Reading Plus: How to Reset Your Site or Multiple Sites (Administrators)

As the new school year begins, the site administrator must complete the School Year Site Reset. This article walks through how to do this in the educator dashboard. 

Support Icons_Tip Box_50px.png District administrators can reset multiple sites simultaneously as long as each site shows that it needs to be reset. 

How Do I Know A Site Needs to Be Reset?

There are two notifications in the dashboard that indicate if one or more sites need to be reset.

Home Screen

Manage Tab

A banner displays across the top of the Home screen.

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In addition to the Site Reset banner, each site that needs to be Reset is identified on the Manage > Sites page. 

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If either of these notifications are missing and you need to reset your site, reach out to our Customer Support Team before you try to reset your site. 

 

Which Program Settings Might be Updated During a School Year Site Reset?

After a site (or sites) are resetting, staff members at your site or district may see the following changes: 

  • All unread Alert messages to educators are cleared.
  • If Alert messaging functionality was disabled, it is re-enabled.
  • If the InSight assessment or Reading (SeeReader) Holds were disabled, they will both be re-enabled.
  • Weekly assignment settings for all students and classes revert to recommended settings, based on students' initial InSight assessment results.  

 

Additional Reset Options & Recommendations

When resetting a site for the new school year you need to determine if you want to perform additional actions during the reset.

Reset Action Options

Remove all Classes and Groups

What happens in the dashboard?

Why is this helpful?

This clears out all classes and groups from the previous school year before you import classes for the new school year. This prevents teachers from seeing old or duplicate classes when the new school year begins.
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Do NOT select Remove all Classes and Groups if your site keeps students in the same classes and update class names in the dashboard instead of uploading new classes. 

 

Assign all students to complete the initial InSight assessment

What happens in the dashboard?

Why is this helpful?

Assigns the initial InSight assessment to all enrolled students. 
  • Taking the InSight assessment at the beginning of the new school year sets student's placement in Reading Plus
  • Assigning this to all students saves adminstrators and teachers time. 
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If a site does not complete a reset at the beginning of a new school year, staff members will not be able to see the initial InSight assessment (Benchmark) for the new school year. If this is happening at your site, contact our Customer Support Team.  

 

Increase students' grade level by 1

What happens in the dashboard?

Why is this helpful?

  • All students not designated as Adult or College will be moved to the next highest grade level.
  • Example: The grade level for all Kindergarten students will be updated to 1st grade.
  • This will not change their placement in the curriculum, just their grade level. 
  • If a district or site uses the Import Tool to set up rosters, this saves staff members time.
  • If your district rosters via Clever or Classlink, see below tip. 
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If your district or site updates student information through Clever or ClassLink, students' grade levels in Clever or ClassLink will override students' grade levels in Reading Plus.

Example: If a student's Reading Plus grade level is set to 1st grade but the student is set as 2nd grade in Clever, the student will update to 2nd grade in Reading Plus during the next Clever data sync. 

 

Revert students' ReRead value to two

What happens in the dashboard?

Why is this helpful?

All students' will be able to re-read selections in the SeeReader up to two times. 

 

 

Two is the default re-read value in the dashboard. Setting it back to the default value at the beginning of the year allows teachers to adjust it as needed vs inheriting old settings. 

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Allow students flagged for skill remediation to access video and worksheet resources

What happens in the dashboard?

Why is this helpful?

Students flagged by the program as needing extra support will be able to access Reading Plus video and worksheet resources.  This provides students who may be struggling with an additional layer of scaffolding and support. 

 

Our Reset Action Recommendation

We recommend you select all actions unless your site uses a year-round schedule, rolling enrollment, or has specific reporting needs that would be affected by a site reset. 

Support Icons_Tip Box_50px.png Not sure if the above applies to your site? Reach out to our Customer Support Team for additional help and recommendations. 

 

Resetting Your Site

Support Icons_Tip Box_50px.png District administrators can reset multiple sites simultaneously as long as each site shows that it needs to be reset. 
  • From the sidebar, click the Manage button and confirm the Sites tab is selected. If your site needs to be reset, you will see Reset Needed next to the name of your school.

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  • Click the checkbox in the same row as your school, and then click the Reset button to select your reset options and confirm the reset. 
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  • When the School Year Reset window opens, review the reset options to ensure the correct options are selected, and scroll down until you see the blank text box at the bottom of the window.

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Not sure which Reset options to leave selected?

 

  • Type "Confirm"  in the text box and click the Reset button to start the Reset process. When the reset process is complete, you will a message confirming the site or sites you selected have been reset. 

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School Year Site Reset: FAQs

Q: The Reset button is grayed out and I can't select it. How do I fix this?

A: If the Reset button in the School Year Reset window is grayed out, check the text box next to it. In order to select Reset, you need to type "Confirm" in the text box. After you do this, the Reset button will become active and you can select it.

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Q: When I selected Reset from the Manage Sites page, I got an error. How do I fix this?

A: If you are seeing the error below when trying to reset your site, reach out to our Customer Support Team for help. 

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Q: How long do I have to reset my site after the banner appears in the dashboard?

A: You will have thirty days to reset your site. After thirty days the banner will disappear and you will not be prompted to reset your site again. 

 

Q: I am a district administrator and I want to reset all the schools in my district at the same time. Can I do this?

A: Yes! District administrators can reset multiple sites simultaneously as long as each site shows that it needs to be reset. 

 

Q: I don't want to reset my site but I see the banner notfication How do I remove it?

A: Reach out to our Customer Support Team for help with this. 

 

Q: My school uses Clever/Classlink to set up rosters - why did the reset remove all students and teachers?

A:  If your site rosters using Clever or Classlink and are resetting your site for a new school year, there may be a period after last year's classes and groups are cleared and it seems like students and teachers are missing. They are not missing - they just haven't been assigned and enrolled in this year's classes.  There are two ways to resolve this if your site auto-shares rosters:

  • Reach out to our Customer Support Team and request a manual sync the same day
  • Wait for the new school year classrooms to appear the next morning after the regular auto-sync. 

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