Manage Marking Periods Manage School Enrollment dd, edit, or delete school years, set the default school year; copy classes from one school year to another. District personnel can set the default school year for an entire district. School personnel can set it for their own school. dd, 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 = available + = can be added = unavailable 181

190 PPENDIX : CPBILITIES Capabilities for ll Renaissance Place Programs District School Capability Determines Who Can dmin. Staff dmin. Staff Teacher Courses and Classes Manage Courses and Classes View Courses and Classes dd, edit, and delete courses and classes; assign teachers to classes; 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 Personnel Information Manage Personnel dd, 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. + + Student Information Manage Students and Enrollments Manage Student Data View Students and Enrollments Merge Students District-Level Student Export and District-Level Student Import dd, 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. Permanently remove and recover student records. Note: District administrators and district staff have this capability by default. However, users with this capability need the Manage Student and Enrollments capability as well so that they have access to the Edit Multiple Students page, where they can permanently remove student records. 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 = available + = can be added = unavailable 182

191 PPENDIX : CPBILITIES Capabilities for ll Renaissance Place Programs District School Capability Determines Who Can dmin. Staff dmin. Staff Teacher Student Information (continued) School-Level Student Export and School-Level Student Import Teacher-Level Student Export and Teacher-Level Student Import Parent Information 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 dd, edit, or delete parent information. + + View Parents Classroom Work Manage Classroom ctivities School-Level ccess View Classroom Reports View parent information for parents in the database. Manage student assignments, goals, scores, and classroom reports, including Record and ssignment Books. ccess all classes in all Renaissance Place products. View classroom work, such as student assignments, goals, and scores, including Record and ssignment Books District Reports School Reports View reports for all levels: district, schools, teachers, classes, or students. View reports for individual schools and their teachers, classes, and students Teacher Reports View reports for an individual teacher s classes. Parent Reports View parent reports. Filter Reports by Characteristics Filter Reports by Ethnicity Limit reports to students who have been assigned specific characteristics in Renaissance Place RT. Limit reports to students with specific ethnicities, which are set when you add students or edit their information. = available + = can be added = unavailable 183

192 PPENDIX : CPBILITIES Capabilities for ll Renaissance Place Programs District School Capability Determines Who Can dmin. Staff dmin. Staff Teacher Reports (continued) Manage Reporting Periods Manage Data Consolidation Set the reporting periods for Renaissance Place consolidated reports. Reporting periods are time periods that you can select for the report. Schedule data consolidation to gather data from all products to include in Renaissance Place reports. You set the date, times, and recurrence. (The default schedule is 2:00.M. daily.) 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 student information files. The preference is under Product dministration. 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 Student Quizzing preferences. 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 RT 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 184

193 PPENDIX : CPBILITIES Capabilities Capabilities District School Capability Manage Book Level Settings Manage Quiz vailability Take Sample Quiz Determines Who Can Edit book level settings, TOS 100 and TOS 2000 book level names, and TOS settings. Edit which Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes will be available (active) or unavailable (inactive) to individual schools. Manage Quiz vailability 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 Manage Quizzes area. dmin Staff dmin Staff Teacher = available + = can be added = unavailable 185

194 INDEX Enterprise Manage Quiz vailability, 108 RP, 1 Reports, 141 student access, 112 Smartpplet, 122 chieved certifications, 31 dding achieved Reading Practice certification, 38 points awarded record, 70 points used record, 70 Reading Practice goals for a class, 23 Reading Practice goals for a student, 25 Reading Practice Quiz records, 13 Teacher-Made Quizzes, 81 team sets, 58 teams, 59 dobe Reader, 6 dvanced Reader, 31 llow Multi-Language Quizzing Preference, editing, 165 llow Quiz Deleting Preference, editing, 168 llow Quiz Editing Preference, editing, 168 llowing students to take a quiz, 78, 82, 89, 95, 100, 167, 174, 178 pproving Independent Reader status, 34 TOS book levels, editing the settings, 105 TOS Readability Formula for Books, 105 utomatic Student Log Out Preference, editing, 171 verage book level, 59, 60 verage percent correct, 59, 60 goal, 24, 28 B Blocking students from taking a quiz, 78, 82, 85, 89, 95, 100, 117, 167, 174, 178 Book level, 105 Book Level Settings change TOS book level settings, 105 managing, 103 rename book levels, 106 set current book level, 104 update student records, 104 Book Voting Preference, 151 editing, 166 Bookshelf, 131, 134 C Capability Manage Book Level Settings, 185 Take a Sample Quiz, 185 Certificates, 154 Certifications adding an achieved certification, 38 dvanced Reader, 31 approving Independent Reader status, 34 Classic Reader, 31 definitions, 31 deleting, 39 editing, 36 Honors Reader, 31 Independent Reader, 31 Ready Reader, 31 Record Book, 30 Rising Reader, 31 setting a goal for students, 32 Star Reader, 31 Super Reader, 31 viewing student records, 35 Certifications Preference, editing, 165 Changing TOS book level settings, 105 Literacy Skills Quiz information, 95 Literacy Skills Quiz records, 47 Other Reading Quiz information, 100 Other Reading Quiz records, 53 points used or awarded record, 73 Reading Practice certifications, 36 Reading Practice goals for a class, 28 Reading Practice goals for a student, 29 Reading Practice Quiz information, 78 Teacher-Made Quiz information, 84 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information,

195 I NDEX Check Software Requirements, 6 Class Record Books, 10 Classes, deleting Reading Practice goals, 28 Classic Reader, 31 Classroom preferences, 161 Classroom Restrictions preferences, 161 Classroom Restrictions Preferences, editing, 168 Classroom Student Quizzing preferences, 161 editing, 169 Closing the program, 121, 140 Codes, diagnostic, 159 Comparing and contrasting, 92 Constructing meaning, 92 D Date and Time Restrictions preferences, 161 editing, 167 Date Restrictions Preference, editing, 167 Definitions of the reader certification levels, 31 Deleting Literacy Skills Quiz records, 49 Literacy Skills Quizzes, 97 Other Reading Quiz records, 55 Other Reading Quizzes, 102 Other Reading Series, 102 points record, 74 Reading Practice certifications, 39 Reading Practice goals for a class, 28 Reading Practice goals for a student, 30 Reading Practice Quiz records, 18 Reading Practice Quizzes, 80 team sets, 66 teams, 67 Vocabulary Practice Quiz records, 43 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, 91 Deriving word or phrase meaning (literacy skill), 92 Describing actions or events (literacy skill), 92 Descriptions of reports, 149, 150 Differentiating fact and opinion (literacy skill), 92 Drawing conclusions (literacy skill), 92 E Editing, 110 TOS book level settings, 105 book level settings, 103 Literacy Skills Quiz information, 95 Literacy Skills Quiz records, 47 Other Reading Quiz information, 100 Other Reading Quiz records, 53 points used or awarded record, 73 preferences, 163 Reading Practice certifications, 36 Reading Practice goals for a class, 28 Reading Practice goals for a student, 29 Reading Practice Quiz information, 78 Reading Practice Quiz records, 16 Teacher-Made Quiz information, 84 team sets, 65 teams, 66 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, 89 Emergent readers, 1 Engaged time per day, 150 Enrolling students in teams, 60, 61 Enrollment viewing for a team, 64 viewing for a team set, 64 Enterprise, Manage Quiz vailability, 108 Exiting the program, 121, 140 Expansions to student capacity, 122 Extending meaning, 92 F Firefox, 135 Firewall network configuration, 125 First-try new words, 40, 43 First-try review words, 40, 43 G Goals adding for a class, 23 adding for a student, 25 average book level, 58, 59, 60 average percent correct, 58, 59, 60 deleting for a class, 28 deleting for a student, 30 editing for a class, 28 editing for a student, 29 points, 58, 59, 60 Reading Practice,

