User Roles and Renaissance Applications
When personnel users are added to Renaissance software, either manually, by import, or through Custom Data Integration (CDI), they are placed in one of six permission groups:
- District Level Administrator
- District Dashboard Owner
- District Staff
- School Level Administrator
- School Staff
- Teacher
These roles are used for most Star apps (except for Star Phonics), Accelerated Reader, Planner, and Renaissance Reports. However, some Renaissance apps have a different set of user roles, so they choose appropriate roles for each user based on their Renaissance Permission group. This table shows how user roles are transferred for these apps:
|
Renaissance User Role |
Role in Freckle1 | Role in myON2 | Role in Lalilo3 | Role in Star Phonics4 | Role in Renaissance Next for Leaders5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District Level Administrator | Administrator | District Administrator | School Staff | District Administrator | Schoolzilla Administrator |
| District Dashboard Owner | No access | No access | School Staff | No access | School Leader (all schools) |
| District Staff | Administrator | No access | School Staff | District Administrator | School Leader (all schools) |
| School Administrator | Administrator | Building Administrator | School Staff | Specialist | School Leader (specific schools) |
| School Staff | Administrator | Faculty | School Staff | Specialist | School Leader (specific schools) |
| Teacher | Teacher | Faculty | Teacher | Teacher | No access |
1. In Freckle, administrators cannot assign assignments to students unless they are assigned to classes, though they can impersonate a teacher. Administrators can use the administrator dashboard. Teachers can assign assignments and access their classes. Although teachers can only be assigned to one school, they will see their students from all schools.
2. See Roles in myON. Note that school administrators can only be assigned to one building/school in myON. Teachers can only be assigned to one school, but they can have any student in the district assigned to their myON roster.
3. In Lalilo, School Staff have access to administrator reports. Teachers see the classes in Lalilo that they are assigned to in Renaissance.
4. See Rostering in Star Phonics for more about Star Phonics roles and what users can do. Note that teachers, school administrators, other school staff, and students can only be assigned to one school.
5. For more information, see the Users & Permissions section in Getting Start Guide for District or School Leaders.
How Classes/Courses and Calendars Are Handled in Various Renaissance Apps
Classes and calendars are managed differently across various Renaissance apps, but the information is shared if you log in to these apps through the Renaissance Home page or Renaissance Next.
Classes and Courses
The district and schools are shared across all Renaissance apps. However, class and course information information is sometimes handled differently:
- Courses are not used by Freckle, myON, Lalilo, Star Phonics, or Renaissance Next for Leaders.
- Classes are handled differently in some apps:
- In Freckle, students see the teacher name, not the class name. Teachers see their classes on their Freckle home page.
- myON does not use Renaissance classes; instead, students are combined into one roster per teacher. Students who are enrolled in Renaissance classes with more than one teacher will be in each of the teacher's rosters in myON; for myON assignments, note that only the teacher who assigns an assignment can see the students' progress on that assignment.
- For Star Phonics classes, students can only be in one class that has the Star Phonics product assigned to it in Renaissance, though that class can have multiple teachers.
- Renaissance Next for Leaders does not show data at the class level. Data is shown at the school level; users can drill down to the student level. For that reason, product assignments and teachers assigned to classes do not apply to Renaissance Next for Leaders.
Timing of Shared Rostering
For Freckle, myON, Lalilo, Star Phonics, and Renaissance Next for Leaders, changes to class information are available the next day (after the overnight sync), so a change made to a class one day would appear in those apps the next day.
School Calendars
The school year is shared across most Renaissance apps, including Accelerated Reader, most Star apps, Freckle, Lalilo, and Renaissance Next for Leaders. However, in myON, the annual school year start date (July 1 by default) is set by the District Administrator in the district account options, and in Star Phonics, the new school year starts on August 1 each year.
Other App Differences
Email Verification
For personnel (teachers, staff, and administrators), an email address is required for each user. When personnel users open Freckle, Lalilo, Star Phonics, and Renaissance Next for Leaders for the first time, they may be asked to verify their email address.
Other Renaissance Features
Freckle, myON, Lalilo, Star Phonics, and Renaissance Next for Leaders do not observe the following Renaissance features:
- Subscriptions and capacity are handled differently.
- Renaissance preferences do not apply.
- Student accommodation settings do not apply.
- Data editing restrictions and IP restrictions set up in Renaissance do not apply.