Tech Info compiled by Steve started Feb 2008

Renaissance

Accessible from anywhere on campus (any Mac or PC) but not yet from home ... click here ... our customer number by the way is 1112337

First 1000 books (they have over 6000)

Contact Info

Barb Schade, Renaissance Place Coordinator phone - 800-461-3148

Notes from AS, AS and SB

• Amanda writes on April 18, 2008 at 2:24 PM wrote: I have entered all 3rd grade teachers and students into Accelerated Reader. Now we have to figure out how to get quizzes.
• On Wed 4/23, we spent time with Barb Schade on the phone who showed us how to choose some of the 1000 books that we are entitled to by going to www.renlearn.com and creating an account ... Amanda Sen created an account with e-mail going to her with username of "storefront" and with the same "4 byte code used below"
• Step by step for adding books (you need to have at least 20 books)
  1. step 1 ... after going to www.renlearn.com, login in using the username of "storefront" and the password that has 4 characters in it, the first two being the initials of several teachers in the lower school who believe in redundancy for initials and the the last two being a favorite number below 40

     

  2. step 2 ... click where it says "visit our online store"

     

  3. step 3 ... click on the TAB above the light blue on the left where it says QUIZ store

     

  4. step 4 ... use the SEARCH feature to find the book or books you want to add

     

  5. step 5 ... click the checkbox for the column that says RP, now click ADD SELECTED TITLES

     

  6. step 6 ... when ready to checkout or purchase (no money involved) go to "Shopping Cart" at the top right of the screen

  Backup Info for/by Steve

  • We need to backup the key files ... the 3 key files on located on the D: drive of SERVER 6 which is called CSFSRV06 with IP of 192.168.1.43 ... they are within PROGRAM FILES on the D: drive ... the command you can type into RUN is \\csfsrv06\D$ to access the D drive ... the files are automatically put theere every night at 1am and have names that begin iwth RenaissacneDatabase and end with .BAK
  • other tips from CHRIS for PC usage include \\csfsrv06 or \\csfsrv06\c$ or mstsc or mmc
  • CSFSVR2 contains Raiser's Edge (.21)
  • CSFSVR06 contains Renaissacne and Quickbooks 2008 (.43) .... 512 meg of RAM ... P3 at 1.26 ghz .. C drive has 20 gig .. D Drive has 47 gig
  • CSFSRV05 contains Acronis ... P3 ... 1.39 ghz .. 512 meg of ram ... C drive is 20 gig ... D drive is 116 gig ... Windows 2003 Release 2
  • CSFSVR3 contains Athena (.21)

  Info from Barb Schlade

  >Barb Schade
  >Renaissance Place(tm) Coordinator
  >Renaissance Learning(tm), Inc. 
  >office hours 7:30 am to 4:00 pm CT
  >phone - 800-461-3148
  >blschade@renlearn.com
  
  transfer number ... 7004043 Windows Renaissance Place
  
  thanks for the info ... is it possible there is a setting that allows
  students to RETAKE the same quiz ... so far, I have not found it 
  
  Unfortunately, not.  However, you can go in to the Class Record Book >
  Choose the Class > Click on Reading Practice Quizzes > Click on the
  Student's Name.  It will show all the quizzes the student has taken.
  There is a Delete option for each quiz.  If you delete the quiz off the
  student's record; they will be able to retake the quiz. 
  
  
  >Sorry, I would have covered this if we were not so rushed when you 
  >called!  When you open your Renaissance Place, on the Welcome screen, 
  >it will show the version towards the bottom left.  Also, if you only 
  >see light blue and dark blue as the background colors; it is 4.0.  If 
  >you see yellow and dark blue; it is 3.2.  If it is the 3.2; you can 
  >sign up to get the 4.0 in the original 2nd Notice email from Tech
  Support below.
  >Once you receive it; we can get you updated.  However, please don't 
  >wait for the upgrade to begin using your AR now!  Any data in there 
  >will update just fine!
  >
  >If you have a problem contacting me, please call our Renaissance Place 
  >Answer line at 800-656-6740  We have Representatives available from 
  >6:30 am to 6:30 pm CT, Monday through Friday.
  
  >Renaissance Place 4.0 is now shipping. Learn about the new and exciting
  
  >features of this release by clicking on the link below:
  http://www.renlearn.com/RP/whatsnew/
  
  

  Info from the tech person who set this up

  The user name for RP is admin and the password is now a four digit code that involved the initials of two people with birthday in June followed by a two digit arsenic like number. You can connect to RP from any workstation by typing the IP of this server (192.168.1.43 which is the second PC server donated by Dalton) in the address bar of the browser, or if RP has not been selected as the default web page, by typing the IP address of this server/RenaissanceServer in the address bar.

  Database backups are created nightly as long as the SQLAgent Service is running. These backups are saved in For more information on backing up content files, refer to KB article #3402615 at the following link:

  http://support.renlearn.com/techkb/techkb/3402615e.asp.

  There is free online training available for Renaissance Place. Just contact your Renaissance Place Coordinator for information and available times.

  After installation, you should reboot this server at your convenience.

  If you have questions about your install, please feel free to ask them now. If you have questions about program usage, please feel free to call into our trained technical support staff with these questions.

  The next step of getting things going is to install the client applications. There are a few that are required on your machines and these specific installers can be accessed through the Renaissance Place program. To do this, log in using admin and ???? for your credentials. Locate the Product Administration link under the gray Renaissanc Place tab. Click on it and on the next screen choose Download Client Application Installers.

  Locate Accelerated Reader. There is a link to INSTALL what you need on your clients for each application required. You can view both MAC and Windows versions of these installers by scrolling to the bottom of the screen before clicking any INSTALL link to choose the View All option.

  Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

  Respectfully,
  Shawn Lee
  Renaissance Learning
  Technical Support 
  SDLEE AT renlearn.com
  

  New E-mail address yes, shawn, you have the OK to use the e-mail address of ren AT cstorefront.org

  Last revised: 4/20/08