Star Custom Home Page
How do I get to this page?
Who can do this with default capabilities?
- District Level Administrators/District Staff: any class or school in the district
- School Level Administrators/School Staff: any class in their school
- Teachers: any of their own classes
The Star Custom Home page is the "hub" where you can view assessment progress, drill down further into the data, and launch into planning.
Use the drop-down lists in the navigation sentence to choose which students
and time period
you want to view information for.

For time period, you can choose the entire school year, the last 30 days, the current marking period (only those with the type "Marking Period" selected, not semesters or quarters), the last 7 days, today, or a custom date range.
- Select the current date range, and then select Custom Dates from the drop-down list.

- In the pop-up window, type the start and end dates you want for the range. You can also select the calendar icons at the right end of the date fields and choose the dates from the calendars that open. The dates can be up to 3 weeks apart.

- When you are done choosing your custom dates, select Continue (or select Cancel to close the pop-up without saving a custom date range).
The table shows all of the plans for the selected students during the time period chosen. Each row
shows the status of all the assessments in one plan. Select one of the column headers
to sort the data in the table based on that column (either alphabetically or numerically).
- Assessment Plan: The name of the plan
- Start Date: The date students could begin working on assessments in the plan
- Assigned To: The class or group the assessments have been assigned to
- Upcoming: Assessments that have been scheduled, but the scheduled start date has not arrived yet (assessments do not appear in a student's Assignments until the day it is scheduled)
- Ready: Assessments that have been scheduled and the scheduled start date has arrived
- Started: Assessments that students have started but have not completed yet
- Needs Scoring: Assessments that students have finished and have one or more items that require hand scoring
- Scored: Assessments that are finished and that have been scored (these assessments are considered completed)
Drilling Down into the Data
There are a number of views and tasks that you can get to from the Star Custom Home page. Expand a question or statement below to find the information you are looking for.
Assessments and Plans
- Select Plan Assessment in the page header.
- On the Select Skills to Assess page, select the to the right of the pace line
.

- In the pop-up window, choose Select an assessment...
.
- In the Select an Assessment window that pops up, you will see a list of all the user-created assessments that are available to you
. Use the navigation controls at the bottom to page through the list
, or use the search field at the top
to search for an assessment by keyword.

- When you find your assessment, choose Select at the end of its row
.
- This will take you to the Choose Your Assessments page. The assessment you chose will be listed on this page
. Select Preview
to see the assessment, or Edit
to edit it. (You can only edit an assessment that you created.)
Hand-Scoring and Editing Scores
A number in the Needs Scoring column for a plan represents the number of students who have finished an assessment in that plan that requires one or more items to be hand-scored.

Scores and Skills
Scores and Item Types
- Select the arrow
next to the name of a plan.

- In the list of students with finished, scored assessments (those with a number in the Scored column), select the student's name
.
- For any assessments the student has completed, Complete will be shown in the Status column
. Select Complete, and then select Item Responses in the pop-up window
.
This opens the item response view for the assessment. For each item on the assessment, you can see its title
, the answer the student gave
, the correct answer
, the skill that item addresses
, and the source of the item
.

To see the information for items on another assessment, select the assessment from the drop-down list
and select Update
. In the navigation sentence at the top, you can choose a different student
or different information to view
(recent item responses, most used item responses, or an item responses search).
Select Back to Previous App
to go back to Star Custom.
For more information on this chart and how to interpret the data, see Item Responses.
Scores and Domain Mastery
- Select the arrow
next to the name of a plan.

- In the list of students with finished, scored assessments (those with a number in the Scored column), select the student's name
.
- For any assessments the student has completed, Complete will be shown in the Status column
. Select Complete, and then select Mastery in the pop-up window
.
This will show you the domain scores and confidence levels for the skills covered by all of the assessments that the selected student has completed.

For more information on this graph and how to interpret the data, see Domain Mastery Scores.
Students Checking Their Assessment Results
Page Header Links
Links in the page header let you skip to specific Star Custom functions:

Home returns you to the Star Custom Home page. (The in the gray bar at very top of the page takes you to the Renaissance Place Home page.)
Plan Assessment takes you to the start of the planning process (selecting skills to assess).
Dashboards takes you to the Star Custom Dashboard, which gives you a comprehensive view of students' Star Custom assessment data.
Import Data takes you to the Import Student Assignment Data page, where you can download a template that you add student assessment data to and then upload it, which makes that assessment data usable within Star Custom.