196 I NDEX selecting marking periods for the class, 21 viewing as a student, 121 viewing by parents, 136 viewing Reading Practice goals, 27 Goal-Setting Chart, 159 Grade Equivalent (GE) score, 159 H Hardware requirements, 6 Home Connect. See Renaissance Home Connect Honors Reader, 31 I Identifying historic/cultural factors (literacy skill), 92 persuasive language (literacy skill), 92 reading strategies (literacy skill), 92 reasons (literacy skill), 92 Independent Reader, 31 approval, 34 Individual Student Settings preferences, 161 editing, 175, 176, 177, 178 Inferential comprehension (literacy skill), 92 Information Letter, Renaissance Home Connect, 128 Initial understanding (literacy skill), 92 Interest level, 105 Internet Explorer, 135 L Labels Book Report, 151 dimensions, 146 printing, 146 printing multiple copies, 147 quantity per page, 146 recommended types, 146 Vocabulary List Report, 152 Limit on student capacity, 122 List of vocabulary words, 158 Literacy Skills Chart, 152 Literacy Skills Passing Percentage Preference, editing, 165 Literacy Skills Quizzes, 1 deleting, 97 deleting student quiz records, 49 editing quiz information, 95 editing student quiz records, 47 managing quiz information, 91 passing percentage, 165 Quiz List Report, 153 Record Book, 45 reprinting a TOPS Report, 50 stopping, 116 taking a quiz, 113 taking a sample quiz, 96 viewing a Teacher s Guide, 97 viewing quiz information, 93 viewing student quiz records, 45 Literacy Skills Retakes Preference, editing, 164, 171 Literacy skills, categories, 92 Literary analysis (literacy skill), 92 Live Chat Support, 4 Logging in as a parent, 135 as a student, 113 to the program, 7 Logging out, 121, 140 M Making inferences (literacy skill), 92 Making predictions (literacy skill), 92 Manage book level settings capability, 185 Managing Literacy Skills Quiz information, 91 Other Reading Quiz information, 98 points, 69 Reading Practice Quiz information, 76 Teacher-Made Quiz information, 76 team sets and teams, 58 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, 87 Manuals, 3 Marking periods, selecting for goal setting, 21 MG+ Interest Level, 82 Microsoft Internet Explorer, 135 Middle Grades Plus Interest Level, 82 Monitor Override Preference, editing, 166, 167 Monitor Password Preference editing,

197 I NDEX Monitor Password Required Preference, 164 editing, 170 Monitor Password Required Preference, editing, 164 N NEO 2 laptop, 112, 122 before quizzing, 122 taking a quiz, 125 NEO Manager, 122 Network configuration firewall, 125 proxy, 125 New words first-try, 40, 43 second-try, 40, 43 O Operating system requirements, 6 Other Reading Quizzes, 1 deleting a quiz, 102 deleting an Other Reading Series, 102 deleting student quiz records, 55 editing quiz information, 100 editing student quiz records, 53 managing quiz information, 98 passing percentage, 171 Quiz List Report, 153 Record Book, 51 reprinting a TOPS Report, 56 stopping, 116 taking a quiz, 113 taking a sample quiz, 101 viewing Other Reading Series, 98 viewing quiz information, 98 viewing student quiz records, 51 Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent Preference, editing, 171 Other Reading Series Preference, 161 editing, 173 P Parents closing the program, 140 logging in, 135 logging out, 140 printing a Quiz List Report, 139 printing a Vocabulary List Report, 138 printing the Student Record Report, 137 printing the Words Learned Report, 137 signing out, 140 viewing goals and points, 136 Password, 164 listed on Student Information Report, 155 monitor for quiz taking, 114, 126 monitor for stopping a quiz, 116 monitor password override, 167 Monitor Password Preference, 166 Monitor Password Required Preference, 170 NEO 2, 122, 125 parent, 135 Renaissance Home Connect, 128, 129, 132 password, 155 Passwords changing, 7 give to students, 112 logging in, 7 student, logging in, 113 Points, 59, 60 adding a record, 70 deleting a student record, 74 editing a student record, 73 managing, 69 viewing as a student, 121 viewing by parents, 136 viewing student records, 69 Pre-TOS, 105 Preferences, 161 llow Multi-Language Quizzing, 165 llow Quiz Deleting, 168 llow Quiz Editing, 168 utomatic Student Log Out, 171 Book Voting, 151, 166 Certifications, 165 Classroom, 161 Classroom Restrictions, 161 Classroom Restrictions, editing, 168 Classroom Student Quizzing, 161 Classroom Student Quizzing, editing, 169 Date and Time Restrictions,

198 I NDEX Date and Time Restrictions, editing, 167 Date Restrictions, 167 editing the settings, 163 Individual Student Settings, 161, 176, 177, 178 Individual Student Settings, editing, 175 Literacy Skills Passing Percentage, 165 Literacy Skills Retakes, 164, 171 Monitor Override, 166, 167 Monitor Password, 166 Monitor Password Required, 164, 170 Other Reading Quizzes Passing Percent, 171 Other Reading Series, 161 Other Reading Series, editing, 173 Quiz Setup, 161 Quiz Setup, editing, 174 Quizzing llowed, 178 Recorded Voice, 177 School, 161 School Student Quizzing, 161 Show Missed Questions, 165 Show Total Points, 166 Student Quizzing, 161 Student Quizzing preferences, editing, 163 Time Restrictions, 167 TOPS Report Language, 175 TOPS Report Printing, 163, 169 TWI Monitoring, 165 TWI Settings, 176 viewing, 168 viewing the settings, 162 Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions, 164, 170 Vocabulary Practice Review Only Quiz Length, 172 Vocabulary Practice Review Percent, 171 Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension, 172 Weekend Restrictions, 167 Print Plug-In, 163, 169 Print Renaissance Home Connect Informational Letter, 128 Printing reports, 142 reports as a student, 118 Student Record Report, 118 team reports, 68 Vocabulary List Report, 90, 118 Words Learned Report, 118 Pronunciation Key, 153 Proxy network configuration, 125 Q Quitting the program, 121, 140 Quiz vailability, 110 Quiz List Report, 139 Quiz List Literacy Skills Report, 153 Quiz List Other Reading Report, 153 Quiz List Vocabulary Practice Report, 153 Quiz Management reports, 149 Quiz numbers for Teacher-Made Quizzes, 81 Quiz records adding Reading Practice Quiz records, 13 deleting Literacy Skills Quiz records, 49 deleting Other Reading Quiz records, 55 deleting Reading Practice Quiz records, 18 deleting Vocabulary Practice Quiz records, 43 editing Literacy Skills Quiz records, 47 editing Other Reading Quiz records, 53 editing Reading Practice Quiz records, 16 Literacy Skills Quizzes Record Book, 45 Reading Practice Quizzes Record Book, 10 viewing Literacy Skills Quiz records, 45 viewing Other Reading Quiz records, 51 viewing Reading Practice Quiz records, 11 viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz records, 41 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Record Book, 40 Quiz Setup Preference, 161 Quiz Setup Preference, editing, 174 Quiz Takers--Other Reading Report, 153 Quiz Takers--Reading Practice Report, 154 Quiz Usage Report, 154 Quizzes adding Teacher-Made Quizzes, 81 allowing students to take a quiz, 78, 82, 89, 95, 100, 167, 174, 178 blocking students from quizzing, 78, 82, 85, 89, 95, 100, 117, 167, 174, 178 deleting a Literacy Skills Quiz, 97 deleting a Reading Practice Quiz, 80 deleting a Vocabulary Practice Quiz, 91 deleting an Other Reading Quiz, 102 deleting an Other Reading Series, 102 editing TOS book level settings, 105 editing Literacy Skills Quiz information, 95 editing Other Reading Quiz information, 100 editing Reading Practice Quiz information, 78 editing Teacher-Made Quiz information, 84 editing Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, 89 Literacy Skills, 1, 91 managing Literacy Skills Quiz information,

