2023 Product Release Notes

myON

• myON v4.13.0 released on 4/19/23
  • Adds support for ‘hyperlocalized’ grade taxonomy
  • Minor updates to Spanish, China, and Portuguese translations
  • Updates the Student Profile Report footer to reflect "Renaissance Learning, Inc" instead of "myON, LLC"
  • Resolves issue with large rosters being truncated down to 1,000 when manual changes were made to them
  • Updates the support site URL per new requirements
  • Updates Admin Settings "Account Options" page with new formatting, text, and new library management tools
  • Adds the ability for DA (district administrator) users to restrict BA (building administrator) users from being able to deselect any book collection from their Account > Collections settings page.
  • Adds the ability for a DA to turn off the rotating banner on the Library > Recommended page with an option to allow BAs to set this independently for their building.
• New Titles Added to myON!
  • An additional 80 books were released to the myON core collection at the beginning of this month.
  • Brings the myON core collection count to 7,891 and the myON Spanish translated title count to 563 (for a total of 947 Spanish titles)

Lalilo

• Review Lessons
  • Students will automatically receive review lessons for lessons they have mastered in the past.
  • Depending on the type of skill, some lessons will be reviewable 5 days after being mastered, and some 7 days after.
  • Review lessons will not exceed 20% of the time spent by students on Lalilo.
  • Failing a review activity will trigger a remediation activity, if available, to help the student relearn the concept.
  • Review activities will count as any regular practice activity in the success rate percentages for both Standards & Day Result reports.
  • Students will not be alerted when doing review lessons.
• Student Certificates
  • Teachers can now print certifications for students finishing Lalilo.
  • Teachers are informed via email that a certificate is available for one or more students that can then be printed.
• Staff users now have more access to all these related class settings:
  • Rename Lalilo-rostered classes
  • Update weekly goals in class settings page and in reports
  • Archive class and un-archive classes
  • Delete classes

Renaissance Analytics

• myON Metrics in Renaissance Analytics
  • Renaissance Analytics will include the following metrics for myON customers that roster and access their myON application through the Renaissance Growth Platform:
    • Active Students (district & school views) / Books Read (student views)
    • Average Minutes Read (district & school views) / Minutes Spent Reading (student views)
    • Words Read (all views)
• Additional Freckle Metrics in Renaissance Analytics
  • Freckle customers that roster and access their Freckle application through the Renaissance Growth Platform will see the following additional metrics in Renaissance Analytics
    • Active Students (district & school views) / Sessions Completed (student views)
    • Accuracy (district, school, and student views)

Accelerated Reader

• Accelerated Reader Quiz Player Accessibility
  • AR Quiz Player now fully accessible for Reading Practice Quizzes. Additional quiz types will be added incrementally in the future.
  • If quiz has audio available, a Pause and Play option will appear on each question
  • Note: Typing A, B, C, or D on the keyboard will no longer work when selecting quiz answers. Keyboard arrows, tab, and Enter should be used.

Freckle

• Email Opt-Out Preferences: Freckle educators may now unsubscribe to the weekly Freckle engagement emails by subject.

myON

• v4.12.2 released on 3/9/23
  • Fixed issue where long project tasks and descriptions could go off the page
  • Fixed issue where rotating banner wasn’t continuing to play once pause was toggled on/off
  • Removed Lexile column from the book search table in non-Lexile buildings
  • Added number of tests taken column to the myON placement report
  • Fixed issue where the date shown for a Star test on the Assessments tab in myON wasn’t matching what was shown to users in their Star reports from Renaissance
  • Fixed issues with Student Profile Report where Last Books Read were not populating accurately
  • Fixed issue introduced in v4.12.0 where Star Score banner wasn’t being hidden from student dashboard when grade-level equivalent ATOS was being used
  • Lalilo books added to myON

Lalilo

• Co-Teaching (aka Team Teachers)
  • A co-teaching feature was released allowing primary teachers to share their class with others who may be working with the same group of students.
  • How it works with the different rostering options:
    • Lalilo Rostered - The Primary teacher sends an invitation from within Lalilo to the co-teacher(s). Once the co-teacher accepts, the class will appear in Lalilo.
    • RGP Rostered - Co-teachers are added by adding them as Team Teachers to the class.
    • Clever Rostered - Co-teachers assigned to classes in Clever will be brought in automatically when the Clever sync runs. If the co-teacher is not seeing the class, the primary teacher needs to select Re-sync students.

Star Assessments – NEW Accommodations Report

• Lets you see which students have accommodations set for them in the preference, and what those accommodations are.
• The report can also be used to list students who have a non-participation status set (indicating that they are not taking part in Star assessments).

myON

• New titles added in late February
  • An additional 55 books were released to the myON core collection
  • Brings the core collection count to 7,830 and the myON Spanish translated title count to 523 (for a total of 907 Spanish titles)

Freckle

• Word Study Matrix Report
  • Removed the grade levels that appeared at the top of the report table
  • The "Level" column was renamed to "Current Level"
  • When you select a level number, the tooltip will appear to include:
    • Level #, Standard Code
    • Skill description (e.g., "Sort for M, R")
    • Links to assign targeted Word Study practice for that skill, with class and skill pre-selected

