Preferences Page – Star UK

To go to the Preferences page, select your initials at the top of the Home page, then choose Edit Preferences from the menu that opens.
select your initials, then select Edit Preferences

The preferences page lists the preferences that you can set for Star tests. Select a preference to see its current settings and to make changes if necessary.

If you do not have permission to change a preference, you will be able to see the settings, but you will not be able to change them. In general, if user permissions have not been changed:

School network-level administrators can set school network preferences, school preferences for any school, and classroom and student preferences for any class.
School-level administrators can set school preferences, class preferences, and student preferences for their school.
Teachers can set class preferences and student preferences for their classes.
School network staff and school staff can see preference settings, but they cannot change them.

To find out how to change permissions, see Viewing and Editing User Permissions.

The preferences are listed in four sections on the page. By default, the sections of preferences that you can change are expanded, and the sections that you cannot change are closed. To expand or close a section on the page, select the heading:
select the arrow to expand a section
select the arrow again to collapse a section

Only preferences that apply to the products you own (or use for your classes) will be listed, so some of the preferences described below may not be available when you view the Preferences page.

When a new school year starts, the settings in your School Network, School, and Individual Student preferences will carry over to the new year. Class preferences do not carry over because classes are new every year; set class preferences after your new classes are created for each school year. Other preference settings should also be reviewed at the beginning of each new school year so that they can be updated as needed.

School Network Preferences

Secure Browser: If a secure browser is required by your school or school network, you must set this preference and install the secure browser in order for students to take a Star test.
Teacher Email Alert - Probable Non-Reader: If a student's Star Reading test score suggests they might not be an independent reader, this preference determines whether the student's teacher receives an email alert.

School Preferences

Article Quiz Availability: Sets whether students at each school are allowed to find, read, and quiz on Accelerated Reader article quizzes.
Authorisation Password Override for Book/Interest Level: Sets whether the authorisation password can override individual student restrictions by book level or interest level set in the Individual Student Preferences.
Dates and Times for Accelerated Reader: Sets restrictions for the times, days, and dates when students are allowed to take Accelerated Reader book and article quizzes. You can choose when students may take quizzes each day by setting start and end times, and you can restrict quizzing to a certain date range. You can also prevent students from quizzing on Saturdays and Sundays.
Dates and Times for Star Assessments: Define when students can take Star assessments.
Home Connect Email: Determines which programs parents may choose to receive email notifications about. Emails are sent to parents when their children complete activities at school. Parents choose which programs to receive emails for; the list of programs that parents can choose from is determined by this preference.
Lexile®* range: Set whether Lexile® ranges are displayed in Star reports that show Lexile® measure.
Locale Content Sets: Sets whether to use Accelerated Reader quizzes for locations other than your own.
Manage Quiz Results: Sets whether teachers are allowed to edit quiz dates, review/rescore student quiz responses, transfer quiz records from one student to another, and deactivate or reactivate quiz records. (Administrators can always do these tasks.)
Passing Percentage: Sets the minimum passing percentage correct score for Accelerated Reader's Reading Practice Quizzes and Article Quizzes.
Provider Content Availability: This preference is not used for Renaissance applications at this time.

Class Preferences

Authorisation Password - Reading Quizzes: Sets the authorisation password that is used when you stop an Accelerated Reader quiz. You can also use the Password Requirement preference to require the authorisation password before or after Accelerated Reader quizzes.
Authorisation Password - Star Tests: Sets the authorisation password that is used when you stop a Star test. You can also use the Password Requirement preference to require the authorisation password before Star tests.
Demonstration Video: Determines whether students will see a demonstration video before taking a Star Early Literacy test.
Hands-On Exercise: Determines whether students need to complete hands-on practice questions before taking a Star Early Literacy test.
Lexile® Targets: Sets whether Lexile® measures are used instead of ATOS book levels for Accelerated Reader targets, book level restrictions, and reports.
Password Requirement: Sets whether the authorisation password is required before Star tests and before and/or after Accelerated Reader quizzes.
Quiz Retake Restrictions: Determines when (and whether) students are allowed to retake Accelerated Reader quizzes.
Reading Targets Model: Sets the target model to use for each class: tokens and badges for young students, the rocket model (using average percentage correct, average book level or reading range, and points targets), or the model for older students (using average percentage correct, average book level or reading range, and points with a bar graph for progress). Also sets whether the class uses reading range or book level targets.
Show Quiz Answers: When students pass Accelerated Reader quizzes, this preference sets whether they are allowed to review their answers and see the answers to questions that they answered incorrectly. This preference applies only to quizzes taken in the current school year; students cannot review quiz answers from previous school years.

Individual Student Preferences

Book Level Restrictions: Determines which books students are allowed to take Accelerated Reader quizzes on based on book level. Students cannot take quizzes on books whose book levels are outside the range you set (unless you allow an override in the Authorisation Password Override preference).
Estimated Levels: Sets a student's instructional levels for reading and maths. This sets the difficulty level of the first question a student sees on their first Star Reading or Star Maths test.
Extended Question Time Limit: Sets whether some students should have more time to answer a question on Star tests.
Interest Level Restrictions: Determines which books students are allowed to take Accelerated Reader quizzes on based on interest level. Students can only take quizzes on books with the interest levels that you select (unless you allow an override in the Authorisation Password Override preference). Interest levels indicate which years the content of a book is most appropriate for.
Quiz Settings: Includes two settings for individual students:
- whether students will be asked if books were read to them, with them, or independently before they take an Accelerated Reader Reading Practice Quiz
- whether students are allowed to hear Recorded Voice while taking Reading Practice Quizzes, and if they will be asked whether they want to hear Recorded Voice