Renaissance myON vs. Renaissance Star Assessments

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Renaissance myON
Score 9.8 out of 10
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myON is a digital reading platform that provides students with 24/7 access to thousands of fiction and nonfiction books and news articles—in English, Spanish, and additional languages. A multimedia reading experience with colorful illustrations, professionally recorded audio, and annotation tools makes each text engaging and unique. Built-in close reading tools, customizable literacy projects, and a large collection of nonfiction titles support lesson plans centered on reading and writing…N/A
Renaissance Star Assessments
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Star Assessments are a suite of assessments for reading, math, and early literacy, in both English and Spanish, boasting users among over 30,000 schools. Star Assessments helps educators to gain accurate insights into student learning, growth, and achievement—so they can help all learners reach their full potential. The full Star Assessment suite includes the computer-adaptive Star Reading (K–12), Star Math (K–12), and Star Early Literacy (pre-K–3) assessments; a formative assessment tool, Star…N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
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Considered Both Products
Renaissance myON
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These two products work very well together as well as by themselves. myON Reader gets some good support from myON News. After students read articles, the program suggests books in myON Reader for them to continue reading on that particular subject. myON Reader has a good …
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I like that myOn is connected to all of our resources on Renaissance. The STAR assessments will recommend books at the student's level. They are connected, so students can take an AR quiz when they are done reading. Epic is not designed to do those things.
Renaissance Star Assessments
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Renaissance Star Assessments, Renaissance Accelerated Reader, and Renaissance myOn have been hands down the best products for student success that I have evaluated in the past six years of use. All show the importance of data and data implementation processes within and outside …
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Accelerated Reader goes hand-in hand with Renaissance Star Assessments assessments. The program dovetail into each other. The Renaissance Star Assessments informs the student, parent, and teacher what level a child is reading and appropriate materials can be used that are in a …
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AR complements the Star Assessments by then giving you tools for testing on individual books in the classroom. When students get a reading level, they then choose books at their level and then test on it. This gives you direct feedback on how well the students are …
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[My] organization has also worked at using iReady assessments which are a quicker test and a little bit more student friendly. We go back-and-forth between which one we want to use and it is up to the school sites.
Chose Renaissance Star Assessments
All three of these programs are part of the Renaissance program and work great together. Students use myON to read and then Accelerated Reader to test their reading comprehension. They also use Star to determine which texts to select to read. Star also shows them how much …
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Features
Renaissance myONRenaissance Star Assessments
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Renaissance myON
8.8
3 Ratings
4% above category average
Renaissance Star Assessments
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Ratings
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Course catalog or library9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Renaissance myONRenaissance Star Assessments
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(12 ratings)
9.0
(64 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
8.7
(9 ratings)
Usability
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8.3
(5 ratings)
Availability
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(3 ratings)
9.0
(15 ratings)
Online Training
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(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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8.2
(4 ratings)
Configurability
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9.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
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8.8
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Renaissance myONRenaissance Star Assessments
Likelihood to Recommend
Renaissance Learning
I teach 5th/6th grade math and science, but I love finding fun books to explain science and math concepts using books that keep the students engaged. I can make sure to give them several options on their reading level to choose from and know I am meeting a majority of my students needs because they can listen to other book be read if they so choose. My students have learned so much from science graphic novels!
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Renaissance Learning
Many of my students reach the 852 score and are eligible to take the Star Reading test in the Spring. This is due to the reports telling me which skills to work on and being able to group students according to skill needs. When I need teacher assistance, online meetings with Renaissance support personnel has been available. Renaissance always welcomes teacher feedback to improve their products. The company has acquired many classroom tools in the last years and connected them fir ease of teacher use, which saves classroom time.
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Pros
Renaissance Learning
  • Helps students gain comprehension by suggesting reading materials at their level.
  • Because the program has the capacity to read to the students, they get a to hear a good role model which helps develop fluency and accuracy in their reading.
  • It is easy to access and helps keep students on track with their reading goals.
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Renaissance Learning
  • Renaissance Star Assessments gives me a look at each student as an overall reader.
  • Renaissance Star Assessments shows me the areas of which my students are struggling.
  • Renaissance Star Assessments is linked with Nearpod, so I can assign lessons based on what each student needs.
