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Q UIZZES Searching for Quizzes In the Manage Quizzes and Manage Quiz Availability areas of Accelerated Reader, you can search for particular quizzes. You may be able to search by quiz number, title, author, book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, points, or install date (Manage Quiz Availability only). C D H A Choose Title starts with, Title When you use the search criteria “title contains” or “author contains,” and you type a letter combination such as “am,” your search results may include quiz records for Amber Brown Goes Fourth and Bambi or the authors James Howe and Ann Cameron since both titles and authors contain “am.” B A Narrow your search by using more than one criteria. contains, Title exact match, Author’s last name starts with, Author contains, Author exact, or Quiz Number from the drop-down list. Type all or part of the quiz title, author’s name, or the quiz number. B Type the ATOS Book Level range (or user-defined name if the book level settings have been changed; see page 135 for more information). If you're looking for a specific book level, enter the same number in both fields. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search further or Less Criteria to limit the options shown. E F G D Choose Fiction, Nonfiction, or both Fiction and Nonfiction from the drop-down list. E Choose All Interest Levels, Lower Grades (grade ranges K–3), Middle Grades (grade ranges 4–8), Middle Grades Plus (grades 6 and up), or Upper Grades (grade ranges 9–12) from the drop-down list. F Choose All Languages, English, or Spanish from the drop-down list. G Type the point range. If you're looking for a specific points value, enter the same number in both fields. H Check the Only find quizzes with recorded voice box to search for Reading Practice recorded voice quizzes. Click Search after you have chosen/typed the desired criteria. The program will display the search results based on your choices. Note: To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete any text you've entered and click Search again (it doesn't matter what you've chosen in the drop-down lists). Accelerated Reader Software Manual 107 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Reading Practice Quizzes are the foundation of the Accelerated Reader program. They measure comprehension and are motivational because they ensure a successful, positive experience if the student reads a book at the proper level. Reading Practice Quizzes are available per school. Therefore, different schools in your your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they’ve ordered different quizzes. If you have AR Enterprise your school will have all the available quizzes. After your Reading Practice Quizzes are installed by Renaissance Learning, you can view the quiz information, edit quiz information, change the book level for all the quizzes at once, view a sample quiz, or delete quizzes. You can also add, edit, and delete Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes. In addition, you can manage which quizzes are available; see page 140. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 108 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. Which quizzes? This page lists all the Reading Practice quizzes installed for this school, including Teacher-Made quizzes. Follow these steps to view a list of all the Reading Practice Quizzes (including Teacher-Made Quizzes) for a school and also to view the information for a specific quiz: 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Reading Practice in the list of quiz types. 4. To find a specific quiz on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page: C B D A E F Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing Preference. To change this preference see “Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School)” on page 48. G A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. Click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. classification, interest level, quiz language, points, or recorded voice quizzes. D Click Search. Delete all the B To find a particular quiz, search by Searching by quiz number or book level. If you’re searching by quiz number, you must enter the quiz number. If you’re looking for a specific book level or points value, enter the same number in both fields. Accelerated Reader Software Manual title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see “Searching for Quizzes” on page 107. changes you made to the fields to go back to the full list of quizzes and click Search again. E Click View only Teacher-Made Quizzes to view only teacher-made quizzes. F Click AR BookFinder to open a C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view G. 109 separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Ed iti ng R e ad in g Pr acti c e Qu iz I nfo r ma ti on Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can change the ATOS book levels for the quiz, fiction/nonfiction classification, and interest level (the grades for which the book’s content is most appropriate). You can also specify whether students are allowed to take this quiz. Changes will affect only your school. This procedure is for editing information about Reading Practice Quizzes you received from Renaissance Learning. If you want to edit the information or questions for a Teacher-Made Quiz, see page 116. 1. View the Reading Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page 109. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. If you edit information for a Reading Practice Quiz, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading). 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Reading Practice Quiz page. 4. Edit the quiz on the Edit Reading Practice Quiz page as described below. Teacher-Made Quiz page? If the Edit Teacher-Made Quiz opens instead of the Reading Practice Quiz page, you chose to edit a Teacher-Made quiz. See “Editing a Teacher-Made Quiz” on page 116. A B C A D E A Choose the correct information from the drop-down lists to change the ATOS book level, fiction/nonfiction classification, or the interest level. Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you’ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference (see page 46). B Type a different number to change the ATOS 100 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of 0.0–100.0. C Type a different number to change the ATOS 2000 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of 0–2000. D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this quiz. 5. Click Save when you are finished E. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 110 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can take a sample Reading Practice Quiz (or Teacher-Made Quiz) to see how a specific quiz is presented to students. 1. View the Reading Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz to preview. See page 109. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want to preview on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz or Take a Sample Quiz with Recorded Voice under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Reading Practice Quiz or View Teacher-Made Quiz page A. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 206 for more information). A 4. Click Start Quiz when you’re ready to begin. If Recorded Voice is on, you will hear a recording of each question and the possible answers. Click the question or an answer to hear the recording again. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer if necessary. Click Next > when you’re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer on the final question. 6. When the quiz is done, the Score Summary shows you how you did on the quiz. 7. Click OK if you answered all the questions correctly and skip step 8. 8. Click Yes (if applicable) to see the questions you answered incorrectly, or click No if you do not want to review your incorrect answers. If you clicked Yes, your answer will be circled with a red “X” over it and the correct answer will have a green square around it. Click Next > to view each question. Click Done after the last question. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 111 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Deleti ng a Reading Pr acti ce Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. Deleting a quiz has no effect on the records of students who already took the quiz. Rather than deleting a quiz, you may make the quiz inactive. That way the quiz will not have to be reinstalled by Renaissance Learning to be restored—you can simply activate it again. See “Editing Quiz Availability: Making Quizzes Active or Inactive” on page 142 for more information. 1. View the Reading Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz to delete. See page 109. 2. Click Remove by the quiz you want to delete on the View Reading Practice Quizzes page A. Restoring a deleted quiz. To restore a deleted Reading Practice Quiz, you must contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. To restore a deleted Teacher-Made Quiz, you must add it to the program again (see page 113). A 3. Click OK to delete/remove the quiz. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 112 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Teacher-Made Reading Practice Quizzes Teacher-Made Quizzes are Reading Practice Quizzes that a district administrator, district staff, school administrator, school staff, or teacher has added to the program. The quiz numbers 900–1399 are reserved (per school) for Teacher-Made quizzes. Before Adding a Teacher-Made Quiz Before you add a teacher-made quiz for a book, make sure you have the following information about the book. • title • author • book level • word count • fiction or nonfiction classification For more helpful information about creating teacher-made quizzes, see the resource “Writing Teacher-Made Quizzes” under Resources to Advance Your Implementation (see “Resources” on page 10). Adding a Teacher-Made Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can add up to 500 Teacher-Made Quizzes per school, using the quiz numbers 900–1399. Adding Teacher-Made Quizzes is a two-part process: first, you must add basic information about the quiz; then, you add the questions and answers. When the quiz is presented to students, the questions will be presented in a random order. 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Reading Practice in the list of quiz types. 4. Click View only Teacher-Made Quizzes under Actions along the left side of the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 5. Click Add Teacher-Made Quiz under Actions along the left side of the View Teacher-Made Quizzes page. Which quizzes? The View Reading Practice Quizzes page lists all the Reading Practice quizzes installed for this school, including Teacher-Made quizzes. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 113 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information 6. Enter the quiz information on the Add Teacher-Made Quiz page as follows: Interest Levels are based on the content of the book, not its difficulty. They reflect the grade levels for which the book’s subject matter is most appropriate. A • Lower Grades are K–3 • Middle Grades are 4–8 • Middle Grades Plus are 6 and up B • Upper Grades are 9–12 ATOS 100 and 2000 Book Levels. If you don’t add ATOS 100 and 2000 book levels (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed), the program will calculate them for you when you save this quiz. { C A D { E F A Choose the correct information from the Quiz Number, Language, Fiction/Nonfiction, Interest Level, and Questions Presented drop-down lists. B Type the information for the title, author, word count, and ATOS book level Quiz Status: Do Not Allow and Under Development. If you choose not to allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you’ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference (see page 46). If you choose Under Development, students will not be allowed to take the quiz and the quiz monitor will not be able to override the block on it. Accelerated Reader Software Manual (scale of 0.1–20.0). C Type a number for the ATOS 100 book level (scale of 0.0–100.0) and the ATOS 2000 book level (scale of 0–2000). Note: The names may be different if the book level settings were changed by an administrator. See page 135. D Click Recalculate after you enter the word count and book level to have the program calculate the points that can be earned for the quiz. E Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students are allowed to take this quiz. F Click Save when you are finished. 114 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Adding the Questions and Answers 7. Click View/Edit Quiz Questions under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page to create the quiz questions. 8. Follow these steps to complete the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page: a. Click Edit next to the question you want to write G. Teacher-Made Questions. Since you have not yet entered the actual questions and answers, the questions and answers are filled with descriptive text to help you choose what to enter. The number of questions matches the number you chose when you added the quiz information. G b. Delete the existing text and type the question and each possible answer on the Edit Teacher-Made Quiz Question page. Be sure to enter the correct answer first, right after the question H. I c. Click Save when you are finished I. d. Repeat steps a–c for each additional question on the quiz. H 9. Click Done on the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page after you’ve entered the text for all the questions and possible answers. 10. If necessary, click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page to adjust the Quiz Status of this quiz. Viewing Teacher-Made Quizzes See “Viewing Reading Practice Quizzes” on page 109. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 115 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Editing a Teacher-Made Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. When you edit a Teacher-Made Quiz, you can change the quiz title, author, language, word count, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, number of questions, and ATOS book levels (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed by an administrator). You can also recalculate the points, choose if students can take this quiz, and change the questions and answers that appear on the quiz. 1. View the Reading Practice Quizzes page. See page 109. 2. Click View only Teacher-Made Quizzes under Actions along the left side of the View Reading Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Teacher-Made Quizzes page. Follow the steps below to locate a quiz: C B D A Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing Preference. To change this preference see “Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School)” on page 48. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see “Searching for Quizzes” on page 107. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, or points. D Click Search. If you want to edit the quiz information, follow the steps on page 117. If you want to edit the quiz questions, follow the steps on page 118. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 116 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Editing Teacher-Made Quiz Information 4. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page. 5. Change the title, author, word count, and ATOS book levels (or user-defined names) E if necessary. F Reducing the number of quiz questions. If you reduce the number of questions and you have already added your questions to the quiz, some questions will be removed from the quiz when it’s presented to the student. E { G H F { I J Quiz Status: Do Not Allow and Under Development. If you choose not to allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you’ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference (see page 46). If you choose Under Development, students will not be allowed to take the quiz and the quiz monitor will not be able to override the block on it. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 6. Choose different options from the Quiz Language, Fiction/Nonfiction, Interest Level, or Questions Presented drop-down lists F if necessary. 7. Type a number for the ATOS 100 book level (scale of 0.0–100.0) and the ATOS 2000 book level (scale of 0–2000) G if necessary. Note: The names may be different if the book level settings were changed by an administrator. See page 135. 8. Click Recalculate if you changed the number of questions on the quiz, the word count, or any of the book levels H if necessary. The program will display the new point value for the quiz. 9. Change the Quiz Status option to choose whether students are allowed to take the quiz I if necessary. 10. Click Save when you are finished J. 117 Changing Teacher-Made Quiz Questions 11. Click View/Edit Quiz Questions on the View Teacher-Made Quiz page. 12. Click Edit in the row for the question you want to change on the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page K. K 13. Change the text of the questions on the Edit Teacher-Made Quiz Question page. Make sure the correct answer is the one right after the question L. 14. Click Save when you are finished M. M 15. Repeat steps 12–14 for each question you need to edit. 16. Click Done on the View Teacher-Made Quiz Questions page when you’re finished changing the quiz questions. L Taking a Sample Teacher-Made Quiz See “Taking a Sample Reading Practice Quiz” on page 111. Deleting a Teacher-Made Quiz See “Deleting a Reading Practice Quiz” on page 112. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 118 ..... QUIZZES Reading Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information ..... QUIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Vocabulary Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Vocabulary Practice Quizzes help you maximize students’ word acquisition through reading practice. Vocabulary Practice Quizzes contain 5, 10, or 15 questions covering the vocabulary words found in the books they have read. Vocabulary Practice Quizzes are designed to be taken immediately after a student has taken and passed the Reading Practice Quiz on a book they have read. You can use the Vocabulary Practice Student Comprehension Preference to require that students pass the Reading Practice Quiz on a book before taking the Vocabulary Practice Quiz for the same book (see page 52). Vocabulary Practice Quizzes are available per school. Therefore, different schools in your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they’ve ordered different quizzes. If you have AR Enterprise your school will have all the available quizzes. When you work with your Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, you can view a list of the quizzes for your school, delete a quiz, or select it. When you select a Vocabulary Practice Quiz, you can edit some information, take a sample quiz, and print the Vocabulary List Report for the quiz. Note: Besides the regular Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, there is another kind of Vocabulary Practice Quiz. It’s called a ~Second-Try and Review Words~ Quiz. This type of quiz includes only second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words. It does not include any first-try new words from a particular title. You cannot view, edit, or delete this type of quiz because it is created specifically for each student based on the words the student has learned and those words the student answered incorrectly on the first try. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 119 ..... QUIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Viewing Vocabulary Practice Quizzes Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can view a list of the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes that have been installed for a school or the information for a specific Vocabulary Practice Quiz. 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Vocabulary Practice in the list of quiz types. 4. Find a specific quiz on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page as described below: C B D A E F Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing Preference. To change this preference see “Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School)” on page 48. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see “Searching for Quizzes” on page 107. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, or quiz language. D Click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria and click Search again. E Click AR BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view F. The View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page shows you information about the quiz and gives you access to the tasks you can perform. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 120 ..... QUIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Ed iti ng V o cab ul a r y Pr acti c e Qu iz I nfo r ma tio n Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can change the ATOS book levels, fiction/nonfiction classification, and interest level. You can also specify whether students in the school can take the quiz. Note: If you edit Vocabulary Practice Quiz information, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Reading Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading). 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page and locate the quiz you want. See page 120. