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Teacher Capabilities

The teacher group includes personnel with these positions: ESL teacher, lead teacher, team teacher, and other teacher.

Teachers have these capabilities by default:

Capability

Determines Who Can...

Content (most tasks done by Renaissance Learning)
Manage Content Manage content, such as quizzes or libraries.
View Content View content, such as quizzes or libraries.
Share Created Content (School) Share created Star Custom assessments or assessment items with anyone in the selected school or yourself only.

Student Information
View Students and Class Enrollments View the student information for the teacher's students, including class enrollment.

Classroom Work
Manage Classroom Activities Manage student assignments, goals, scores, and classroom reports for the teacher's classes, including Record and Assignment Books.
View Classroom View classroom work for the teacher's classes, such as student assignments, goals, and scores, including Record and Assignment Books.

Reports
Teacher Reports View reports for the teacher's classes.
Parent Reports View parent reports.
Filter Reports by Characteristics Limit reports to students who have been assigned specific characteristics in Renaissance Place.
Filter Reports by Ethnicity Limit reports to students with specific ethnicities, which are set when you add students or edit their information.

Software Preferences
View School Preferences View school-level preferences for any Renaissance Place product at the teacher's school.

These capabilities can be added for teachers:

  • Manage Courses and Classes and View Courses and Classes

    The Manage capability lets you add, edit, or delete courses and classes for your school(s), copy classes from the previous school year, add or remove team teachers for the classes, and add or remove students in them. The View capability allows you to see course and class information.

  • Manage Data Consolidation

    Schedule when the software consolidates data from all products for Consolidated reports, or consolidate data as needed.

  • Manage Default Capabilities and View Default Capabilities

    The Manage capability lets you add or remove capabilities (rights) for any school group in the software. The View capability lets you see the capabilities granted to these groups.

  • Manage Marking Periods and Days Off

    Add, edit, copy, or delete marking periods (such as semesters or quarters) or days off for your school(s).

  • Manage Parents and View Parents

    The Manage capability lets you add, edit, or delete parent information and associate students with their parents.

  • Manage Personnel and View Personnel

    The Manage capability lets you add, edit, or delete personnel and assign them to your school(s). The View capability lets you view personnel information.

  • Manage Reporting Periods

    Add, edit, or delete the time periods used on Renaissance Place Consolidated reports.

  • Manage School Enrollment

    Enroll students in your school(s).

  • Manage School Preferences

    Manage the current settings of school-level preferences. School-level preferences are on each product's Preferences page.

  • Manage Student Data

    Permanently remove and recover student records. Note: All users who are given this capability must be given the Manage Students and Class Enrollments capability as well.

  • Manage Students and Class Enrollments

    Add students, enroll students in classes, edit student information and characteristics, manage custom characteristics in the database, and delete students from the database. This does not include the ability to import, export, or merge student information.

  • Merge Students

    Merge duplicate student records into one record.

  • School-Level Access

    View information for any class in your school in any product.

  • School Reports

    These capabilities allow you to print reports for your school(s).

  • School-Level Student Export and Teacher-Level Student Export

    Export students in your school(s) at the school, teacher, grade, class, or student level.

  • School-Level Student Import and Teacher-Level Student Import

    Import student information into your school(s) and classes.

  • Share Created Content (District)

    Share created Star Custom assessments or assessment items with anyone in the district, the selected school, or yourself only.

Some capabilities that are intended for other groups may not be available to teachers, including these: Change Data Editing Preference, District-Level Student Export, District-Level Student Import, District Reports, Manage District, Manage District Preferences, Manage School Year, Manage Schools, View Schools, and View District Preferences.