199 I NDEX managing Other Reading Quiz information, 98 managing Reading Practice Quiz information, 76 managing Teacher-Made Quiz information, 76 managing Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, 87 Other Reading, 1, 98 Reading Practice, 1, 76 Recorded Voice, 1 resuming, 116 Second-Try and Review Words, 40, 87 stopping, 116 taking a sample Literacy Skills Quiz, 96 taking a sample Other Reading Quiz, 101 taking a sample Reading Practice Quiz, 79 taking a sample Teacher-Made Quiz, 79 taking a sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz, 90 Teacher-Made, 81 unfinished, 116 viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz, 97 viewing Literacy Skills Quiz information, 93 viewing Other Reading Quiz information, 98 viewing Other Reading Series, 98 viewing Reading Practice Quiz information, 77 viewing Teacher-Made Quiz information, 77 viewing Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, 88 Vocabulary Practice, 1, 87 Quizzing, 113 Quizzing llowed Preference, editing, 178 R Readability, 105 Reader Certification Certificates, 154 Reader certification levels, 31 Reader Certification Levels Report, 154 Reading level, 105 Reading Practice certifications adding an achieved certification, 38 dvanced Reader, 31 approving Independent Reader status, 34 Classic Reader, 31 definitions, 31 deleting, 39 editing, 36 Honors Reader, 31 Independent Reader, 31 Ready Reader, 31 Record Book, 30 Rising Reader, 31 setting a goal for students, 32 Star Reader, 31 Super Reader, 31 viewing student records, 35 Reading Practice goals, 58, 59, 60 adding for a class, 23 adding for a student, 25 deleting for a class, 28 deleting for a student, 30 editing for a class, 28 editing for a student, 29 viewing, 27 Reading Practice Quizzes, 1 adding student quiz records, 13 adding Teacher-Made Quizzes, 81 deleting, 80 deleting student quiz records, 18 editing quiz information, 78 editing student quiz records, 16 managing quiz information, 76 passing percentage, 165 Record Book, 10 reprinting a TOPS Report, 19 stopping, 116 taking a quiz, 113 taking a sample quiz, 79 Teacher-Made, 81 viewing quiz information, 77 viewing student quiz records, 11 Ready Reader, 31 Receiver (Renaissance) connecting to, 123 naming, 123 Recognizing cause and effect (literacy skill), 92 Recognizing detail (literacy skill), 92 Recognizing feeling (literacy skill), 92 Recognizing plot (literacy skill), 92 Recognizing setting (literacy skill), 92 Record Books, 10 Literacy Skills Quizzes, 45 Other Reading Quizzes, 51 points management, 69 Reading Practice Certifications, 30 Reading Practice Quizzes, 10 teams, 58 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, 40 Recorded Voice Preference, editing, 177 Recorded Voice Quizzes, 1 191

200 I NDEX Renaissance Home Connect, 128 Informational Letter, 128 Renaissance Place logging in, 7 reports, 141 signing in, 7 Renaissance Place Print Plug-In, 163, 169 Renaissance Receiver connecting to, 123 naming, 123 Renaissance Wireless Server Utility, 123 Rename book levels, 106 Reporting parameter groups, 145 Reports, 141 RP, 141 description, 149, 150 Literacy Skills Chart, 152 printing, 142 printing as a student, 118 printing by parents, 137, 138, 139 printing team reports, 68 Pronunciation Key, 153 Quiz List Literacy Skills, 153 Quiz List Other Reading, 153 Quiz List Vocabulary Practice, 153 Quiz Management, 149 Quiz Takers--Other Reading, 153 Quiz Takers--Reading Practice, 154 Quiz Usage, 154 Reader Certification Certificates, 154 Reader Certification Levels, 154 Renaissance Place, 141 Schoolwide Summary, 154 Student Detail, 155 Student Information, 155 Student Points, 155 Student Record, 31, 118, 156 Teacher, 156 Team Standing Chart, 58, 59, 60, 68, 157 Team Status, 58, 59, 60, 68, 157 TOPS, 19, 31, 44, 50, 56 TWI, 157 Vocabulary List, 118, 158 Word Count, 158 Words Learned, 118 Words to Study, 158 Reprinting TOPS Reports Literacy Skills, 50 Other Reading, 56 Reading Practice, 19 Vocabulary Practice, 44 Resources, 5, 153 Responding to literature (literacy skill), 92 Resuming a quiz, 116 Retake, 176 Retaking a Literacy Skills Quiz, 164 Review words first-try, 40, 43 second-try, 40, 43 Rising Reader, 31 S Safari, 135 Sample quizzes Literacy Skills, 96 Other Reading, 101 Reading Practice, 79 Teacher-Made, 79 Vocabulary Practice, 90 School preferences, 161 School Student Quizzing preferences, 161 Schoolwide Summary Report, 154 Second-Try and Review Words Quiz, 40, 87 Second-try new words, 40, 43 Second-try review words, 40, 43 Selecting marking periods for the class, 21 Set current book level, 104 Setting Reading Practice certification goals for students, 32 Setting up quiz availability rules, 111 Show Missed Questions Preference, editing, 165 Show Total Points Preference, editing, 166 Signing in to the program, 7 Signing out, 121, 140 Software requirements, 6 Star Reader, 31 STR Reading, 159 Stopping a quiz, 116 Student capacity limit, 122 Student Detail Report, 155 Student Information Report, 155 Student Points Report, 155 Student Quizzing preferences, 161 editing, 163 Student Record Report, 31, 118, 137,