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page. 4. Make changes to the Edit Vocabulary Practice Quiz page as follows: Book and Interest Levels. The book level determines the difficulty of the book. The interest level shows you the group for which this book’s content is most appropriate. A B C A Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you’ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference (see page 46). D E A Choose the correct information from the ATOS Book Level, Fiction/Nonfiction, or the Interest Level drop-down lists. B Type a different number to change the ATOS 100 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of 0.0–100.0. C Type a different number to change the ATOS 2000 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of 0–2000. D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this quiz. 5. Click Save when you’re finished E. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 121 ..... QUIZZES Vocabulary Practice Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can take a sample Vocabulary Practice Quiz to see how a specific quiz is presented to students. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page 120. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page A. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 206 for more information). A 4. Click Start Quiz when you’re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select an answer. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer if necessary. Click Next > when you’re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer to the final question. 6. Click OK on the Score Summary page that shows you how you did on the quiz. Printing the Vo cabulary List Report Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. The Vocabulary List Report lists the vocabulary words for a particular Vocabulary Practice Quiz. You can print this report for a specific quiz as described below, or from the Reports section of the program (see page 185). In addition, students who log in can print it (see page 151) and parents who log can print it (see page 180). This procedure allows you to generate the Vocabulary List Report for one quiz. If you want to generate the report for several quizzes at one time or if you want to customize the report (for example, by excluding the vocabulary word definitions), you should generate it from the Reports section of the program. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page 120. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click Preview Vocabulary List Report under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Vocabulary Practice Quiz page. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 122 ..... QUIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information 4. When the report generates, it opens in a separate window. To save or print it, use the Adobe Reader buttons. A 5. To print the report, click the Adobe Reader print button A instead of using the browser’s print function (or in Preview, click the File menu and choose Print). Close the browser report window when you have finished. Deleti ng a Vocabul ary Pr acti ce Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. Deleting a quiz has no effect on the records of students who have already taken it. Note: To restore a deleted Vocabulary Practice Quiz, you must contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. Rather than deleting a quiz, you may make the quiz inactive. That way the quiz will not have to be reinstalled to be restored—you can simply activate it again. See “Editing Quiz Availability: Making Quizzes Active or Inactive” on page 142 for more information. 1. View the Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to find a specific quiz to delete. See page 120. 2. Click Remove by the quiz you want to delete on the View Vocabulary Practice Quizzes page. 3. Click OK if you’re sure you want to remove the quiz. Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Literacy Skills Quizzes help teachers assess their students’ proficiency on 24 specific skills found in state and district language-arts standards and on many standardized tests. Administered on selected books, Literacy Skills Quizzes let you monitor student growth in each skill throughout the year and target instruction so students master state and district standards. Literacy Skills Quizzes are available per school. Therefore, different schools in your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they’ve ordered different quizzes. If you have AR Enterprise your school will have all the available quizzes. When you work with your Literacy Skills Quizzes, you can view the quiz list for your school, delete a quiz, or select it. When you select a Literacy Skills Quiz, you can edit some information, take a sample quiz, view the Literacy Skills Teacher’s Guide for the quiz, and view the quiz question bank. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 123 ..... QUIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Th e 24 Literacy Skills Accelerated Reader RP monitors 24 literacy skills found in state and district standards and objectives and on many high-stakes tests. These skills are grouped into four categories: Constructing Meaning, Inferential Comprehension, Literary Analysis, and Initial Understanding. The skills that Accelerated Reader monitors are listed in the table below. Category Literacy Skills Constructing Meaning Deriving Word or Phrase Meaning Differentiating Fact and Opinion Identifying Persuasive Language Identifying Reading Strategies Responding to Literature Understanding the Main Idea Inferential Comprehension Comparing and Contrasting Drawing Conclusions Extending Meaning Making Inferences Making Predictions Recognizing Cause and Effect Literary Analysis Identifying Historic/Cultural Factors Recognizing Plot Recognizing Setting Understanding the Author’s Craft Understanding Characterization Understanding Literacy Features Initial Understanding Describing Actions or Events Identifying Reasons Recognizing Feeling Recognizing Detail Understanding Sequence Understanding Dialog Accelerated Reader Software Manual 124 ..... QUIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Viewing a Literacy Skills Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Literacy Skills in the list of quiz types. 4. Find a specific quiz on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page as described below: Learn more about capabilities on page 204. C B D A E F Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing Preference. See “Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School)” on page 48. A Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. B To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see “Searching for Quizzes” on page 107. C Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, or quiz language. D Click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria and click Search again. E Click AR BookFinder to open a 5. Click Select by the quiz you want to view F. The View Literary Skills Quiz page shows you information about the quiz and gives you access to the tasks you can perform. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 125 ..... QUIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information 6. Click View the Literacy Skills Quiz Questions under the Quiz Task Menu to view the question bank for this quiz G. The View Literacy Skills Quiz Questions page shows the correct answer to each question (in a box) and the skill addressed by that question. G Why so many questions? There are more questions in the question bank than what’s on a normal Literacy Skills Quiz. When a student takes a Literacy Skills Quiz, the program randomly selects an equal number of questions from each skill group in the question bank for inclusion on the quiz. Therefore, if the student retakes the quiz, the two quizzes will not be identical. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 7. Click Done when you are finished viewing the View Literacy Skills Quiz Questions page. 126 ..... QUIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Editi ng Lit er acy Skill s Quiz Informati on Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can change the ATOS book levels, fiction/nonfiction classification, and interest level. You can also specify whether students in the school are allowed to take the quiz. Changes will affect only your school. Note: If you edit Literacy Skills Quiz information, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Other Reading). 1. View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz to edit. See page 125. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want to edit on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Literacy Skills Quiz page. 4. Change the Edit Literacy Skills Quiz page as described below. Book and Interest Levels. The book level determines the difficulty of the book. The interest level shows you the group for which this book’s content is most appropriate. A B C A Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you’ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference (see page 46). D E A Choose the correct information from the ATOS Book Level, Fiction/Nonfiction, or the Interest Level drop-down lists. B Type a different number to change the ATOS 100 book level (or user-defined name) which uses a scale of 0.0–100.0. C Type a different number to change the ATOS 2000 book level (or user-defined name) which uses a scale of 0–2000. D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this quiz. 5. Click Save when you’re finished E. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 127 ..... QUIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Li teracy Skil ls Q ui z Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can take a sample Literacy Skills Quiz to see how a specific quiz is presented to students. 1. View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz to take. See page 125. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Literacy Skills Quiz page A. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 206 for more information). A 4. Click Start Quiz when you’re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select an answer. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer if necessary. Click Next > when you’re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer to the final question. 6. Click OK if you answered all the questions correctly and skip step 7. 7. Click Yes (if applicable) to see the questions you answered incorrectly, or click No if you do not want to review them. If you clicked Yes, your answer will be circled with a red “X” over it and the correct answer will have a green square around it. Click Next > to view each question. Click Done after the last question. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 128 ..... QUIZZES Literacy Skills Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Viewing a Literacy Skills Teacher’s Guide for a Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers 1. View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz. See page 125. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click View the Teacher’s Guide under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Literacy Skills Quiz page. 4. After the Teacher’s Guide generates, it opens in a separate window. To save or print it, use the Adobe Reader buttons. Learn more about capabilities on page 204. A 5. To print the report, click the Adobe Reader print button A instead of using the browser’s print function (or in Preview on some Macintosh computers, click the File menu and choose Print). Close the browser report window when you are finished. Deleti ng a Lit er acy Skill s Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. Deleting a quiz has no effect on the records of students who have already taken it. Note: To restore a deleted Literacy Skills Quiz, you must contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. Rather than deleting a quiz, you may make the quiz inactive. That way the quiz will not have to be reinstalled to be restored—you can simply activate it again. See “Editing Quiz Availability: Making Quizzes Active or Inactive” on page 142 for more information. 1. View the Literacy Skills Quizzes to find a specific quiz to delete. See page 125. 2. Click Remove by the quiz you want to delete on the View Literacy Skills Quizzes page. 3. Click OK if you’re sure you want to delete the quiz. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 129 ..... QUIZZES Other Reading Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Other Reading Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Students cannot take Other Reading Quizzes until you use the Classroom Other Reading Series Preference to choose the series the class can use (see page 53). In Accelerated Reader, Other Reading Quizzes help you measure your students’ comprehension of the reading material assigned to your class (such as textbooks). Other Reading Quizzes are available for most prominent new reading textbooks. You can use the results of these quizzes to monitor each student’s progress on reading assignments. Other Reading Series are installed per school. Therefore, different schools in your hosted database may have different lists of quizzes if they’ve ordered different series. You can view a list of the series that have been installed for your school, and you can select a series or delete a series. When you select a series, you can view a list of the Other Reading Quizzes in that series, delete a quiz, or select it. When you select a quiz, you can edit some information or take a sample quiz. Viewing Other Reading Series and Other Reading Quizzes Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Other Reading in the list of quiz types. 4. Click Select A in the row for the series you want on the Other Reading Series page. Click Select B in the row for all available series if you want to see all the Other Reading Quizzes regardless of the series they are in. B A Accelerated Reader Software Manual 130 ..... QUIZZES Other Reading Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information 5. Find a specific quiz on the Other Reading Quizzes page as described below. E D G F Too many pages? The list of quizzes may be divided into multiple pages if the list is longer than the limit set in the Viewing Preference. See “Editing the Classroom Restrictions Preferences (School)” on page 48 to change this preference. C H C Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. If necessary, click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. D To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level (or user-defined name if the book level settings were changed) using the drop-down lists and text fields. For more details see “Searching for Quizzes” on page 107. E Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, or quiz language. F Click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria and click Search again. G Click AR BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. 