When you create a reading snapshot, this page lets you select the student achievement that you want to share.
Reading Snapshots are a great way to share the reading achievements of the district, a school, a grade, or a class with parents or the community as a whole. Using Reading Snapshots, you can share either the amount of reading students have done or the percentage of students who are meeting their Accelerated Reader goals.
Who can do this with default permissions?
District Level Administrators, District Dashboard Owners, District Staff, School Level Administrators, School Staff, Teachers
How to Get to This Page
- 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.
- 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.
- Then, on the Reading Snapshots page, select Create a Snapshot.
- Select the student groups to include. Then, select Next to go to Achievements.
Choosing the Achievement to Include in the Reading Snapshot
First, choose the type of achievement to include in the reading snapshot: Student reading totals or Goals met. 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. Goals met shows 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 choose "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, you must 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.
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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 choose "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. 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.
- 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 % of goals met is calculated this way:
number of students meeting all checked goals
total number of students
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.
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.