Illuminate Summer 2021 Release: Driving Data-Informed Decisions to Efficiently Address Unfinished Learning

This year, comprehensive assessment and MTSS collaboration and management will be critical tools to help educators effectively address unfinished learning. The Illuminate Solution includes new enhancements that support student growth for both social-emotional behavior (SEB) and academics at the student, school, and system levels.

FastBridge

This year, FastBridge will provide even more options to equitably support and monitor all students for growth, including increasing student agency by helping students become aware of their own performance.

Key updates include:

• New mySAEBRS Spanish Assessment
• New Norms for SAEBRS/mySAEBRS and the addition of Behavior Interventions
• More Flexible Progress Monitoring Setup

DnA

DnA users will enjoy an even more efficient assessment experience this year thanks to improvements to some of the most-used features.

• Enhanced Live Proctoring experience with faster load times
• Improved Text to Speech playback speeds and pausing performance 
• Enhanced New Item Bank experience enabling users to reuse prior assessments by duplicating and editing

eduCLIMBER

The eduCLIMBER team continues to build essential MTSS collaboration and management tools to support data-driven decision making.

Key updates include:

• Updated Charting to promote data literacy
• Redesigned Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) to create building, school, and class-level goals and the ability to link to smartFORMS
• Redesigned Inbox and improved Messaging for easier communication

Inspect

This year Inspect will include additional high-quality resources, including new content areas and grade levels, to help students get back on track.

Key updates include:

• New Broad Coverage Assessments
• Expanded State-Specific History Content in AZ and MO
• New and  Improved Early Literacy Assessments

SchoolCity

SchoolCity users will benefit from improved item and assessment authoring capabilities, even higher security for assessments, and greater insights and convenience in reporting.

Key updates include:

• Enhanced Constructed Response and Writing Prompt Item Types
• New Secure Collections feature which allows restricted access to key staff
• New Integrated Performance Report with standards, item type,  response, and overall scoring data in one place

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Illuminate Education equips educators to take a data-driven approach to serving the whole child. Our solution combines comprehensive assessment, MTSS management and collaboration, and real-time dashboard tools, and puts them in the hands of educators. As a result, educators can monitor learning and growth, identify academic and social-emotional behavioral needs, and align targeted supports in order to accelerate learning for each student. 

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