Re: [LM_NET] Specifics of online AR

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

Our district is migrating to RenPlace this year.  My school is already converted.  
We are using our own, existing quizzes and STAR, STAREL and that includes all of 
our teacher made quizzes.  This is a district wide database of students and 
reported data but the quizzes are separated.
   
  We are paying for licenses per student and initial setup fees.  We are NOT paying 
the per student fee to have access to all available quizzes.
   
  Our benefits are that we get rid of inidividual servers at each school that 
require maintenence and back up.  We won't pay support agreement fees per school.  
We have more stable data that is backed up in a triple redudant system off-site.
   
  We also will have district wide reporting capabilities, and administration likes 
that.  I am really glad we have made this move.  It is going to be better in the 
long run, just like the libraries migrating to Destiny from Follett.

Susan Beall <sbeall@MLSD.WEDNET.EDU> wrote:
  I just did the math
$599 set up
$4 per kid (300+) = $1200

1st year cost = $1799

$1799/ $2.69(cost per test) = 668.77 tests I could purchase.

2nd year $399 + $1200 (4 per kid) = $1599/ 2.69= 594.42 tests I 
could purchase.

I don't have 100,000 titles for which I need AR tests nor do I spend 
the above amounts on tests each year.

Also last year when I was checking into AR Renaissance Place, we 
weren't going to get any credit for the thousands of tests we already 
own, so basically we would pay $4 per kid to take tests which we 
already own.

I could go on but I will step off my soap box.


Susan Beall
sbeall@mlsd.wednet.edu
Elementary Library Coordinator
Moses Lake School District
Moses Lake, WA

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        Lisa Hunt
  School Library Media Specialist
  National Board Certified Teacher
  Moore, OK





                
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