6. Click Select in the row for the quiz you want to view H. The View Other Reading Quiz page opens and shows you more information about the quiz. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 131 ..... QUIZZES Other Reading Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Editi ng O ther Re a di ng Q ui z Infor mat ion Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. You can change the fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, and ATOS book levels. You can also specify whether students in the school are allowed to take the quiz. Note: If you edit information for an Other Reading Quiz, the program automatically changes the same information for that title in the other quiz types (Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills). 1. View the Other Reading Series to find a specific quiz to edit. See page 130. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want to edit. 3. Click Edit Selected Quiz Information under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Other Reading Quiz page. 4. Complete the Edit Other Reading Quiz page as described below. Interest Level. The interest level shows you the grade levels for which this item’s content is most appropriate. A B Quiz Status. If you do not allow students to take this quiz, the quiz monitor will be able to override the block if you’ve enabled the Monitor Override Preference (see page 46). C D E A Type a different number to change the ATOS 100 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of 0.0–100.0. B Type a different number to change the ATOS 2000 book level (or user-defined name), which uses a scale of 0–2000. C Choose the correct information from the Fiction/Nonfiction or the Interest Level drop-down lists. D Click one of the Quiz Status options to specify whether students can take this 5. Click Save when you are finished E. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 132 ..... QUIZZES Other Reading Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Taking a Sample Other Reading Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers 1. View the Other Reading Series to find a specific quiz to take. See page 130. 2. Click Select by the quiz you want to take. 3. Click Take a Sample Quiz under the Quiz Task Menu on the View Other Reading Quiz page A. Note: If this link is unavailable, you have not been given the capability to take a sample quiz (see page 206 for more information). Learn more about capabilities on page 204. A 4. Click Start Quiz when you’re ready to begin. 5. The quiz begins. Press the A, B, C, or D key or click the mouse on the answer you want to select. A circle shows which answer you selected. You can change your answer if necessary. Click Next > when you’re ready to go on. Click Done after you choose an answer to the final question. 6. Click OK if you answered all the questions correctly and skip step 7. 7. Click Yes (if applicable) to see the questions you answered incorrectly, or click No if you do not want to view them. If you clicked Yes, your answer will be circled with a red “X” over it and the correct answer will have a green square around it. Click Next > to view each question. Click Done after the last question. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 133 ..... QUIZZES Other Reading Quizzes—Managing Quiz Information Deleti ng an Other Reading Se ries or Other Reading Quiz Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. Deleting a series or a quiz has no effect on student quiz records that already exist. Changes will affect only your school. Note: To restore a deleted Other Reading Series or Quiz, you must contact Renaissance Learning to get it reinstalled. 1. View the Other Reading Series page. See page 130. 2. To delete a series, click Remove A by the series you want to delete on the Other Reading Series page, then go to step 5. To delete a quiz, click Select B by the series containing the quiz you want to delete. You may also click Select C in the row for all available series to see all the Other Reading Quizzes regardless of the series. C A B 3. Find a specific quiz on the View Other Reading Quizzes page as described on page 130. 4. Click Remove D in the row for the quiz you want to delete on the View Other Reading Quizzes page. 5. Click OK if you’re sure you want to remove the series or quiz. Accelerated Reader Software Manual D 134 ..... QUIZZES Managing Book Level Settings Managing Book Level Settings Who Can Do This?  District Administrator The Book Level Setting pages offer you the ability to customize the book levels you see throughout the program and on reports. To get to the Book Level Settings page:  District Staff 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes.  School Administrator 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list.  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions along the left side of the page. 4. There are four Book Level Settings tasks. Click the appropriate link to perform the desired task: A • Click Set Current Book Level to choose which book level type you want to see and use throughout the program. The setting currently in use is shown on this page A. (ATOS/pre-ATOS is the default.) • Click Update Student Records to update historical student records to reflect changed ATOS 100 or ATOS 2000 book level values on the Edit Quiz Information page for quizzes. Updating student records will change the ATOS 100 or ATOS 2000 book level values that are shown in the Record Books and Goals and on certain reports. Only student records for the active school year will be updated. • Click Convert Pre-ATOS Settings to convert all school quizzes from pre-ATOS to ATOS. • Click Rename Book Levels to change the names of the ATOS 100 or ATOS 2000 column headings and row labels throughout Accelerated Reader. 5. Click Done when you are finished. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 135 ..... QUIZZES Managing Book Level Settings Set Current Book Level Who Can Do This?  District Administrator Choose which book level type (ATOS/pre-ATOS, ATOS 100, or ATOS 2000) to see and use throughout Accelerated Reader by setting the current book level.  District Staff 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes.  School Administrator 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list.  School Staff  Teachers To change capabilities, see page 204. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions on the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. Note that the Book Level Settings page shows you what level is currently being used in the program. 4. Click Set Current Book Level on the Book Level Settings page. The Set Current Book Level page opens. 