Issue:
STAR Early Literacy
Updates
Resolution:
STAR
Early Literacy 1.51
STAR Early Literacy 1.5
STAR
Early Literacy 1.01b
STAR
Early Literacy 1.01a
STAR
Early Literacy 1.01
STAR
Early Literacy 1.51 has been enhanced in the following ways:
1) QuickTime has been updated to version 7.0 on the CD and when
installing the application. QuickTime
7.0 or later is available for MAC OS 10.2.8 or higher and Windows 2000/XP or
higher. For other available QuickTime
versions, please see article #5783767.
2)
Summary Report will now display the Literacy Domain Score
Distribution for all classes with default options.
3)
Due to the required QuickTime 7.0 change, only workstations
with MAC OS 10.2.8 or higher can be used to run STAR Early Literacy.
This update is available from our Download Center. For
upgrade instructions, please see article #2447571.
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STAR
Early Literacy 1.5 has been enhanced in the following ways:
1)
This update will allow STAR Early Literacy to be run
natively on a Macintosh OS X workstation. For
specific information on supported versions of OS X, see KB article #2446510.
2)
Default
answer mode changed to Keyboard Entry: Students will use the 1,2,3 and Enter keys by default
rather than the mouse to take the STAR Early Literacy test, as they
do in STAR Reading.
They will use the “L” key to listen to the question again. The mouse can still
be selected for student testing through a preference in the management program.
3)
Updated
documentation and pre-test instructions: These have all been updated to reflect
the default keyboard entry.
4)
New
Keyboard Training pre-test instructions: Students will view a brief video
within the student program to learn how to use the 1,2,3, L, and Enter keys to
take the test.
5)
Increased
the number of items on the item exclusion list for students below grade 1 to
prohibit more items requiring independent reading from being administered to
those younger students as in STAR Early Literacy RP 3.0.
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STAR
Early Literacy 1.01b has been enhanced in the following ways:
This release
addresses an issue on Windows 98 computers, where the installer replaces the
vredir.vxd and vnetsup.vxd files with Windows 95 versions. The Macintosh
installer has not changed, and there are no changes to the Management or
Student programs.
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STAR
Early Literacy 1.01a has been enhanced in the following ways:
QuickTime has been
updated to version 5 on the CD and when installing the application. For this
reason, the RAM requirement for Macintosh computers has changed from 24 MB
free/32 MB preferred, to 32 MB free. (The RAM requirement for Windows computers
has not changed.)
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STAR
Early Literacy 1.01 has been enhanced in the following ways:
1)
Addresses slow editing of student information in large
databases, which sometimes caused the program to freeze or take several minutes
to return to the list of students.
2) Addresses situations in which the STAR Early Literacy
student program used 100% of the central processing unit’s time.
3) The program now allows class and teacher names up to 69
characters, including spaces and hyphens.
4) The Administrator login is now able to view historical data,
even when the Historical Data preference is disabled.
5) The STAR Early Literacy Technical Manual is included on the
CD-ROM in .pdf format.
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