Renaissance Next helps you quickly see your students' recent work, what they need, and where to go next. The first page you see in Renaissance Next is the Summary view.
Right now, Renaissance Next is available to US teachers who are using two or more of the following: Star, Freckle, Accelerated Reader, myON, and Lalilo; teachers must also have a verified email address. Renaissance Next includes data from Star Reading, Star Math, Star Early Literacy, Star CBM, Freckle ELA and Math, Accelerated Reader, myON, Lalilo, and the Nearpod library.
How Renaissance Next gives you a complete picture of your students' data
The Renaissance instructional ecosystem gives you a clear view of your students every step of the way. Simple, accurate assessment tools show you exactly where students are and what they’re ready to learn next. Engaging and flexible instructional tools personalize learning to each student’s unique needs, while insights and data solutions provide administrators with x-ray vision into what’s happening in their schools.
Searching
If you're here to find practice activities and lessons that relate to what you're teaching your students now, enter a natural language phrase in the search field at the top of the page. The more specific information you include, the better results you'll get.
The results may include related Nearpod library lessons, Lalilo lessons, Freckle targeted skills practice, and myON Made assignments. For Nearpod lessons, select View Lesson, View Video, or View Activity to go to a page where you can preview the lesson and add it to the lessons you have saved to use with your class. For Freckle targeted skills practice, select Preview and Assign to find out more and assign practice to your students. For Lalilo, select Assign to assign lessons to students. For myON Made assignments targeted to skills, select View Activity to open the assignment in myON. Note: Administrators who are viewing the Renaissance Next teacher experience don't have links available for Freckle; those links are available to teachers only.
Choosing the Subject and Class
Use the drop-down lists to choose which subject (reading or math) and which of your classes you want to work with. Select classes that are using Star, Freckle ELA or Math, Accelerated Reader, myON, and/or Lalilo. You may need to choose a school before the class if you have classes in more than one school.
The Whole Class View and Categories Based on Student Work
Just under the drop-down lists, you'll see a series of tabs allowing you to view data from the past two weeks for the whole class or for students who need a helping hand, those ready for a challenge, or those who haven't been practicing recently. Next to the name of each of the last three tabs, you'll see how many students are in that category. By default, you'll start with the Whole Class view.
Renaissance Next shows information up through the previous day. Information is updated every night.
Whole Class View
This view lists all of the students in the class. For each student, you will see how many Freckle and Lalilo skills they have in progress, how many books they have read based on Accelerated Reader quizzes and myON data, and how many Star assessments they have taken. You'll also see the last assessment date.
Some of the data may be shaded in red with a red dot. This happens when a student:
- Is stuck on a Freckle or Lalilo skill
- Has Accelerated Reader quiz scores below 75%
- Has an assessment score that is below benchmark
Needs a Helping Hand
To see students who might need help, select Needs a Helping Hand. Within the past two weeks, students in this category had low accuracy on recent practice and/or scored below proficiency on their most recent assessment. (Note: For Star Reading, Star Math, and Star Early Literacy, assessment proficiency is based on district benchmarks.)
Ready for a Challenge
Select Ready for a Challenge to see students who are excelling in practice and have scored at or above benchmark on an assessment in the past two weeks.
Time to Practice
Select Time to Practice to see students who have not done any practice or taken any assessments in the past two weeks. You'll also see suggestions for the types of activity they could complete.
Viewing More Data
Freckle and Lalilo Skills Practice Data
For any student, select the number of Freckle and Lalilo skills in progress to see a list of those skills and which ones the student is stuck on (skills where the student's accuracy is less than 50% and the student has practiced at least 3 items).
Reading Practice Data from Accelerated Reader and myON
Select the number of books read to see more information about the student's reading in the past two weeks. You will see how many words the student read in the past 14 days, and how that number compares to the words read in the previous 14 days. For each book or article the student has read, you will see the date, the title and author, whether any myON reading is still in progress and how many minutes the student read that title, the book level of the title (if available), and the quiz score if an Accelerated Reader quiz was taken.
In the AR Quiz Score column, you may see a dash for myON books that are still in progress or "No quiz available" for myON books that do not have Accelerated Reader quizzes. You may also see "Quiz not taken" when the student has completed a myON book that has an Accelerated Reader quiz, but they have not taken that quiz.
To change the type of book level shown, use the ATOS/Lexile toggle above the table.
If you want to go to the Accelerated Reader Student Details page or to the myON student page to see more information, see the links at the top of the window.
When you're done viewing the data, select Close at the bottom of the window.
Assessment/Star Data
Select the number of assessments for a student to see the student's scores on Star Reading, Star Math, or Star Early Literacy assessments and Star CBM assessments in the last 90 days. In the window that opens, you will see the student's score and benchmark category for each assessment taken for the selected subject. If you want to see more information about these and other Star scores, select Star Record Book at the top of the window.
Finding Recommendations in the Take Action Window
What happens next? Select Take Action for each student to see recommendations. (Take Action is not available for students with no activity in the past two weeks.)
Depending on what the student has done, you may see recommendations for specific Freckle skills practice, Lalilo lessons, a Nearpod lesson or activity, or a myON Made assignment.
- Nearpod lessons: Select a lesson to open it in a new tab, where you can preview it and add it to your lessons.
- Freckle skills: Select a skill to open the skills practice in Freckle and assign practice to your students.
- Lalilo lessons: Select a lesson to assign it to students.
- myON Made assignments: Select an assignment to open it in myON, where you can make changes, assign the assignment to students and publish it, or save the assignment to your drafts.
If the student has no Freckle or Lalilo activity, or if the student has been working on adaptive practice, the recommendation will be to log in and practice. Note: If you are an administrator viewing the Renaissance Next teacher experience, the Freckle skill is not linked; only teachers see a link to open and assign the skills practice.
Open Your Apps
On the left, you'll see a list of the apps that have been assigned to your classes. To open one, select the app icon. If you select AR or Star, you'll see more links and apps so you can choose exactly where you'd like to go.
If you are using a tablet or a smaller browser window, select the app icon at the top of the page instead and then select the app. If you select AR or Star, a popup window will show you more links and apps so that you can select what you need.
Open Reports
Select Reports on the left under My Data and choose the product whose reports you want to see. For Star / Assessment, you can choose to see either Reports or Data Insights; for Star CBM, you can choose Data Insights or the Caregiver Report. Note: If you are an administrator viewing the Renaissance Next teacher experience, Freckle reports aren't available; you can select those reports in Renaissance Next for Leaders and other administrator views.
You can also search for a specific report using the search field at the top. The matching reports will be listed; select the report you want.
If you are using a tablet or a smaller browser window, select the app icon at the top of the page instead and then select Reports. Then, in the popup menu, choose the product whose reports you want to see. If you select Star / Assessment or Star CBM, you will be able to choose between reports and Data Insights. You can also search for a report.
Do You Have Feedback?
We appreciate your feedback on Renaissance Next. Simply select Send Feedback just under the Renaissance logo to send us your thoughts.
Other Views
Select Student Groups to see recommendations for students who are stuck on skills or ready for a challenge; you can also see the skills your students are working on and their status and actions for those skills. Note: The Student Groups view is not available if none of your classes have Freckle or Lalilo assigned.
Select Superstars of the Week to celebrate the accomplishments of students in the past 7 days.