5. Click the book level type option you want: ATOS/pre-ATOS (scale 0.1–20.0), ATOS 100 (scale 0.0–100.0), or ATOS 2000 (scale 0–2000). 6. Click Save. You will return to the Book Level Settings page that will list the book level you set. Update Student Records Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. If you have changed ATOS 100 or ATOS 2000 book level values on the Edit Quiz Information page for quizzes, you may want to update all student records in the current school year to update historical student records to reflect those changes. Updating student records will change the ATOS 100 and ATOS 2000 book level values that are shown in the Record Books and Goals and on certain reports. 1. Click Manage Quizzes in the list of Accelerated Reader tasks on the Home page. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions on the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. Note that the Book Level Settings page shows you what level is currently being used in the program. 4. Click Update Student Records on the Book Level Settings page. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 136 ..... QUIZZES Managing Book Level Settings 5. Click Update to apply the new book level values to student records for this school year. 6. You will be notified when the student records have been updated. Click Done. Changing the ATOS Book Level Set tings Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. The ATOS Readability Formula for Books indicates how difficult the text of a book is to read. Thus, it can help you match books to your students’ reading levels. But the ATOS formula measures only the readability of the text. It does not (nor do any other readability formulas) take into account literary merit, sophistication of ideas, developmental appropriateness, or maturity of theme or language. This is why it’s important to know and use three measurements when helping your students choose books: • readability (the difficulty of a book’s text) • reading level (the student’s tested reading level) • interest level (the content level of a book divided into four groups—lower grades K–3, middle grades 4–8, middle grades plus 6 and up, upper grades 9–12). An ATOS level is often a good indication that a student can read a book, but may not mean that the student should read the book. The interest level can help you decide whether the student should read the book. When you install your Accelerated Reader quizzes, the book levels are set at the ATOS level. If you have any pre-ATOS quizzes, you can change them to the ATOS book level using the steps in this section. This changes the book level for all the quizzes in your database including Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes. 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions along the left side of the page. 4. Click Convert Pre-ATOS Settings. The number of quizzes currently set at the ATOS book level and the number set at the pre-ATOS level are shown. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 137 Different Quiz Numbers? You may see a difference between the number of quizzes you have and the number that will be changed. That’s because for some quizzes, the ATOS and pre-ATOS book level values are the same. ..... QUIZZES Managing Book Level Settings 5. Click View Quizzes A on the Convert Pre-ATOS Settings page to save a tab-delimited file of all the quizzes that will have a book level value change when you convert quizzes to the ATOS book level setting. The number of quizzes that will have a book level value change is listed B. Note: You must save this file because you will not be able to access it after the conversion. B A C 6. Click Convert to ATOS C to convert all your quizzes. 7. Click Done on the message telling you how many quizzes were converted. Rename Book Levels Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff This procedure explains how to change the names of the ATOS 100 and ATOS 2000 book levels in report and column headings and row labels throughout the software. 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes.  School Administrator 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list.  School Staff  Teachers 3. Click Book Level Settings under Actions on the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. Learn more about capabilities on page 204. 4. Click Rename Book Levels on the Book Level Settings page. 5. Erase the default text in any of the four fields A and type the name(s) of your choice for reports and column headings (10 characters maximum) and row labels (25 characters maximum). Click Default to return to the program default names. A 6. Click Save when you are finished. Click Cancel to return to the Book Level Settings page. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 138 ..... QUIZZES Creating an AR BookGuide Export Tips for Making Names Fit If a new name you are using does not appear on reports or column headings as well as you would like or doesn’t fit into the space, try one or more of the following adjustments: • Change the letters from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa (generally uppercase letters are wider than lowercase letters). • Add a space in the middle of the name to force a wrapping point. • Replace a space with a hyphen (-) or other character that is not a space to prevent a premature wrapping of the name. • Abbreviate some portion of the name. • Test your new name by generating the Student Record Report to see how it looks in the Book Level column. This report has the smallest book level column width and is a good way to make sure the name you chose looks the way you want it to look. Creating an AR BookGuide Export Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. Follow the steps below to create an AR BookGuide export file. When this file is imported into AR BookGuide, AR BookGuide can mark the quizzes you own and update book levels (for all the quiz types) and points (for Reading Practice Quizzes). Follow these steps to export a file for AR BookGuide from Accelerated Reader RP. 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quizzes. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quizzes page. 3. Click AR BookGuide Export under Actions along the left side of the Manage Quizzes page. 4. Click Export on the AR BookGuide Export page. 5. Click Download to save the file when the export file is ready on the Generating AR BookGuide Export page A. A 6. Follow the steps below for your operating system: Windows a. Choose to save the file if you are asked what you want to do with it. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 139 ..... QUIZZES Managing Quiz Availability b. If necessary, navigate to the location where you want to save the file (create a new folder if necessary) and click once on the drive or folder where you want to save the file to highlight it. c. Click Save. d. You may have to close a download dialog box. Macintosh OS 10.x and higher a. Choose to save the file if you are asked what you want to do with it. b. If necessary, rename the file, navigate to the location where you want to save the file (create a new folder if necessary), and click once on the drive or folder where you want to save the file to highlight it. c. Click Save. d. You may have to close a download dialog box or manager. 