201 I NDEX Students blocking from quizzing, 117 closing the program, 121 deleting Reading Practice goals, 30 enrolling on teams, 60, 61 list of, 151 logging in to the program, 113 logging out, 121 passwords on reports, 155 printing reports, 118 signing out, 121 transferring between teams, 62 unenrolling from teams, 60, 61 user names on reports, 155 using RP, 112 using NEO 2 with, 122 using Renaissance Home Connect with ccelerated Reader, 128 viewing goals and points used, 121 Super Reader, 31 System requirements, 6 T Take Sample Quiz capability, 185 Taking a quiz, 113 Taking a sample Literacy Skills Quiz, 96 Taking a sample Other Reading Quiz, 101 Taking a sample Reading Practice Quiz, 79 Taking a sample Teacher-Made Quiz, 79 Taking a sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz, 90 Teacher Report, 156 Teacher s Guide, viewing for a Literacy Skills Quiz, 97 Teacher-Made Quizzes, 81 adding, 81 blocking students from quizzing, 85 editing quiz information, 84 managing quiz information, 76 quiz numbers, 81 taking a sample quiz, 79 viewing quiz information, 77 Team rosters, 60 Team sets adding, 58 adding teams to, 59 deleting, 66 editing, 65 printing reports, 68 viewing, 64 viewing enrollment, 64 Team Standing Chart, 58, 59, 60, 68, 157 Team Status Report, 58, 59, 60, 68, 157 Teams adding, 59 deleting, 67 editing, 66 enrolling students, 60, 61 managing, 58 printing reports, 68 rosters, 60 transferring students between, 62 unenrolling students, 60, 61 viewing, 64 viewing enrollment, 64 Time Restrictions Preference, editing, 167 TOPS Report Language Preference, editing, 175 TOPS Report Printing Preference, editing, 163, 169 TOPS Reports, 31 reprinting for a Literacy Skills Quiz, 50 reprinting for a Reading Practice Quiz, 19 reprinting for a Vocabulary Practice Quiz, 44 reprinting for an Other Reading Quiz, 56 Transferring students between teams, 62 TWI Monitoring Preference, editing, 165 TWI Report, 157 TWI Settings Preference, editing, 176 U Understanding characterization (literacy skill), 92 Understanding dialogue (literacy skill), 92 Understanding literacy features (literacy skill), 92 Understanding sequence (literacy skill), 92 Understanding the author s craft (literacy skill), 92 Understanding the main idea (literacy skill), 92 Unenrolling students from teams, 60, 61 Unfinished quizzes, 116 Update student records, 104 V Viewing goals and points by parents, 136 goals and points used, students, 121 Literacy Skills Quiz information,

202 I NDEX Literacy Skills Quiz records, 45 Literacy Skills Teacher s Guide for a Quiz, 97 Other Reading Quiz information, 98 Other Reading Quiz records, 51 Other Reading Series, 98 points records, 69 preferences, 162 Quiz vailability, 108 Reading Practice certification records, 35 Reading Practice goals, 27 Reading Practice Quiz information, 77 Reading Practice Quiz records, 11 Teacher-Made Quiz information, 77 team enrollment, 64 team sets, 64 teams, 64 Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, 88 Vocabulary Practice Quiz records, 41 Viewing Preference, editing, 168 Vocabulary List Report, 118, 138, 158 printing, 90 Vocabulary Practice Include Definitions Preference, editing, 164, 170 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, 1 deleting, 91 deleting student quiz records, 43 editing quiz information, 89 managing quiz information, 87 Quiz List Report, 153 Record Book, 40 reprinting a TOPS Report, 44 taking a sample quiz, 90 viewing quiz information, 88 viewing student quiz records, 41 Vocabulary Practice Review Only Quiz Length Preference, editing, 172 Vocabulary Practice Review Percent Preference, editing, 171 Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension Preference, editing, 172 Vocabulary words, 40, 158 Voting Book Voting Preference, 166 Favorite Books Report, 151 W Web browsers supported, 7 Weekend Restrictions Preference, editing, 167 Wireless Server Utility, Renaissance, 123 Word Count Report, 158 Word list, 158 Words, 40 First-try new, 40, 43 First-try review, 40, 43 Second-try new, 40, 43 Second-try review, 40, 43 Words Learned List, 40 Words Learned Report, 118, 137 Words to Study Report,

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