WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis.,
June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Renaissance Learning (NASDAQ: RLRN) announced the availability of
an Accelerated Reader Student App that enables students to take AR
quizzes in the classroom using the iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone
running on iOS 4.0 or later.
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The app provides Accelerated Reader customers hosted on the
Renaissance Place Real Time platform with an option to wirelessly
take AR quizzes, eliminating the issue of students waiting for
access to limited classroom computers.
While anyone can download the app, each device needs to be
configured to work with a school's AR Renaissance Place Real Time
software in order to take quizzes. The app maintains the integrity
of the AR quizzing process by assuring AR quizzes continue to be
taken in a secure, monitored school environment, in order to
maintain data fidelity for classroom use.
"We are pleased to offer an app that will enable AR quizzing for
the Apple devices most commonly found in the classroom," said
Glenn R. James, Renaissance Learning
Chief Executive Officer. "The app's early summer release will give
schools time to configure their devices so students can start
taking AR quizzes on them at the start of the 2011-2012 school
year."
The Accelerated Reader Student App is now available as a free
download from the Apple App Store(SM). This will be the company's
second app on the iTunes® store, following the release of the AR
K12 Activity Widget, which allows school administrators to track
their school or district's reading progress using their iPad, iPod
touch, or iPhone.
Accelerated Reader also supports AR quizzing on the NEO 2, a
popular computer alternative with additional classroom-friendly
features to accelerate learning such as writing, math facts
practice, keyboarding, and classroom response capabilities.
More information about how to use the Accelerate Reader Student
App can be found at www.renlearn.com/arquizzing/default.aspx.
About Renaissance Learning, Inc.
Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a leading provider of
technology-based school improvement and student assessment programs
for K12 schools. Adopted by more than 70,000 schools, Renaissance
Learning's tools provide daily formative assessment and periodic
progress-monitoring technology to enhance core curriculum, support
differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in reading,
writing and math. Renaissance Learning products and school
improvement programs help educators make the practice component of
their existing curriculum more effective by providing tools to
personalize practice and easily manage the daily activities for
students of all levels. As a result, teachers using Renaissance
Learning products and programs accelerate learning, get more
satisfaction from teaching, and help students achieve higher test
scores on state and national tests. Renaissance Learning has seven
U.S. locations and subsidiaries in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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