7. Click Done on the Generating AR BookGuide Export page. Managing Quiz Availability If you have Other Reading Quizzes, use the Other Reading Series Preference to control which series are available to your class (see page 53). The manage quiz availability area is useful for those with AR Enterprise. Those with owned quizzes may also find this area to be useful. In the Manage Quiz Availability pages you can search for and make the Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes of your choice inactive (hidden) without deleting them from your software. By default, when district staff, school staff, and teachers search for Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes in the other areas of the software, they will be able to find only those quizzes marked active in Manage Quiz Availability. Students will be able to search for and take quizzes marked active. Vi ewing Quiz Avai labi li ty Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quiz Availability. 2. If necessary, select your school from the School drop-down list on the Manage Quiz Availability page. 3. Click Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, or Literacy Skills in the list of quiz types. Learn more about capabilities on page 204. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 140 ..... QUIZZES Managing Quiz Availability 4. If necessary, change how you view the active and inactive quizzes and find a specific quiz on the Change Quiz Availability page as described below. A C H G I F D E B A The title will match the quiz type you chose. B The symbols show when a quiz is active or inactive. C Choose how you want the quizzes shown: To search by Install Date (under More Criteria), choose All, On, After, Before, or Between from the drop-down list. Type one number unless you chose Between, in which case you must enter the beginning date (from) and end date (to) for the range. • Click Show Inactive Quizzes (if you are viewing active quizzes) to see all the inactive quizzes. • Click Show Active Quizzes (if you are viewing the inactive quizzes) to see all the active quizzes. • Click Show Both Active and Inactive Quizzes to see all the quiz availability settings. D Click AR BookFinder to open a separate window where you can search for quizzes available from Renaissance Learning. E Click Quiz Store to open a separate window where you can purchase quizzes from the online quiz store. (If you have Accelerated Reader Enterprise you automatically get all the quizzes and won’t need to order any.) F Scroll through the list of quizzes to find a particular quiz record. Click Next >> or << Previous to move through the list. G To find a particular quiz, search by title, author, quiz number, or ATOS book level using the drop-down lists and text fields. (The ATOS 100 and ATOS 2000 book levels may have different names if the book level settings were changed.) For more details see “Searching for Quizzes” on page 107. H Click More Criteria to narrow your search by fiction/nonfiction classification, interest level, quiz language, points for Reading Practice Quizzes, install date (for newly installed quizzes), or recorded voice quizzes for Reading Practice Quizzes. I After choosing search criteria, click Search. To go back to the full list of quizzes, delete all the changes you made to the search criteria and click Search again. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 141 ..... QUIZZES Managing Quiz Availability Ed iti ng Q ui z Av a il ab il ity: Maki ng Q ui z ze s A c tiv e o r I na c tive Who Can Do This?  District Administrator Follow these steps to edit the quiz availability for Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes for a school:  District Staff 1. View the Manage Quiz Availability for the desired quiz type. See page 140.  School Administrator 2. Choose an option on the Change Quiz Availability page as described below to make quizzes inactive or active.  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. E C A B If you selected a large number of quizzes to make inactive or active, you may see a progress bar while the program changes the quiz availability. D A To inactivate a quiz, remove the check mark by a quiz title. B To activate a quiz, check the box by a quiz title. C To change all the check marks on the one page you are viewing, check the Title box in the column heading. D Click Inactivate All Quizzes or Activate All Quizzes to Inactivate/Activate all the quizzes in the search results or all the quizzes you are viewing (including the quizzes listed on multiple pages). Skip step 3. 3. Click Update Selected Quiz Availability E to change the status of the individual quizzes you selected. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 142 ..... QUIZZES Managing Quiz Availability Setti ng Up Quiz Avai labi li ty Rules Who Can Do This?  District Administrator  District Staff  School Administrator  School Staff  Teachers Learn more about capabilities on page 204. All newly installed quizzes will be automatically activated upon installation unless you set up availability rules. The quiz availability rules allow you to determine whether or not new quizzes will be automatically activated upon installation for Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, and Literacy Skills Quizzes for a school. 1. On the Home page under Accelerated Reader, click Manage Quiz Availability. 2. Click Setup Rules under Actions on the Manage Quiz Availability page. 3. To set rules for a single school, choose a school from the School drop-down list (if available) on the Setup Quiz Availability Rules page A. Then, go to step 4. To set the rules for multiple schools, click Select Multiple Schools B. Check the box by the schools you want to work with on the Select Multiple Schools page. Or, check the School box to select all the schools in your list. Then, click Save. A B C D E 4. Choose the rule you would like to use and complete the Set-up Quiz Availability Rules page as needed (described below). F { G I C Click Activate all so all newly installed quizzes are automatically activated. D Click Activate none so no newly If the book level settings were changed, you will not see the changes reflected on the Setup Quiz Availability Rules page. ATOS is the only book level available in the Activation rules. See “Managing Book Level Settings” on page 135. installed quizzes are automatically activated. E Click Activation rules to set up more detailed activation rules. F If you chose Activation rules, check the box by the quiz types, fiction/nonfiction classification, interest H level, and language of quizzes you want automatically activated upon installation. You don’t have to choose a setting for each category. G If you chose Activation rules, type the ATOS book level or points range of the quizzes you want automatically activated upon installation. You don’t have to choose a setting for each category. 5. Click Save and Add H if you want to set up rules for other schools. Or, click Save I when you’re finished. 6. To make customized quiz availability rules for a different school, repeat steps 3–5. Accelerated Reader Software Manual 143