Name: Renaissance DnA
Rating: 9 (10 reviews)
Author: Renaissance Learning

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Talent Management

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Renaissance creates assessment and practice solutions that put learning analytics to work for educators, saving hours of prep time while making truly personalized learning possible. Schools nationwide use Renaissance solutions to analyze students’ abilities and guide high-quality instruction. Renaissance helps teachers teach better, students learn better, and school administrators lead better—all to improve academic outcomes.  More than one-third of U.S. schools use Renaissance solutions to accelerate learning for millions of students. The company was originally founded in 1986, and was acquired by Fransisco Partners in 2018.

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Updating the system

Create customized reports

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Real time

One email

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Difficult to set

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Customized reports

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User friendly

Support staff

Integrates well

Easy to use

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I've had the opportunity to use Illuminate in four different districts, one that I inherited and three more that I brought as new Illuminate customers. It is a very well-rounded, user-friendly way to assess students in any subject, whether using their item bank or their templates to create authentic assessments for students in typically non-technology assessed subjects, such as PE or electives. I've used it in different small, medium, and large urban, suburban, and rural districts to assess students in grades K-12.

Easy to use
Item banks
Outstanding customer service.
Reasonable pricing models.
Integrates well with student info systems.

Inclusive pricing options without add-ons and build in discounting.

Assess any subject.
Item banks with questions already vetted.
Easy to use dashboard.

Better handle on student achievement.
Clarity around achievements on specific standards.

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It was intended to be used to evaluate teachers using standardized test data loaded into DnA to calculate SGP, however, we could not get it to work properly and found that creating customized reports was not user friendly. We thought this would be a great tool to give Administrators and eventually teachers access to a singular system of data and continuous feedback to dramatically improve student performance. It has the potential to run great reports and to build assessments.

Uploading data is very easy and straight forward with the included templates for testing that is standard across the state like M-Step, NWEA Map and Such.
Searching for students and seeing all of their tests in one screen was very easy and user friendly.
Running pre-defined reports was also very easy and straight forward. Just a few clicks and the report was right in front of you quickly.

Tech support seemed good but our main issue was never resolved. We received attention and someone was working on our issue, but they could never figure out why our student count was off for 1 grade level even though they said our data looked great.
The customized reports were powerful, but there was so much to learn for the average administrative user, like a principal, to get the detailed data they need. You would have to have a dedicated person to create customized reports.
At some point, our representative just stopped calling and there was no further contact. Then our rep left the company and the new rep only sent one email notifying us of the change. That was almost a year ago.

We tried to get the product to work for our needs for over a year and could not get it to work and therefore it cost us $20,000 with no results and easily over 40+ hours of wasted time.

The illuminate DnA software is a student data and assessment system used by our K-12 school district. It is used across the organization by administrators, teachers, and clerical staff. It allows users to create and administer online assessments, store state and local assessment results, and create custom reports for a variety of uses.

It provides a comprehensive profile of students across time, allowing users to track growth and identify at-risk students.
It is easy for all users to create ad hoc reports and assessments.
The company is continually adding features recommended by users.
The helpline is accessible to all end users, calls are readily answered, and the support staff is knowledgeable.

It would be nice if it communicated in real time with our other student database systems. We have to do a nightly update to share information with other systems, and still, some data gets stuck and needs to be "wiped".
The intervention tracking system, OnTrack, is difficult to set up and manage.
Assessment item banks could offer a better variety of items.

It has allowed teachers to utilize data to make instructional decisions.
It has allowed administrators to evaluate instructional programs and make budgetary decisions based on student results.
It has allowed the district to establish common expectations across school sites and has provided a level of data transparency.
It has modernized our elementary grading and report card production.

We use it school-wide for assessment creation, administration and data analysis to inform instruction and personalize learning. Illuminate has the ability to generate a great level of insightful reports without great amounts of effort. When building assessments you have a couple of different options that allow for a wide variety of question types that are standards aligned.

Online assessment creation
Online assessment administration
Data analysis
Data tracking

Front end interface needs to have more tools
Language and semantics of the system can be cumbersome
Updating the system is time consuming

Positive ROI. The tool is powerful for the cost
Quick data gathering and analysis
Easy assessment administration
Reduced paper consumption

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We would not change our process at all. It has led us to a great tool that we want to continue to grow with and leverage to improve teaching and learning.

Online assessment administration
Online assessment building
Data review and reporting

Initial set up can be cumbersome
Front end need interface for certain feature changes
Custom reports needs time to learn to use

Renaissance DnA
Formerly Illuminate Data & Assessment (DnA)

Overview

What is Renaissance DnA?