How do I get to this page?
- Log in to Renaissance.
- On the Home page, select your initials in the upper-right corner. In the drop-down list, select Manage Apps & Users.
- On the Manage Apps & Users page, select School Calendar.
- On the School Calendar page, select the Screening Windows tab.
If you are setting up a new school year, when you come to this page and select Screening Windows, you will see a reminder that the school network screening window defaults have already been set.
Who can do this with default user permissions?
- All users: can view school network screening windows and school screening windows
- School Network Administrators and School Network Staff: can create, edit, and use school network screening windows
- School Administrators and School Staff: can create, edit, and use school screening windows (can only use school network screening windows assigned to their school; cannot edit or create school network screening windows)
Screening windows are a span of dates during which students have a test administered. Screening windows can be used for many purposes:
- Reporting—focusing on data from a single screening window or comparing growth between multiple screening windows.
- Target-setting—for example, when setting a target for a group of students to improve test scores by 50% by the end of the school year, you could set up four screening windows spaced throughout the school year to serve as checkpoints when you monitor their progress towards that target.
There are two types of screening windows: school network and school.
- School network screening windows are used by school network level administrators and school network staff to view assessment data at the school network level in Schoolzilla and Renaissance Analytics. When a school network screening window is assigned to a school, it becomes usable by any user at that school with sufficient permissions to run reports, and it will be listed under School Network Screening Windows for those users.
- School screening windows are used by school level administrators, school staff, and teachers to view assessment data at the school level (and, in some cases, at a more "granular" level, e.g. the class or student level).
At the start of a new school year, three school network screening windows are set up by default:
- Autumn: 15/8–30/9
- Winter: 1/12–15/1
- Spring: 15/4–31/5
Each default school network screening window has a default school screening window "inside" it, with the same start and end dates. Although the default windows can be edited like any other, there are some restrictions:
- A default school window must always remain inside its school network window. (School windows that you create yourself can fall outside school network windows.)
- If you try to change the dates for a default school network window and the change would cause its default school window to start or end outside of it, you will see an alert and you will not be able to save the change. You would either have to (a) change the dates of the default school window first or (b) delete the default school window.
- Changes to default windows (both school network and school) are not carried over from one school year to the next—the dates above are always used for the initial creation of the default windows.
School network screening windows (including the defaults) are listed at the top of the page; school screening windows (not including the defaults) are listed at the bottom. For each, the name of the window, the date range it covers, and the number of schools using that window are given.
To see which schools have been included in a particular screening window, select the arrow at the right end of the window's row.
By default, this page shows screening windows for the current school year. To view and edit screening windows from prior school years, select View History in the upper-right corner, then select the desired year in the drop-down list.
You will see a reminder of the school year you are working in at the top of affected pages:
You will continue working in the chosen school year until you (a) come back to this page and select a different school year, (b) leave the Screening Windows tab, or (c) select View History again and then select Close History on the right—all of these actions will put you back in the current school year).
A small number of past school years do not have schools assigned to school network screening windows. In those cases, all student test scores will be shown in Schoolzilla. If you are working in one of those school years, you will see the following reminder:
These school network windows can still be edited, but schools cannot be assigned to them; the arrow at the end of the row (which shows/hides schools assigned to a school network screening window) will not be shown.
- School network administrators and school network staff: Select Create School Network Screening Window to create a school network screening window, or Edit at the end of the row for an existing school network screening window to edit it.
Selecting Edit for a default school network screening window also lets you edit the default school screening window inside it.
- School administrators and school staff: Select Create School Screening Window to create a school screening window, or Edit at the end of the row for an existing school screening window to edit it.