  • Star CBM helps me see whether my students' fluency is improving or not.
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Cons
Renaissance Learning
  • I could never figure it out.
  • Students levels from their STAR test did not translate into the books suggested on myON.
  • The platform is cumbersome and inaccessible for students and teachers.
  • I am fairly tech-savvy, but I could never navigate through and understand how myON worked. Eventually, I gave up and switched to Epic.
  • The book selection was poor. Only the non-fiction books were interesting to my students. None of the popular titles and authors were available.
  • It was a big disappointment and frustration for me and my students.
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Renaissance Learning
  • The graphs for each subject are not consistently the same. (ie. some graphs are by 5s and some are by 50s.) It's very confusing to read them.
  • The questions are not rigorous enough for state standards.
  • Different reports will show data that does not align. If 'state' is chosen, then all reports should show the same data. The Parent Report will show the child in 'green', but every sub-skill is in 'red'. That is super confusing for parents and teachers.
  • All reports should be based on the same score, but they are not. It is like comparing apples to oranges on the same child.
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Likelihood to Renew
Renaissance Learning
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Renaissance Learning
I give it this rating because it is an essential program in our school. We set up reading groups throug( the Star assessment. We set goals based on the assessment. Students comfort zones are based on the zpd data in Star. We track students progress through the data found in Star.
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Usability
Renaissance Learning
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Renaissance Learning
I love the idea that it takes only a short period of time for the students to be able to take the quizzes and obtain results. I appreciative how quickly the teacher has plans on implementation in her/his hands as soon as the class has completed the quiz.
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Reliability and Availability
Renaissance Learning
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Renaissance Learning
It’s wonderful
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Performance
Renaissance Learning
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Renaissance Learning
I absolutely love this program
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Support Rating
Renaissance Learning
I believe this product provides students with faster and easier access to books. This increases their time spent on task reading. myON reader is a product that is great for students and teachers.
If there are any issues and concerns while using myON, there are many help resources available to offer assistance.
myON Reader works so well with the rest of the Renaissance Platform. This consistency is great for everyone!
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Renaissance Learning
After using the product for multiple years, I am very pleased with the assessment administration and report options. I use STAR Assessment data regularly and review the different reports to guide instruction. There are many different report options to help meet the needs of the teacher and student. STAR Assessments are a valuable assessment tool for the classroom
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Online Training
Renaissance Learning
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Renaissance Learning
I just feel this way.
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Implementation Rating
Renaissance Learning
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Renaissance Learning
When presenters show us how to use the program they need to have a full class size of data. During training, there were only 5 or 6 sample students. Classes are more like 25 and that makes the training more realistic to have similar data to what we will use.
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Alternatives Considered
Renaissance Learning
Renaissance myON is hands down the best as compared to Epic. I am allowed to consistently monitor my students. I am able to print reports to help evaluate student progress. I can also use these reports during parent/teacher conferences so parents and guardians can see where their student is throughout the year. They are able to see how their interests change along with how the reading level improves.
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Renaissance Learning
Renaissance Star Math Assessment provided a proven data collection tool. This was also being used at the lower grades in our district, so it made sense to continue with its use to provide a more reliable and accurate picture of our students entering the middle school. The continuation of the data trail should continue to help their overall growth.
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Scalability
Renaissance Learning
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Renaissance Learning
Great overall program with lots of advice in implementation
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Return on Investment
Renaissance Learning
  • Students continued to read on their level and were motivated by all of the books being an AR book with a quiz and points to earn.
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Renaissance Learning
  • It has positively impacted student time to learn by reducing testing times and allowing more time for instruction
  • The reduced testing time also positively impacted our schools by freeing the computer labs and making the planning and creation of testing schedules easier. This has allowed more computer lab use for education and learning.
  • It has negatively impacted the time and effort required by support staff, administrators, and some teachers by requiring more time spent on looking up results or going to multiple spots and manually combining results because a larger group couldn't easily be made.
  • Another negative impact on our district is that it has also taxed those few educators with more technical ability and data knowledge moreso than other programs. The need to create/summarize/write programs to deal with full, raw data export files since the smaller, more specific reports and summaries are not downloadable into a format that can be manipulated easily (pdf only, not csv exports), and to constantly back up data exports and to have to search through them when the State wants results on past students etc.
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