Follow the steps below to create images or website counters that you can post on a website for your school or district. Reading Snapshots are a great way to share your students' reading achievements with parents and the community.
Who can do this with default permissions?
District Level Administrators, District Dashboard Owners, District Staff, School Level Administrators, School Staff, Teachers
- First, do one of the following:
- If you have a Home page with tiles like the ones shown below, select Reading Snapshots under "Share Progress," or select Accelerated Reader Independent Reading, then, select Share Reading Snapshots.
- If your home page is Renaissance Next, select AR under My Apps on the left side of the page as shown in the second example below; then, select Reading Snapshots in the menu that opens.
- Then, on the Reading Snapshots page, select Create a Snapshot.
- Next, choose the students that you want to include.
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District: District-level administrators and District staff can select District to share achievements for all students in the district.
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School: District-level and school-level administrators and staff can select School to share achievements for all students in a specific school. Then, use the drop-down list to select the school.
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Grade: Select Grade to share achievements for all students in a specific grade at a specific school. Then, use the drop-down lists to choose the school and grade.
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Class: Select Class to share achievements for all students in a specific class at a specific school. Then, use the drop-down lists to choose the school and class.
The preview to the right will reflect what you have chosen (but will not show actual data yet). After you choose the students to include, select Next.
- On the next page (Achievements), choose the type of achievement to include in the reading snapshot:
- Student reading totals include the number of books and words students have read and how many minutes students are estimated to have read per day. (Average minutes read per day is an estimate based on Star Reading/Star Early Literacy scores and points earned in Accelerated Reader. It is not shown if Star data is not available for enough of the selected students.)
- Goals met show you the percentage of students who have met their current reading goals.
- After choosing the type of achievement, choose the settings.
Student Reading Totals
If you chose "Student reading totals," the reading snapshot will how many books and words your students have read during the time period based on the Reading Practice Quizzes, Other Reading Quizzes, and Article Quizzes students have passed. Next, choose whether to create a website counter or an image:
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Website counter: This option is available only to district and school level administrators. A website counter displays total books read, words read, and estimated minutes of reading per day. After you create a website counter, you will go back to the Reading Snapshots page, where you can copy HTML for the website counter. Your website administrator can use the HTML to include the counter on the school or district website. Once you include the counter on your website, it updates the totals every day as long as you are in the time period that you selected for the Reading Snapshot.
After you choose a website counter, you can choose whether to count for the current month or the current school year. -
Image: An image is a picture that includes the total books read, words read, and estimated minutes read per day for a specific month in the school year. The image is not updated once you have created it. You can download the images that you create as .png files on the Reading Snapshots page.
After you choose the Image option, use the drop-down list to choose the month for which you want to display student achievements. (You cannot choose a month that hasn't started yet.)
Goals Met
If you chose "Goals met," check the Accelerated Reader goals that you want to include. The reading snapshot will show the percentage of students who met those goals (the number of students who met all checked goals divided by the total number of students). This only applies to students using the goal models for grades 3-5 or grades 6 and up; K-2 badge goals are not included.
- Average percent correct on quizzes: The average percent correct goal reflects students' overall average scores on Reading Practice Quizzes, Other Reading Quizzes, and Article Quizzes.
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Points earned: The points goal represents the number of points that students earn by passing Reading Practice Quizzes, Other Reading Quizzes, and Article Quizzes. For more information about points, see Points in Accelerated Reader.
After selecting the goal types to include, select the marking period for which the goals were set. Only goals set for that marking period will be reflected in the reading snapshot. For more about setting goals, see Accelerated Reader Goals (Record Book).
The preview to the right will reflect what you have chosen. If you see 0s for minutes read, a message will tell you that there is not enough Star data to display the minutes read per day. To go on to the next step, select Next.
- On the next page (Appearance Options), enter a title for the reading snapshot (up to 85 characters). The title will appear at the top as shown in the preview on the right side of the page.
- Next, choose the layout (shape and orientation) of the reading snapshot.
- Next, select the picture to use as a background.
- When you're done and the preview reflects the changes you want, select Next.
- On the last page (Review), you will see a list of the choices you've made and a preview of your image or web promotion.
If you want to change the students who will be included or the achievement that you want to share, select Edit next to the appropriate item. You can also select Back to go back to previous steps.
If you decide not to create the reading snapshot or to save your changes, select Cancel.
If you do want to save the reading snapshot so that you can use it, select Save in the top right corner of the page. First you'll see a message while the reading snapshot is being created; if you don't want to wait while that happens, select Go to the Home page in the message. Otherwise, wait while the reading snapshot is created; when it's ready, you will return to the list of reading snapshots that you have created.