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About Capabilities

Renaissance software uses capabilities to give users the right to perform specific tasks in the software.

Accelerated Reader has three capabilities:

  • The Manage Book and Quiz Availability capability is granted to district and school administrators by default, and it can be added for district and school staff and teachers.
  • The Take a Sample Quiz capability allows teachers to preview sample quizzes (if the preview feature is available), except for teacher-made quizzes. By default, all teachers can preview sample quizzes (the box is checked).
  • The Manage Book Level Settings capability is granted to district and school administrators by default, and it can be added for district and school staff and teachers.

If you find that you want to change the capabilities that your district or school users have, district administrators and school administrators can change:

  • the default capabilities that will be granted to new district or school users (based on their user group)
  • the capabilities granted to district or school users who are already in the database (based on their user group)
  • the capabilities granted to a specific person

Who Can Change Capabilities?

District administrators can change the capabilities for new and existing users in the district or school user groups.

School administrators can change the capabilities for new and existing users in the school user groups at their school.

User Groups

When you change default capabilities or capabilities for groups of existing users, capabilities are assigned based on these groups of users:

User groups at the district level

  • District administrators (superintendent and assistant superintendent)
  • District staff (all other users assigned to the district, including the academic testing coordinator, admissions director, curriculum director, district custodian, director of education, food service director, gifted/talented director, library/media director, other district staff, personnel director, reading specialist, district secretary, special education director, technology/computer director, Title I director, and vocational education coordinator)
  • Parents
  • Students

User groups at the school level

  • School administrators (principal, assistant principal, and librarian/reading coordinator)
  • School staff (at-risk coordinator, athletic director, athletic trainer, audiologist, educational diagnostician, ESL coordinator, food service worker, guidance counselor, interpreter, librarian/media specialist, occupational therapist, other school staff, physical therapist, physician, reading specialist, school custodian, school nurse, school psychologist, school secretary, social worker, speech therapist, teacher's aide, teacher appraiser, teacher facilitator, teacher supervisor, and technology/computer coordinator)
  • Teachers (ESL teacher, lead teacher, other teachers, and team teacher)

How to View or Change Capabilities

To view or change capabilities:

  1. On the Home page, click Product Administration.
  2. Under Setup and Maintenance, click Define User Capabilities.
  3. To find out how to view or change the capabilities for a user or group of users, click one of the following links: