Realize and Realize Reader Release Notes

Release 25.6.15 - June 30, 2025

Build a Test Enhancements

Teachers and Administrators will experience a new look and feel when customizing assessments through either the TOC Copy and Customize feature or through the Build a test option in My Library.

  • Improved Search by Standard

  • Create Multiple Choice and True False questions with new ability to:

    • Embed links within a question

    • Enter math symbols and equations

    • Add a standard to the question

  • Ability to mix your own questions with Savvas questions.

Release 24.7.21 - August 1, 2024

Administrator Assignments

Admins will now be able to assign content, including assessments, to any classes in their district. When assigning, admins will be able to set time of day access windows and choose specific classes to assign to. Teachers will see these assignments in their listing pages, and students will be able to access them just like any other assignment. For assignments with a time of day access window, students will be restricted to accessing those assignments within the hours permitted. Several enhancements for this feature are planned over coming weeks and months.

Release 24.7.6 - July 11, 2024

Momentum Dyslexia Screener and Teacher Reports

Momentum Dyslexia Screener and reports are now available for teachers. This interactive, digital tool provides a user friendly approach to early dyslexia screening. In five minutes or less, educators can identify students with possible risk for dyslexia. The first release is targeted towards students in grades K-3.

Key features:

  • Dyslexia screener: The tool provides a streamlined screening process and allows teachers to administer the screener quickly and efficiently without compromising the quality. It enables the teachers to focus more on instruction and less on the screening process. It helps students by keeping them engaged as they interact with our fun and friendly character, Max, as they proceed through the screener. Depending on the grade level, the Dyslexia Screener evaluates the student's ability to name and sound out letters, their skill in blending phonemes to form words and their ability to decode words, ensuring a valid assessment of early learning reading skills.

  • Dyslexia teacher report: Reports offer insight into class level and individual student level performance.

    • Dyslexia screener summary: This report provides an overview of the dyslexia risk for the entire class. It presents a list of students categorized by their risk level, enabling teachers to quickly identify those who may need further evaluation or support.

    • Student screener report: This report provides an in-depth analysis of each student’s screening result. It provides a comprehensive breakdown of the student's performance and allows the teacher to play, listen and edit the student answers.

Releases Aug 2023 - June 2024

Accessibility Enhancements

Savvas is fully dedicated to empowering all learners with software that is secure, stable, and accessible. To that end, the Savvas Realize platform was enhanced with numerous accessibility features required to achieve the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard.

Enhancements to Search

Our search feature has been updated to return better search results.Searching in Realize is now more flexible than ever before. We support the ability to search synonyms, near term matching, fuzzy matching, and more. We also tuned our search algorithm to more heavily weight relevant results at the top.

New Assignment Summary Page for Teachers

Teachers now have a new Summary page that provides a bird’s eye view of each assignment. The page allows the teacher to easily see which students are started, still in progress, or finished with the assignment.

Newly Designed Teacher Settings Page

We’re redesigned the Teacher Settings in Realize so that it is easier to use when setting up your program subscriptions and other user settings.

Ability to Remove Selected Programs

Teachers can now remove programs from their My Programs list simply by unchecking a program and selecting Save.

Return an Assessment to Students

Teachers can now return a completed assessment to a student, if the student needs more time with the assessment, or if the assessment was submitted in error. To access the feature, teachers simply navigate to the assessment scoring panel where they will see a Return button as shown below.

Admins can Cancel Shared Assessments

Admins are now able to Cancel a Shared Assessment so that it is no longer shared with users. To Cancel a Shared Assessment, admins navigate to My Library, select the 3-dot menu icon, and then select “Cancel Share.”

Discussions moved to Assignments

Discussions is now a part of Assignments and the UI has been updated to match the rest of Realize. When a teacher assigns a Discussion prompt to students, they will see the new UI.

Release 23.7.5 - July 13, 2023

Enhanced experience for Teachers - Data Tab

The Data tab is now available with a fresh look and feel for Teachers. The layout has been simplified for improved ease of use along with the following key updates:

  • Class Results by Assignment is now called Results by Assessment with a better view of completed assessments in a simplified tabular format.

  • Class Mastery by Standard is now called Standards Progress Report with the ability to show scores in points or percentage for Standard Analysis and Student Analysis.

  • MSDA and LSDA Diagnostic assessments display new report colors.

Classes Menu

Students now have a handy fly-over menu when they hover over the Classes tab. The menu expands to provide quick access to all of the students' classes, along with a search feature that helps students see only the class they are interested in.

Updated Assignment Listing Page

The assignment listing page for students has been completely revamped. The new view enables students to search for specific assignments. We also have consolidated the previous statuses of Not Started/In Progress/Complete to a simpler set of statuses of To Do/Complete. We have also moved the Grades tab from its former position in the top navigation to its new location under the Classes menu with a different name.

Grades tab moved and renamed “Test Scores”

The tab Grades is now called Test Scores. This new name more accurately reflects its purpose, which is only to show results on assessments. This page has been simplified so that it only contains a tabular view of assessment scores.

Direct access to Assignments from the Assignment Listing page

An interstitial page that used to load in between the class assignment listing page and the assignment itself has been removed. Students now have one less select to get to their assignments!

Direct access to Comments and File Attachments from the Assignment Viewer

Tools like commenting and file attachment are now available right at the point of use within the assignment viewer.

Early Learner Theme Retirement

The Early Learner Theme has been retired. This decision was made so that we could focus our efforts on providing a single unified student experience that works for all grade levels. This approach is similar to many other LMSes in the market, and it will enable us to focus on providing the best unified experience possible for all students.

Last Updated: July 13, 2023

 

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