Lalilo

• Removal of Reading Levels in Teacher Dashboard and Scope & Sequence
  • Books are now organized by grade level and text types
• New 2nd Grade Lessons
  • Abbreviations
  • Alphabetizing
  • Compound Words
  • Syllable Division
  • Irregular Vowel Team - "ou"
  • Irregular Vowel Team - "oo"
  • Irregular Vowel Team - "ie"
  • Irregular Vowel Team - "ea"
  • Irregular Vowel Team - "ow"
• Added Content to Short Triplets
  • 800 new content-lines and 120 new recordings were added
• Weekly Goals
  • Teachers can now set weekly usage goals for their classes and get updates about it in their weekly email. The setting is accessible from the class settings page, and from the student’s activity widget.
• New Phonology Lessons
  • Sounds and Words (K)
  • Counting Words (K)
  • Distinguishing Similar Words (K)
  • Compound Words (K)
  • Beginning Sounds (K)
  • Onsets & Rhymes (K → revisions)
  • Count & Blend Syllables (K → revisions)
  • Blending & Segmenting Phonemes (1 → revisions)
• Automated Class Replacement in Clever
  • Allows teachers to replace a class with a class that exists in Clever instead of getting stuck with an error message. The previous class is then automatically archived, and teachers can continue with their new class.
• New Menu Navigation – Teacher Dashboard
  • There is now a new way to navigate between Class Snapshot, Lessons Progress, and Placement Test Result. They are grouped on the same page, which allows you to navigate between them with the help of tabs at the top of the page.
• Interactive Text Questions in Comprehensive Books
  • Students can now interact with the text to answer questions in books.

Star Assessments

• Star Phonics
  • Filtering “Not Taught” Categories added allows district admins to decide if they only want to see the categories/words that are “Taught” or “Being Taught” and filter out the categories/words that are “Not Taught.” The Category Filter applies to the screener assessment and will affect some reports
    • Accessed from the Admin Dashboard
    • Filter can be set for: All schools or specific school; All grades or specific grade
    • Screener window:
      • BOY (Beginning of Year)
      • MOY (Middle of Year)
      • EOY (End of Year)

Freckle

• Word Study Practice Aligned to Foundational Reading Standards
  • Enables teachers to assign Targeted Word Study by standard and skill.
  • Students will still see the same Word Study practice content, but now teachers will see the associated standard and skill when creating assignments or reviewing student reports.
  • Word Study practice is now accessible and reported on by each supported ELA state system.
  • Word Study level progression remains the same and does not follow the standard sequence for each state system like we do in ELA Skills Practice and math.
  • See the updated Word Study levels document.
  • How do teachers access it?
    • Targeted Word Study Assignment: When a teacher navigates to Assignments → ELA → Word Study → Targeted Word Study, they will now see the option to assign by Reading Foundations standard and skill.
    • ELA Standards page: When a teacher navigates to ELA → Standards, they will now see the Foundational Skills domain accompanied by the corresponding RF standards.
    • Word Study Standards (Reading Foundations) Reports:
      • When a teacher navigates to Reports → ELA → Performance by Standard, they will see a new Foundational Skills section that displays standards practiced from the new domain.
      • When a teacher navigates to Reports → ELA → ELA Report Cards → View Report Card → Standards Tab, they will see a new Foundational Skills section that displays how individual students are performing in this domain.
• New Literature Practice
  • Released 31 new skills for English Language Arts skills practice that provide students the opportunity to analyze text structures and literary point of view in fiction texts for grades 2-8.
  • The skills and standards covered are founded upon Anchor Standard 5 and 6 of the Common Core's Literature strand and are aligned to the other states currently available in Freckle ELA.
    • Practice in Anchor Standard 5 includes skills focusing on structural elements and their impact on the development of fiction texts.
    • Practice in Anchor Standard 6 includes skills focusing on narrative point of view, perspective, and characterization in fiction texts.
  • How do teachers access it?
    • Teachers can assign Adaptive and Targeted ELA Skills practice for all discrete skills and standards offerings in the Literature domain.
    • Teachers can view student progress on the Activity Feed, Assignments Feed, and ELA Performance by Standards report.

myON

• myON v4.12.1 released on 1/26/23
  • Building titles will be read-only for customers. Future changes will need to be made through Customer Support
  • Added pagination and new Active/Inactive toggles in the Projects page. This will alleviate slow loading for users with a lot of projects and/or a high number of users assigned to a project.
  • Added an ATOS column to the Project book task search page
• New Titles Added
  • 38 books released, bringing the myON core collection count to 7,731 titles
  • myON Spanish translated title count is now 448 (832 Spanish titles)
  • These titles were added to the core collection which is available to all US customers
• myON v4.12.0 released on 1/5/23
  • Added ability to see FastBridge scores: import scores in a CSV file that will display as Lexile in myON
  • Minor translation updates
  • Replaced "Reading Level" with "ATOS" for non-student users on the non-student book tile
  • Removed the “Reading Level” filter from the Library Browse pages and replaced it with an ATOS Level range filter and Min/Max input fields
  • Updated the “Books in your ZPD Reading Range” band on the Recommended page to return books with ATOS that fall on or within the selected range, sorted by grade level appropriateness